An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-IndiesTiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 519 strani |
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... falt creeks and rivers , the heads of which form fwamps and marshes , and fenny ground , covered with water in wet fea- fons . The uncultivated lands are covered with hirge trees and thick underwood . The vicinity of the fea , and fält ...
... falt creeks and rivers , the heads of which form fwamps and marshes , and fenny ground , covered with water in wet fea- fons . The uncultivated lands are covered with hirge trees and thick underwood . The vicinity of the fea , and fält ...
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... falt which had formed on the vault and floor , he found the earth highly impregnated to the depth of feven feet in fome places , and generally of three , every bushel yield- ing on an average three pounds of nitre . Mr. Lynch having ...
... falt which had formed on the vault and floor , he found the earth highly impregnated to the depth of feven feet in fome places , and generally of three , every bushel yield- ing on an average three pounds of nitre . Mr. Lynch having ...
Stran 130
... falt fprings , where great plenty of falt may be made . Round thefe licks , the foil is poor for fome diftance , being much impregnated with falt . The fouthern branch of Licking , and all its other arms , fpread through a great body of ...
... falt fprings , where great plenty of falt may be made . Round thefe licks , the foil is poor for fome diftance , being much impregnated with falt . The fouthern branch of Licking , and all its other arms , fpread through a great body of ...
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... falt licks , and fulphureous and bituminous fprings . That part of Cumberland river which is in the Kentucky country , traverses a hilly poor land , though in fome parts we find good foil along its fides . The other rivers mentioned ...
... falt licks , and fulphureous and bituminous fprings . That part of Cumberland river which is in the Kentucky country , traverses a hilly poor land , though in fome parts we find good foil along its fides . The other rivers mentioned ...
Stran 132
... every where to an amazing height , except neu the falt licks , where the influence of the taline particles feems to check them Growth . American Museum , 1792 . and to be exceeded by no country in variety . 132 GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
... every where to an amazing height , except neu the falt licks , where the influence of the taline particles feems to check them Growth . American Museum , 1792 . and to be exceeded by no country in variety . 132 GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
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Stran 114 - of the whole fcheme of education would be the teaching all the children of the State reading, writing, and common arithmetic ; turning out ten annually of fuperior genius, well taught in Greek, Latin, geography, and the higher branches of arithmetic ; turning out ten others annually, of
Stran 208 - laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without the confent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not
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Stran 209 - and as (landing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military fhould be kept under
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Stran 212 - and continue to pofTefs in the county which he reprefents, not lefs than one hundred acres of land in fee, or for the term of his own life. VII. That all freemen of the age of twenty-one years, who have been inhabitants of any one county within the State twelve months immediately preceding the day of any election, and