The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and MarylandAmerican Publishing Company, 1875 - 802 páginas |
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... and seemingly unstable banks . You pass the Chalmette battle - field , where Andrew Jackson won his victory over the English , and where Monument Cemetery , the burial place of THE MOUTHS OF THE MISSISSIPPI . many thousand soldiers ,
... and seemingly unstable banks . You pass the Chalmette battle - field , where Andrew Jackson won his victory over the English , and where Monument Cemetery , the burial place of THE MOUTHS OF THE MISSISSIPPI . many thousand soldiers ,
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... thousand cuttings , which were so long in transit as to be nearly all destroyed , and parties in the sugar interest are now anxious that a government vessel should be sent out to obtain a new supply . There were , at the time of my ...
... thousand cuttings , which were so long in transit as to be nearly all destroyed , and parties in the sugar interest are now anxious that a government vessel should be sent out to obtain a new supply . There were , at the time of my ...
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... thousand calves apiece yearly . Sheep by thousands were also raised , but both these important industries seem to have largely fallen off since the war . The French paid great attention to the cattle and sheep husbandry in this section ...
... thousand calves apiece yearly . Sheep by thousands were also raised , but both these important industries seem to have largely fallen off since the war . The French paid great attention to the cattle and sheep husbandry in this section ...
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... thousand changes which are but the inevitable attendants of the revolution . In the parishes , the tyranny of those who use the new political element for base purposes is constantly increasing in boldness and violence - now 90 POLITICAL ...
... thousand changes which are but the inevitable attendants of the revolution . In the parishes , the tyranny of those who use the new political element for base purposes is constantly increasing in boldness and violence - now 90 POLITICAL ...
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... thousand popula- tion . While the rude interior towns were still in their infancy , Galveston was a port of entry , the station of the navies of the little republic , and the scene of many courtly festivities in honor of foreign ...
... thousand popula- tion . While the rude interior towns were still in their infancy , Galveston was a port of entry , the station of the navies of the little republic , and the scene of many courtly festivities in honor of foreign ...
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The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian ... Edward King Vista completa - 1875 |
The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian ... Edward King Vista completa - 1875 |
The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the ..., Volumen1 Edward King Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
Términos y frases comunes
acres Alabama American amount annually Arkansas Austin bales banks bayou beautiful bluffs bordered building capital cattle Charleston charming Cherokees church citizens coal colored cotton creek crop cultivation dollars feet fertile Florida foliage forests Fort Gibson French Galveston Georgia German Government Governor grand Gulf hills horses houses Houston hundred immense Indian Territory inhabitants island journey Kansas labor lake land Legislature levée Little Rock Louis Louisiana lowlands Memphis Mexican Mexico miles millions mission Mississippi Mississippi river Missouri Natchez nearly negroes North Northern Texas oaks once Orleans Palatka parish passed picturesque plains plantations planters political prairie present prosperous railroad railway Red river region Republican rich road route runs San Antonio Savannah schools seems side South Carolina South-west Southern Spanish square miles steamer stream streets sugar superb Tennessee Texan Texas thousand town trade trees valley Vicksburg West Western wild
Pasajes populares
Página 737 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Página 44 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Página 26 - ... of Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other states.
Página 378 - Canst thou copy in verse one chime Of the wood-bell's peal and cry, Write in a book the morning's prime, Or match with words that tender sky? Wonderful verse of the gods, Of one import, of varied tone; They chant the bliss of their abodes To man imprisoned in his own.
Página 227 - All the powers relating to the management of the schools are vested in a corporate body called " the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools," the members of the board to be elected for terms of three years.
Página 307 - While the land owner is busy keeping account betwixt himself and his negro hands, ginning their cotton for them, doing all the marketing of produce and supplies, of which they have the lion's share, and has hardly a day he can call his own, the hands may be earning a dollar a day from him for work which is quite as much theirs as his. Yet the negroes, with all their superabounding privilege on the cotton-field, make little of it A ploughman or a herd in the Old World would not exchange his lot for...
Página 26 - I know the full value of Louisiana, and I have been desirous of repairing the fault of the French negotiator who abandoned it in 1763. A few lines of a treaty have restored it to me, and I have scarcely recovered it, when I must expect to lose it. But if it escapes from me, it shall one day cost dearer to those who oblige me to strip myself of it, than to those to whom I wish to deliver it.
Página 734 - BALTIMORE, his heirs and assigns, all that part of the Peninsula, or Chersonese, lying in the parts of America between the ocean on the east and the bay of Chesapeake on the west...
Página 611 - O Lord, O my Lord, O my good Lord, Keep me from sinkin ' down 1 0 my Lord, O my good Lord, Keep me from sinkin ' down ! 1 tell you what I mean to do, Keep me from sinkin...
Página 25 - The first of these forts — that is, that on the right, which is most considerable— is called St. Charles, the other St. Louis. " In the rear, and to cover the city on the land side, are three other forts. They are less considerable than the two first. There is one at each of the two salient angles of the long square forming the city, and a third between the two, a little beyond the line, so as to form an obtuse angle.* These three forts have no covered way and are not revetted,f but are merely...