 | United States - Constitutional history - 1896 - 448 pages
...people wore copper ear-rings. Departing from thence, we kept along the coast, steering north-east, and found the country more pleasant and open, free...land, small and of pleasant appearance, but high and so disposed as to afford excellent harbours and channels, as we see in the Adriatic gulph, near Illyria... | |
 | New York (State) - 1841 - 508 pages
...people wore copper ear-rings. Departing from thence, we kept along the coast, steering north-east, and found the country more pleasant and open, free...land, small and of pleasant appearance, but high and so disposed as to afford excellent harbours and channels, as we see in the Adriatic gulph, near Illyria... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - Reference - 1994 - 524 pages
...we found here a more elevated country, full of very thick woods." Further north-east, he says, " we found the country more pleasant and open, free from...mountains, but none which extended to the shore." How clearly this description indicates the coast of Maine, with the distant white mountains, the most... | |
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Departing from thence, we kept along the coast, steering northeast, and found the country more pleasant and open, free from woods, and distant in the interior we saw lofty mountains, but none which extended to the shore. 
