An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies |
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... - riages , which seven years before had not been seen in the coun- try . The roads prior to that time being barely fufficient for fingle horfes to travel on . In 1785 , the district had grown fo confiderable from OF THE SOUTHERN STATES .
... - riages , which seven years before had not been seen in the coun- try . The roads prior to that time being barely fufficient for fingle horfes to travel on . In 1785 , the district had grown fo confiderable from OF THE SOUTHERN STATES .
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William Winterbotham. In 1785 , the district had grown fo confiderable from the great number of emigrants which had arrived , and that refpecta- bility which it had acquired , that it produced a difpofition in the inhabtiants to become ...
William Winterbotham. In 1785 , the district had grown fo confiderable from the great number of emigrants which had arrived , and that refpecta- bility which it had acquired , that it produced a difpofition in the inhabtiants to become ...
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... growing higher ; it is carefully kept clear of worms , and the fuckers , which put out between the leaves , are ... grows in Kent , Queen Ann's and Talbot counties , on the eastern fhore , and which degenerates in other places , and the ...
... growing higher ; it is carefully kept clear of worms , and the fuckers , which put out between the leaves , are ... grows in Kent , Queen Ann's and Talbot counties , on the eastern fhore , and which degenerates in other places , and the ...
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... grow up with a degree of rapidity , hither- to unparalleled in the annals of cities , and will probably foon become the admiration of the world , and one of the principal emporiums of American commerce . The inland navigation of the ...
... grow up with a degree of rapidity , hither- to unparalleled in the annals of cities , and will probably foon become the admiration of the world , and one of the principal emporiums of American commerce . The inland navigation of the ...
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... grow fponta- neoufly on the Miffilippi , as fir as the latitude of 3.o , and reeds as far as 38 ° . Parroquets even winter on the Sciute , in the 39th degree of latitude . The fouth - west winds , eaft of the mountains 74 GENERAL ...
... grow fponta- neoufly on the Miffilippi , as fir as the latitude of 3.o , and reeds as far as 38 ° . Parroquets even winter on the Sciute , in the 39th degree of latitude . The fouth - west winds , eaft of the mountains 74 GENERAL ...
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Page 109 - is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him, from his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he fees others do. If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his
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Page 212 - and continue to pofTefs in the county which he reprefents, not lefs than one hundred acres of land in fee, or for the term of his own life. VII. That all freemen of the age of twenty-one years, who have been inhabitants of any one county within the State twelve months immediately preceding the day of any election, and