| Robert Walsh - 1828 - 678 pagina’s
...there were dangerous falls and rapids. "With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...deeply engaged in reading when his canoe approached Bellows's Falls, where he was suddenly roused by the noise of the waters rushing among the rocks through... | |
| 1827 - 552 pagina’s
...lei«r e v down the stream, seldom using his paddle, an' stopping only in the night for sleep. He tola Mr. Jefferson, in Paris, fourteen years afterwards, that he took only two hooks with !''if'• a Greek Testament, and Ovid, one of wn,cfl he was deeply engaged in reading when... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1829 - 366 pagina’s
...places there were dangerous falls and rapids. With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...deeply engaged in reading when his canoe approached Bellows's Falls, where he was suddenly roused by the noise of the waters rushing among the rocks through... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1828 - 454 pagina’s
...places there were dangerous falls and rapids. With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...deeply engaged in reading when his canoe approached Belows's Falls, where he was suddenly roused by the noise of the waters rushing anumg the rocks through... | |
| Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 pagina’s
...navigation of which he was totally ignorant. " With a bear-skin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...Paris, fourteen years afterwards, that he took only too books with him, a Greek Testament and Ovid, one of which he was deeply engaged in reading, when... | |
| John Pierpont - 1832 - 184 pagina’s
...there were dangerous falls and rapids. 8. With a bearskin fcr a covering, and his canoe well flocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...paddle, and stopping only in the night for sleep. 9. He told Mr. Jefl'erson in Paris, fourteen years afterwards, that he -look only two books with him,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pagina’s
...several places dangerous falls and rapids. With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current and floated leisurely down the stream, seldom rising his paddle, and stopping only in the night for sleep. He told Mr. Jefferson, in Paris, fourteen... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 pagina’s
...there were dangerous falls and rapids. " With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...deeply engaged in reading when his canoe approached Bcllows's Falls, where he was suddenly roused by the noise of the waters rushing among the rocks through... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1847 - 446 pagina’s
...places there were dangerous falls and rapids. With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...deeply engaged in reading when his canoe approached Bellows's Falls, where he was suddenly roused by the noise of the waters rushing among the rocks through... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1847 - 458 pagina’s
...places there were dangerous falls and rapids. With a bearskin for a covering, and his canoe well stocked with provisions, he yielded himself to the current,...only in the night for sleep. He told Mr. Jefferson, iu Paris, fourteen years afterwards, that he took only two books with him, a Greek Testament and Ovid,... | |
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