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... miles in an hour . There have been mill - horses , which at one load , have carried thirteen measures , or nine hundred pounds of corn . The American Indians are abundantly supplied with horses , many of which are very fleet , and ...
... miles in an hour . There have been mill - horses , which at one load , have carried thirteen measures , or nine hundred pounds of corn . The American Indians are abundantly supplied with horses , many of which are very fleet , and ...
Page 80
... miles from home . As their food consists of heath berries and earth worms , and green vegetables , it is consequently full of moisture ; they can live upon dry plains , where there are few springs of water , a long time without drinking ...
... miles from home . As their food consists of heath berries and earth worms , and green vegetables , it is consequently full of moisture ; they can live upon dry plains , where there are few springs of water , a long time without drinking ...
Page 133
... MOUNT VESUVIUS . Mount Vesuvius is situated at the distance of five Ital- jan miles from the city of Naples , and is one of the most dreadful volcanoes in the world . Its sides , towards PARLEY'S BOOK OF CURIOSITIES . 133 MOUNTAINS,
... MOUNT VESUVIUS . Mount Vesuvius is situated at the distance of five Ital- jan miles from the city of Naples , and is one of the most dreadful volcanoes in the world . Its sides , towards PARLEY'S BOOK OF CURIOSITIES . 133 MOUNTAINS,
Page 134
... miles over a kind of burnt earth , mixed with powder- ed stones and cinders , the traveller arrives at a naked plain . From several parts of this plain issues a sulpher- ous smoke , and in the centre of it rises another hill shap- ed ...
... miles over a kind of burnt earth , mixed with powder- ed stones and cinders , the traveller arrives at a naked plain . From several parts of this plain issues a sulpher- ous smoke , and in the centre of it rises another hill shap- ed ...
Page 135
... miles . An immense quantity of melted minerals was likewise thrown out of the mouth , and ran slowly down the sides of the mountain . At this time , when the wind was in the east , the houses and streets of Naples were covered with ...
... miles . An immense quantity of melted minerals was likewise thrown out of the mouth , and ran slowly down the sides of the mountain . At this time , when the wind was in the east , the houses and streets of Naples were covered with ...
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Page 146 - But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below.
Page 178 - They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe.
Page 178 - Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before. And when on the earth he sunk to sleep, If slumber his eyelids knew, He lay where the deadly vine doth weep Its venomous tear and nightly steep The flesh with blistering dew!
Page 179 - He saw the lake, and a meteor bright Quick over its surface play'd— " Welcome," he said,
Page 180 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven!
Page 60 - Wara billi billi\" ("A very large lion!") said he, and made signs for me to ride away. But my horse was too much fatigued; so we rode slowly past the bush from which the animal had given us the alarm. Not seeing anything myself, however, I thought my guide had been mistaken, when the Foulah suddenly put his hand to his mouth, exclaiming, "Soubah an allahi\
Page 68 - ... change of seasons; as, in a few minutes, he can pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the higher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal cold; and from thence descend, at will, to the torrid or the arctic regions of the earth.
Page 27 - Its hand and fingers open on touching the piece, which it takes up, and conveys to any proposed square. The arm, then, returns with a natural motion to the cushion upon which it usually rests. In taking a piece, the Automaton makes the same motions of the arm and hand to lay hold of the piece, which it conveys from the board ; and then returning to its own piece, it takes it up, and places it on the vacant square.
Page 180 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, c*eep to the parapet, and peep over it.
Page 179 - And the boat return'd no more. But oft, from the Indian hunter's camp, This lover and maid so true Are seen at the hour of midnight damp. To cross the Lake by a fire-fly lamp, And paddle their white canoe ! TO THE MARCHIONESS DOWAGER OF DONEGALL.