A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Ohio Valley: In which the Opinions of Its Conquest in the Seventeenth Century, by the Iroquois Or Six Nations, Supported by Cadwallader Colden...Gov. Thomas Pownall...Dr. Benjamin Franklin...Hon. De Witt Clinton...and Judge John Haywood...are Examined and Contested; to which are Prefixed Some Remarks on the Study of HistoryFergus Printing Company, 1883 - 95 strán (strany) |
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Strana 45 - Hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini, hanc Remus et frater, sic fortis Etruria crevit scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma...
Strana 31 - You find on them all that beautiful variety of trees which gives such unrivaled richness to our forests. This is particularly the case on the fifteen acres included within the walls of the work, at the mouth of the Great Miami, and the relative proportions of the different kinds of timber arc about the same.
Strana 32 - The more thrifty individuals soon overtop the weaker of their own kind, which sicken and die. In this way, there is soon only as many left as the earth will well support to maturity. All this time the squirrels may plant the seed of those trees which serve them for food, and by neglect suffer them to remain, — it will be in vain; the birds may drop the kernels, the external pulp of which have contributed to their nourishment, and divested of which they are in the best state for germinating, still...
Strana 78 - Our eyes will be constantly kept on them, and should they attempt to gather strength again, we will do all in our power to prevent it, and at the same time give you immediate information of their intentions. "We are sorry that the peace and friendship which has so long existed between the red and white people, could not be preserved, without the loss of so many good men as fell on both sides in the late action on the Wabash ; but we are satisfied that it will be the means of making that peace which...
Strana 68 - Wea chief whom I before mentioned to you, as being seduced by the Prophet, was repeatedly asked by * * * * what land it was that he was determined to defend with his blood ; whether it was that which was ceded by the late treaty or not, but he would give no answer.
Strana 41 - OUR wise Forefathers established Union and Amity between the Five Nations ; this has made us formidable ; this has given us great Weight and Authority with our neighbouring Nations.
Strana 77 - Miamis, they answered it, and I made known to you their opinion at that time. "Your letter to William Wells, of the 23d November last, has been explained to the Miamis and Eel River tribes of Indians.
Strana 80 - For a whole week they traversed the "drowned lands" of Illinois, suffering every privation from wet, cold, and hunger. When they arrived at the Little Wabash, at a point where the forks of the stream are three miles apart, they found the intervening space covered with water to the depth of three feet. The points of dry land were five miles apart, and all that distance those hardy soldiers...
Strana 32 - The preference of the soil for the first growth, ceases with its maturity. It admits of no succession, upon the principles of legitimacy. The long undisputed masters of the forest may be thinned by the lightning, the tempest, or by diseases peculiar to themselves ; and whenever this is the case, one of the oft-rejected of another family will find between its decaying roots shelter and appropriate food, and springing into vigorous growth, will soon push its green foliage to the skies, through the...
Strana 38 - By this fatal determination they had already prepared the wreath of laurels which was to adorn his brow, by their complete and total discomfiture. The tactics which had been adopted for the American legion, had been devised with a reference to all the subtleties, which those of the Indians were well known to possess. It united with the apparently opposite qualities of compactness and flexibility, and a facility of expansion under any circumstances, and in any situation, which rendered utterly abortive...