| William Dunlap - 1840 - 546 páginas
...open, and I could not catch a cooling breeze, I saw opposite to me every narrow aperture of those stone walls filled with human heads, face above face, seeking a portion of the external air. What must have been the atmosphere within ? Andres's description of the prison ship tells us. Child... | |
| 1849 - 472 páginas
...high. "In the suffocating heat of summer," says Wm. Dunlap. "I saw every narrow apertare of those stone walls filled with human heads, face above face, seeking a portion of the external air." While the gaol-fever was raging, in the summer of 1777, the prisoners were let out, in companies of... | |
| New York (N.Y.). Common Council - 1849 - 630 páginas
...high. "In the suffocating heat of summer," says Wm. Dunlap, "I sawevery narrow aperture of thosestone walls filled with human heads, face above face, seeking a portion of the external air." While the gaol fever was raging, in the summer of 1777, the prisoners were let out, in companies of... | |
| Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1850 - 352 páginas
...high. " In the suffocating heat of summer," says Dunlap, " I saw every narrow aperture of those stone walls filled with human heads, face above face, seeking a portion of the external air." While the jail-fever was raging, in the summer of 1777, the prisoners were let out, in companies of... | |
| Daniel Curry - 1853 - 360 páginas
...walked their weary rounds. In the suffocating heat of summer might be seen every aperture of those stone walls filled with human heads, face above face, seeking a portion of the external air. While the jail-fever was raging in the summer of 1777, the prisoners were let out in companies of twenty,... | |
| 1854 - 378 páginas
...the suffocating heat of rammer,' aays William Dunlap, ' I saw every narrow aperture of those stone walls filled with human heads, face above face, seeking a portion of the external air.' While the jail-fever was raging, in the summer of 1777, the prisoners were let oat in companies of... | |
| Mary Louise Booth - 1859 - 868 páginas
...says Dunlap, the contemporary historian of the times, "I saw every narrow " aperture of those stone walls filled with human heads, " face above face, seeking a portion of the external air." " While the jail fever was raging in the summer of 1777," says Onderdonk, in his " Incidents of the... | |
| 1864 - 814 páginas
...sick, white and black, were indiscriminately thrust ; and there, during the summer of 1777, many ditd for want of exercise, cleanliness, and fresh air....strong walls filled with human heads, face above face, Keeking a portion of the external air.' At length, in July, 1777, a jail fever was created, and great... | |
| Anne C. Webb - 1865 - 206 páginas
...prisoners Were heyond the power of words to descrihe. " In the suffocating heat of summer," Bays Sunhip. "I saw every aperture of those strong walls filled with human heads, fai-e ahove face, seeking a. portion of the external ait. Disease hroke out among them, and a dozen... | |
| Mary Louise Booth - 1867 - 462 páginas
...says Dunlap, the contemporary historian of the times, " I saw every narrow " aperture of those stone walls filled with human heads, " face above face, seeking a portion of the external air." " While the jail fever was raging in the summer of 1777," says Onderdonk, in his " Incidents of the... | |
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