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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... CORN - BREAD BEGINS . - THE ROADSIDE . We stopped for dinner at a small and unattractive village , and at an inn to which scarcely better terms could be applied . The meal was smoking on the table ; but five minutes had hardly elapsed ...
... corn into a central heap , with jokes and good cheer ; near by , a group of idle boys looking on from a fence , and half - a - dozen horses tied around . The whole a pic- turesque study , which , with the knowing crow added , I would ...
... corn for sixty years , without interruption , and without manure . Its produce was still forty bushels to the acre , with meagre care . Of wheat , fifteen bushels was an average crop , though one farm had this year yielded thirty ...
... corn , ten - fold our whole present population . SMITHLAND - MOUTH OF THE CUMBERLAND . At about 1 a . M. , we found ourselves alone with a shivering boy , almost speechless with sleep , upon a wharf - boat , looking with regret on the ...
... corn is here cultivated . The iron works along the river make a large market for bread - stuffs , i . e . , corn - bread stuffs . The farms are carried on by slave labor on a moderate scale ROUTE TO TEXAS . 31.