History of Pittsburgh and Environs: From Prehistoric Days to the Beginning of the American Revolution, Volume 1American historical society, Incorporated, 1922 - Pennsylvania |
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... river , and trade trails . One or more of each variety led to the Forks of the Ohio at Pittsburgh . There were no blazed trails in the wilderness forest . Blazing trees was peculiarly a white man's custom , as well as his invention . It ...
... river , and trade trails . One or more of each variety led to the Forks of the Ohio at Pittsburgh . There were no blazed trails in the wilderness forest . Blazing trees was peculiarly a white man's custom , as well as his invention . It ...
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... river . He was impressed with the solitude , even at his tender age . He said : " From this place to the mouth of the river , about five hundred miles , the banks presented an unbroken wilderness , the solitude was not disturbed by a ...
... river . He was impressed with the solitude , even at his tender age . He said : " From this place to the mouth of the river , about five hundred miles , the banks presented an unbroken wilderness , the solitude was not disturbed by a ...
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... River Ohio ( Allegheny ) 74 w . 4 , etc. , and went down the river . All the land from Shannopin's Town is good along the River , but the bottoms are broad . At a Dis- tance from the River good Land for Farming covered with small white ...
... River Ohio ( Allegheny ) 74 w . 4 , etc. , and went down the river . All the land from Shannopin's Town is good along the River , but the bottoms are broad . At a Dis- tance from the River good Land for Farming covered with small white ...
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... river on the right , and leading to a well habited town where I meant to repose after a cummer zi pæles , go of them over stupendous mountains and bar- Aste is ely wrong in his statements of distance . From one place queis . 2. 2 only ...
... river on the right , and leading to a well habited town where I meant to repose after a cummer zi pæles , go of them over stupendous mountains and bar- Aste is ely wrong in his statements of distance . From one place queis . 2. 2 only ...
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... river on the right , and leading to a well inhabited town where I meant to repose after a journey of 320 miles , 150 of them over stupendous mountains and bar- ren rocks . " Ashe is likely wrong in his statements of distance . From one ...
... river on the right , and leading to a well inhabited town where I meant to repose after a journey of 320 miles , 150 of them over stupendous mountains and bar- ren rocks . " Ashe is likely wrong in his statements of distance . From one ...
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Page 555 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 144 - Rich tribute from the west, And Rappahannock sweetly sleeps On green Virginia's breast. Ye say their cone-like cabins, That clustered o'er the vale, Have fled away like withered leaves Before the autumn gale, But their memory liveth on your hills, Their baptism on your shore, Your everlasting rivers speak Their dialect of yore.
Page 121 - But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women.
Page 555 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 246 - The cold was so extremely severe, that mr. Gist had all his fingers, and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut up so hard, that we found no difficulty in getting off the island, on the ice, in the morning, and went to mr. Frazier's.
Page 410 - ... long as the Monongahela and the Alleghany shall flow to form the Ohio, long as the English tongue shall be the language of freedom in the boundless valley which their waters traverse, his name shall stand inscribed on the gateway of the west.
Page 378 - Whoever is in, or whoever is out, I am sure we are undone, both at home and abroad : at home by our increasing debt and expenses ; abroad by our ill-luck and incapacity. . . . We are no longer a nation. I never yet saw so dreadful a prospect.
Page 322 - ... and also a great many scalps. Those that were coming in, and those that had arrived, kept a constant firing of small arms, and also the great guns in the fort, which were accompanied with the most hideous shouts and yells from all quarters ; so that it appeared to me as if the infernal regions had broke loose.
Page 270 - Jumonville), he concluded with these words, — (I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.' On hearing of this the King said sensibly, — 'He would not say so, if he had been used to hear many.