THE GREAT REPUBLIC: BEING A FULL AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN UNION |
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... feet . " The debris carried along with the flood is principally de- posited near the borders of the stream , the necessary result being that these portions have been raised to a much higher level than the ad- joining lands . In some ...
... feet . " The debris carried along with the flood is principally de- posited near the borders of the stream , the necessary result being that these portions have been raised to a much higher level than the ad- joining lands . In some ...
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JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. being 75 feet at the head of the plain we have described , and 120 feet at its foot . Were the stream straighter , its current , which is now checked by the bends , would no doubt be too swift for navigation , and ...
JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. being 75 feet at the head of the plain we have described , and 120 feet at its foot . Were the stream straighter , its current , which is now checked by the bends , would no doubt be too swift for navigation , and ...
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... feet above the level of the sea , at Cincinnati , 414 feet , and at Cairo , 324 feet , giving an average descent of about 5 inches to the mile . The current is placid and uni- form , having a medium force of about 3 miles an hour . Like ...
... feet above the level of the sea , at Cincinnati , 414 feet , and at Cairo , 324 feet , giving an average descent of about 5 inches to the mile . The current is placid and uni- form , having a medium force of about 3 miles an hour . Like ...
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... feet above the sea . For the first sixty miles the sides of the river rise from 500 to 800 feet so directly from the water that the exploring party were obliged to pass up through the channel of the stream . " After leaving the Llano ...
... feet above the sea . For the first sixty miles the sides of the river rise from 500 to 800 feet so directly from the water that the exploring party were obliged to pass up through the channel of the stream . " After leaving the Llano ...
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... feet wide , but soon expands to 1200 feet , which it retains . After sweeping around 7 or 8 miles , it assumes a south direction , and with a very tortuous course of nearly 160 miles . reaches the Gulf of California . The bottom lands ...
... feet wide , but soon expands to 1200 feet , which it retains . After sweeping around 7 or 8 miles , it assumes a south direction , and with a very tortuous course of nearly 160 miles . reaches the Gulf of California . The bottom lands ...
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Page 591 - During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 151 - The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 317 - 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.
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Page 759 - This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre.
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Page 759 - Blue ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression.
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