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... miles wide , between Georgia and Missis- sippi , and from 278 to 336 miles long , between Tennessee and Florida and the Gulf of Mexico . It is larger than New York or Pennsylvania , Virginia or England . The northeast contains the ...
... miles wide , between Georgia and Missis- sippi , and from 278 to 336 miles long , between Tennessee and Florida and the Gulf of Mexico . It is larger than New York or Pennsylvania , Virginia or England . The northeast contains the ...
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... across all north - central Alabama , with 5,500 square miles of rich coal - meas- ures , and vast deposits of iron - ore and limestone . It in- cludes 28 counties , with 400,000 inhabitants . The Agricultural Region , 70 miles wide , clear ...
... across all north - central Alabama , with 5,500 square miles of rich coal - meas- ures , and vast deposits of iron - ore and limestone . It in- cludes 28 counties , with 400,000 inhabitants . The Agricultural Region , 70 miles wide , clear ...
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... miles wide and five hun- dred miles long , made up chiefly of rough and broken country , composed of numer- ous irregular ranges of steep , lofty and often snowy mountains , among whose curving crests runs the international boundary ...
... miles wide and five hun- dred miles long , made up chiefly of rough and broken country , composed of numer- ous irregular ranges of steep , lofty and often snowy mountains , among whose curving crests runs the international boundary ...
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... miles wide , 1,000 miles north of Attu , between Cape Prince- of - Wales , on the American side , and East Cape , on the Asiatic shore . It is twenty or thirty fathoms deep , with a current flowing northward into the Arctic Ocean , and ...
... miles wide , 1,000 miles north of Attu , between Cape Prince- of - Wales , on the American side , and East Cape , on the Asiatic shore . It is twenty or thirty fathoms deep , with a current flowing northward into the Arctic Ocean , and ...
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... long chains huas , 100 miles long , are sep- artesian wells ) from the Santa Rita and other ranges , Baboquivari overlooks the these groups high sierras look to the great mass of the Mo- of which , in the center of upland plain . Then ...
... long chains huas , 100 miles long , are sep- artesian wells ) from the Santa Rita and other ranges , Baboquivari overlooks the these groups high sierras look to the great mass of the Mo- of which , in the center of upland plain . Then ...
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Page 339 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history: the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Hunker Hill — and there they will remain forever.
Page 339 - State, from New England to Georgia ; and there they will lie forever. And, sir, where American Liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.
Page 339 - If discord and disunion shall wound it ; if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it ; if folly and madness, if uneasiness under salutary and necessary restraint, shall succeed in separating it from that Union by which alone its existence is made sure, — it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked ; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain over the friends who gather round it ; and it will fall at last, if...
Page 354 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 26 - ... never dream a dream but of serving her as she bids you, though the service carry you through a thousand hells. No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand...
Page 11 - The stars upon it were to the pining nations like the bright morning stars of God, and the stripes upon it were beams of morning light As at early dawn the stars shine forth even while it grows light, and then as the sun advances that light breaks into banks and streaming lines of color, the glowing red and intense white striving together, and ribbing the horizon with bars effulgent, so, on the American flag, stars and beams of manycolored light shine out together.
Page 534 - Our citizens being so prone to rambling and extending themselves on the frontiers will, through necessity, be constrained to limit their extent on the west to the borders of the Missouri and Mississippi, while they leave the prairies incapable of cultivation to the wandering and uncivilized aborigines of the country.
Page 542 - At first it comes on murmuring to itself by the base of stately and retired mountains, through moist primitive woods whose juices it receives, where the bear still drinks it, and the cabins of settlers are far between, and there are few to cross its stream; enjoying in solitude its cascades still unknown to fame; by long ranges of mountains of Sandwich and of Squam, slumbering like tumuli of Titans, with the peaks of...
Page 200 - It was the common judgment of the first explorers that there was more of strange and awful in the scenery and topography of Idaho than of the pleasing and attractive. A more intimate acquaintance with the less conspicuous features of the country revealed many beauties. The climate of the valleys was found to be far milder than from their elevation could have been expected. Picturesque lakes were discovered nestled among the mountains, or furnishing in some instances navigable waters.18 Fish and game...
Page 542 - Standing at its mouth, look up its sparkling stream to its source, — a silver cascade which falls all the way from the White Mountains to the sea, — and behold a city on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beaver around every fall.