 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1851 - 568 pages
...Missouri, or the Red River? One might as well try to bite a slice off the moon ! Not only are these rivers as rapid as the Rhone, but in their crooked...to him, as if he had not something better to attend to—the discovery of gold, diamonds and pearls! To trouble himself about conceding and locating lands,... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1857 - 722 pages
...Mississippi, it would he necessary to wait for a change of wind, if wind could be had, because the river is so lined up with thick woods that very little wind has access to its bed." In November, 1715, this poor specimen of humanity returned to France; and in 1717, Crozat resigned... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1866 - 932 pages
...Missouri, or the lied River? One might as well try to bite a -slice off the moon ! Not only are these rivers as rapid as the Rhone, but in their crooked...to him, as if he had not something better to attend to—the discovery of gold, diamonds and pearls! To trouble himself about conceding and locating lands,... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1867 - 934 pages
...Missouri, or the Red River ? One might as well try to bite a slice off the moon ! Not only are these rivers as rapid as the Rhone, but in their crooked...should devote most of his time to favoring agricultural .pursuite among the colonists, Cadillac took it in high dudgeon, that such recommendations should ever... | |
 | Nathan Howe Parker - Missouri - 1867 - 504 pages
...into the Wabash, the Missouri or the Red River? One might as well try to bite a slice off Ike moon! Not only are those rivers as rapid as the Rhone, but...woods that very little wind has access to its bed."* M. de la Motte was the first governor under the new grant, and arrived in the Illinois country (comprising... | |
 | Nathan Howe Parker - Missouri - 1867 - 494 pages
...those rivers as rapid as the Rhone, but in their crooked course they imitate to perfection a suake's undulations. Hence, for instance, on every turn of...woods that very little wind has access to its bed."* M. de la Motte was the first governor under the new grant, and arrived in the Illinois country (comprising... | |
 | Nathan Howe Parker - Missouri - 1867 - 504 pages
...be necessary to wait for a change of wind, if wind could be had ; because this river is so lined np with thick woods that very little wind has access to its bed."* M. de la Motte was the first governor under the new grant, and arrived in the Illinois country (comprising... | |
 | American essays - 1868 - 798 pages
...Missouri, or the Red River ? One might as -well t>y to bite a slice off the moon. Not only are these rivers as rapid as the Rhone, but in their crooked...woods that very little wind has access to its bed." Wise La Motte ! Just as wise as Jefferson, who believed the Erie Canal <* built fifty years too soon... | |
 | American literature - 1868 - 784 pages
...Missouri, or the Red River ? One might as -well try to bite a slice off the moon. Not only are these rivers as rapid as the Rhone, but in their crooked...woods that very little wind has access to its bed." Wise La Motte ! Just as wise as Jefferson, who believed the Erie Canal built fifty years too soon ;... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Canoes and canoeing - 1887 - 458 pages
...would be necessary to wait for a change of wind, if wind could be had ; because this river is so lined with thick woods, that very little wind has access to its bed." Could it be possible for the shade of La Motte to look down upon his late domain from his celestial... | |
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Is it expected that, for any commercial or profitable purposes, boats will ever be able to run up the Mississippi, into the Wabash, the Missouri, or the Red River? One might as well try to bite a slice off the moon ! Not only are these rivers as rapid... 
