Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers, Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of Their Banks and Vicinity, Volumen2Printed Newburyport [Mass.] Re-printed for W. Sawyer & Company by E. M. Blunt, 1803 - 366 páginas Although agreement is general that Ashe usually stretched the truth in the direction of the vicious and spiteful, authorities also laud his account as being highly readable and interesting. His chief interest was in archaeological remains, but he takes to task the men of America, including references to some Missourians as having "stupid insensibility." He did think the women of America far superior to any he had encountered in Europe. He found the climate in New Orleans so disagreeable that he states that "an average of nine strangers die out of ten shortly after their arrival." Ashe liked the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, and his description of them is generally credible. |
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... miles from Philadelphia ; of which space 150 miles are a continued succession of mountains , serving as a barrier against contending seas ; and as a pregnant source of many waters , which take opposite directions , and after fertiliz ...
... miles from Philadelphia ; of which space 150 miles are a continued succession of mountains , serving as a barrier against contending seas ; and as a pregnant source of many waters , which take opposite directions , and after fertiliz ...
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... miles from Philadelphia ; of which space 150 miles are a continued succession of mountains , serving as a barrier a- gainst contending seas ; and as a pregnant source of many waters , which take opposite directions , and after fertiliz ...
... miles from Philadelphia ; of which space 150 miles are a continued succession of mountains , serving as a barrier a- gainst contending seas ; and as a pregnant source of many waters , which take opposite directions , and after fertiliz ...
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... miles from Philadelphia ; of which space 150 miles are a continued succession of mountains , serving as a barrier a- gainst contending seas ; and as a pregnant source of many waters , which take opposite directions , and , after ...
... miles from Philadelphia ; of which space 150 miles are a continued succession of mountains , serving as a barrier a- gainst contending seas ; and as a pregnant source of many waters , which take opposite directions , and , after ...
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... miles crowned with trees of that kind . This hill is remarkably steep and stony Nothing worthy of mention struck my notice till I arrived within three miles of Pittsburg , when I descended into the beautiful vale which leads into that ...
... miles crowned with trees of that kind . This hill is remarkably steep and stony Nothing worthy of mention struck my notice till I arrived within three miles of Pittsburg , when I descended into the beautiful vale which leads into that ...
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... miles below this town is Cheat river , the mouth of which is obstructed by a long and difficult shoal ; pilot should always be taken to guide a stranger through this . Twelve miles from this shoal , and on the east side , is George's ...
... miles below this town is Cheat river , the mouth of which is obstructed by a long and difficult shoal ; pilot should always be taken to guide a stranger through this . Twelve miles from this shoal , and on the east side , is George's ...
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Página 138 - 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.
Página 138 - 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.
Página 162 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 24 - ... river sides), and by a tradition, said to be handed down from the aboriginal Indians, that, when they settled in a town, the first person who died was placed erect, and earth put about him, so as to cover and support him; that when another died, a narrow passage was dug to the first, the second reclined against him, and the cover of earth replaced, and so on.
Página 138 - ... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire, killed every person in it. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend of the whites.
Página 137 - In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of the Shawanee tribe. The neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man...
Página 49 - beyond all competition, the most beautiful river in the universe, whether we consider it for its meandering course through an immense region of forests, for its clean and elegant banks, which afford innumerable delightful situations for cities, villages and improved farms: or for those many other advantages, which truly entitle it to the name originally given it by the French, of La Belle Riviere.
Página 303 - Coupee, a populous and rich settlement, extending eight leagues along the river. Behind it, on an old bed of the river, now a lake, whose outlets are closed up, is the settlement of Fausse Riviere.
Página 35 - ... one. I have known a person ask for a pair of shoes, and receive for answer that there were no shoes in the store, but some capital gin that could be recommended to him. I have heard another ask for a...