Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers, Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of Their Banks and VicinityPrinted Newburyport [Mass.] Re-printed for W. Sawyer & Company by E. M. Blunt, 1803 - 366 ページ |
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abound acre Alleghany America animals appeared arrived banks Bayeau beautiful birds boat called cave channel character Chickasaw Bluff colour Congress lands considerable corn creek cultivated dæmon descend distance dollars East side extend falls feet fifty fire four miles French Grape Island ground head hills hundred miles immense Indian inhabitants island Kenhaway Kentucky shore Kentuckyan labour lakes land LETTER Lexington Limestone Louisiana manner Marietta Maysville Messauri Miami middle Mississippi Monongahela Monongahela river mountains mouth Muskingum Muskingum River N.W. shore N.W. side nation nature navigation nearly never night North shore Ohio Orleans pass Pittsburg plain Point Pleasant remains remarkable residence rise river rock salt settlement settlers shew shrubs situation snakes South Spirit spring stone stream Theodorus Bailey thousand timber tion town trees twenty village Virginia shore West side wild turkeys woods yards
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138 ページ - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace.
138 ページ - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
162 ページ - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
22 ページ - ... river sides), and by a tradition, said to be handed down from the aboriginal Indians, that, when they settled in a town, the first person who died was placed erect, and earth put about him, so as to cover and support him; that when another died, a narrow passage was dug to the first, the second reclined against him, and the cover of earth replaced, and so on.
138 ページ - ... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire, killed every person in it. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend of the whites.
137 ページ - In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of the Shawanee tribe. The neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man...
47 ページ - beyond all competition, the most beautiful river in the universe, whether we consider it for its meandering course through an immense region of forests, for its clean and elegant banks, which afford innumerable delightful situations for cities, villages and improved farms: or for those many other advantages, which truly entitle it to the name originally given it by the French, of La Belle Riviere.
6 ページ - The heavenly vault appeared to be all on fire, not exhibiting the stream of character of the aurora borealis, but an immensity vivid and clear, through which the stars detached from the firmament traversed in eccentric directions, followed by trains of light of diversified magnitude and brightness. Many meteors rose majestically out of the horizon, and having gradually attained an elevation of thirty degrees, suddenly burst and descended to the earth in a shower of brilliant sparks or glittering...
303 ページ - Coupee, a populous and rich settlement, extending eight leagues along the river. Behind it, on an old bed of the river, now a lake, whose outlets are closed up, is the settlement of Fausse Riviere.
33 ページ - ... one. I have known a person ask for a pair of shoes, and receive for answer that there were no shoes in the store, but some capital gin that could be recommended to him. I have heard another ask for a...