Scribner's Popular History of the United States: From the Earliest Discoveries of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen to the Present Time, Volumen1C. Scribner's Sons, 1898 |
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... .- - SUPPOSED IRISH SETTLEMENTS IN AMERICA . - COLONY OF FREYDIS . - THE MASSACRE . — GLOOMY WINTER AT VINLAND . -ROUND TOWER AT NEW- PORT . DIGHTON ROCK . THE ICELANDIC SAGAS - - - 35 ― - CHAPTER IV . PRE - COLUMBIAN VOYAGES WESTWARD.
... .- - SUPPOSED IRISH SETTLEMENTS IN AMERICA . - COLONY OF FREYDIS . - THE MASSACRE . — GLOOMY WINTER AT VINLAND . -ROUND TOWER AT NEW- PORT . DIGHTON ROCK . THE ICELANDIC SAGAS - - - 35 ― - CHAPTER IV . PRE - COLUMBIAN VOYAGES WESTWARD.
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... ALONG THE COAST . SITE FOR A COLONY SELECTED . CONFUSION OF FACTS AND DATES AS TO THE LANDING AT PLYMOUTH . -THE FIRST WINTER . SUFFERINGS AND DEATHS . 370 - - - - -- ---- --- CONTENTS . xxxi - - CHAPTER XV . THE PILGRIMS XXX CONTENTS .
... ALONG THE COAST . SITE FOR A COLONY SELECTED . CONFUSION OF FACTS AND DATES AS TO THE LANDING AT PLYMOUTH . -THE FIRST WINTER . SUFFERINGS AND DEATHS . 370 - - - - -- ---- --- CONTENTS . xxxi - - CHAPTER XV . THE PILGRIMS XXX CONTENTS .
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... winter for many centuries . On the summits of lofty mountain ranges , great glaciers of ice and snow were piled , which advanced by slow degrees , and covered land and sea . When at length this long and dreary period drew toward its ...
... winter for many centuries . On the summits of lofty mountain ranges , great glaciers of ice and snow were piled , which advanced by slow degrees , and covered land and sea . When at length this long and dreary period drew toward its ...
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... winter , and buried in Arctic ice , probably for hundreds of years.1 1 At any rate a long period passed away before these rude men learned to grind and polish the stones which at first they only chipped , and it is doubted if their ...
... winter , and buried in Arctic ice , probably for hundreds of years.1 1 At any rate a long period passed away before these rude men learned to grind and polish the stones which at first they only chipped , and it is doubted if their ...
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... winter use , the seeds of straw- berries , raspberries , elderberries , blackber- ries , loaves of bread , fragments of woven cloth.1 But the earlier men of the caves , and probably of the Kjökken - Möddings , had reached to no such ...
... winter use , the seeds of straw- berries , raspberries , elderberries , blackber- ries , loaves of bread , fragments of woven cloth.1 But the earlier men of the caves , and probably of the Kjökken - Möddings , had reached to no such ...
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Scribner's Popular History of the United States, Volumen1 William Cullen Bryant,Sydney Howard Gay,Noah Brooks Vista de fragmentos - 1896 |
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Página 528 - We desire you would be pleased to take notice of the principals and body of our company, as those who esteem it our honor to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our Dear Mother, and cannot part from- our native country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart and many tears in our eyes ; ever acknowledging that such hope and part as we have obtained in the common salvation, we have received in her bosom, and sucked it from her breasts.
Página 213 - Mississippi to the sea, and took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of France, in honor of whom he called it Louisiana.
Página 130 - East where spices growe, by a way that was never knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.
Página 396 - From lightning and tempest ; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.
Página 412 - ... we could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer, and it being now the 19th of December.
Página 136 - ... to seek out, discover, and find whatsoever isles, countries, regions, or provinces of the heathens and infidels whatsoever they be and in what part of the world soever they be, which before this time have been unknown to all Christians...
Página 247 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour...
Página 327 - And is It not pretty sport to pull up two pence, -six pence, and twelve pence, as fast as you can haul and veer a line ? He is a very bad fisher cannot kill in one day with his hook and line one,, two or three hundred cods...
Página 316 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 545 - Narragansett Bay and Indians, for many high and heavenly and public ends, encouraging me, from the freeness of the place from any English claims or patents.