On Horseback: A Tour in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. With Notes of Travel in Mexico and CaliforniaHoughton, Mifflin, 1888 - 331 páginas The Professor and the Friend of Humanity were about starting on a journey, across country southward, through regions about which the people of Abingdon could give little useful information. If the travelers had known the capacities and resources of the country, they would not have started without a supply train, or the establishment of bases of provisions in advance. |
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... night there in the true abandon of plantation life . Long before we reached it , the Holston River which we followed had become the Laurel , a most lovely , rocky , winding stream , which we forded continually , for the valley became ...
... night there in the true abandon of plantation life . Long before we reached it , the Holston River which we followed had become the Laurel , a most lovely , rocky , winding stream , which we forded continually , for the valley became ...
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... night ) the stream was crossed twenty- seven times , or perhaps it would be more proper to say that the road was crossed twenty- seven times . Where the road did not run in the river , its bed was washed out and as stony as the bed of ...
... night ) the stream was crossed twenty- seven times , or perhaps it would be more proper to say that the road was crossed twenty- seven times . Where the road did not run in the river , its bed was washed out and as stony as the bed of ...
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... could be accommodated for the night . The man , without moving , allowed that it was Egger's , and that we could prob- ably stay there . This person , however , exhib- ited so much indifference to our company , he was 18 ON HORSEBACK .
... could be accommodated for the night . The man , without moving , allowed that it was Egger's , and that we could prob- ably stay there . This person , however , exhib- ited so much indifference to our company , he was 18 ON HORSEBACK .
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... night . Good , honest people these , not unduly puffed up by the brick house , grubbing away year in and year out . Yes , the young girl said , there was a neighborhood party , now and then , in the winter . What a price to pay for mere ...
... night . Good , honest people these , not unduly puffed up by the brick house , grubbing away year in and year out . Yes , the young girl said , there was a neighborhood party , now and then , in the winter . What a price to pay for mere ...
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... night . The beds in our chamber had each one sheet , and the room otherwise gave evidence of the modern spirit ; for in one corner stood the fashionable æsthetic decoration of our Queen Anne drawing - rooms , -the spinning - wheel ...
... night . The beds in our chamber had each one sheet , and the room otherwise gave evidence of the modern spirit ; for in one corner stood the fashionable æsthetic decoration of our Queen Anne drawing - rooms , -the spinning - wheel ...
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