Great Rivers of the World: As Seen and Described by Famous WritersEsther Singleton |
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... , Gangá , at the distance of one hundred leagues from the river , " said her more enthusiastic devotees , might atone for the sins committed during three previous lives . Το THE GANGES THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR , LENOX 20 THE ...
... , Gangá , at the distance of one hundred leagues from the river , " said her more enthusiastic devotees , might atone for the sins committed during three previous lives . Το THE GANGES THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR , LENOX 20 THE ...
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... live by commerce along her margin . Calcutta , with its suburbs on both sides of the river , con- tains a population of nearly a million . It has a municipal revenue of four and one - fourth millions of rupees ; a sea- borne and ...
... live by commerce along her margin . Calcutta , with its suburbs on both sides of the river , con- tains a population of nearly a million . It has a municipal revenue of four and one - fourth millions of rupees ; a sea- borne and ...
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... live at Sokoto , and their Sultan bears spiritual rule over the greater part of Haùsaland ; his temporal power is no myth , either , for in 1891 he raised an army of 40,000 men - half of whom were cavalry - un- der the eyes of Monteil ...
... live at Sokoto , and their Sultan bears spiritual rule over the greater part of Haùsaland ; his temporal power is no myth , either , for in 1891 he raised an army of 40,000 men - half of whom were cavalry - un- der the eyes of Monteil ...
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... about twelve yards in length , covered with an awning of palm branches , which come from Peru and elsewhere with native produce , are manned by Indians who live aboard , and which take two months to get 108 THE AMAZON.
... about twelve yards in length , covered with an awning of palm branches , which come from Peru and elsewhere with native produce , are manned by Indians who live aboard , and which take two months to get 108 THE AMAZON.
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... live some little distance from the river , are of about our average height and build , walnut - coloured , with long straight jet - black hair . In war they fight with bamboo - headed spears and poisoned arrows , the latter propelled by ...
... live some little distance from the river , are of about our average height and build , walnut - coloured , with long straight jet - black hair . In war they fight with bamboo - headed spears and poisoned arrows , the latter propelled by ...
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Abbey ancient Anio Aqua Avon beautiful boats bridge called canal Cañon castle Castleconnell channel charm church cliffs colour Congo course crossed Danube delta descends Diarbekr distance east Euphrates fall famous feet fish floating floods flows forest Ganges gorge green half a mile Hare Indian height hills houses Hudson hundred Indian islands junction La Bouille Lake land landscape Loch Lock Loire Lough Lough Derg Lough Ree lower Mackenzie meadows mile wide mountains mouth narrow navigable nearly Niger Nile Oise passed picturesque plain plateau Portumna Potomac PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR rapids reached Rhine right bank rises river rock Roman Romney Lock round ruins sail scenery Sha-shih shore side spires square miles steamer stream Tarbert Thames Tiber Tigris tower town traveller trees tributaries valley village Volga walls width wind wooded Yangtse Chiang yards YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 291 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Page 33 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 271 - It is the Hudson, the Delaware, the Potomac, and all the navigable rivers of the Atlantic states, formed into one stream.
Page 271 - This accession of territory strengthens forever the power of the United States ; and I have just given to England a maritime rival that will sooner or later humble her pride.
Page 271 - Western people, " is ours* by the law of nature ; it belongs to us by our numbers, and by the labor which we have bestowed on those spots which, before our arrival, were desert and barren. Our innumerable rivers swell it, and flow with it into the Gulf of Mexico. Its mouth is the only issue which nature has given to our waters, and we wish to use it for our vessels. No power in the world shall deprive us of this right.
Page 341 - Many waves are there agitated by the wind, keeping nature fresh, the spray blowing in your face, reeds and rushes waving ; ducks by the hundred, all uneasy in the surf, in the raw wind, just ready to rise, and now going off with a clatter and a whistling like riggers straight for Labrador, flying against the stiff gale with reefed wings, or else circling round first, with all their paddles briskly moving, just over the surf, to...
Page 342 - The respectable folks, — Where dwell they? They whisper in the oaks, And they sigh in the hay; Summer and winter, night and day, Out on the meadow, there dwell they. They never die, Nor snivel nor cry, Nor ask our pity With a wet eye. A sound estate they ever mend, To every asker readily lend; To the ocean wealth, To the meadow health, To Time his length, To the rocks strength, To the stars light, To the weary night, To the busy day, To the idle play; And so their good cheer never ends, For all...
Page 27 - To the eye educated to any other, it may be shocking, grotesque, incomprehensible ; but " those who have long and carefully studied the Grand Canon of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles.
Page 303 - The vast comparative erosive energy of the Horseshoe Fall comes strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together. The American branch of the upper river is cut at a right angle by the gorge of the Niagara. Here the Horseshoe Fall was the real excavator. It cut the rock and formed the precipice over which the American Fall tumbles. But since its formation, the erosive action of the American Fall has been almost nil, while the Horseshoe has cut its way for 500 yards across the...
Page 33 - I WAITED for the train at Coventry ; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires ; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this : — Not only we, the latest seed of Time, New men, that in the flying of a wheel Cry down the past; not only we, that prate Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well And loathed to see them...