The Fashionable Tour in 1825: An Excursion to the Springs, Niagara, Quebec and BostonG.M. Davison, 1825 - 169 strani |
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The Fashionable Tour, in 1825: An Excursion to the Springs, Niagara, Quebec ... Gideon Miner Davison Predogled ni na voljo - 2017 |
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12 miles accommodation Albany American Arnold attack Ballston Spa bank battle beautiful BEMUS Boston bridge building Burgoyne camp celebrated centre command commenced constructed contains Creek cultivation ding distance east edifices elegant elevated enemy erected Erie canal establishment extending feet in height feet in length formed Fort Edward front Genesee River half a mile handsome hill Hotel Hudson river inhabitants Island Lake Champlain Lake George Lake Ontario land Lawrence leave Lewiston ment miles distant miles farther miles in length Mohawk Montreal mountains navigable New-York Niagara Niagara River officers Ogdensburgh packet boats pass passage Plattsburgh pleasant principal prospect Quebec residence road rock rods route SARATOGA SPRINGS scene scenery Schenectady scite shore situated soda spot stages steam boat stone summit terminates thence Ticonderoga tion town troops Utica vicinity village West Point west side Whitehall whole width wood wounded
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Stran xii - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Stran vi - ... HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Bought from the Fund for CURRENT MODERN POETRY given by MORRIS GRAY...
Stran 87 - The ball had passed through his body, and unhappily for the general, he had eaten a very hearty breakfast, by which the stomach was distended, and the ball, as the surgeon said, had passed through it. I heard him often exclaim with a sigh...
Stran 87 - I saw a great movement among the troops ; my husband told me it was a mere reconnoissance, which gave me no concern, as it often happened. I walked out of the house, and met several Indians, in their war dresses, with guns in their hands. When I asked them where they were going, they cried out, War ! War...
Stran xii - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Chart*. and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned,"...
Stran 37 - The Board having maturely considered these facts, do also report to his excellency General Washington, that Major Andre, adjutant-general to the British army, ought to be considered as a spy from the enemy, and that agreeably to the law and usage of nations it is their opinion he ought to suffer death.
Stran 89 - ... had this sorrowful sight before us the whole day, and to add to the melancholy scene, almost every moment some officer of my acquaintance was brought in wounded.
Stran 88 - Ackland had a tent not far from our house; in this she slept, and the rest of the day she was in the camp. All of a sudden, a man came to tell her that her husband was mortally wounded and taken prisoner; on hearing this she became very miserable; we comforted her by telling her that the wound was only slight, and at the same time ad.
Stran 77 - Freeman's farm, an oblong field, stretching from the centre towards its right, the ground in front sloping gently down to the verge of this field, which was bordered on the opposite side by a close wood. The sanguinary scene lay in the cleared ground, between the eminence occupied by the enemy and the wood just described. The fire of our marksmen from this wood was too deadly to be withstood by the enemy in line, and, when they gave way and broke...
Stran 80 - What is the nature of the ground, and what your opinion ?' * Their front is open, and their flanks rest on the woods, under cover of which they may be attacked; their right is skirted by a lofty height. I would indulge them.* Well, then, order on Morgan to begin the game.