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Georgia Historical Society. afternoon flood , Mr. Oglethorpe in the scout boat accompany- ing them . I was left on board in order to load the Peter and James , Captain Dymond , with things the most imme- diately necessary for Frederica ...
Georgia Historical Society. afternoon flood , Mr. Oglethorpe in the scout boat accompany- ing them . I was left on board in order to load the Peter and James , Captain Dymond , with things the most imme- diately necessary for Frederica ...
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... scout boat with ten oars . Mr. Ogle- thorpe having heard no news of Major Richard , and the boat sent to Augustine ; and being informed by his Indians that great number of the Florida Indians were sent for up to their town ; and also ...
... scout boat with ten oars . Mr. Ogle- thorpe having heard no news of Major Richard , and the boat sent to Augustine ; and being informed by his Indians that great number of the Florida Indians were sent for up to their town ; and also ...
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... scout boats , and Toma Chi Chi and his Indians ; who new named this island Cumberland in memory of his Royal Highness the Duke , who had been very gracious to them , particularly to Tooanahowi , nephew to Toma Chi Chi , to whom his ...
... scout boats , and Toma Chi Chi and his Indians ; who new named this island Cumberland in memory of his Royal Highness the Duke , who had been very gracious to them , particularly to Tooanahowi , nephew to Toma Chi Chi , to whom his ...
Page 124
... scout - boats to attend upon them ; and with the other boat he himself went into St. John's river , intending to in- quire of the Spanish guards what was become of the boat and men he had sent to Augustine . " The hut which they saw ...
... scout - boats to attend upon them ; and with the other boat he himself went into St. John's river , intending to in- quire of the Spanish guards what was become of the boat and men he had sent to Augustine . " The hut which they saw ...
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... scout boat , and some boats of Indians , but Toma Chi Chi with two boats was gone on . " About four hours in the night their sentry challenged a boat ; and Umpeachy , one of those who had been in Eng- land , answered , and at the same ...
... scout boat , and some boats of Indians , but Toma Chi Chi with two boats was gone on . " About four hours in the night their sentry challenged a boat ; and Umpeachy , one of those who had been in Eng- land , answered , and at the same ...
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Page 52 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Page 184 - America aforesaid, extending north and eastward as far as the north end of Currituck river or inlet, upon a straight westerly line to Wyonoak creek, which lies within or about the degrees of thirty-six and thirty minutes, northern latitude ; and so west in a direct line, as far as the South seas...
Page 12 - The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Page 8 - Ye sons of mercy! yet resume the search; Drag forth the legal monsters into light, Wrench from their hands Oppression's iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give.
Page 12 - The great simplicity, as well as solemnity of the whole, almost made me forget the seventeen hundred years between, and imagine myself in one of those assemblies where form and state were not; but Paul the tent-maker, or Peter the fisherman presided; yet with the demonstration of the spirit and of power.
Page 203 - Reasons for establishing the colony of Georgia, with regard to the trade of Great Britain...
Page 8 - Into the horrors of the gloomy jail? Unpitied, and unheard, where misery moans ; Where sickness pines ; where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice.
Page 296 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 8 - Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery.
Page 270 - Carolinean troops, enfeebled by the heat, dispirited by sickness, and fatigued by fruitless efforts, marched away in large bodies. The navy being short of provisions, and the usual season of hurricanes approaching, the commander judged it imprudent to hazard his majesty's ships, by remaining longer on that coast. Last of all, the general himself, sick of a fever, and his regiment worn out with fatigue, and rendered unfit for action by a flux, with sorrow and regret followed, and reached Frederica...