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Title: Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, ’51, ’52, and ’53
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Subjects: Joint Boundary Commission (United States and Mexico) Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Company
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water and an abundance ofgrass, and there pitched our tents for the night. May 24:th. At six o clock we were off, keeping inthe valley and following the stream which led aroundthe western extremity of the mountain called Covayan.Our course still continuing south, we struck across anelevation, and entered the valley beyond, here coveredwith large cotton-wood trees. The road now continuedlevel; and after a ride of four hours, we reached Fron-teras. As we approached, men, women, and childrencame out to meet us, ours being the first Americanwagons that had ever been seen in the place. GeneralCarrasco met me as I alighted from my carriage, andtook me to his quarters. Fronteras was formerly a town of considerable im-portance. It was established about eighty years ago ARISPE. 265 as a presidio, or garrison, and at one time containedtwo thousand inhabitants. The view of this town froma distance is pleasing. It stands upon a point of tableland, which juts out into the valley like a promontory

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Fronteras, Sonora, in the sea. The church forms the prominent object inthe landscape, and its style is quite picturesque ; itseffect also is heightened by its somewhat ruined con-dition. Along the steep sides of the hill, the housesare placed, rising one above another, which makes theplace appear much larger than it really is. Once withinthe town, ones ideas of the picturesque are soon dissi-pated by the sight of its ruined adobe buildings ; thoughhe soon forgets the desolation around him in looking; 266 AGUA PRIETA TO upon the green fertile valley spread at his feet. Fron-teras, like most of the military colonies, fell into decay,chiefly from the neglect of the central government toproperly provide for the soldiery, in consequence ofwhich, the inhabitants were left without protectionfrom the attacks of the savages. To such an extent didthe place suffer from the incursions of the Apaches,who killed off the herdsmen, drove the cultivators fromthe fields, and took captive the women and

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Title: Birds, beasts and fishes of the Norfolk broadland
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 Cotton, T. A
Subjects: Birds — England Norfolk Fishes — England Norfolk Mammals — England Norfolk
Publisher: London : D. Nutt
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EGGS {in situ)dab-chickens {full-page illustration) . . To face pageSEAGULLS AND NESTS To face page To face pageTo face page To face page 268269 To face page 285292296 To face page 304306310312318 319 320 PAGE177179181 183188188196197199205206210223224 22 ^229232236240242254259267 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PART II.—BEASTS AND FISHES (mammals, fish, and reptiles) SUNSET ON SALHOUSE BROAD ….FISHING ON HOVETON BROAD …. ON guard ON A NORFOLK RIVER-SIDE …. AN EEL-CABIN ON GREAT HOVETON BROAD .NAT/VES FISHING ON GREAT HOVETON BROAD WOOD-SORREL GREAT HOVETON BROAD PAGE 353365370380 394396 They do not sweat and whine about their condition,They do not He awake in the dark and weep for their sins,They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,Not one is dissatisfied, not one is dementedWith the mania of owning things ;Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago ;Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. —Walt Whitman. PART I.—BIRDS.

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GATHERING SEA-BIRDS EGGS (YORKSHIRE). Papillon, tu es volage !Tu ressemble a mon amant :Lamour est un badinage,Lamour est un passe-temps :Quand jai mon amantJai le coeur content. —Chattsons Populaires.

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Title: The lake of the sky, Lake Tahoe, in the high Sierras of California and Nevada; its history, Indians, discovery by Fremont, legendary lore, various namings, physical characteristics, glacial phenomena, geology, single outlet, automobile routes, historic towns, early mining excitements, steamer ride, mineral springs, mountain and lake resorts, trail and camping out trips, summer residences, fishing, hunting, flowers, birds, animals, trees and chapparal, with a full account of the Tahoe National Forest, the public use of the water of Lake Tahoe and much other interesting matter
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Washoe Indians
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif., Radiant Life Press
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roof, open-air cages. When perfectly dry inside andout they are packed in sweet-smelling Tallac Meadow hay,and shipped by express. Many visitors cannot understand why there are no fishin some of the lakes that, to their eyes, seem just as well 276 THE LAKE OF THE SKY —LAKE TAHOE adapted for fish as others that possess an abundance. Evenold timers do not all know the reason. If a lake is shal-low, when the deep snow falls it soon sinks below the sur-face in a heavy mushy mass that presses down upon the fishand prevents their breathing. Then, if a severe frost fol-lows and the mass freezes the ice squeezes the fish to thebottom. Over three years ago Watson took fish to BessieLake, putting in as many as 6000 fry of Lake Tahoe andother species. The next year, and the following years theywere all right, having grown to eight or nine inches inlength. Then came a severe winter and in the spring therewas not a living fish left. The bottom was strewn withthem, many of them with broken backs.

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MOUNTAIN HEATHER, IN DESOLATION VALLEY, NEAR LAKITAIIOE

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Title: Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Stowe, C. E. (Calvin Ellis), 1802-1886
Subjects: Bible Bible
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Hartford publishing company New York, J. D. Denison [etc., etc.]
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ast one, James, became ofgreat importance in the first years of the developmentof Christianity, were his cousins-german. Mary, infact, had a sister, named also Mary, who married a cer-tain Alpheus or Cleophas (these two names seem todesignate one person), and was the mother of severalsons, who played a considerable part among the firstdisciples of Jesus. These cousins-german, who ad-hered to the young master while his true brothers op-posed him, took the name of brothers of the Lord.The true brothers of Jesus were, as well as theirmother, of no importance till after his death. . . .His sisters married at Nazareth, and there he passedthe years of his first youth. Nazareth was a smalltown . . . the population at present is from threeto four thousand souls; and it can not have changedmuch. The cold there is keen in winter, and the cli-mate very healthy. The town, as at that epoch allthe smaller Jewish towns, was a collection of huts builtwithout style, and must have presented the dry and

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SUBSTITUTES FOR THE GOSPEL HIST. 287 poor aspect which villages in the Semitic countriesstill offer. The houses, as far as appears, did not differmuch from those cubes of stone, without eleganceeither exterior or interior, which now cover the richerparts of the Libanus, and which, mingled with vinesand fig-trees, have still a very agreeable look. Thesurrounding country, on the other hand, is charming;and no spot in the world was so fitted for dreams ofabsolute happiness. Even in our days Nazareth is stilla delicious place of residence—the only spot, perhaps,in Palestine, where the soul feels itself somewhat re-lieved from the burden which oppresses it in the midstof desolation unequalled. The people are amiableand cheerful; the gardens are fresh and green. An-toninus Martyr, at the end of the sixth century, drewan enchanting picture of the fertility of the, countryround, comparing it to Paradise. Some valleys on thewestern side fully justify his description. The foun-tain, round whi

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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Indians making Chemuck. Capitan are magnificent masses, at whose feet the debris are comparatively shght; butthat part known as the Union Rocks, between the Cathedral and Sentinel Rocks, hassuffered very much from disintegration. Great cliffs have fallen, and avalanches of rockhave ploughed their way down the slope to the bottom of the valley. While climbingin such surroundings, the wreck of some world is suggested, so vast the ruin and sopigmy the climber. No words can convey other than a feeble impression of the effectsof mountains of granite, sharp and fresh in fracture, piled one upon the other, the tornfragments of a forest underneath, or strewed about, as though the greatest had been but ><–., / ^ IP

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Horse-Racing. THE YOSEMITE. 483 as straws tossed in the wind. A broad track of desolation leads away up to the heightsfrom which these rocks have been thrown. The attention may be diverted from cliffs and torrents to the human element char-acteristic of the place, poor though that element be, and in the change find much thatis interesting in the few Indians that straggle, vagrant and worthless, through the region.They seem to be without tribal organization, although they still have pow-wows, wheretheir leading men, conscious of the inevitable decay of the race, strive to reorganize themand arouse their dying spirit; but the red-men are now hopelessly debauched and demor-alized. In general appearance, they are robust, and even inclined to be fleshy; this latteris accounted for by the fact that acorns, their staple of food, are extremely fattening.There were at times as many as fifty Indians of all descriptions, male and female, oldand young, living in the valley in the most primitive f

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Dipper water, where it uses its legs and wings below the surface.Naturally it is not suited by our southern and easterncounties, but it is found from Cornwall and Walesnorthward to the Orkneys, and also in Ireland, whileits cheery song may be heard even in the severestweather in its upland haunts, which it seldom cares toleave. Its food consists of small mollusks, spiders,beetles, and insect-larvse, and to some extent of fish-spawn, but its utility far outweighs its harmfulness. Passeres 11 The nest is a big roiiiul hall of moss, oi- moss and grass,lined with leaves, generally of the oak or beech, andhas a side entrance ; it is built in a hole in a wall orbank, among protruding tree-roots on river sides ornot uncommonly beneath a bridge or close to a water-wheel ; in many cases it is stuck against a rock or large

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Dippers nest boulder with the slightest possible support. The fiveor six somewhat pointed white eggs are laid from Marchonwards, and a third set has even been known to havebeen deposited in the same nest,at once. The fledglings swim 42 Order I Family PANURID^, or Bearded Tits This remarkable family, of doubtful position, con-tains only one British member (Panurns biarmicus), a

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Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Van Doren, Louis Otis, 1863- Clarke, Samuel C Kenworthy, Charles James
Subjects: Fishes — Atlantic Coast Fishing — United States
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trout, that isa very good name to entrap countrymen with. The best time ofthe year to go fishing for tomcods is September, and I know ofno better place than along the docks of the North River, from 110thstreet to Spuyten Duyvel. The rig is the same as is used in flounder fishing, and it is best tofish with a gang of hooks fastened above a hollow round sinker,which must be light. Sandworms are the best bait, and the ebbtide I have always found to be the most successful stage of thewater. There used to be in Harlem Kills an old float and boat-house kept by Sandy Gibson, and from that float, which wasanchored directly over the once famous striped bass spot, theWillows, I enjoyed the most successful pan fishing I have everhad. It was a great place for tomcods and flounders, and off of itI took the big tomcod mentioned above. Tomcods will take thebaited hook when they are no bigger than the little finger, and bitefrom early April to December. The smaller they are the better theyare to eat.

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ope of Mount Webster, bandedby the tracks of many avalanches, and adorned by the veil-like falling watersof the Crystal Cascade. Finally, a magnificent prospect opens down thelong and trough-like Saco Valley, closed by the remote blue peaks towardthe Swift River. Then follows a rush through the Gate of the Notch, andsuddenly the scene changes, from the profoundest forest-desolation andmountain-majesty to the sunny beauty of open lawns and laughing waters,pleasure-boats and carriages, and a great hospitable hotel, — the famous oldCrawford House. By maple orchards, belts of pineAnd larches climbing darkly The mountain slopes, and, over all.The great peaks rising starkly. You should have seen that long hill-range• With gaps of brightness riven,— How through each pass and hollow streamedThe purpling lights of heaven,— Rivers of gold-mist flowing down From far celestial fountains,—The great sun flaming through the rifts Beyond the wall of mouiilamsl —John Crccnlen/ ir/ufU^r. 45

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THROUGH THE NOTCH. 46 CHAPTER VII. CRAWFORDS. The Famous Hotel. — Ueeciiers Cascades. — Ammonoosiic Lake.—Mount Willard. — The Ripley Falls and Arethusa Falls.—Mount Willey. — The Willey Tragedy. — The Path up MountWashington. THE Crawford House is one of the central shrines in these great moun-tain-cloisters, and is rich in its picturesque and varied surroundings,and the electrically invigorating air of an altitude of nineteen hundredfeet above the sea. From the long front piazzas you look across thebroad lawn, with sparkling fountains, to the sharply-cut Gate of the Notch,formed of the broken slope of Mount Jackson on one side and MountWillard on the other, with the tremendous mass of Mount Webster full insight beyond, a magnificent and imposing spectacle. There are numerous forest-hidden brooks in this vicinity,— the Crawford,Upper Saco, Ammonoosuc, and others, —where fishermen, following downtheir wapvard courses, amid scenery of the wildest and grandest characte

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a pea, which he had linked togetherwith gold rings. Surely that is very valuable,I said. May be a matter o fifteen pounds, hereplied, but I would not part with it for that andmore. Beside the house the brawling Taipo riversweeps down from the hills, where they said therewas still much gold, could it but be found.Taipo was the embodiment of peace—a place toslumber in, for since the railway was made, fewerand fewer seem to care to spend their time as wewere doing: the towns are the attraction for thecountry dwellers. We left it to its sleep, feelinghost, servitor, and inn would soon all be atrest. As evening drew on we entered a country whichhas been utterly changed by gold mining. Hillshave been torn down, valleys have been made ;the whole countryside was a series of scars andfurrows on a gigantic scale. Desolation spread around in blackened tree-stumps and heaps of stones, the mangled remainsof what had been once the virgin bush. But itwas all still and silent. Rude wooden tramways

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OTIRA:THE SUX-FLECKED WOODLAXD WAY. [13 THEOUGH THE OTIRA. 13 still ran among the hills, and broken sheds therewere, and sometimes a rusty engine ; but thediggers had moved across the river, and wemet no one. The vaUey below us lay in a mist like thin bluesmoke, through wliich the tree-tops pierced likedomes and spires ; high above the evening shadowstwo snowy domes were touched wdth rose andsaffron. But the light soon faded, and our roadwoiuid down between the blackened tree-stumpsto a forlorn little mining town of wretched woodenhouses. It was caUed Dilhnanstown, and seemedto be aU saloons and pubs, and these mostly shutup. Vainly we looked among them for anythingtliat seemed to promise a nights shelter. \Vlienwe asked for such, the men and women at thecorner of the street stared at us increduously.Then they consulted together, and one sent for hiswife, who appeared at the door with a baby in herarms. Giving us one look, she remarked shortly : Its Kumara they want. This isnt Kumara

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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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n thousand, four thousand of whomwere burnt to death. ?^ Portuguese Relation. 1541.] DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 165 nessee. This river in that place was half a league over, so that aman could not be distinguished from one side to the other ;it was very deep and very rapid, and being always full of thfrnS-^trees and timber that was carried down by the force of thestream, the water was thick and very muddy. It abounded withfish, most of which differed much from those that are taken in therivers of Spain. Boats were necessary to cross, and it took a monthto build them. A great cacique, Aquixo, was lord of the country on the other sideof the Mississippi, and in a day or two he approached to meet yj^j^ ^f ^j^^the strangers. He came with an imposing array of two hun- <^<=i<i^®-dred canoes, filled with armed men, a part of whom stood up to pro-tect the rowers with feathered shields, but all with their bodies andfaces painted, their heads adorned with plumes of many colors. The

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cacique and other chiefs were sheltered under awnings. The canoes were most neatly made and very large, and, with their pavilions, feathers, shields, and standards, looked like a fleet of galleys. They brought presents of fish and fruit and bread, and came, they said, to welcome and do homage to the strangers. But the strangers chose to beheve that they had a hostile purpose ; when they hesitated to land the Span- Fleet f the Cacique. 166 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. [Chap. VII. iards killed five or six of them for such a want of confidence, andothers who attempted to make a landing they fell upon as comingwith evil intent. When the boats were finished the army crossed without opposition.For a few days they kept along the west bank of the river, makingtheir way with difficulty through the forest and wet bottom lands, andharassed by constant attacks from the Indians. But they reached, erelong, a higher and dryer country, where they remained for more thana month, and where they

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Image from page 406 of “Photographic views of Egypt, past and present” (1856) – Valley Of Desolation

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ant^ (xlvi. 19). The first view of the pyramids impressed me with theirgrandeur as the monuments of kings, —- the parting view filledme with awe of their solemn majesty as monuments of de-parted empires. The kings that built them prepared atombstone for Egypt against her burial. Since I first saw EGYPT A SEPULCHRE. 345 them from the Delta, I had traversed for Jfive hundred milesthe valley of the Upper Nile, and had found it filled withburied cities: I had seen Thebes a ruin, and now saw theutter desolation of Noph and On. The whole Nile valley-is a sepulchre, where Egypt is buried, and these are themonuments that mark the entrance to the tomb. Descend-ing, I stood again in the solemn presence of the sphinx;and that huge mysterious head looked out, motionless,fathomless, while the shadows of the ages deepened, till thegrave of Egypt was shrouded in eternal night. APPENDIX. A. The following is the religious chant referred to on page 32, whosenotes form the recitative of the Nile song.

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La i – – la – – ha The following is a table of Egyptian Dynasties prepared for Bohn*sedition of the Letters of Lepsius. It contains the Lists of Manetho,and the dates of Biinsen and Lepsius. The list compiled by Mr.Poole, and reducing very much the antiquity of these dates, will befound in Appendix C. 348 APPENDIX. !3 O J. ?PI is S^ .2 S;g Jh —I rH 2 ©!2i pj !^ – « n. g r^ g a s -^ f^ ^ ^ § 1 s i -5 o.: QP Qj CO 1 S a»§ =- P O ..5 f3 rt rj CO •n cw H o o ^ ^ m i 1^ r,r ^ TO n3 i S hH 0 fcJO TO I TO •-3 (D & O rid 03 ^ fH yJ o TO ^ -g -g o « 2 TO TO .jia IIItoI^ ?xiorao •axiKiHX •axiKiHX •axiKJHaH •llSTNia APPENDIX. 349 REMARKABLE EVENTS. Builder of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh.Builds the second Pyramid. Builds the third Pyramid. Phiops (Moeris) formed out of thedesert, the fertile district of theFayoum. II 3 CDCO CO S^ o CO «2 i O O Cheops, Herodotus Chufu Chephren Schafra Menkera Mykerinus §S Apappus, Eratos., theMce

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Subjects: China — Description and travel China — History
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evated ridge to the westward, we could perceivethat a part of the valley was overhung with a cloudof smoke, which partially disclosed a few conside-rable buildings, and no doubt arose from that portionof the city which continues to be inhabited. Wecould distinguish pretty clearly the roofs of two orthree buildings resembling temples, two arched gate-ways, and three pagodas, one of which, from its su-perior size and stateliness, and its proximity to theriver, we immediately concluded to be the famousporcelain tower, and in this opinion we were con-firmed by our Chinese conductors. The desolation which took place in this ancientseat of the native Sovereigns may no doubt be ascribedto the Tartar conquerors, who demolished the impe-rial palace, and even the sepulchres, in the rage ofwar. Much, however, may be attributed to anotherreason, which sufficiently explains why, except theGreat wall, there are few ancient monuments inChina. Their edifices are far from being of a solid THE CHINESE.

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Nine-storiod Pa^^uda. NANKING. 7 construction, the columns being in most cases ofwood, and the chmate throughout the country subjectlo the greatest vicissitudes of moisture and dryness,as well as of heat and cold. The nine-storied build-ings called pagodas, being of good solid brick-work,are among the most lasting. That of Nanking isat the head of these monuments, which are of a re-ligious nature, and, like the steeples of churches,were at first attached to temples. Several still remainwith the religious establishments to which they be-long, besides the one at Nanking, a printed represen-tation of which, with a description attached, waspurchased by some of the embassy while in theneighbourhood. Its dimensions are nearly two hun-dred feet in height, the ground-plan being octagonal,and the spiral staircase built through the solid part ofthe wall, which surrounds a hollow space in the centrethat is carried to the summit of the building. Inniches at the sides of the stair are placed image

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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
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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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Title: The lake of the sky, Lake Tahoe, in the high Sierras of California and Nevada; its history, Indians, discovery by Fremont Legendary lore, various namings, physical characteristics, glacial phenomena, geology, single outlet, automobile routes, historic towns, early mining excitements, steamer ride, mineral springs, mountain and lake resorts, trail and ccamping out trips, summer residences, fishing, hunting, flowers, birds, animals, trees and chapparal [l] with a full account of the of the Tahoe national fores, the public use of the water of lake Tahoe and much other interesting matter
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Washo Indians Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) Tahoe, Lake, Region (Calif. and Nev.)
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CIL^IOKK LAKK, PYRAMID PEAK AND THE CRYSTAL RANGE,IN WINTER, FROM SUMINIIT OF MOUNT TALLAC

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DESOLATION VALLEY, Li)()KlX(i TOWARD MOSQUITO PASS

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eason, their very sweetsong being finished, descend, and peacefully, after thebeginning of spring, fly out thence and reseek their oldnests or make new ones with their natural diligence.But if that lump be drawn out by ignorant young men(for old and expert fishermen put it back) and carried toa warm place, the Swallows, loosened by the access ofheat, begin to fly about, but live only a short time,giving proof that premature birth is to be guardedagainst. It happens also in spring-time that the birds 8 STUDIES IN BIRD-MIGRATION returning to freedom, and occupying- their old nests orbuilding new ones, being overtaken by rough weatherand a heavy fall of snow, all alike die, so that none areseen the whole summer about the houses or river banks,except a very few which have risen from the deeperwaters, or journeying from elsewhere, are seen, whenwinter is wholly dispelled in May, to arrive, about toreproduce offspring for the good of nature. The picture here given is from a photograph taken

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direct from Glaus Magnuss work, for the loan of whichI was indebted to the late Professor Newton, Itrepresents two fishermen standing on the edge of theice and drawing towards them a net containing amixed catch of Swallows and fishes. This ridiculous story was accepted by a numberof distinguished naturalists, including Linnaeus : andJohn Reinhold Forster, in his edition of Kalms Travelsinto North America (p. 140), informs us that he canreckon himself among the eye-witnesses of this para- SOME ANCIF.NT AND ANTIQUATED VIEWS 9 doxon of natural history ; he proceeds to relate how, in1735, he saw Swallows taken from the Vistula in winter.Cuvier (1769-1832) was also a believer in the theory ofsubmergence, for he says, the Martin becomes torpidduring winter ; and that it passes the cold season underwater at the bottom of marshes appears to be certain.Learned bodies such as the Royal Society of London andthe French Academy have discussed this theory andpublished the results in their Transacti

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hick, separated fromthe top to the bottom of the cliff, and fellwith a tremendous noise into the sea.The wharf or pier was cracked three partsacross, showing a chasm of eighteeninches wide ; the chronometers on shore,except those in the pocket, and most ofthe clocks, stopped, wliilst the rates ofchronometers on board were in manyinstances altered. A great number oflives were lost, amongst which were fourpriests, killed in the churches, one of themby the falling of an image, at whose basehe was at prayer. The Volages chain-cables were lyingon a soft muddy bottom, in thirty-six feetwater ; and, on heaving up the bestbovver anchor to examine it, the cablethereof was found to have been stronglyacted on, at thirteen fathoms from theanchor, and twenty-five from the ship.On washing the mud from it, the links,which are made of the best bolt or cylinderwrought iron, about two inches in dia-meter, appeared to have undergone partialfusion for a considerable extent. PERILS BY FLOOD A\D FIELD. 297

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PafjeSOJ. A LEGEND OF HUXGARY. As tiie Danube approaches the ancientcity of Biida, it traverses a vast and almostuninhabited plain, surrounded upon everyside by rude and barren mountains. Thistract, tliickly wooded with forest trees ofgreat age and size, is now called the• Black Forest of Hungary, and hasbeen long celebrated as the resort of thewild boar and the elk, driven by winterto seek a shelter and cover which theywould in vain look for upon the rocky andsteep mountains around : there, for atleast five months of every year, mightdaily be heard the joyous call ol the jagerhorn, and at night, around the blazingfires of the bivouac, might parties ofhunters be seen carousing and relatingthe dangers of the chase. But when oncethe hunting season was past, the gloomand desolation of this wild waste wasunbroken by any sound save the shrill cryof the vultures, or the scream of the woodsquirrel as he sprang from bough to bough,for the footsteps of the traveller never trodthis valley, wh

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