Bulletin of the New York State Museum, Issues 143-145University of the State of New York, 1910 |
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Page 2 - So they begane to thinke how they might raise as much corne as they could, and obtaine a beter crope then they had done, that they might not still thus languish in miserie.
Page 110 - DANIEL BEACH Ph.D. LL.D. - Watkins 1914 PLINY T. SEXTON LL.B. LL.D. - ... Palmyra 1912 T. GUILFORD SMITH MACE LL.D. - - - Buffalo 1918 WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM MA Ph.D.
Page 3 - James towne with her wild traine she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation; and during the time of two or three yeeres, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this Colonie from death, famine and utter confusion...
Page 9 - The number of towns destroyed by this army amounted to 40 besides scattering houses. The quantity of corn destroyed, at a moderate computation, must amount to 160,000 bushels, with a vast quantity of vegetables of every kind. . . I flatter myself that the orders with which I was entrusted are fully executed, as we have not left a single settlement or a field of corn in the country of the Five Nations.
Page 94 - ... we determined to leave her and take the boy only. We found them fairer than the others, and wearing a covering made of certain plants which hung down from the branches of the trees, tying them together with threads of wild hemp. Their heads are without covering and of the same shape as the others. Their food is a kind of pulse, which there abounds; different in color and size from ours, and of a very delicious flavor.
Page 2 - Afterwards they (as many as were able) began to plant ther corne, in which servise Squanto stood them in great stead, showing them both ye maner how to set it, and after how to dress & tend it. Also he tould them excepte they gott fish & set with it (in these old grounds) it would come to nothing...
Page 8 - Denonville is claimed by some authorities to be overestimated and perhaps this is true, as being " out of humor," the amount may have seemed larger than it really was. The corn-destroying habit of the invaders of the Iroquois dominion was still active when later, in -1779, Maj. Gen. John Sullivan made his famous raid against the Iroquois. The accounts of his officers and soldiers which have come down to us in their journals are most illuminating, when aboriginal corn statistics are sought. " The...
Page 56 - Every thing was given in common to the sons of men. Whatever liveth on the land, whatsoever groweth out of the earth, and all that is in the rivers and waters flowing through the same, was given jointly to all, and every one is entitled to his share.
Page 67 - ... experiments is certainly saturated, and all that is needed is something to start the crystallization. From a study of saturated solutions in the laboratory, it is well known that if crystals are introduced into such solutions, crystallization will result and go on until the salt has crystallized out.
Page 98 - Meneaters, they set no corne, but live on the bark of Chestnut and Walnut and other fine trees: They dry and eat this bark with the fat of beasts, and sometimes men . . .