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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... surface being sandy or marshy , and liable to inundation , it is ill fitted for agri- cultural purposes ; but beyond this distance , or the 31st degree of latitude , the soil along the Pearl and Pascagoula rivers , from one to three ...
... surface being sandy or marshy , and liable to inundation , it is ill fitted for agri- cultural purposes ; but beyond this distance , or the 31st degree of latitude , the soil along the Pearl and Pascagoula rivers , from one to three ...
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... surface gradually rises with a deep vegetable mould , which nourishes a fine growth of poplar , oak , hickery , black walnut , sugar maple , buck - eye , elm , hack - berry , & c . Towards the northern line of demarcation , the surface ...
... surface gradually rises with a deep vegetable mould , which nourishes a fine growth of poplar , oak , hickery , black walnut , sugar maple , buck - eye , elm , hack - berry , & c . Towards the northern line of demarcation , the surface ...
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... surface five degrees farther north , there is necessarily a great difference in the air and climate . Near the Gulf of Mexico it resembles that of the lower parts of Louisi- ana , the winter is mild , the summer warm , but tem- pered by ...
... surface five degrees farther north , there is necessarily a great difference in the air and climate . Near the Gulf of Mexico it resembles that of the lower parts of Louisi- ana , the winter is mild , the summer warm , but tem- pered by ...
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... surface , satisfactorily account for this circumstance ; and however extraor- dinary it may appear , this portion of the country has neither the climate of the Mississippi river , nor that of the Atlantic on the same parallel of ...
... surface , satisfactorily account for this circumstance ; and however extraor- dinary it may appear , this portion of the country has neither the climate of the Mississippi river , nor that of the Atlantic on the same parallel of ...
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... surface is covered with pine , which is consi- dered as of the best quality , and grows to a large size , from sixty to eighty , and even a hundred feet , without a branch . Logs are procured from seventy to eighty feet in length , for ...
... surface is covered with pine , which is consi- dered as of the best quality , and grows to a large size , from sixty to eighty , and even a hundred feet , without a branch . Logs are procured from seventy to eighty feet in length , for ...
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