A Book of the United States: Exhibiting Its Geography, Divisions, Constitution and Government; and Presenting a View of the Republic Generally, and of the Individual States; Together with a Condensed History of the Land. The Biography of the Leading Men; a Description of the Principal Cities and Towns, with Statistical TablesGrenville Mellen G.C. Smith, 1839 - 824 страница |
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... Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1659 , by GRENVILLE MELLEN . in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts 7180 49 STEREOTYPED BY SHEPARD , OLIVER , & CO No. 3 , Water Street , Boston . Martinson & Co ...
... Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1659 , by GRENVILLE MELLEN . in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts 7180 49 STEREOTYPED BY SHEPARD , OLIVER , & CO No. 3 , Water Street , Boston . Martinson & Co ...
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... entered the first lake formed by the Columbia . It is between eleven and twelve leagues long , and about one and a half in breadth ; the current smooth and steady , and pretty free from snags or sunken trees . The shores are bold and ...
... entered the first lake formed by the Columbia . It is between eleven and twelve leagues long , and about one and a half in breadth ; the current smooth and steady , and pretty free from snags or sunken trees . The shores are bold and ...
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... entered into it with her children , and paddled down the stream , singing her death - song . Too late did her friends per- ceive it ; their attempts to prevent her from proceeding were of no avail ; she was heard to sing in a doleful ...
... entered into it with her children , and paddled down the stream , singing her death - song . Too late did her friends per- ceive it ; their attempts to prevent her from proceeding were of no avail ; she was heard to sing in a doleful ...
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... entered them ever to find his way out . Some of the islands look almost like ships with their masts ; and many have ... entering the narrow part , where the mountains close in upon you on both sides , and present an endless diversity of ...
... entered them ever to find his way out . Some of the islands look almost like ships with their masts ; and many have ... entering the narrow part , where the mountains close in upon you on both sides , and present an endless diversity of ...
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... entering , the guide , whom I had procured from a neigh- boring house , lighted the ends of three or four splinters of pitch pine , a large bundle of which he had brought with him : they burn out very fast , but while they last are most ...
... entering , the guide , whom I had procured from a neigh- boring house , lighted the ends of three or four splinters of pitch pine , a large bundle of which he had brought with him : they burn out very fast , but while they last are most ...
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