Settlement in the West: Sketches of RochesterW. Alling, 1838 - 468 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
acres Albany Allegany aqueduct bank bridge British Buffalo Canandaigua Cayuga chief church citizens City of Rochester Colonel commenced commissioners Company connected connexion considerable Creek early east edifice enterprise erected Erie Canal established feet flour formed furnished Genesee country Genesee River Genesee Valley Genesee Valley Canal Hudson improvement Indians interest Iroquois Jesse Hawley John Lake Erie Lake Ontario land Legislature limestone Lower Falls March Massachusetts Middle Falls miles mills Mohawk Mohawk River Morris navigation Niagara Niagara River notice officers Ohio Oliver Phelps Oneida Oneida Lake Onondaga Ontario county Oswego passed Pennsylvania Phelps and Gorham population Presbyterian present President Railroad remarks render respecting ridge rock route Sabbath-school Seneca Lake settlement side Six Nations slate society stone territory thence Thomas Kempshall tion Tonnewanta town tract treaty tribes United Utica village ward Western New-York wheat whole William Witt Clinton
Pasajes populares
Página 387 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 141 - Commonwealth, their grantees and the heirs and assignees of such grantees forever, the right of pre-emption of the soil from the native Indians, and all other the estate, right, title and property (the right and title of government sovereignty and jurisdiction...
Página 345 - Land-Affairs ; neither you, nor any who shall descend from you, are ever hereafter to presume to sell any Land : For which purpose, you are to preserve this String, in Memory of what your Uncles have this Day given you in Charge. — We have some other Business to transact with our Brethren, and therefore depart the Council, and consider what has been said to you.
Página 207 - ... than the United States, and none, perhaps, inducements equally persuasive to make the most of them. The particular undertaking contemplated by the State of New York, which marks an honorable spirit of enterprise and comprises objects of national as well as more limited importance, will recall the attention of Congress to the signal advantages to be derived to the United States from a general system of internal communication and conveyance, and suggest to their consideration whatever steps may...
Página 361 - The iron brow of superstition relented under the magic of his eloquence; he declared the prophet an impostor and a cheat. He prevailed: the Indians divided, and a small majority appeared in his favor. Perhaps the annals of history cannot furnish a more conspicuous instance of the triumph and power of oratory, in a barbarous nation, devoted to superstition, and looking up to the accuser as a delegated minister of the Almighty.
Página 368 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS.
Página 340 - The subjects of France inhabiting Canada, and others, shall hereafter give no hindrance or molestation to the Five Nations or cantons of Indians, subject to the dominion of Great Britain, nor to the other natives of America, who are friends to the same.
Página 375 - Lewiston, on the Niagara river, there is a remarkable ridge or elevation of land, running almost the whole distance, which is seventy-eight miles, and in a direction from east to west. Its general altitude above the* neighbouring land is thirty feet, and its width varies considerably : in some places it is not more than forty yards. Its elevation above the level of lake Ontario is perhaps...
Página 204 - An Act to Provide for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of the State," passed on the 8th day of April, 1811, who were Gouverneur Morris, Stephen Van Rensselaer, De Witt Clinton, Simeon De Witt, William North, Thomas Eddy, Peter B. Porter, Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton...
Página 114 - In consideration of the peace and friendship hereby established, and of the engagements entered into by the Six Nations; and because the United States desire, with humanity and kindness, to contribute to their comfortable support; and to render the peace and friendship hereby established strong and perpetual...
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After the Rebellion: The Later Years of William Lyon Mackenzie Lilian F. Gates Vista de fragmentos - 1988 |
After the Rebellion: The Later Years of William Lyon Mackenzie Lilian F. Gates Vista de fragmentos - 1988 |