A Year's Residence, in the United States of America, Part 3Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819 - Agriculture |
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... rich and fertile coun- try , well cultivated by good , settled proprietors ; the road excellent : smooth as the smoothest in England , and hard as those made by the cruel cor- vees in France . The country finer , but the road not always ...
... rich and fertile coun- try , well cultivated by good , settled proprietors ; the road excellent : smooth as the smoothest in England , and hard as those made by the cruel cor- vees in France . The country finer , but the road not always ...
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... rich bottom lands upon the banks , which are steep and pretty high , varying in widths from a few yards to a mile , and skirted with steep hills varying also in height , overhanging with fine timber . 486. June 7th . - Floating down the ...
... rich bottom lands upon the banks , which are steep and pretty high , varying in widths from a few yards to a mile , and skirted with steep hills varying also in height , overhanging with fine timber . 486. June 7th . - Floating down the ...
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... rich ; the fields in its immediate vicinity bear principally grass , and clover of different sorts , the fragrant smell of which perfumes the air . The town itself ranks next to Pittsburgh , of the towns on the Ohio , in point of ...
... rich ; the fields in its immediate vicinity bear principally grass , and clover of different sorts , the fragrant smell of which perfumes the air . The town itself ranks next to Pittsburgh , of the towns on the Ohio , in point of ...
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... rich and the latter warm . The North West wind , when it blows , is very cold , but the South , South East and South West winds , which are always warm , are prevalent here . The middle of the summer , I understand , is very hot , being ...
... rich and the latter warm . The North West wind , when it blows , is very cold , but the South , South East and South West winds , which are always warm , are prevalent here . The middle of the summer , I understand , is very hot , being ...
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... rich land , and only wants draining to be made productive . We soon after came to the banks of the great Wa- bash , which is here about half a mile broad , and as the ferry - boat was crossing over with us I amused myself by washing my ...
... rich land , and only wants draining to be made productive . We soon after came to the banks of the great Wa- bash , which is here about half a mile broad , and as the ferry - boat was crossing over with us I amused myself by washing my ...
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Page 304 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Page 340 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Page 337 - We went to hear the lecture, or, rather, to see the performance, for, it being all performed in German, we could understand not a word. The people were all collected in a twinkling, the men at one end of the Church and the women at the other; it looked something like a Quaker Meeting, except that there was not a single little child in the place. Here they were kept by their Pastor a couple of hours, after which they returned home to bed. This is the quantum of Church-service they perform during the...
Page 370 - every-day evil" that they have to bear. For an English Farmer, and, more especially, an English Farmer's wife, after crossing the sea and travelling to the Illinois, with the consciousness of having expended a third of their substance, to purchase, as yet, nothing but sufferings; for such persons to boil their pot in the gipsy-fashion, to have a mere board to eat on, to drink...
Page 332 - Birkbeck's settlement is situated between [281] the two Wabashes, and is about ten miles from the nearest navigable water; we arrived there about sunset and met with a welcome which amply repaid us for our day's toil. We found that gentleman with his two sons perfectly healthy and in high spirits: his daughters were at Henderson (a town in Kentucky, on the Ohio) on a visit.
Page 312 - Men were seized, dragged to prison, treated like convicts, many transported and put to death, without having committed any thing, which the law of the land deems a crime.
Page 304 - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the...
Page 334 - I very much admire Mr. Birkbeck's mode of fencing. He makes a ditch 4 feet wide at top, sloping to 1 foot wide at bottom, and 4 feet deep. With the earth that comes out of the ditch he makes a bank on one side, which is turfed towards the ditch. Then a long pole is put up from the bottom of the ditch to 2 feet above the bank; this is crossed by a short pole from the other side, and then a rail is laid along between the forks. The banks were growing beautifully, and looked altogether very neat as...
Page 333 - Few settlers had as yet joined Mr. Birkbeck ; that is to say, settlers likely to become " society " ; he has labourers enough near him, either in his own houses or on land of their own joining his estate. He was in daily expectation of his friends Mr. Flower's family, however, with a large party besides ; they had just landed at Shawnee Town, about 20 miles distant, Mr. Birkbeck informs me he has made entry of a large tract of land, lying, part of it, all the way from his residence to the great Wabash...
Page 335 - We soon lost all appearance of the track, however, and of the "blazing" of the trees, as they call it; but, as it was useless to go back again for another guide, our only way was to keep straight on in the same direction, bring us where it would. Having no compass, this nearly cost us our sight, for it was just mid-day, and we had to gaze at the sun a long time before we discovered what was our course. After this we soon, to our great joy, found ourselves in a large corn field; rode round it, and...