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 3A. Constable and Company, 1819 - Indians of North America |
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... four in breadth . Its borders are sandy or marshy , and covered with pine or cypress . Two miles east of this bay is Christian Pass , where the coast is elevated and healthy , thence to the bay of Biloxi is twenty - four miles ; and the ...
... four in breadth . Its borders are sandy or marshy , and covered with pine or cypress . Two miles east of this bay is Christian Pass , where the coast is elevated and healthy , thence to the bay of Biloxi is twenty - four miles ; and the ...
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... four channels . Mobile Bay is described by Captain Robertson in his observations on the country of Florida , as forming a noble and spacious harbour thirty miles long , and six miles broad , * affording very good anchorage , and cap ...
... four channels . Mobile Bay is described by Captain Robertson in his observations on the country of Florida , as forming a noble and spacious harbour thirty miles long , and six miles broad , * affording very good anchorage , and cap ...
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... four townships , made to them by the government of the United States . * Above the confluence of the Tombigbee with the Black Warrior there are frequent shallows in the former , but the latter has none up to its falls , which are 100 ...
... four townships , made to them by the government of the United States . * Above the confluence of the Tombigbee with the Black Warrior there are frequent shallows in the former , but the latter has none up to its falls , which are 100 ...
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... four to six dollars an acre . The highest price was twenty - four dollars . In the course of the three first months of 1817 , the same lands nearly doubled their value . Those situated on the north side of the Tennessee river ...
... four to six dollars an acre . The highest price was twenty - four dollars . In the course of the three first months of 1817 , the same lands nearly doubled their value . Those situated on the north side of the Tennessee river ...
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... four feet deep , lying on sandstone or clayey loam , and remarkably easy of cul- tivation . Between the Kaskaskias and Illinois rivers , eighty - four miles distant , the surface is level till within fifteen miles of the latter , where ...
... four feet deep , lying on sandstone or clayey loam , and remarkably easy of cul- tivation . Between the Kaskaskias and Illinois rivers , eighty - four miles distant , the surface is level till within fifteen miles of the latter , where ...
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