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... Ridge Road , 114 - Lewiston , 122 - Fort Niagara , 123 - Nia- gara Falls , 127 - Buffalo , 136 - Batavia , 144- Ithaca , 158 - Auburn , 169 - Salina Salt Works , 180 . ADDRESS BEFORE THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ON THE IROQUOIS OR ...
... Ridge Road , 114 - Lewiston , 122 - Fort Niagara , 123 - Nia- gara Falls , 127 - Buffalo , 136 - Batavia , 144- Ithaca , 158 - Auburn , 169 - Salina Salt Works , 180 . ADDRESS BEFORE THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ON THE IROQUOIS OR ...
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... Ridge Road west of the Genesee River . It is , therefore , a rara avis . On the banks of the creek were plenty of boneset , the Canada shrub , said to be useful in medicine , and a great variety of beautiful flowering plants . Wild ...
... Ridge Road west of the Genesee River . It is , therefore , a rara avis . On the banks of the creek were plenty of boneset , the Canada shrub , said to be useful in medicine , and a great variety of beautiful flowering plants . Wild ...
Strona 112
... ridge or slope of land . The Genesee river , in former times , may have been dam- med up at these falls , and have formed a vast lake , cover- ing all the Genesee Flats , forty miles up . The navigation above the ford is good for small ...
... ridge or slope of land . The Genesee river , in former times , may have been dam- med up at these falls , and have formed a vast lake , cover- ing all the Genesee Flats , forty miles up . The navigation above the ford is good for small ...
Strona 114
... Ridge Road , extending from that river to Lewiston , seventy - eight miles . The general elevation of the ridge is from ten to thirty feet , and its width varies . Sometimes it is not more than fifteen or twenty yards , and its general ...
... Ridge Road , extending from that river to Lewiston , seventy - eight miles . The general elevation of the ridge is from ten to thirty feet , and its width varies . Sometimes it is not more than fifteen or twenty yards , and its general ...
Strona 116
... ridge . The wheat was good , and the corn bad . The frost , which happened on the night we lodged at Van Valkenburgh's tavern , on the Oswego River , appears to have affected corn - fields par- tially , from here to Canandaigua , as if ...
... ridge . The wheat was good , and the corn bad . The frost , which happened on the night we lodged at Van Valkenburgh's tavern , on the Oswego River , appears to have affected corn - fields par- tially , from here to Canandaigua , as if ...
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Strona 1 - When your Lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America ; when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Strona 200 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Strona 295 - For to say, that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood; it is to affirm, that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a light.
Strona 321 - Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Strona 357 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as the Mother of their peace and joy.
Strona 344 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Strona 362 - We may go where we please, and carry with us whom we please, and buy and sell what we please : if your allies be your slaves, use them as such, command them to receive no other but your people.
Strona 246 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS.
Strona 225 - Heaven's height, and with the centre mix the pole. Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, Said then the omnific Word, your discord end.
Strona 361 - I thank you, in their name, for bringing back into their country the calumet, which your predecessor received from their hands. It was happy for you, that you left under ground that murdering hatchet that has been so often dyed in the blood of the French.