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Title: Egyptian birds for the most part seen in the Nile Valley
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Whymper, Charles, b. 1853
Subjects: Birds — Egypt
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s not beloved ofthe people, as they accuse it of eating too manyof their young fish. Visitors who do not like theirmuddy Nile fish do not see any great offbnce inthis, but I can quite see the matter from thenatives point of view, and am a little astonishedthat it has been allowed to increase and multiplyas it has. Last year, each evening, something likethirty used to roost on the chain cable of Mr.Daviss dahabeah, moored just opposite Luxor.Where they all came from was something of amystery, as, though you would see one now andagain on that reach of river, you would neverbe able to see anything like that number; yetevery evening in they used to come, and after arather excited noisy discussion settled down toroost for the night. A most interesting thing in this bird is itssingular habit of hanging in mid-air, above thewater, on the look – out for fish. Although Ihave said fish, it is certain it must take othercreatures than fish, for I have often seen it, not BLACK AND WHITE KINGFISHER

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BLACK AND WHITE KINGFISHER 53 only hovering over the Sacred Lake at Karnak,but also plunging head foremost down into itswaters, and securing some food or other, withwhich it has at once flown away to some con-venient perch and there swallowed it. Now thereare no fish in the Karnak Lake, and it is clearthat what the Kingfisher goes for must be somevariety of its ordinary fishy food, and must be somelarvsB or fine fat water-beetle. When hangingthus in mid-air it reminds me a little of ourown Windhover or Kestrel, in its quick clappingstroke of wings, whilst its body and tail hangnearly perpendicularly down, till it sees whatit wants ; then the position of its body alters ina flash, and down it plunges, and is lost for amoment in the splash and spray that it raises bythe impact with the water. THE LITTLE GREEN BEE-EATER Merops viridis The plumage throughout is green, with a black eye-stripeand a black marking in front on chest; legs brown, beakblack, eyes crimson, two centre tail-feather

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Title: Ancient civilization; an introduction to modern history
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for the winter. Perhaps in books or in one of the great museums you haveseen pictures of Eg)^ptians or Babylonians in workshops. Im-agine the life of these people. In the towns, the houses of themerchants and nobles were fairly comfortable; but the homesof the workmen were miserable, dirty, one-story huts. Menand women and children slept and ate and did their work in oneroom. In the market place, in the center of the town or on the banksof the river, cattle from the country were herded and killed bythe butchers and offered for sale. Food of all kinds — vege-tables, grain, fruit, and fish — was piled in great baskets, andmen and women handled it and shouted and quarreled with theowners trying to get the best bargains they could. Clothing ofwool and linen and cotton was displayed against the walls ofbuildings or hung on racks in front of the shops. Under gaudycolored awnings, merchants who had traveled in far countriesoffered costly jewels and works of gold and silver to the richer

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Egyptian Market Scene17 18 THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT EAST citizens who were able to pay the price. Objects made of ivoryand curious woods gathered in India or in the heart of Africawere also displayed. In the side streets were confectioners andbakers and barbers and sandal makers. Carpenters and masonsand woodworkers stood in the market place waiting for jobs.Here and there, all over the city, were wine shops and restaurantswhere merchants gathered and made bargains over their foodand drink. From early morning to sunset, the city was alivewith the noise and bustle of trade. Day after day, boats on the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphratesdeparted carr5dng cargoes Consigned to other cities on the riveror to cities in distant lands. Across the Red Sea and the Medi-terranean, out into the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, ven-turesome sailors and merchants pursued their voyages in questof products which the king and his nobles were willing to buy.Across the deserts and mountains of Afric

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Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925
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oseof the diver. It is adapted to a swimming and diving existence; feedson fish, frogs, water-beetles, and other small aquatic creatures;when alarmed it sinks its body deeper and deeper into the water,and when pursued, or in danger, seeks to escape by diving. Itmakes little use of its wings, except when migrating. At mosttimes it is a silent bird, but in the breeding season utters a harsh,grating cry. The grebe makes a large platform nest of aquatic plants, placedon the water among the reeds. Four eggs are laid, the shell paleblue in colour, but covered with a soft, white, chalky substance.Invariably, when leaving the nest the bird covers the eggs withmoss and weeds, and the usual inference is that this is done to hidethem from rapacious egg-eating birds; but Seebohm is of the opinionthat the eggs are covered to be kept warm, and he says that theyare covered only after the full complement is laid and incubationbegun. 844 BRITISH BIBD8 Little Grebe, or DabchicL Tachybaptes fluviatilis.

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FiQ. 117.—Little Grebe. ^ natural size. Head, neck, and upper parts dark brown ; a little white on thesecondaries; chin black; cheeks, throat, and sides of the neckreddish chestnut; under parts greyish white ; flanks dusky brown;biU horn-colour; legs and feet dull green. Length, nine inchesand a half. The little grebe, or dabchick, is less than the teal in size, anddiffers from the great crested grebe in about the same degree as thepartridge does from the pheasant. It is the one common and weU-known species of grebe in this country, being resident in suitablelocalities in aU parts of the United Kingdom. In summer it isgenerally diffused, and is to be met with even on small pools andstreams; in winter it shifts its ground, resorting to the rivers andlarger bodies of water, and in very severe weather to the sea-coast. It begins to breed at the end of April or early in May, andforms a floating nest of aquatic weeds and grasses close to the bankor among the reeds, but in most cases litt

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– of therarer species of birds tomake their appearanceonce more on the Norfolkcoast, and among thesewelcome strangers duringthe last few \cars havebeen a considerable num-ber of spoonbills. In May 1904 there were seen, for instance, no lessthan seven of these beautiful birds at one time on Brcydon Broad,while a month later four were seen in company at the same place,three of which were believed to be new arrivals. Although such resultsare highly encouraging, it can scarcely be anticipated that the spoon-bill will ever again become a British-breeding bird. From time totime a stray individual of the species is seen in counties other thanof East Anglia, an example having been recorded from Surre\-, forinstance, in 1902. To Scotland the spoonbill appears to have beennever anjthing more than a rare and occasional visitor, and then

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?-Il lOMni.i . SPOONBILL. 263 mainly, if not entirely, to the estuaries of the east coast ; it is note-worthy, however, that in the autumn of 1859 ^ flock of half-a-scorevisited the Orkneys, whence few of them were permitted to return. ToIreland this bird has likewise always been only an occasional visitor. The proper range of the species includes the whole of central andsouthern Europe, together with eastern Africa, the south-westerncountries of Asia, and thence through Baluchistan, Afghanistan, andthe heart of the eastern continent to India and China. In parts ofIndia spoonbills are resident birds, frequenting marshes, tanks, rivers,or rice-fields in small flocks, and feeding in shallow water on insects,shrimps and crabs, snails, water-plants, and, less commonly, frogs andsmall fishes. To Holland and other parts of northern Europe thespecies is a summer-visitor, arriving in April and departing towardsthe close of September. It is somewhat remarkable that while in Indiaat the prese

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Title: The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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nsider-able importance. It was here that ColonelArmstrong concentrated his forces for hissuccessful expedition against the Indians atKittanning; and here lived GeorgeCroghan,a celebrated agent of the proprietaries intheir intercourse with the Indians. The set-tlement is still known by its aboriginal nameof Aughwick. Space will not permit a recapitulation ofthe many dark and bloody scenes whichmarked the efforts of the early pioneers tobuild up homes in the valleys of Hunt-ingdon county. Those pioneers v^ere ahardy and venturesome race, and no ob-stacles which savage hostility could placein their way were sufficient to turn .themfrom their determination to make the wil-derness blossom and the waste places glad.Many of the beautiful scenes which thetraveler now gazes upon with delight, havebeen crimsoned with the blood of murderedmen, women, and children ; and many hum-ble and happy homes were reduced to theashes of desolation. But the settlers would 130 THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. *jiSR

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SH jrf% . ^–^-^^ ^i ^-^. „^ ROCKS NEAR HUNTINGDON. not be dismayed, and in time, conqueringtlie savages, tliey realized the full fruition oftheir hopes. At what time the white settlers first cameto where the town of Huntingdon nowstands cannot be accurately determined, butthe site of the town was surveyed by JohnLukens, surveyor-general of the colony, in1756, for a claimant named Crawford, andwas then called George Croghans Im-provement. It was a well-known spot, ata very early period, to Indian traders and pioneers, and hadbeen an import-ant point to thesavages from timeimmemorial. 11was known then,and for years after-ward, as Stand-ing Stone, fromthe fact that astone column, de-scribed by JohnHarris as beingfourteen feet highand six inchessquare, stood onthe flat, belowthe present town,where Stone creekenters the Juniatariver. This flat wasan Indian corn-field at the timethe first white menvisited it. Howlong the stone hadstood there, orwho first erectedit, Indian tradi-tion fail

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Year: 1884 (1880s)
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y from Hull and Harwich, 192.Whelks taken in wicker baskets, 192.Whelks borne in heraldry, 208.Whelks, to dress, 209.Whelks, Dublin method of cooking, 208.Whelks feed on oysters, 127.Whelks, season for, 193.Whelks troublesome to lobster. fishers, 193.White oysters, 139.White oyster sauce, 154.White snails from Rieti, 223.Whitstable oyster-beds, 129.Whitstable a fishing-town of note in the reign of Henry VIII., 129.Whistles made of the shells of Helix pomatia, 238.Wigwam Cove, piles of old shells at, 49.Winter soup of snails, 241. WTitch goes to sea in a mussel-shell, 65.Women of the Shir tribe make girdles, &c, of river mussel-shells, 186.Wood-snail, Helix nemoralis, 210.Wordsworths lines on the limpet, 173. Xarletas. 20.Xelets, 123.Xels, 123. Yoags, 69. Yonghal way of cooking sugar-loons,12. Zamarugola, 190.Zamburifias, 123,Zamorifias, 123.Zottolina, 263.Zostera marina, 273.Zots-kappen, 40. LONDON: PRINTED BY GILBERT AND HIVINGTON, LIMITED, ST. JOH..s SQUARE. n * i-H .-V * Hr>

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del _G. B – Sowerby, Mi Vincent Brooks, Imp. Pholas Dactylus. Piddock or Clam

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t I grope my way through the smoul-dering ruins, and pause, in sad dismay, at the fearfulpicture of destruction and desolation that surround me,imagination summoning to my minds eye the manypeaceful firesides, from whose home-altars the Lares andPenates had so lately fled, affrighted by the rude glareof those flaming brands suddenly and pitilessly assault-ing their happy domains. In the centre of the town, onthe main street, is an open space called The Diamond,on one side of which stand four marble columns, all thatremains of the bank building. Opposite, appear thebare and blackened walls of the county court-house,with its heavy white columns and portico. On everjside are the ruins of stores, warehouses, and elegantmansions, the greater portion of their stone and brickwalls still standing, while heaps of ashes, with a fewcharred timbers, alont mark the sites of less pretentiousdwellings. The rich and the poor suffered alike at thehands of the fllthy horde, led by that prince of modern

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1I-KM.\G OF CriAMB.EKSBURG, PEXXA EUllXING OF CIlAMiiERSBLKG. 213 irecbootcrs, ]\[cCauslanJ, and that aristocratic but de-generate scion of Marylands soil, Harry Gilmore. ;^[aell lias already been said respecting the destructionof this picturesque valley-town, and much remains to berecorded. The people and press of the North generally,who have so freely condem.ned the citizens of Chambers-burg, reflecting upon their non-resistance of the armedforce which sacked and burned their very homes, would,I believe, modify this verdict, and, it may be, retracttheir insinuations, could they, in this quiet burgh—ten-fold more eloquent itself in the abomination of desola-tiou which reigns around—hearken to the tales of thesufferers. Dr. Eichards, a prominent resident of the town, wbo;with his family, escaped as they stood, saving nothing,stated to me the fact that the entire valley had beencompletely sifted as wheat, to give its best to the armyof the republic, and that Chambersburg had not a

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Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Subjects: Joint Boundary Commission (United States and Mexico) Indians of North America
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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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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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Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Washoe Indians
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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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Authors: Stowe, C. E. (Calvin Ellis), 1802-1886
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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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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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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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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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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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Title: The Chinese : a general description of the Empire of China and its inhabitants
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Davis, John Francis, Sir, 1795-1890
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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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)
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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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