Travels in Asia, Australia and AmericaG. Landau, 1888 - 357 pagine |
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Pagina 118 - ... BOWEN, President of B., M. & PIU, Indianapolis, Ind.: Dear Sir: — We received your letter of May 18 and were gratified to learn that you were taking the matter up direct with the local branch of your union here, and we supposed that it would be straightened out by this time. However, it has not been. and there seems to be a disposition on the part of the local to keep Berkes from joining with them. We wish that you would stop off here or send some one with authority who could see two sides...
Pagina 92 - ... almost a mile in perpendicular depth below the general level of the adjacent region. It may be roughly likened to a gigantic trough hollowed in the mountains, nearly at right angles to their regular trend.
Pagina 218 - Smoky on the west), and traversed by cross-chains that run directly across the country, and from which spurs of greater or lesser height lead off in all directions. Of these transverse ranges there are four: the Black, the Balsam, the Cullowhee, and the Nantahala. Between each lies a region of valleys, formed by the noble rivers and their minor tributaries, where a healthy atmosphere and picturesque surroundings are combined with a soil of singular fertility.
Pagina 198 - ... Mobile was founded by the French in 1699, and was ceded by that nation to England in 1763. To Lemoin D'Iberville, who has not inaptly been called the " father of Southern colonization," justly belongs the credit of founding the city. Historians, however, differ as to the precise date of the foundation. In 1780 England surrendered it to Spain, and that Government made it over to the United States in 1813. It was incorporated as a city in December 1819, the population numbering about 800 souls....
Pagina 140 - It is situated on the right bank of the Mississippi River, 20 miles below the entrance of the Missouri, 174 above the mouth of the Ohio, 744 below the Falls of St. Anthony, 1,194 above New Orleans, and 128 miles east of Jefferson City. Latitude 38° 87' 28" north, longitude 90° 15' 16
Pagina 316 - Montreal he states to be unsurpassed by those of any city in America ; built of solid limestone, and uniting with the locks and cut-stone wharves of the Lachine Canal, they present, for several miles, a display of continuous masonry, which has few parallels. Like the levees of the Ohio and Mississippi, no unsightly warehouses disfiguic the river-side.
Pagina 329 - ... in the shade. Public affairs are administered by a Lieutenant Governor, assisted by an Executive Council, a Legislative Council of 24 members, and a Legislative Assembly of 65 members. The Province sends 24 members to the Dominion Senate.
Pagina 325 - THE Saguenay is the largest tributary of the St. Lawrence, and unquestionably one of the most remarkable rivers in the world. Its head-water is Lake St. John, 40 miles long and nearly as wide, which, although 11 large rivers fall into it, has no other outlet than the Saguenay. The original name of this river was Chicoutimi, an Indian word signifying deep water ; and its present one is said to be a corruption of Saint-Jean Nez. The course of the Saguenay — between lofty and precipitous cliffs and,...
Pagina 130 - A man may float, stretched at full length, upon his back, having his head and neck, both his legs to the knee, and both arms to the elbow, entirely out of the water. If a sitting position be assumed, with the arms extended to preserve the equilibrium, the shoulders will remain above the surface.
Pagina 103 - It was the place selected for the seat of the monarchy meditated in the treason of Aaron Burr. Great was the alarm of the citizens in January, 1804, at that prospective insurrection. It is built on land gently descending from the river toward a marshy ground in the rear, and from two to four feet below the level of the river at high-water mark. It is prevented from overflowing the city by an embankment of earth, termed the Levee, which is substantially constructed, for a great distance along the...