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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... side of the mountain . Cane and Paper Creeks are small tributaries of the Nolichucky , on the eastern or North Carolina grade of the mountains.- ED . 181 C. rostrata , Ait.— C. S. S. America even in lower Carolina in the neighborhood of ...
... side of the mountain . Cane and Paper Creeks are small tributaries of the Nolichucky , on the eastern or North Carolina grade of the mountains.- ED . 181 C. rostrata , Ait.— C. S. S. America even in lower Carolina in the neighborhood of ...
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... side , towards the north . This part of New Jersey is very uneven ; the soil is hard and flinty , to judge of it by the grass which I saw in places pulled up . Large rocks , of a chalky nature , as if decayed , appeared even with the ...
... side , towards the north . This part of New Jersey is very uneven ; the soil is hard and flinty , to judge of it by the grass which I saw in places pulled up . Large rocks , of a chalky nature , as if decayed , appeared even with the ...
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... side , Trenton seemed worthy of attention . Its situation upon the Delaware , the beauti- ful tract of country that ... sides , about [ 21 ] fifty yards distant from each other , afford an abundant supply of water ; upon the top of each ...
... side , Trenton seemed worthy of attention . Its situation upon the Delaware , the beauti- ful tract of country that ... sides , about [ 21 ] fifty yards distant from each other , afford an abundant supply of water ; upon the top of each ...
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... side . remained until his death in 1807. He was much interested in botany , and devoted all his leisure to that pursuit , being a member of the American Philo- sophical Society , and , as Michaux notes , in correspondence with many ...
... side . remained until his death in 1807. He was much interested in botany , and devoted all his leisure to that pursuit , being a member of the American Philo- sophical Society , and , as Michaux notes , in correspondence with many ...
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... side . The right leads across the mountains , and the left , which we took , appeared to [ 38 ] have been , and may be still the bed of a deep torrent , the ground being wet and marshy . The banks were covered with 142 [ Vol . 3 Early ...
... side . The right leads across the mountains , and the left , which we took , appeared to [ 38 ] have been , and may be still the bed of a deep torrent , the ground being wet and marshy . The banks were covered with 142 [ Vol . 3 Early ...
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