The Englishman's illustrated guide book to the United States and Canada [by M. Gibbs]. With appendix containing the shooting and fishing grounds of North America1878 |
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Seite 121 - State shall accept this grant upon the express conditions that the premises Shall be held for public use, resort, and recreation; shall be inalienable for all time; but leases not exceeding ten years may be granted for portions of said premises.
Seite 237 - Ohio ; on the south by the Ohio River, and on the west "by the State of Illinois.
Seite 68 - I think in every quiet season now, still do those waters roll and leap and roar and tumble all day long ; still are the rainbows spanning them a hundred feet below ; still, when the sun is on them, do they shine and glow like molten gold ; still, when the day is gloomy, do they fall like snow...
Seite 81 - ... was a level straight road or a crazy trail over mountain crags and precipices, or whether it led through peaceful regions or regions that swarmed with hostile Indians, he must be always ready to leap into the saddle and be off like the wind ! There was no idling-time for a pony-rider on duty.
Seite 82 - So sudden is it all, and so like a flash of unreal fancy, that but for the flake of white foam left quivering and perishing on a mailsack after the vision had flashed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all, maybe.
Seite 217 - It is bounded on the north by Vermont and New Hampshire, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and on the west by New York.
Seite 68 - It was not until I came on Table Rock, and looked — Great Heaven, on what a fall of bright green water ! — that it came upon me in its full might and majesty. Then when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect, and the enduring one — install!
Seite 81 - In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the ' pony-rider ' — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters 1,900 miles in eight days ! Think of that for perishable horse and human flesh and blood to do ! The pony-rider was usually a little bit of a man, brimful of spirit and endurance.
Seite 64 - Up above the falls for more than a mile the waters leap and burst over rapids, as though conscious of the destiny that awaits them. Here the river is very broad and comparatively shallow; but from shore to shore it frets itself into little torrents, and begins to assume the majesty of its power. Looking at it even here, in the expanse which forms itself over the greater fall, one FALLS OF THE NIAGARA.
Seite 68 - ... or roll down the rock like dense white smoke. But always does the mighty stream appear to die as it comes down, and always from its unfathomable grave arises that tremendous ghost of spray and mist which is never laid : which has haunted this place with the same dread solemnity since Darkness brooded on the deep, and that first flood before the Deluge — Light — came rushing on Creation at the word of God.