 | Robert Sutcliff - Society of Friends - 1815 - 336 pages
...I saw several plantations of cotton, in some of which the negro children were gathering the wook In the afternoon, as our road lay through the woods,...gaily dressed footmen : a sight not very common in the back woods of this country. The evening coming on, and no inn being near, we took up our quarters at... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 466 pages
...startled by a contrast such as Virginia could always show. Between Richmond and Fredericksburg, — " In the afternoon, as our road lay through the woods,...in as elegant a coach as is usually met with in the neighborhood of London, and attended by several gayly dressed footmen." The country south of Virginia... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 466 pages
...startled by a contrast such as Virginia could always show. Between Richmond and Fredericksburg, — " In the afternoon, as our road lay through the woods,...in as elegant a coach as is usually met with in the neighborhood of London, and attended by several gayly dressed footmen." country south of Virginia seemed... | |
 | Henry Childs Merwin - 1901 - 184 pages
...slave or two riding or driving as occasion suited." And yet between Richmond and Fredericksburg, "in the afternoon, as our road lay through the woods, I was surprised to meet a family party traveling along in as elegant a coach as is usually met with in the neighborhood of London, and attended... | |
 | North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1922 - 708 pages
...impressed the observer. Between Richmond and Fredericksburg one might meet a "family party traveling along in as elegant a coach as is usually met with in the neighborhood of London, and attended by several gayly dressed footmen." He might also meet a "ragged... | |
 | Henry Adams - History - 2006 - 244 pages
...startled by a contrast such as Virginia could always show. Between Richmond and Fredericksburg, — "In the afternoon, as our road lay through the woods,...in as elegant a coach as is usually met with in the neighborhood of London, and attended by several gayly dressed footmen." The country south of Virginia... | |
 | North Carolina Literary and Historical Association - North Carolina - 1917 - 600 pages
...impressed the observer. Between Richmond and Fredericksburg one might meet a "family party traveling along in as elegant a coach as is usually met with in the neighborhood of London, and attended V several gayly dressed footmen." He might also meet a "ragged... | |
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In the middle of these primitive sights, Sutcliffe was startled by a contrast such as Virginia could always show. Between Richmond and Fredericksburg, — " In the afternoon, as our road lay through the woods, I was surprised to meet a family party travelling... 