The Western Journal, Volume 7M. Tarver and T.F. Risk, 1851 |
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... east of Mississippi river which is the highest ground passed over ........ 70,00 ft . " low water in Mississippi at St. 66 Louis .... " high 66 146,46 ft . 66 66 - 108,38 ft . Lowest ground in Illinois crossed by Ohio and Mississippi ...
... east of Mississippi river which is the highest ground passed over ........ 70,00 ft . " low water in Mississippi at St. 66 Louis .... " high 66 146,46 ft . 66 66 - 108,38 ft . Lowest ground in Illinois crossed by Ohio and Mississippi ...
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... east and west ; and as Santa Fe is almost due west from Fort Smith - the la- titude of the former being N. 35 ° 44 ' 6 " , of the latter about N. 35 ° 20 - this makes our route very direct between the two points . The country lying ...
... east and west ; and as Santa Fe is almost due west from Fort Smith - the la- titude of the former being N. 35 ° 44 ' 6 " , of the latter about N. 35 ° 20 - this makes our route very direct between the two points . The country lying ...
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... east ; and instead of being fifty miles from the Rio del Norte , it is two hundred and four in nearly a direct line . This opinion has been so general , that several parties of emigrants on their way Southern Route to the Pacific . 25.
... east ; and instead of being fifty miles from the Rio del Norte , it is two hundred and four in nearly a direct line . This opinion has been so general , that several parties of emigrants on their way Southern Route to the Pacific . 25.
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... east of the Rio Pecos . Their waters are strongly saline and unpalatable , and for a long distance run through a ... eastern border of the Llano Esta- cado ; for no man , as I have remarked before , attempts to cross that desert , except ...
... east of the Rio Pecos . Their waters are strongly saline and unpalatable , and for a long distance run through a ... eastern border of the Llano Esta- cado ; for no man , as I have remarked before , attempts to cross that desert , except ...
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... east , and those with a little expense could be made as good as any road in our country . From the valley of the Pecos to the sand hills the road ascends probably two hundred feet , but the slope is so uniform that it is hardly ...
... east , and those with a little expense could be made as good as any road in our country . From the valley of the Pecos to the sand hills the road ascends probably two hundred feet , but the slope is so uniform that it is hardly ...
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Page 414 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art.
Page 136 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 339 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 119 - While the same sunbeam shines upon The guilty and the guiltless one, And hymns of joy proclaim through. Heaven The Triumph of a soul Forgiven...
Page 194 - Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring beneath her steps as Passion flies O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
Page 198 - For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in' the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Page 276 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Page 344 - And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea ; and it became as the blood of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.
Page 195 - By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Page 276 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.