Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, Band 3Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1904 |
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... corn , and hay . Planks and building materials comprize another considera- ble article of importation ; and although these different kinds of produce are brought from three to four hundred leagues , they are not so dear and of a better ...
... corn , and hay . Planks and building materials comprize another considera- ble article of importation ; and although these different kinds of produce are brought from three to four hundred leagues , they are not so dear and of a better ...
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... corn and flour . When I left this place , a bar- rel of flour , weighing ninety - six pounds , was worth five piastres . From Shippensburgh to Pittsburgh the distance is about an hundred and seventy miles.12 The stages going no farther ...
... corn and flour . When I left this place , a bar- rel of flour , weighing ninety - six pounds , was worth five piastres . From Shippensburgh to Pittsburgh the distance is about an hundred and seventy miles.12 The stages going no farther ...
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... corn , flour , & c . which , with salt provisions , are the only articles they sell for exportation . [ During the war , in the time of the French revolution , the inhabitants found it more to their advantage to send their corn , & c ...
... corn , flour , & c . which , with salt provisions , are the only articles they sell for exportation . [ During the war , in the time of the French revolution , the inhabitants found it more to their advantage to send their corn , & c ...
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... corn generally in the house ; the poorest man has always one or more horses , and an inhabitant very rarely goes on foot to see his neighbour . The day after my arrival I went into the woods , and in my first excursion I found the shrub ...
... corn generally in the house ; the poorest man has always one or more horses , and an inhabitant very rarely goes on foot to see his neighbour . The day after my arrival I went into the woods , and in my first excursion I found the shrub ...
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... corn upon the summit of the mountains , but it does not succeed well , the country being too cold . The sun is not [ 51 ] seen there for three quarters of an hour after it has risen . They also culti- vate hemp and flax , and each ...
... corn upon the summit of the mountains , but it does not succeed well , the country being too cold . The sun is not [ 51 ] seen there for three quarters of an hour after it has risen . They also culti- vate hemp and flax , and each ...
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