Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers, Volume 12

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A. H. Clark Company, 1904 - Kentucky
 

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Page 26 - THE MUSICAL FUND SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA, and all such persons as are now or may be hereafter admitted members of the same, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, a body politic and corporate...
Page 162 - He takes a rein in each hand; jerks and pulls at both; and dances on the splashboard with both feet (keeping his seat, of course) like the late lamented Ducrow on two of his fiery coursers.
Page 164 - Lee, dere. Hi. Jiddy, Jiddy. Pill. Ally Loo. Lee-eeee! ' " They run up the bank, and go down again on the other side at a fearful pace. It is impossible to stop them, and at the bottom there is a deep hollow, full of water. The coach rolls frightfully. The insides scream. The mud and water fly about us. The black driver dances like a madman. Suddenly we are all right by some extraordinary means, and stop to breathe. " A black friend of the black driver is sitting on a fence.
Page 186 - Looking towards the setting sun, there lay, stretched out before my view, a vast expanse of level ground ; unbroken, save by one thin line of trees, which scarcely amounted to a scratch upon the great blank; until it met the glowing sky, wherein it seemed to dip: mingling with its rich colours, and mellowing in its distant blue. There it lay, a tranquil sea or lake without water, if such a simile be admissible...
Page 171 - It was profoundly dark; perplexed, with great beams crossing and recrossing it at every possible angle; and through the broad chinks and crevices of the floor the rapid river gleamed, far down below, like a legion of eyes.
Page 165 - Outside gentleman, sa, he often remember old 'ooman at home, sa,' grinning again. " * Ay, ay, we'll take care of the old woman. Don't be afraid.' " The black driver grins again, but there is another hole, and beyond that another bank, close before us. So he stops short : cries (to the horses again), 'Easy — easy den — ease — steady — hi— Jiddy — pill — Ally — Loo...
Page 188 - Mound ; in memory of a body of fanatics of the order of La Trappe, who founded a desolate convent there, many years ago, when there were no settlers within a thousand miles, and were all swept off by the pernicious climate : in which lamentable fatality, few rational people will suppose, perhaps, that society experienced any very severe deprivation.
Page 161 - an American cries " Go ahead ! " which is somewhat expressive of the national character of the two countries. The first half mile of the road is over bridges made of loose planks laid across two parallel poles, which tilt up as the wheels roll over them ; and IN the river. The river has a clayey bottom and is full of holes, so that half a horse is constantly disappearing unexpectedly, and can't be found again for some time.
Page 176 - The drivers on these roads, who certainly get over the ground in a manner which is quite miraculous, so twist and turn the team about in forcing a passage, corkscrew fashion, through the bogs and swamps, that it was quite a common circumstance on looking out of the window, to see the coachman with the ends of a pair of reins in his hands, apparently driving nothing, or playing at horses, and the leaders staring at one unexpectedly from the back of the coach, as if they had some idea of getting up...
Page 177 - A great portion of the way was over what is called a corduroy road, which is made by throwing trunks of trees into a marsh, and leaving them to settle there. The very slightest of the jolts with which the ponderous carriage fell from log to log, was enough, it seemed, to have dislocated all the bones in the human body. It would be impossible to experience a similar set of sensations, in any other circumstances, unless perhaps in attempting to go up to the top of St. Paul's in an omnibus. Never, never...

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