Publication Fund Series, Volume 3

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Populaire passages

Pagina 241 - Men of Rochester, I am glad to see you ; and I am glad to see your noble city. Gentlemen, I saw your falls, which I am told are one hundred and fifty feet high.
Pagina 85 - You then told us that we weie in your hand and that by closing it you could crush us to nothing, and you demanded from us a great country, as the price of that peace which you had offered us ; as if our want of strength had destroyed our rights. Our chiefs had felt your power, and were unable to contend against you, and they therefore gave up that country.
Pagina 58 - Blood knee-deep first!" was the emphatic reply of Francis Brown. " While this parley was in progress, an American officer, with his staff, returning from the Niagara frontier, was accidentally seen passing from one wooded point to another; and this, with other circumstances, afforded to the British "confirmation strong...
Pagina 283 - Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
Pagina 42 - I have the pleasure to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
Pagina 106 - We had not a person who was sufficiently acquainted with the country to conduct a party out of the Indian path by day, or scarcely in it by night; though they were the best I could possibly procure. Their ignorance, doubtless arose from the Indians having ever taken the best measures in their power to prevent their country's being explored. We had much labor in clearing...
Pagina 49 - I was much disappointed that sir James refused to fight me, as he was so much superior in point of force, both in guns and men, having upwards of 20 guns more than we have, and heaves a
Pagina 120 - Nov. apth, 1823. | To which is added, | an appendix, containing an account of the tragedy | at the Devil's Hole, in 1763, and of Sullivan's ex-|pedition; the traditions, manners, customs, &c. of | the Indians, as believed and practised at the present| day, and since Mrs. Jemison's captivity; together | with some anecdotes, and other entertaining matter. | By James E. Seaver. | Canandaigua: | printed by JD Bemis & co. | 1824.| 1 p.
Pagina 58 - The return of the last flag to the fleet was followed by a vigorous attack in bombs and balls, while the compliment was spiritedly returned, not without some effect on at least one of the vessels, by a rusty old six-pounder, which had been furbished and mount, ed on a log for the important occasion.
Pagina 49 - Amherst bay; which is so little known to our pilots, and said to be full of shoals, that they are not willing to take me in there. I shall, however, (unless driven from my station by a gale of wind,) endeavour to watch him so close, as to prevent his getting out upon the lake.

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