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... thousand years ago ? Were there then intellectual beings here , to adore that mighty God who dug thy deep channel , and spread out at thy side these broad , fertile plains , and covered thee with the bright blue heaven ? " Such were the ...
... thousand years ago ? Were there then intellectual beings here , to adore that mighty God who dug thy deep channel , and spread out at thy side these broad , fertile plains , and covered thee with the bright blue heaven ? " Such were the ...
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James Gallaher. where I stand now , a hundred or a thousand years hence , experience the same desire to know the early history of the mighty west , of which I now am con- scious ? The answer is clear : He will . Then I am resolved to ...
James Gallaher. where I stand now , a hundred or a thousand years hence , experience the same desire to know the early history of the mighty west , of which I now am con- scious ? The answer is clear : He will . Then I am resolved to ...
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... thousand years ago . We can be- lieve that God brought the quails around the camp of the Israelites as they journeyed through the wilderness , and that he sent hornets before them to drive out the Canaanite , the Hittite , and the ...
... thousand years ago . We can be- lieve that God brought the quails around the camp of the Israelites as they journeyed through the wilderness , and that he sent hornets before them to drive out the Canaanite , the Hittite , and the ...
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... has not been a honey - bee there in two thousand years - never , within the memory of the present race of Indians . The Indians regard the bee as the certain forerunner of the white men . The moment they find THE HONEY - BEE . 11.
... has not been a honey - bee there in two thousand years - never , within the memory of the present race of Indians . The Indians regard the bee as the certain forerunner of the white men . The moment they find THE HONEY - BEE . 11.
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... thousands , come flocking around the tent , the camp , or the cabin of the white man as he journeys west . But go one hundred miles into the Indian territory , no quail has ever been seen there since the red man occupied the country ...
... thousands , come flocking around the tent , the camp , or the cabin of the white man as he journeys west . But go one hundred miles into the Indian territory , no quail has ever been seen there since the red man occupied the country ...
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