New England: A Human Interest Geographical ReaderMacmillan, 1917 - 371 pages |
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... Roads were poor and travel difficult , and each com- munity depended largely on itself . The farmer built his own house , and raised wool and flax , which the women spun and wove into cloth and made into wear- ing apparel . Indeed ...
... Roads were poor and travel difficult , and each com- munity depended largely on itself . The farmer built his own house , and raised wool and flax , which the women spun and wove into cloth and made into wear- ing apparel . Indeed ...
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... roads were made around the unnavigable falls , so that goods brought by the flatboats could be transported on the oxcarts of the local farmers to the opposite end , and the voyage be continued on other boats . The flatboats were ...
... roads were made around the unnavigable falls , so that goods brought by the flatboats could be transported on the oxcarts of the local farmers to the opposite end , and the voyage be continued on other boats . The flatboats were ...
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... roads here . The Indians did not have wagons , horses , or cattle , and narrow footpaths , scarcely better than those made by the wild forest creatures , served all their needs . The only way that the pioneers had of getting from place ...
... roads here . The Indians did not have wagons , horses , or cattle , and narrow footpaths , scarcely better than those made by the wild forest creatures , served all their needs . The only way that the pioneers had of getting from place ...
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... roads were gradually improved . Swamps and soft places were crossed by means of corduroy , which consisted of tree trunks cut in lengths to reach across the road and laid side by side in the mud . They were lightly covered with earth ...
... roads were gradually improved . Swamps and soft places were crossed by means of corduroy , which consisted of tree trunks cut in lengths to reach across the road and laid side by side in the mud . They were lightly covered with earth ...
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... road , " and this phrase became a common ex- pression to indicate the acme of speed . In recent years the state governments have done much in building improved roads . The road - bed is first laid out on gentle grades , and then crushed ...
... road , " and this phrase became a common ex- pression to indicate the acme of speed . In recent years the state governments have done much in building improved roads . The road - bed is first laid out on gentle grades , and then crushed ...
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Page 186 - The day of Judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment : if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
Page 206 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Page 194 - The commissioners might as well have decided that the line between the States was bounded on the north by a bramble bush, on the south by a blue jay, on the west by a hive of bees in swarming time, and on the east by five hundred foxes with fire-brands tied to their tails.
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Page 269 - A HEAP of bare and splintery crags Tumbled about by lightning and frost, With rifts and chasms and storm-bleached jags, That wait and growl for a ship to be lost...
Page 27 - The carriages were old and shackling, and much of the harness made of ropes. One pair of horses carried the stage eighteen miles. We generally reached our resting-place for the night, if no accident intervened, at ten o'clock, and, after a frugal supper, went to bed with a notice that we should be called at three the next morning, — which generally proved to be half past two.
Page 181 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 64 - ... they called us young rebels, and told us to help ourselves, if we could. We told the captain of this, and he laughed at us. Yesterday, our works were destroyed for a third time ; and, sir, we will bear it no longer.
Page 185 - New Haven. But my life was almost spent, the world around me several times appearing as dark as midnight. I obtained leave of an officer to be carried into the widow Lyman's, and laid upon a bed, where I lay the rest of the day and succeeding night, in such acute and excruciating pain as I never felt before.
Page 206 - Oftentimes I have observed them to be coming down from the north, imitating slow thunder, until the sound came near or right under, and then there seemed to be a breaking like the noise of a cannon shot, or severe thunder, which shakes the houses and all that is in them. They have in a manner ceased, since the great earthquake. As I remember, there have been but two heard since that time, and those but moderate.