The Seat of EmpireJ.R. Osgood & Company, 1871 - 232 pagina's |
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Pagina 215 - DE to be his wife, promising, with Divine assistance, to be unto her a loving and faithful husband, until death should separate them...
Pagina 71 - Forests of pines, cypress, cedars, poplar and aspen trees, as well as others of different kinds, occupy a large portion of it. The country would be capable of supporting a large population, and the soil is favorable for the production of wheat, barley, potatoes, and beans, which grow here as well as in the more southern countries.
Pagina 168 - And down into the secrets of the glens, And streams, that with their bordering thickets strive To hide their windings. Thou shalt gaze, at once, Here on white villages, and tilth, and herds, And swarming roads, and there on solitudes That only hear the torrent, and the wind, And eagle's shriek.
Pagina 65 - ... enlivening circumstance. The whole country displayed an exuberant verdure. The trees that bear a blossom were advancing fast to that delightful appearance, and the velvet rind of their branches, reflecting the oblique rays of a rising or setting sun, added a splendid gaiety to the scene, which no expressions of mine are qualified to describe.
Pagina 95 - State first settled, embraces about 31,000 square miles, or 20,000,000 of acres, being nearly one-third of the area of the whole State, and contains the great preponderance of population and wealth. Nearly the whole of this large extent of country is valuable for agriculture and grazing ; all of the productions common to temperate regions may be cultivated here with success. When the land is properly cultivated the farmer rarely fails to meet with an adequate reward for his labours.
Pagina 66 - I have taken a ride on horseback to a place where our people are making sugar. My path led me over a small prairie, and through a wood, where I saw a great variety of birds that were straining their tuneful throats as if to welcome the return of another spring ; small animals were running about, or skipping from tree to tree, and at the same time were to be seen, swans, bustards, ducks, etc. swimming about in the rivers and ponds. All these things together rendered my ramble beautiful beyond description...
Pagina 96 - Washington, containing 70,000 square miles, lacking only 9,000 to make it twice as large as Ohio. Our camp, where I am taking this westward look, is pitched very near the 47th parallel, may be five or six miles north of it. If I were to travel due west along the parallel a little more than twelve hundred miles, I should reach Olympia, the capital of the Territory, situated on Puget Sound, — the name given to that vast ramification of waters known as the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty Inlet,...
Pagina 65 - This magnificent theatre of nature has all the decorations which the trees and animals of the country can afford it: groves of poplars in every shape vary the scene, and their intervals are enlivened with vast herds of elks and buffaloes, the former choosing the steeps and uplands, and the latter preferring the plains.
Pagina 68 - Liard in lat. 60° 5' north, long. 122° 31' west, and having an altitude of between 400 and 500 feet above the sea. This locality, however, being in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountains, is subject to summer frosts ; and the grain does not ripen perfectly every year, though in favorable seasons it gives a good return.