Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures: Or, Life in the West. To which is Added a View of the States and Territorial Regions of Our Western Empire: Embracing History, Statistics and Geography, and Descriptions of the Chief Cities of the WestSegner & Condit, 1870 - 775 страница |
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... wooden fort , in which some families were intrenched , to hunt on Green river , in the state of Kentucky . They ... woods . He was on the same side of the river with their brother . After deliberating a moment , they decided on flight ...
... wooden fort , in which some families were intrenched , to hunt on Green river , in the state of Kentucky . They ... woods . He was on the same side of the river with their brother . After deliberating a moment , they decided on flight ...
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... wood , matted with fallen trees , and obscured with moss . From this the path emerges upon dry ground . It soon ascends an elevation of oceanic sand , having bowlders and bearing pines . There is then another descent and another ...
... wood , matted with fallen trees , and obscured with moss . From this the path emerges upon dry ground . It soon ascends an elevation of oceanic sand , having bowlders and bearing pines . There is then another descent and another ...
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... wood grows down to the very margin of the river ; and the timber , for some hundred miles , is by no means remarkable for size . As the river descends to the south- ward , however , it is of finer growth ; and about latitude 30 ...
... wood grows down to the very margin of the river ; and the timber , for some hundred miles , is by no means remarkable for size . As the river descends to the south- ward , however , it is of finer growth ; and about latitude 30 ...
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... wood ; and an occasional vulture , attract- ed by its impure prey on the surface of the waters ; the trees with a long and hideous drapery of pendant moss , fluttering in the wind ; and the giant river , rolling onward the vast volume ...
... wood ; and an occasional vulture , attract- ed by its impure prey on the surface of the waters ; the trees with a long and hideous drapery of pendant moss , fluttering in the wind ; and the giant river , rolling onward the vast volume ...
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... wood is another cause of change . Floating logs encounter some obstacle in the river , and become station- ary . The mass gradually accumulates ; the water , saturated with mud , deposits a sediment , and thus an island is formed ...
... wood is another cause of change . Floating logs encounter some obstacle in the river , and become station- ary . The mass gradually accumulates ; the water , saturated with mud , deposits a sediment , and thus an island is formed ...
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