A Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America: From the Period of Their First Colonization to the Present Day, Volume 1A. Constable and Company, 1819 - Indians of North America |
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Page xxv
... parallel of 40 ° , is about 1450 miles , and the Rocky mountains , which crown this gradually swelling surface , rise only to the height of 9000 feet . This is an elevation three times as great as that of the Alleghanies , and it is ...
... parallel of 40 ° , is about 1450 miles , and the Rocky mountains , which crown this gradually swelling surface , rise only to the height of 9000 feet . This is an elevation three times as great as that of the Alleghanies , and it is ...
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... parallel with the cotton , and have nearly the same geographical range . This vegetable is cultivated to a great extent in the Caro- linas , Georgia , Louisiana , and Mississippi , and as high as St Lewis in Missouri . The average ...
... parallel with the cotton , and have nearly the same geographical range . This vegetable is cultivated to a great extent in the Caro- linas , Georgia , Louisiana , and Mississippi , and as high as St Lewis in Missouri . The average ...
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... ultimately spread themselves over the whole North American continent , west of the Mississippi , between the parallels of 30 ° and 49 ° , as far as the Pa- cific Ocean . This will be found to add about xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
... ultimately spread themselves over the whole North American continent , west of the Mississippi , between the parallels of 30 ° and 49 ° , as far as the Pa- cific Ocean . This will be found to add about xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
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... parallels of 30 ° and 49 ° , to be di- vided into states , similar to the new states of Ohio , Indiana , and Illinois , from 40,000 to 50,000 square miles each , we shall have about forty additional states , or , in the whole , sixty ...
... parallels of 30 ° and 49 ° , to be di- vided into states , similar to the new states of Ohio , Indiana , and Illinois , from 40,000 to 50,000 square miles each , we shall have about forty additional states , or , in the whole , sixty ...
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... parallels in history . The issue of the contest has raised the American character in the eyes of the world , and nobly sustained the ancient reputation of republican valour . There is nowhere so much public spirit in the body of the ...
... parallels in history . The issue of the contest has raised the American character in the eyes of the world , and nobly sustained the ancient reputation of republican valour . There is nowhere so much public spirit in the body of the ...
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