The Old Northwest: With a View of the Thirteen Colonies as Constituted by the Royal Charters, Volume 1 |
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... miles in length by 2,000 in breadth at the widest part , and opening out like a fan to the north , is the Central Plain . The Central Plain is also easily separable into three parts . First , the Arctic Plain descends by easy slopes ...
... miles in length by 2,000 in breadth at the widest part , and opening out like a fan to the north , is the Central Plain . The Central Plain is also easily separable into three parts . First , the Arctic Plain descends by easy slopes ...
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... miles of navigable affluents , gives ready means of access to every part of the great valley that bears his name . If three men should ascend these three water - ways to their farthest sources , they would find themselves in the heart ...
... miles of navigable affluents , gives ready means of access to every part of the great valley that bears his name . If three men should ascend these three water - ways to their farthest sources , they would find themselves in the heart ...
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... mile ; while from St. Paul north- west to the Yellowstone , the ascent is but two feet to the mile . In Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , and Wisconsin the streams flowing in opposite directions often head in the same swamps ; and in times of ...
... mile ; while from St. Paul north- west to the Yellowstone , the ascent is but two feet to the mile . In Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , and Wisconsin the streams flowing in opposite directions often head in the same swamps ; and in times of ...
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... miles to the northwest ; but , still disappointed , he returned the next year to the river , his command greatly reduced by battle , dis- ease , and famine , and himself wasted in body and broken in spirit , where he died . In the ...
... miles to the northwest ; but , still disappointed , he returned the next year to the river , his command greatly reduced by battle , dis- ease , and famine , and himself wasted in body and broken in spirit , where he died . In the ...
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... miles the rivers coursing the Atlantic Plain they found themselves confronted by the Appalachian wall and their further progress arrested . Accustomed to pass and re- pass these mountains in a few hours ' time at a dozen points , it is ...
... miles the rivers coursing the Atlantic Plain they found themselves confronted by the Appalachian wall and their further progress arrested . Accustomed to pass and re- pass these mountains in a few hours ' time at a dozen points , it is ...
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Page 98 - ... as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are...
Page 177 - For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential communications upon all subjects to the ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce without their knowledge and concurrence and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and Opinion...
Page 146 - Mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with...
Page 95 - River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Page 122 - Indians with whom we are connected, and who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the possession of such parts of our dominions and territories as, not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, are reserved to them, or any of them...
Page 187 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 121 - The Government of Quebec bounded on the Labrador coast by the River St John, and from thence by a line drawn from the head of that river through the Lake St. John, to the south end of the Lake Nipissim; from whence the said line, crossing the River St Lawrence, and the Lake Champlain, in 45.
Page 142 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Page 95 - River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or river, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware "Bay, and to the northward as far as the...
Page 191 - ... drawn from the said point due north or south, as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude...