 | William Lloyd Baily - Birds - 1869 - 272 pages
...through it upwards of forty miles, and, crossing it in different parts, found its average breadth to be rather more than three miles. My first view of it...a fortnight subsequent to the period when they had made choice of it, and I arrived there nearly two hours before sunset. Few Pigeons were then to be... | |
 | Eliza Lee Cabot Follen - Cats - 1870 - 108 pages
...was about a fortnight after the birds had chosen it. I arrived thjere nearly two hours before sunset. Few pigeons were then to be seen, but a great number of persons with horses and wagons, guns and ammunition, had already established differr ent camps on the borders. Many trees two feet... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 264 pages
...through it upwards of forty miles, and, crossing it in different parts, found its average breadth to be rather more than three miles. My first view of it...a fortnight subsequent to the period when they had made choice of it, and I arrived there nearly two hours before sunset. 11. Many trees, two feet in... | |
 | William Martin - Children's literature - 1863 - 390 pages
...lengthwise, upwards of forty miles, and crossed it in different parts, the width of which I ascertained to be rather more than three miles. My first view of it was about a fortnight previous to the period when they had chosen this spot, and I arrived nearly two hours before sunset.... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1901 - 398 pages
...through it upwards of forty miles, and crossing it in different parts, found its average breadth to be rather more than three miles. My first view of it...a fortnight subsequent to the period when they had made a choice of it, and I arrived there two hours before sunset. Few pigeons were then to be seen,... | |
 | Clarence Moores Weed, Ned Dearborn - Birds - 1903 - 436 pages
...through it upward of forty miles, and, crossing it in different parts, found its average breadth to be rather more than three miles. My first view of it...a fortnight subsequent to the period when they had made a choice of it, and I arrived there two hours before sunset. Few pigeons were to be seen, but... | |
 | Clarence Moores Weed, Ned Dearborn - Birds - 1903 - 436 pages
...period when they had made a choice of it, and I arrived there two hours before sunset. Few pigeons were to be seen, but a great number of persons, with horses and wagons, guns and ammunition, had already established encampments on the borders. Two farmers from the vicinity... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Jennie Freeborn Owens - 1906 - 504 pages
...after the period when they had made choice of it, and I arrived there nearly two hours before sunset. Few pigeons were then to be seen, but a great number of persons, with horses and wagons, guns and ammunition, had already established camps on the borders. Everything proved to me that the... | |
 | Rudolf Cronau - Conservation of natural resources - 1908 - 164 pages
...if the forest had been swept by a tornado. " I arrived at this place nearly two hours before sunset. Few pigeons were then to be seen, but a great number of persons with horses and wagons, guns and ammunition, had already established encampments on the borders. "As the period of the arrival... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker - 1909 - 504 pages
...after the period when they had made choice of it, and I arrived there nearly two hours before sunset. Few pigeons were then to be seen, but a great number of persons, with horses and wagons, guns and ammunition, had already established camps on the borders. Everything proved to me that the... | |
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My first view of it was about a fortnight subsequent to the period when they had made choice of it, and I arrived there nearly two hours before sunset. Few Pigeons were then to be seen, but a great number of persons, with horses and wagons, guns and ammunition,... 
