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7 May 2018 by Alan

Image from page 235 of “Travels in the Atlas and southern Morocco. A narrative of exploration” (1889)

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Title: Travels in the Atlas and southern Morocco. A narrative of exploration
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Thomson, Joseph, 1858-1895
Subjects: Morocco — Description and travel Atlas Mountains
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the top of thecliff, but in reality to explore beyond. Following a picturesque pathway which led roundthe edge of the precipice, we speedily reached theSheiks house. Here we refreshed ourselves withsome milk, and took a hasty glance down thesmiling hollow, and over the broken lower ranges tothe plains of Srarna and the broken range ofRahamna. We now bribed our guide to take us up theupper glen of the Tasimset stream. Leaving this,after a time we pushed our way up an uninhabitedand streamless valley, clothed with evergreen oak andadorned with buttercups and other flowers of familiaraspect. At length we were rewarded for our hard workby reaching the top of one of the mountain rangesat an elevation of over 6000 feet, and finding beforeus the finest view of the Atlas which we had yetobtained. We stood on the edge of a great limestone escarp-ment facing south, and forming a sheer precipiceseveral hundred feet deep, from the bottom of whichsloped away an exceedingly steep talus of debris to

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? iie%« T A SIM SET. 189 tlie bed of llio ANad Tossaout, two or tliree thousandfeet below. A short distance to the west of us lies the little vil-lage of Tafrint, its green terraces, small olive groves, andyellow patches of corn only serving to accentuate theoppressive air of desolation which broods over thescene. The river Tessaout, gathering tributary streamsfrom east and west, cuts its way by a deep gorgethrough the numerous escarped minor ranges whichrun parallel with the central axis, and southwardrise in ever-increasing magnitude till they sweep sky-ward in one grand culminatiug crest. The aspectof the limestone escarpments which crown the lowerranges, the bright colours of the red and purple shalesand sandstones which occupy the hollows, the deepgorge and radiating streams of the Tessaout, and thesnowy table-topped masses which dominate all, makeup a scene of the utmost impressiveness. That evening we spent pleasantly round the lantern,which did duty for the camp-fire, and h

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2 May 2018 by Alan

Image from page 234 of “Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..” (1889)

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Title: Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, Ill. [etc.] National Publishing Company
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e pursued his way.A country once very populous was nearly deserted on account of con-tinuous raids by slave hunters. A hippopotamus was shot, and, at the end of three days, it floated.As the boat was towing it, immense numbers of crocodiles followed, andit was necessary to fire at them to keep them off. It is said that thecrocodile never eats fresh meat; indeed, the more putrid it becomes, thebetter he enjoys his repast, as he can thus tear the carcass more easily.The corpse of a boy was seen floating by. Several crocodiles dashed atit, fighting for their prey, and in a few seconds it disappeared. Sixty-seven of the repulsive reptiles were seen on one bank. The natives eatthe animal, but few who had witnessed the horrible food on which theybanquet would willingly feed on their flesh. Their former companion, Mr. Thornton, here rejoined them. Hearingthat the remaining members of the bishops party were in want at Chi-bisa, he volunteered to carry over a supply of goats and sheep to them.

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(215) 216 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. Overcome by the fatigues of the journey, he was attacked by fever, whichterminated fatally in April, 1863. The whole of the once pleasant Shire valley was now a scene of wide-spread desolation. Fearful famine had devastated it, and the sights whichmet their eye in every direction were heart-rending. The ground wasliterally covered with human bones. Many had ended their career underthe shade of trees, others under projecting crags of the hills, whileothers lay in their huts with closed doors, which, when opened, disclosedthe mouldering corpse with a few rags round the loins, the skull fallen off the pillow; the little skeleton of a child that had perished first, was rolledup in a mat between two large skeletons. Transporting the Boat Overland. Hoping that the Lady Nyassa might be the means of affordingrelief to sufferers across the lake, they hurried on with their work. Shewas unscrewed at a spot about five hundred yards below the first cataract,and th

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1 March 2018 by Alan

Image from page 144 of “The story of Johnstown : its early settlement, rise and progress, industrial growth, and appalling flood on May 31st, 1889” (1890)

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Title: The story of Johnstown : its early settlement, rise and progress, industrial growth, and appalling flood on May 31st, 1889
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: McLaurin, J. J. (John James), 1841- 4n
Subjects: Floods
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : J.M. Place
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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r ihe perturbed waves.Loud-crashins, terrible, a sound that madeEither shore tremble, as if of a windImpetuous, from con!lictin.rr vapor- sprung.That gainst some forest drivinic all hi> MuchtPlucks oti the brandies, beats them do«n andAfar; then, onward passing, proudly sweepsHis whirlwind rai;.-.—Dante. vancfd.a dozen ranie E\ENTY-THKEE lives and a million dollarsin propcrtx had been sacririct.d to the devoiir-insf Moloch. Far trom appeasing him. thiscosth orteriuL; merely whetted his ravenousappetite. The caiminatincr hnrror was tocome at Johnstown and it^ suburbs. Thehand takers, the e\-e dims and the heart throbspainfully over tlie t;rievous desolation. FromEast Conemauuh and Franklin, renewing; itsenerg\- at e\erv >itp. the tlood swooped upon;? .. Woodvale. The valley narrowed and the water reared its trowniiiL; cre-t lii-:her asitad- inL, the earth bare in its viutlictive passion. .An iron bridt^e am! dwellint;s. which dared dijpute its ri^ht ot \va\-, were contempt-s

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84 THE STORY OF JOIJXSTOllX. uoiisly brushed aside. Nothing was ton small to escape its notice or too largefor it to attack. Locomotives turned sdincrsaults, and liouses played leap-frog in the bosom ot the merciless current, \vhicli churned them into batterediron and splintered wood to stre-.s its trail with wreckage. IIa\oc ruled thelioiir and chaos was monarcli of the daw Three lunuhcd jileasant houK-. sheltered the eleven hundred residents ofWood^•alc, bordering Franklin on the south and spreading o\-er the tlats fromConemaugh Creek to a commanding liill on the northwest. ^faple avenue, tlieprincipal thoroughfare, was lined ^vith pretty Imnies and Lra\ersed bystreetcars. An iron briilge on the northern end communicated with East Cone-maugh. On this bridge Burgess bloward C. E\ans, 1 )r. l)uncan ami a half-dozen neighbors were discussing the hiL;h ^\ater. which had led to the closingof the local factories at noon. The roar of the tlnod tearing tlow n the creekarrested their attCU

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25 December 2017 by Alan

Image from page 13 of “The Quebec Central Railway. Sights and scenes for the tourist. Pen and pencil sketches of Quebec City, the Chaudiere and St. Francis valleys, and lower St. Lawrence River” (1889) – Valley Of Desolation

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Title: The Quebec Central Railway. Sights and scenes for the tourist. Pen and pencil sketches of Quebec City, the Chaudiere and St. Francis valleys, and lower St. Lawrence River
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Quebec Central Railway. Passenger Department
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Publisher: Boston: Rand Avery
Contributing Library: Queen’s University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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-ing course, crossing deep ravines and brawling brooks, whichat certain seasons become raging torrents. Its waters sparkleand eddy far beneath us, glimpses of whichwe catch through the woods. In the earlydays of the colony it was used as a highwayby French and English, as well as their Indianallies, to carry desolation and death into theheart of their enemies country. The sub-joined account of Major Rogers attack uponthe Indianvillage of St.Francis, inretaliationfor similaroutrages, andof his won-derful retreat \therefrom,which is ex-tracted fromFrancis Park-mans admirable workWolfe andMontcalm,will enable those fond of historical narratives to form an idea of themodes of warfare at that time : — Major Robt Rogers, sent in September, 1758, to punishthe Abenakis of St. Francis, had addressed himself to thetask with his usual vigor. These Indians had been settledfor about three-quarters of a century on the River St. Francis,a few miles above its junction with the St. Lawrence. * * * *

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LOUIS GATE, QUEBEC. 13 Rogers set out in whale-boats from Crown Point, and eludingthe French armed vessels on Lake Champlain, came * * * toMissisquoi Bay, at the north end of the lake. Here he hidhis boats, leaving two friendly Indians to watch them, * * *and inform him should the enemy discover them. He thenbegan his march on St. Francis, when on the evening of thesecond day the two Indians overtook him, with the startlingnews that a party of about 400 French had found the boats,and that half of them were on his tracks in hot pursuit. * * *He took the bold resolution of outmarching his pursuers,pushing straight for St. Francis, and striking it before suc-cor could arrive. ***** Much of the way was throughdense spruce swamps, with no dry resting-place at night.At length the party reached the River St. Francis, fifteenmiles above the town, and hooking their arms together formutual support, forded it with much difficulty. * * * * Atthree oclock in the morning he led his party to the att

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