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The streets were crowded with land speculators , hurrying from one sale to another . A negro , up in scarlet , bearing a scarlet flag , and riding a white horse with housings of scarlet , announced the times of sale .
The streets were crowded with land speculators , hurrying from one sale to another . A negro , up in scarlet , bearing a scarlet flag , and riding a white horse with housings of scarlet , announced the times of sale .
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dred dollars per day the five preceding days , by merely making out titles to land . Another friend had realized , in two years , ten times as much money as he had before fixed upon as a competence for life .
dred dollars per day the five preceding days , by merely making out titles to land . Another friend had realized , in two years , ten times as much money as he had before fixed upon as a competence for life .
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But in the evening , when the sun descends , and the wind subsides , I go to some higher part of the city , to see the sun set over the prairie land , for it is very beautiful ; and , beholding this magnificent spectacle , melancholy ...
But in the evening , when the sun descends , and the wind subsides , I go to some higher part of the city , to see the sun set over the prairie land , for it is very beautiful ; and , beholding this magnificent spectacle , melancholy ...
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INTRODUCTION | 3 |
JACQUES MARQUETTE | 13 |
SAMUEL A STORROW | 23 |
Urheberrecht | |
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