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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... dollars - at disposal . Land has been previously pur- chased , a hasty dwelling of logs constructed , and ample crops for sustenance harvested . Each has found communication with his market interrupted during a portion of the year by ...
... dollars . The Iowan , in the same predica- ment , writes to a friend in the East or advertises in the newspapers , that he is ready to pay better wages than carpenters can get in the older settlements ; and a young man , whose only ...
... dollars , to be lent to merchants , mechanics , or manufacturers , who are disposed to establish themselves near him . With the aid of this capital , not only various minor conveniences are brought into the neigh- borhood , but useful ...
... dollar of the nominal capital of the substantial farmers of New York represents an amount of the most truly valuable com- modities of civilization , equal to five dollars in the nominal wealth of Texas planters . And this ...
... dollars a tun , was in the town one dollar and a half ; at the mines , unselected , half a dollar — a difference which , for my own part , I gladly pay . Unattractive as is the town of Cumberland , it is not easily forgotten , from its ...