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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... miles ; $ 3 ; 5 hours ) . The country passed over is , for many miles , of the same general character as that described north of Lexington - a rolling or gently - sloping surface , rich soil , woodland pastures , * herds , fine farms ...
... miles to Portland , once the rival , now the port and mean suburb , of Louisville . After only a few hours more or less , not days as we feared , be- yond her advertised time , the fast mail boat Pike took her departure . STEAMBOAT TIME ...
... miles , almost for hours , there is not a break in the line of dripping branches . Monotony is immediate . But it is not without suffering this that a traveler can receive true and fixed impressions . You turn again and again from ...
... miles of seething turbid water ; on each side is half a mile of the same , bounded by a sand or mud bank , overhung by the forest . The eye finds nowhere any salience . Steamers , flats , rafts , wood - yards and villages ( almost ...
... will be " wanted " a long time , I fear . The Mississippi val- ley , in fact , with all its 16,000 miles of uninterrupted steamboat navigation , is a great wilderness of unexplored fertility , 40 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS .