Biography and History of the Indians of North America;: Comprising a General Account of Them, and Details in the Lives of All the Most Distinguished Chiefs, and Others, who Have Been Noted, Among the Various Indian Nations Upon the Continent. Also, a History of Their Wars; Their Manners and Customs; and the Most Celebrated Speeches of Their Orators, from Their First Being Known to Europeans to the Present Time. Likewise Exhibiting an Analysis of the Most Distinguished, as Well as Absurd Authors, who Have Written Upon the Great Question of the First Peopling of America. : [Six Lines from Bryant]O.L. Perkins, 56 Cornhill, and Hilliard, Gray & Company, 1834 - Indians of North America - 540 pages |
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... miles from Long Island Sound , is a narrow of 5 yards only , formed by two shelving mountains of solid rock . Through this chasm are compelled to pass all the waters which in the time of the floods bury the northern country . " [ This ...
... miles from Long Island Sound , is a narrow of 5 yards only , formed by two shelving mountains of solid rock . Through this chasm are compelled to pass all the waters which in the time of the floods bury the northern country . " [ This ...
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... miles through the forests , to join the Canada Indians ! " * A ludicrous Error . - There was published in London , in 1762 , " THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER , " & c.f in which is the following account of BRIS- TOL , R. I. " A county and town ...
... miles through the forests , to join the Canada Indians ! " * A ludicrous Error . - There was published in London , in 1762 , " THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER , " & c.f in which is the following account of BRIS- TOL , R. I. " A county and town ...
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... miles . From this place , its top very much resembles the dome of the state - house in Boston , as seen from many places in the vicinity , at four or five miles ' distance . Its height by admeasurement is said to be about 200 feet . It ...
... miles . From this place , its top very much resembles the dome of the state - house in Boston , as seen from many places in the vicinity , at four or five miles ' distance . Its height by admeasurement is said to be about 200 feet . It ...
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... miles from thence . " In 1632 , a short war was carried on between Massasoit and Canonicus , the sachem of the Narragansets , but the English interfering with a force under the spirited Capt . Standish , ended it with very little ...
... miles from thence . " In 1632 , a short war was carried on between Massasoit and Canonicus , the sachem of the Narragansets , but the English interfering with a force under the spirited Capt . Standish , ended it with very little ...
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... Miles Standish , and the other inhabitants of Duxbury , " a tract of land usually called Saughtucket , " seven miles square . This was Bridgewater . It had been before granted to them , only , however , in preemption . They agreed to ...
... Miles Standish , and the other inhabitants of Duxbury , " a tract of land usually called Saughtucket , " seven miles square . This was Bridgewater . It had been before granted to them , only , however , in preemption . They agreed to ...
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