The universal gazetteerJ. Johnson, Vernor and Hood, 1807 |
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Page 14 - ... awaits them on account of what they are now doing, and excite their ferocity by the most provoking reproaches and threats. To display undaunted fortitude in such dreadful situations, is the noblest triumph of a warrior. To avoid the trial by a voluntary death, or to shrink under it, is deemed infamous and cowardly. If any one betrays symptoms of timidity, his tormentors often despatch him at once with contempt, as unworthy of being treated like a man.
Page 3 - Thefe precipices, as was obferved before, are like the fides of a deep trench, or canal ; the land above being level, except where creeks fet in, and crowned with fine groves of red cedar. It is only at particular places that this river can be...
Page 16 - s, on the fhores, in the valleys, and on the ridges of hills, where one might almoft fuppofe them to have been planted regularly by defign. A more beautiful appearance can fcarce be conceived, than fuch a number of elegant palms in fuch a fituation, with luxuriant tops, like verdant plumes, placed at juft intervals, and...
Page 16 - ... bay, and before us was a vaft amphitheatre, of which you may form a general notion by picturing in your minds a multitude of hills infinitely varied in fize and figure, and then fuppofmg them to be thrown together, with a kind of aVtlefs fymmetry, in all imaginable pofitions.
Page 15 - ... throws herfelf into the flaming mafs. In other places, a pile is raifed extremely high, and the body with the wife is placed upon it, and then the whole is fet on fire.
Page 2 - Where no cane grows there is abundance of wild-rye, clover, and buffalo-grafs, covering vaft tracts of country, and affording excellent food for cattle. The fields are covered with abundance of wild herbage not common to other countries. The Shawanefe fallad, wild lettuce, and pepper-grafs, and many more, as yet unknown to the inhabitants, but which, no doubt, have excellent virtues.