An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies: In Four Volumes, Volume 1Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796 - 493 pages |
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Page 156
... British empire in this part of the world . Of thefe are the plentiful fupples of cochineal , indigo , anatto , log - wood , brazil , fuftic , pimento , lignum vitæ , rice , ginger , cocoa , or the chocolate nut , fugar , cotton ...
... British empire in this part of the world . Of thefe are the plentiful fupples of cochineal , indigo , anatto , log - wood , brazil , fuftic , pimento , lignum vitæ , rice , ginger , cocoa , or the chocolate nut , fugar , cotton ...
Page 170
... British dominions , Thofe parts of North America not inha- bited by Indians , belong , if we include Greenland , to Denmark , Great - Britain , the American States , and Spain . Spain claims Eaft ani West Florida , and all weft of the ...
... British dominions , Thofe parts of North America not inha- bited by Indians , belong , if we include Greenland , to Denmark , Great - Britain , the American States , and Spain . Spain claims Eaft ani West Florida , and all weft of the ...
Page 174
... British terri- tory and the United States , In Lake Ontario , Lake Champlain , Chefapeek bay , Albemarle bay , Delaware bay , All the rivers within the thirteen ftates , including the Ohio , 410,000 2,390,000 500.000 1,700,000 330,000 ...
... British terri- tory and the United States , In Lake Ontario , Lake Champlain , Chefapeek bay , Albemarle bay , Delaware bay , All the rivers within the thirteen ftates , including the Ohio , 410,000 2,390,000 500.000 1,700,000 330,000 ...
Page 209
... British colonies . On that memorable day , the Reprefen- tatives of the United States of America , in Congrefs affembled , made a folemn declaration , in which they affigned their reafons for withdrawing their allegiance from the King ...
... British colonies . On that memorable day , the Reprefen- tatives of the United States of America , in Congrefs affembled , made a folemn declaration , in which they affigned their reafons for withdrawing their allegiance from the King ...
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... British parliament , and the parliament may alter the from of government ; and its power is abfolute without control . The idea of a conftitution , limiting and fuperintending the operations of legislative authority , feems not to have ...
... British parliament , and the parliament may alter the from of government ; and its power is abfolute without control . The idea of a conftitution , limiting and fuperintending the operations of legislative authority , feems not to have ...
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Page 130 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 130 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 133 - ... spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return.
Page 130 - Logan ; not even sparing my women and children. "There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance.
Page 168 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 201 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labour for another...
Page 204 - ... be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 131 - The Business of the Women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their Memories, for they have no Writing, and communicate it to their Children. They are the Records of the Council, and they preserve...
Page 201 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Page 168 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola, or Catahouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river ; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.