 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...  New England: A Human Interest Geographical Reader - Page 194by Clifton Johnson - 1917 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 476 pages
...of bounding a sovereign state on the North by a dandelion, on the West by a blue-jay, on the South by a hive of bees in swarming time, and on the East by three hundred foxes with firebrands tied to their tails, as of relying upon the loose and indefinite... | |
 | 1882 - 456 pages
...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...hundred foxes with fire-brands tied to their tails." The work is divided into four parts, treating respectively of "Claims to the Soil of Connecticut," and... | |
 | 1883 - 938 pages
...Connecticut, that the commissioners might as well have decided that the line between the state was bounded on the north by a bramble bush, on the south...west by a hive of bees in swarming time, and on the cast by 500 foxes with fire-brands tied to their tails. England and Holland first claimed the land... | |
 | 1884 - 476 pages
...Connecticut, that the commissioners might as well have decided that the line between the state was bounded on the north by a bramble bush, on the south...hive of bees in swarming time, and on the east by 500 foxes with fire-brands tied to their tails. England and Holland first claimed the land now called... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - 1887 - 434 pages
...one of its stages: "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...hundred foxes with firebrands tied to their tails." Connecticut claimed all the Narragansett country, up to Narragansett Bay, by conquest from the Pequots;... | |
 | Elias Benjamin Sanford - 1887 - 396 pages
...north by a bramblebush, on the south by a blue jay, on the west by a hive of bees in swarming-timc, and on the east by five hundred foxes with firebrands tied to their tails." Happily, the year 1887 has seen a formal settlement of all questions ; and the good people of Rhode... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1888 - 236 pages
...might as well have decided that the line between the States was bounded on the north by a bramblebush, on the south by a bluejay, on the west by a hive of...hundred foxes with firebrands tied to their tails " ' — a description that would apply to a good deal of other boundary work done in colonial times.... | |
 | William Mathews - 1891 - 468 pages
...of bounding a sovereign state on the North by a dandelion, on the West by a blue-jay, on the South by a hive of bees in swarming time, and on the East liy three hundred foxes with firebrands tied to their tails, as of relying upon the loose and indefinite... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1899 - 458 pages
...might as well have decided that the line between the States was bounded on the north by a bramblebush, on the south by a bluejay, on the west by a hive of...hundred foxes with firebrands tied to their tails" ' — a description that would apply to a good deal of other boundary work done in colonial times.... | |
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