 | Thomas Hamilton - 1833 - 420 pages
...richness of the soil. Through this thicket of cane I should think it quite impossible to penetrate, yet I have been assured the Indians do so for leagues together,...thus turn their labour to better account than would toe 'found in the cultivation of the soil. But the climate is deadly and pestilential ; they are wan... | |
 | 1835 - 298 pages
...of the soil. Through this thicket of cane, I should think it quite impossible to penetrate ; yet, I have been assured, the Indians do so for leagues together,...manifestly impossible, it is not easy to understand. It has been the fashion with travellers, to talk of the scenery of the Mississippi as wanting grandeur... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...of ihe soil. Through this thicket of cane, I should think it quite impossible to penetrate ; yet, I have been assured, the Indians do so for leagues together,...manifestly impossible it is not easy to understand. It has been the fashion with travellers, to talk of the scenery of the Mississippi as wanting grandeur... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...impossible to penetrate; yet, I have been assured, the Indians do so for leagues together, though hy what means they contrive to guide their course, where...manifestly impossible, it is not easy to understand. It haa been the fashion with traveflers, to talk of the scenery of the Mississippi as wanting grandeur... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1843 - 502 pages
...of the soil . Through this thicket of cane I should think it quite impossible to penetrate ; yet I have been assured the Indians do so for leagues together,...numerous that a considerable number of settlers make it then- business to supply them, and thus turn their labour to better account than would be found in... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...of the soil. Through this thicket of cane, 1 should think it quite impossible to penetrate ; yet, I have been assured, the Indians do so for leagues together,...manifestly impossible it is not easy to understand. It has been the fashion with travellers, to talk of the scenery of the Mississippi as wanting grandeur... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1854 - 668 pages
...of the soil. Through this thicket of cane I should think it quite impossible to penetrate ; yet, I have been assured, the Indians do so for leagues together,...manifestly impossible, it is not easy to understand. "It has been the. fashion with travellers to talk of the scenery of the- Mississippi as wanting grandeur... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1858 - 678 pages
...soil. Through this thicket of cane, we should think it quite impossible to penetrate ; yet, the Indiana do so for leagues together, though by what means they...their course, where vision is manifestly impossible, is not easy to understand. It has been the fashion with travelers to talk of the scenery of tie Mississippi... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1866 - 698 pages
...bess of the soil. Through this thicket of cane, we should Chink it quite impossible to penetrate; yet> the Indians do so for leagues together, though by what means they contrive to guide their cour&e, where vision is manifestly impossible, is not easy to understand* "The prevailing character... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1866 - 710 pages
...richness of the soil Through this thicket of cane, we should Chink it quite impossible to penetrate ; yet, the Indians do so for leagues together, though by what means they contrive to guide their coun>e, where vision is manifestly impossible, is not eisy to understand. It has been the fashion with... | |
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Mississippi as wanting grandeur and beauty. Most certainly, it has neither. But there is no scenery on earth more striking. The dreary and pestilential... 
