Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States ...Edwin Wiley Amer. Educational Alliance, 1915 - United States |
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... cause and suffered severely . In 1749 a company of traders ob- tained a grant from the Crown of 600,000 acres on the east bank of the Ohio , in what is now West Virginia and Pennsylvania . They made sur- veys of the territory and one of ...
... cause and suffered severely . In 1749 a company of traders ob- tained a grant from the Crown of 600,000 acres on the east bank of the Ohio , in what is now West Virginia and Pennsylvania . They made sur- veys of the territory and one of ...
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... cause the overflow to pass down the Niagara River , pro- ducing that marvelous cataract and the River St. Lawrence . The Niagara River is industriously at work cutting a chasm for its waters back to Lake Erie and many thou- sands of ...
... cause the overflow to pass down the Niagara River , pro- ducing that marvelous cataract and the River St. Lawrence . The Niagara River is industriously at work cutting a chasm for its waters back to Lake Erie and many thou- sands of ...
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... cause an almost con- tinuous rainfall . This is true of the Aleutian Chain also . In the interior beyond the mountains dryer and colder conditions prevail . The win- ters are excessively cold and the sum- mers longer and warmer than on ...
... cause an almost con- tinuous rainfall . This is true of the Aleutian Chain also . In the interior beyond the mountains dryer and colder conditions prevail . The win- ters are excessively cold and the sum- mers longer and warmer than on ...
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... cause . To group them merely as a branch of the Mongolian , or , again , of the Malay " race , " is to obscure many points of great importance in the pre- history of America or to ignore them altogether . The American Indian is in too ...
... cause . To group them merely as a branch of the Mongolian , or , again , of the Malay " race , " is to obscure many points of great importance in the pre- history of America or to ignore them altogether . The American Indian is in too ...
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... caused the Peruvians to be styled the " Romans of America , " but the analogy is misleading . Beyond the use of picture - writing and the em- ployment of the quipu ( knotted col- ored strings ) for purposes of record , the Peruvians had ...
... caused the Peruvians to be styled the " Romans of America , " but the analogy is misleading . Beyond the use of picture - writing and the em- ployment of the quipu ( knotted col- ored strings ) for purposes of record , the Peruvians had ...
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