 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 501 pages
...river, that officer buried, at the foot of a primeval red-oak, a plate of lead with. the inscription, that, from the farthest ridge whence water trickled towards the Ohio, the country belonged to France ; while the lilies of the Bourbons were nailed to a forest tree in token of possession. 1 "I am going... | |
 | george bancropt - 1856 - 496 pages
...river, that officer "buried, at the foot of a primeval red-oak, a plate of lead with the inscription, that, from, the farthest ridge whence water trickled towards the Ohio, the country belonged to France ; while the lilies of the Bourbons were nailed to a forest tree in token of possession. 1 " I am going... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Prussia (Germany) - 1864 - 552 pages
...anticipates the birth; sends a vigilant Commandant, thitherward, "with 300 men, To trace and occupy the Valleys of the Ohio and of the St. Lawrence, as far as Detroit." That officer " buries plates of lead," up and down the Country, with inscriptions signifying... | |
 | THOMAS CARLYLE - 1864 - 536 pages
...anticipates the birth ; sends a vigilant Commandant thitherward, "with 300 men, To trace and occupy the Valleys of the Ohio and of the St. Lawrence, as far as Detroit." That officer " buries plates of lead," up and down the Country, with inscriptions signifying... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Prussia (Germany) - 1864 - 340 pages
...anticipates the birth; sends a vigilant Commandant thitherward, "with 300 ' men, To trace and occupy the Valleys of the Ohio and of the St. Lawrence, as far as Detroit." That officer "buries plates of lead," up and down the Country, with inscriptions signifying... | |
 | Edward Manning Ruttenber - Social Science - 1872 - 436 pages
...the mouth of every principal river plates of la were deposited in the soil bearing the inscription, that, from the farthest ridge whence water trickled...towards the Ohio, the country belonged to France, and the lilies of the Bourbons were nailed to forest trees in token of possession. 1 The determination... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT. - 1874 - 492 pages
...river, that officer buried, at the foot of a primeval red-oak, a plate of lead with the inscription, that, from the farthest ridge whence water trickled towards the Ohio, the country belonged to France ; while the lilies of the Bourbons were nailed to a forest tree in token of possession. 1 "I am going... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1865 - 636 pages
...anticipates the birth; sends a vigilant Commandant thitherward, ' with 300 men, To trace and occupy the Valleys of the Ohio and of the St. Lawrence, as far as Detroit.' That officer ' buries plates of lead,' up and down the Country, with inscriptions signifying... | |
 | Frederick William Longman - 1881 - 276 pages
...trace and occupy the valleys of the Ohio and St. Lawrence. Plates of lead were buried in various places with inscriptions signifying that from the farthest...towards the Ohio, the country belonged to France, and the lilies of the Bourbons were nailed to a forest tree in token of possession. No active steps were... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 584 pages
...anticipates the birth; sends a vigilant Commandant thitherward, "with 300 men, To trace and occupy the Valleys of the Ohio and of the St. Lawrence, as far as Detroit." That officer " buries plates of lead," up and down the Country, -with inscriptions signifying... | |
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the Valleys of the Ohio and of the St. Lawrence, as far as 1750-1755. ' Detroit/ That officer ' buries plates of lead,' up and down the Country, with inscriptions signifying that ' from the farthest ridge, ' whence water trickled towards the Ohio, the... 
