History and Description of New England. New HampshireA.J. Coolidge, 1860 - 719 ページ |
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391 ページ - ... from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of 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, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
402 ページ - Hearken to the words of your father. I am an old oak, that has withstood the storms of more than a hundred winters. Leaves and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts, — my eyes are dim, — my limbs totter, — I must soon fall ! But when young and sturdy, when my bow no young man of the Pennacooks could...
679 ページ - ... which they went upon the top of sometimes, but a continual ascent upon rocks, on a ridge between two valleys filled with snow, out of which came two branches of Saco river, which met at the foot of the hill where was an Indian town of some 200 people.
480 ページ - Hard lot of mine! my days are cast Among the sons of strife, Whose never-ceasing quarrels waste My golden hours of life. 3 Oh might I fly to change my place, How would I choose to dwell In some wide, lonesome wilderness, And leave these gates of hell!
643 ページ - It consisted of six walls, one extending along the river, and across a point of land into the bay, and the others in right angles, connected by a circular wall in the rear. Traces of these walls are yet to be seen, though most of the stones, &c.
394 ページ - Pleas, with its circuit justices and side judges, there are now the Supreme Judicial Court, consisting of a chief justice and four associates, and the Court of Common Pleas, composed of a chief justice and two associates; the justices of the Supreme Court being ex...
681 ページ - The geological features of Mount Washington possess but little interest, the rocks in place consisting of a coarse variety of mica slate, passing into gneiss, which contains a few crystals of black tourmaline and quartz. The cone of the mountain and its summit are covered with myriads of angular and flat blocks and slabs of mica slate, piled in confusion one upon the other. They are identical in nature with the rocks in place, and bear no marks of transportation or abrasion by the action of water.
403 ページ - ... even now; soon its trunk will be prostrate— the ant and the worm will sport upon it! Then think, my children, of what I say; I commune with the Great Spirit. He whispers [to] me now — "Tell your people, Peace, Peace, is the only hope of your race.
641 ページ - W. part of the town, was captured, together with his wife, and three children, viz Sarah, Rachel, and Daniel. They were carried to Canada, where he and his wife' were sold to the French in Montreal.
480 ページ - Peace is the blessing that I seek ; How lovely are its charms ! I am for peace ; but when I speak, They all declare for arms.