South Dakota Historical Collections, Volume 7State Publishing Company, 1914 - South Dakota |
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Page 154
... road is much shorter by the prairies ; * * * game is along the river in great abundance . I had not marched long without meeting several Assiniboines who , having been warned that I was ascending the river , came to meet me . I still ...
... road is much shorter by the prairies ; * * * game is along the river in great abundance . I had not marched long without meeting several Assiniboines who , having been warned that I was ascending the river , came to meet me . I still ...
Page 155
... road . I consulted what we should do , believ- ing that we were about sixty leagues from the fork by water and about thirty - five to forty by land , by taking the prairies . All present , seeing that we could not pass further and that ...
... road . I consulted what we should do , believ- ing that we were about sixty leagues from the fork by water and about thirty - five to forty by land , by taking the prairies . All present , seeing that we could not pass further and that ...
Page 160
... road which is two leagues in a straight line , we made three or four from our fort . It may have been a hundred and twenty leagues to the west south - west that our guide lengthen- ed the road by from fifty to sixty leagues1s and a ...
... road which is two leagues in a straight line , we made three or four from our fort . It may have been a hundred and twenty leagues to the west south - west that our guide lengthen- ed the road by from fifty to sixty leagues1s and a ...
Page 162
... road " by some fifty leagues , 20 as indi- eated by his journal , must have brought them to a point far west of the most westerly region traversed by the lower Mouse . But here We may only speculate ; as nothing is said in any of the ...
... road " by some fifty leagues , 20 as indi- eated by his journal , must have brought them to a point far west of the most westerly region traversed by the lower Mouse . But here We may only speculate ; as nothing is said in any of the ...
Page 163
... road from what they were telling us , believing that to be true , from which we had to deduct much . " Before bringing into view the remarkable events connected with the end of this expedition , we feel that , it being so clearly set ...
... road from what they were telling us , believing that to be true , from which we had to deduct much . " Before bringing into view the remarkable events connected with the end of this expedition , we feel that , it being so clearly set ...
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Page 505 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ; — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate JOKES.
Page 70 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 537 - Twere vain the ocean-depths to sound, Or pierce to either pole : 2 The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 72 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Page 53 - Miles, and all that Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea, West and Northwest...
Page 133 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
Page 505 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 73 - They only ask of me one town in Louisiana, but I already consider the colony as entirely lost; and it appears to me that in the hands of this growing power it will be more useful to the policy, and even to the commerce, of France, than if I should attempt to keep it.
Page 505 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 70 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...