Florida: Its Scenery, Climate, and History. With an Account of Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, and Aiken; a Chapter for Consumptives; Various Papers on Fruit-culture; and a Complete Hand-book and GuideJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1876 - 336 pagine |
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Pagina 160 - There is a river in the ocean: in the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows; its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm; the Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
Pagina 59 - The Floridians when they travel have a kind of herb dried, who with a cane and an earthen cup in the end, with fire and the dried herbs put together, do suck through the cane the smoke thereof, which smoke satisfieth their hunger, and therewith they live four or five days without meat or drink. And this all the Frenchmen used for this purpose; yet do they hold opinion withal that it causeth water and phlegm to void from their stomachs.
Pagina 246 - More closely round the fallen tree, — Oh, father, then for her and thee Gushed madly forth the scorching tears, And oft and long and bitterly Those tears have gushed in later years ; For as the world grows cold around, And things take on their real hue, 'Tis sad to learn that love is found Alone above the stars with you.
Pagina 255 - O'er his brown head, poised as in act to sing ! Lo the swift sunshine floods the flowery urns Girding their delicate gold with matchless light Till the blent life of bough, leaf, blossom, burns; Then, then outbursts the mock-bird clear and loud, Half-drunk with perfume, veiled by radiance bright, A star of music in a fiery cloud ! Augusta is also the residence of the poet James R.
Pagina 237 - Till the seventh we were taken up in unloading, and making a crane, which I then could not get finished, so took off the hands, and set some to the fortification, and began to fell the woods. I marked out the town and common ; half of the former is already cleared, and the first house was begun yesterday in the afternoon.
Pagina 237 - The River here forms a Half-moon, along the South Side of which the Banks are about forty Foot high, and on the Top a Flat which they call a Bluff.
Pagina 59 - Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen had, the ground doth yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows...
Pagina 20 - ... the water-turkey, were scarcely disturbed in their quiet avocations as we passed, and quickly succeeded in persuading themselves after each momentary excitement of our gliding by that we were really after all no monster, but only some daydream of a monster. The stream, which in its broader stretches reflected the sky so perfectly that it seemed...
Pagina 255 - Fairies' tiring hour, Seem loveliest and most fair in blossoming: — How yonder mock-bird thrills his fervid wing And long, lithe throat, where twinkling flower on flower Rains the globed dewdrops down, a diamond shower, O'er his brown head, poised as in act to sing: — Lol the swift sunshine floods the flowery urns.
Pagina 29 - The startled birds suddenly flutter into the light and after an instant of illuminated flight melt into the darkness. From the perfect silence of these short flights one derives a certain sense of awe.