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... rise the majestic Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range , running from Mexico into British Col- umbia . Beyond the broad valleys of California and Oregon the Coast Range fronts the Pacific Ocean , broken at wide intervals by harbors . The ...
... rise the majestic Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range , running from Mexico into British Col- umbia . Beyond the broad valleys of California and Oregon the Coast Range fronts the Pacific Ocean , broken at wide intervals by harbors . The ...
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... rise , where several railways in- tersect , in the rich Coosa Valley . Fort Payne was founded in 1889 , by New- Englanders , who bought 32,000 acres of land here , with the coal - seams of Lookout Mountain on one side , and the iron ...
... rise , where several railways in- tersect , in the rich Coosa Valley . Fort Payne was founded in 1889 , by New- Englanders , who bought 32,000 acres of land here , with the coal - seams of Lookout Mountain on one side , and the iron ...
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... rise of new manufacturing cities , like Birming- ham and Anniston , Florence and Sheffield , and followed by the building of many furnaces and rolling - mills . In 1880 there were 2,000 factories , with $ 10,000,000 capital , em ...
... rise of new manufacturing cities , like Birming- ham and Anniston , Florence and Sheffield , and followed by the building of many furnaces and rolling - mills . In 1880 there were 2,000 factories , with $ 10,000,000 capital , em ...
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... rise the Shumagin Islands , inhabited by Californian cod- fishermen and Alaskan sea - otter hunters . The Aleutian Archipelago runs from near the Shumagin group for 1,650 miles , in the direction of Asia , a series of treeless , grassy ...
... rise the Shumagin Islands , inhabited by Californian cod- fishermen and Alaskan sea - otter hunters . The Aleutian Archipelago runs from near the Shumagin group for 1,650 miles , in the direction of Asia , a series of treeless , grassy ...
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... rise with magnificent effect from the sea , west of Glacier Bay . Mt. Wrangell , in the forks of the brawling Copper River , has an estimated height of 19,400 feet , and perpetual smoke pours from its peak . The St. - Elias Alps ...
... rise with magnificent effect from the sea , west of Glacier Bay . Mt. Wrangell , in the forks of the brawling Copper River , has an estimated height of 19,400 feet , and perpetual smoke pours from its peak . The St. - Elias Alps ...
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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.