Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes, of the Character and Customs of the Chippeway Indians, and of Incidents Connected with the Treaty of Fond Du Lac |
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... look for any thing new , at least until I shall get without the limits of the states . I may find some special difficulty in introducing you to the company I may fall in with - but I may occasionally attempt even this ; and as to the ...
... look for any thing new , at least until I shall get without the limits of the states . I may find some special difficulty in introducing you to the company I may fall in with - but I may occasionally attempt even this ; and as to the ...
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... look at the Assumpsick , now so peaceful and pure , but which on that day was troubled and red with blood ! It was a day of victory - and a day which gave renewed strength to the arms , and fresh animation to the spirits of our patriot ...
... look at the Assumpsick , now so peaceful and pure , but which on that day was troubled and red with blood ! It was a day of victory - and a day which gave renewed strength to the arms , and fresh animation to the spirits of our patriot ...
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... look with grateful recollections to the past , and hopes for the future , upon those edifices in which science holds her seat , and religion has erected her altar . And here , too , has the blood of the patriot been shed . These fields ...
... look with grateful recollections to the past , and hopes for the future , upon those edifices in which science holds her seat , and religion has erected her altar . And here , too , has the blood of the patriot been shed . These fields ...
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... look out upon the earth , imparting fresh life to nature , whose exterior had been so recently and so bounti- fully refreshed , and which had been the more benefitted by the intervention of the night , which gave the earth time to drink ...
... look out upon the earth , imparting fresh life to nature , whose exterior had been so recently and so bounti- fully refreshed , and which had been the more benefitted by the intervention of the night , which gave the earth time to drink ...
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... look at them as they went by , you would have thought they had never known what it was to be frightened in all their lives . We arrived at this city some two hours after the usual time , with no other inconvenience , except the delay ...
... look at them as they went by , you would have thought they had never known what it was to be frightened in all their lives . We arrived at this city some two hours after the usual time , with no other inconvenience , except the delay ...
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Albany appearance arrived barges bark beach beautiful believe boat called canal canoe chief Chippeway clouds council DEAR Detroit distance doubtless Embarked encamped father feel feet felt fire fish five Fond du Lac Fort Gratiot four give Governor Grand island half past hand happy head heard heart hour hundred yards Indians Iron river island Lake Huron Lake Superior land Lewistown light live Lockport lodge look Michillimackinac miles Montreal river morning mountains mouth Nanibojou nearly never night o'clock once ornamented paddles passed Pontiac present rest returned river rock round Sault de St Schenectady Schoolcraft schooner seen shore side soon spirit steam boat sun-down sun-rise tent Thermometer thing thunder Thunder bay to-day told took treaty Utica voyageurs whilst white fish wind young
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Page 365 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 98 - tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXVI. LXIX. The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice; The fall of waters! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 99 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Page 99 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf ! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Page 242 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 447 - In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of The United States to be hereunto affixed, having signed the same with my hand.
Page 374 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain...
Page 410 - To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God Whom we adore, Be glory, as it was, is now, And shall be evermore.
Page 374 - Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes with beauty ; the reproach Of barrenness is past. The fruitful field. Laughs with abundance ; and the land, once lean, Or fertile only in its own disgrace, Exults to see its thistly curse repealed. The various seasons woven into one, And that one season an eternal spring, The garden fears no blight, and needs no fence, For there is none to covet, all are full.
Page 374 - The garden fears no blight, and needs no fence, For there is none to covet, all are full. The lion, and the libbard, and the bear Graze with the fearless flocks; all bask at noon Together, or all gambol in the shade Of the same grove, and drink one common stream.