 | 1818 - 638 páginas
...fairly turned our backs on the old world, and find ourselves in the very stream of emigration. Old America seems to be breaking up, and moving westward....the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us, some with a view to a particular spot ; close t» a brother perhaps, or a friend, who has gone before,... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 336 páginas
...old world, and find ourselves in the very stream of emigration. Old America seems to be breaking Dp and moving westward. We are seldom out of sight, as...towards the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us ; some with a view to a particnlar spot, close to a brother, perhapi, or a friend, who has gone before,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 648 páginas
...fairly turned our backs on the old world, and find ourselves in the very stream of emigration. Old America seems to be breaking up, and moving westward....the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us, some with a view to a particular spot, close to a brother perhaps, or a friend, who has gone before,... | |
 | 1818 - 628 páginas
...fairly turned our backs on the old world, and find ourselves in the very stream of emigration. Old America seems to be breaking up, and moving westward....the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us, some with a view to a particular spot, close to a brother perhaps, or a friend, who has gone before,... | |
 | 1818 - 428 páginas
...fairly turned oar backs *n the old world, and find ourselves in the very stream of emigration. Old America seems to be breaking up, and moving westward. We are seldom out 01 sight, as we tiavel on thin grand track, towards the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before as,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 772 páginas
...fairly turned our backs on the old world, and find ourselves in the very stream of emigration. Old America seems to be breaking up, and moving westward....the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us, some with a view to a particular spot ; close to a brother perhaps, or a friend, who has gone before,... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1829 - 554 páginas
...picture of a scene which presented itself on this great highway of emigration. " Old America," says he, " seems to be breaking up, and moving westward. We are...the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us, some with a view to a particular spot, close to a brother perhaps, or a friend, who has gone before... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1903 - 214 páginas
...turnpike from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. " M Of the scenes about him Mr. Birkbeck writes :91 ' ' Old America seems to be breaking up, and moving westward....this grand track, towards the Ohio, of family groups. . . To give an idea of the internal movements of this vast hive, about 12,000 wagons passed between... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1906 - 1070 páginas
...moving westward ", wrote Birkbeck in 1817, as he passed on the National Road through Pennsylvania. We are seldom out of sight, as we travel on this grand...the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us. ... A small waggon (so light that you might almost carry it, yet strong enough to bear a good load... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1906 - 402 páginas
...westward," wrote Morris Birkbeck in 1817, as he passed on the National Road through Pennsylvania. " We are seldom out of sight, as we' travel on this...the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us. ... A small waggon (so light that you might almost carry it, yet strong enough to bear a good load... | |
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Old America seems to be breaking up and moving westward. We are seldom out of sight, as we travel on this grand track towards the Ohio, of family groups behind and before us... 
