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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... hills , and show little of the taste their picturesque situations suggest . There is a certain dinginess and a slow , fixed , finished look arising from absence of new constructions , that remind you , especially in the dim light of a ...
... hills and ranges bluff frequently in bold wooded or rocky masses upon the river , terminating by abrupt turns the stately vistas of the longer reaches . For a first day , the rafts , " the flats , " all the varieties of human river ...
... hill - slopes at the river's edge , and near the city cover nearly the whole ground that can be seen under cultivation . They are grown as on the Rhine , attached to small stakes three or four feet high , and some three by six feet ...
... hills that border the north side of the river , and by the concentration of human life and motion along the bank . But a moment after these indica- tions attract your attention , the steamer rounds with a great sweep to the levee , and ...
... hills , exchanged for a sultry drag along the easiest grade . Where will our children find their enjoyment when everything gets itself done by steam ? PORK ON FOOT . Our progress was much impeded by droves of hogs , grunting their ...