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Seite 173 - Potatoe, which was used in England, as a delicacy, long before the introduction of our Potatoes ; it was imported in considerable quantities from Spain, and the Canaries, and was supposed to possess the power of restoring decayed vigour. The
Seite 101 - Iresh and soft, and in due time was gratified by beholding the matured plant, bending with its golden fruit and gracefully waving its green leaves and yellow tassels in the wind. He then invited his parents to the spot to behold the new plant. " It is Mondamin," replied his father, "it is the spirit's grain.
Seite 331 - ... report under their sanction. It is only in this way that due credit can be secured to all the institutions and individuals who have contributed to the collection ; but, since the paper you mention has been prepared, and you propose to give it an immediate and wide circulation through the Report...
Seite 100 - A young man went out into the woods to fast, at the period of life when youth is exchanged for manhood. He built a lodge of boughs in a secluded place, and painted his face of a sombre hue. By day he amused himself in walking about, looking...
Seite 31 - Compound," which animal united the size and strength of the "Gift" with the, high courage and activity of the "Knight." The jacks arrived at Mount Vernon in about the year 1788. The General bred some very superior mules from his coach mares, sending them from Philadelphia for the purpose. In a few years, the estate of Mount Vernon became stocked with mules of a superior order, rising to the height of sixteen hands, and of great power and usefulness — one wagon team of four mules selling, at the...
Seite 100 - On the third day he became too weak to leave the lodge, and as he lay gazing upwards he saw a spirit come down in the shape of a beautiful young man, dressed in green and having green plumes on his head, who told him to arise and wrestle with him, as this was the only way in which he could obtain his wishes. He did so, and found his strength renewed by the effort. This visit and the trial of wrestling were repeated for four days, the youth feeling at each trial that, although his bodily strength...
Seite 31 - Vernon were known abroad, he received a present from the king of Spain of a jack and two jennies, selected from the royal stud at Madrid. The jack, called the Royal Gift, was sixteen hands high, of a gray color, heavily made, and of a sluggish disposition. At the same time, the Marquis de Lafayette sent out a jack and jennies from the island of Malta; this jack, called the...
Seite 52 - ... accessory, and twenty-four hours' whipping to the concealer. As early as the year 1617, the swine had multiplied so rapidly in the colony, that the people were obliged to palisade Jamestown, to prevent being overrun with them. In 1627, the Indians, near the settlement, fed upon hogs which had become wild, instead of game. Every family in Virginia at that time, who had not an abundance of tame hogs and poultry, was considered very poor. In 1648, some of the settlers had a good stock of bees. In...
Seite 237 - ... parallel south. On the Pacific side it will perfect its growth some five degrees further north or south. From the flexibility of this plant, it is highly probable that it is gradually becoming more hardy, and will eventually endure an exposure, and yield a profitable return, much further north, along the borders of the Mississippi, and some of its tributaries, than it has hitherto been produced. In most parts of Louisiana the canes yield three crops from one planting. The first season it is denominated...
Seite 319 - Strawberry, though well known, is of comparatively little value in the South of Europe. Old Roman and Greek poets have not, therefore, sung its praises ; but after that line of a northern bard, " A dish of ripe strawberries, smothered in cream...