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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... road , the Muskingum and Sandusky trails from the confluence of the two rivers forming the Forks of the Ohio at Pittsburgh , and the Catawba or Great Warriors path from the south via Cumberland Gap to the Ohio river at the mouth of the ...
... road , the Muskingum and Sandusky trails from the confluence of the two rivers forming the Forks of the Ohio at Pittsburgh , and the Catawba or Great Warriors path from the south via Cumberland Gap to the Ohio river at the mouth of the ...
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... road when a boy of thirteen and a bearer of dispatches to the commandant at Fort Pitt in 1774 , and seventeen years later riding the road again from Pittsburgh to Phila- delphia in six days , with the official report of St. Clair's ...
... road when a boy of thirteen and a bearer of dispatches to the commandant at Fort Pitt in 1774 , and seventeen years later riding the road again from Pittsburgh to Phila- delphia in six days , with the official report of St. Clair's ...
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... road . He saw everything . In the language of his English publisher in the preface to Ashe's Book : 11 " Mr. Ashe ... roads , especially to those leading to the Onon- daga salt region of New York State , and necessarily mentions the ...
... road . He saw everything . In the language of his English publisher in the preface to Ashe's Book : 11 " Mr. Ashe ... roads , especially to those leading to the Onon- daga salt region of New York State , and necessarily mentions the ...
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... road again swept into its due course and bore towards its destination as if under the direction of a compass . " It ... roads as other writers have done . He mentions the wallow and the wallowing . Buf- falo wallows in the region about ...
... road again swept into its due course and bore towards its destination as if under the direction of a compass . " It ... roads as other writers have done . He mentions the wallow and the wallowing . Buf- falo wallows in the region about ...
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... road was nar- row , and bounded by frightful precipices . If he attempted to advance , a sudden and rapid death seemed unavoidable to him ; if he remained where he was , wolves , panthers and tiger cats were at hand to devour him . He ...
... road was nar- row , and bounded by frightful precipices . If he attempted to advance , a sudden and rapid death seemed unavoidable to him ; if he remained where he was , wolves , panthers and tiger cats were at hand to devour him . He ...
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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.