A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical AppendixDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 Excerpt from A Journey Through Texas; Or a Saddle-Trip on the South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix At the same time, I do not desire to engage in it, as I hardly need assure you, in a spirit at all inconsistent with a desirable friendship. Rather, in explaining the significance which, in my own mind, attaches to my narrative of facts, relative to the question upon which we have the misfortune to be divided in judgment, I shall hope 'to lessen. Instead of aggravating, the causes of our difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... crops for sustenance harvested . Each has found communication with his market interrupted during a portion of the year by floods ; each needs an ampler and better house ; each desires viii A LETTER TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND .
... crops to be sold , the smaller subtractions from stock and crops he will have met with from the better em- Floyment of his neighbors , and the influence of the church and school upon them , will go far towards paying these debts . The ...
... crops cultivated in New York , as refuting my evidence of the desolating effects of slavery in the Sea- board States . Waste of soil and injudicious application of labor is common in the agricul- ture of the North , but nowhere ...
... crop . Only the large owners bottle their own crop . The grape juice is mostly sold to dealers who have invested in the necessary store- houses and apparatus . The principal dealer , as well as the largest landholder and grower of vines ...
... crop was 650 gallons ; the extreme yield 900 gallons to the acre . The acres planted in 1845 , 350 ; in 1852 , 1,200 . Missouri and Illinois have also ( 1855 ) 1,100 acres planted . Mr. Longworth is said to have at the end of 1855 ...