Life of George Washington, Količina 1G.P. Putnam, 1860 |
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Stran 38
... rivers , and occasionally rendered them almost impassable . Spring , however , was softening the lower parts of the landscape and smiling in the valleys . They entered the great valley of Virginia , where it is about twenty - five miles ...
... rivers , and occasionally rendered them almost impassable . Spring , however , was softening the lower parts of the landscape and smiling in the valleys . They entered the great valley of Virginia , where it is about twenty - five miles ...
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... river , which , on account of its surpassing beauty , was named by the Indians the Shenandoah - that is to say , " the daughter of the stars . " " The first station of the travellers was at a kind of lodge in the wilderness , where the ...
... river , which , on account of its surpassing beauty , was named by the Indians the Shenandoah - that is to say , " the daughter of the stars . " " The first station of the travellers was at a kind of lodge in the wilderness , where the ...
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... river . Here and there partial " clearings " had been made by squatters and hardy pioneers , and their rude husbandry had produced abundant crops of grain , hemp , and tobacco ; civiliza- tion , however , had hardly yet entered the ...
... river . Here and there partial " clearings " had been made by squatters and hardy pioneers , and their rude husbandry had produced abundant crops of grain , hemp , and tobacco ; civiliza- tion , however , had hardly yet entered the ...
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... river to subside , they procured a canoe , on which they crossed to the Maryland side , swimming their horses . A weary day's ride of forty miles up the left side of the river , in a continual rain , and over what Washington pro ...
... river to subside , they procured a canoe , on which they crossed to the Maryland side , swimming their horses . A weary day's ride of forty miles up the left side of the river , in a continual rain , and over what Washington pro ...
Stran 42
... river in a canoe , swimming their horses as before . More than two weeks were now passed by them in the wild mountainous regions of Frederick County , and about the south branch of the Potomac , surveying lands and laying out lots ...
... river in a canoe , swimming their horses as before . More than two weeks were now passed by them in the wild mountainous regions of Frederick County , and about the south branch of the Potomac , surveying lands and laying out lots ...
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