Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries. With Additional Chapters on English Influence in Japan and China, and on Hong Kong and the Straits SettlementsMacmillan, 1890 - 633 páginas |
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... passed , we came in view of a many - steepled town with domes and spires re- calling Oxford , hanging on a bank above a crimson - coloured . foaming stream . In ten minutes we were alongside the wharf at Richmond , and in half an hour ...
... passed , we came in view of a many - steepled town with domes and spires re- calling Oxford , hanging on a bank above a crimson - coloured . foaming stream . In ten minutes we were alongside the wharf at Richmond , and in half an hour ...
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... passed , knocking out every other plank , are worse by far ; yet such is the main road from Richmond towards the West . There is not only a scarcity of roads , but of railroads . A comparison of the railway system of Illinois and ...
... passed , knocking out every other plank , are worse by far ; yet such is the main road from Richmond towards the West . There is not only a scarcity of roads , but of railroads . A comparison of the railway system of Illinois and ...
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... Passing through Petersburg , the streets of which were gay with the feathery - brown blooms of the Venetian shumach , but almost deserted by human beings , who have not returned to the city since they were driven out by the shot and ...
... Passing through Petersburg , the streets of which were gay with the feathery - brown blooms of the Venetian shumach , but almost deserted by human beings , who have not returned to the city since they were driven out by the shot and ...
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... passed over as a joke . There are five millions of negroes in the United States ; juries throughout ten States of the Union are mainly chosen from the black race . The matter is not only serious , but full of interest , political ...
... passed over as a joke . There are five millions of negroes in the United States ; juries throughout ten States of the Union are mainly chosen from the black race . The matter is not only serious , but full of interest , political ...
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... passed a meadow in which a match was being played . A Southerner to whom I was talking at the time , looked at the players , and said with surprise : " Reckon they've got a wounded man ther ' , front o ' them sticks , sah . " I found ...
... passed a meadow in which a match was being played . A Southerner to whom I was talking at the time , looked at the players , and said with surprise : " Reckon they've got a wounded man ther ' , front o ' them sticks , sah . " I found ...
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