The Political Club, Danville, Kentucky, 1786-1790: Being an Account of an Early Kentucky Society from the Original Papers Recently FoundJohn P. Morton, 1894 - 166 страница |
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... river , and possessed inducements for occupation second to no spot on the earth . Yet it was hid away , like a jewel in an unopened mine , up to the very period of its sudden settlement . One writer describes it thus : The climate was ...
... river , and possessed inducements for occupation second to no spot on the earth . Yet it was hid away , like a jewel in an unopened mine , up to the very period of its sudden settlement . One writer describes it thus : The climate was ...
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... river , and possessed inducements for occupation second to no spot on the earth . Yet it was hid away , like a jewel in an unopened mine , up to the very period of its sudden settlement . One writer describes it thus ; " Covered with ...
... river , and possessed inducements for occupation second to no spot on the earth . Yet it was hid away , like a jewel in an unopened mine , up to the very period of its sudden settlement . One writer describes it thus ; " Covered with ...
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... rivers deep , By forests dark , and mountains high and steep , By rocks , ravines , and rude , forbidding lines Of gnarled laurels and of tangled vines , The Unknown Land , that on the sunset rim Stretched over distance limitless and ...
... rivers deep , By forests dark , and mountains high and steep , By rocks , ravines , and rude , forbidding lines Of gnarled laurels and of tangled vines , The Unknown Land , that on the sunset rim Stretched over distance limitless and ...
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... River ; then the dangerous descent of the river , or wearisome travel over the equally dangerous trace through the mountains of Kentucky . The arrival at the destined end of the journey was at no town or set- tlement , it was only a ...
... River ; then the dangerous descent of the river , or wearisome travel over the equally dangerous trace through the mountains of Kentucky . The arrival at the destined end of the journey was at no town or set- tlement , it was only a ...
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... River from Maysville to Cincin- nati , and from thence to Louisville , a body of land is included almost square , and about one hundred miles in extent each way . It contains about ten thousand square miles , and is larger than the ...
... River from Maysville to Cincin- nati , and from thence to Louisville , a body of land is included almost square , and about one hundred miles in extent each way . It contains about ten thousand square miles , and is larger than the ...
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