An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Band 3compiler ; H.D. Symonds and J. Ridgeway, 1791 - 510 Seiten |
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... distance of three or four feet from each other , and are hilled and kept continually free of weeds when as many leaves have shot out as the foil will nourish to advantage , the top of the plant is broken off , which prevents its growing ...
... distance of three or four feet from each other , and are hilled and kept continually free of weeds when as many leaves have shot out as the foil will nourish to advantage , the top of the plant is broken off , which prevents its growing ...
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... distance from its banks next to the city , excepting about half a mile above the junction of the rivers , will neverthelets afford a capacious fummer harbour ; as an immenfe number of ships may ride in the great channel , oppofite to ...
... distance from its banks next to the city , excepting about half a mile above the junction of the rivers , will neverthelets afford a capacious fummer harbour ; as an immenfe number of ships may ride in the great channel , oppofite to ...
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... distances from the rivers . In one part of the State for feventy miles in length , by finking a well , you apparently come to the bottom of what was formerly a water- courfe . And even as high up as Botetourt county , among the Alle ...
... distances from the rivers . In one part of the State for feventy miles in length , by finking a well , you apparently come to the bottom of what was formerly a water- courfe . And even as high up as Botetourt county , among the Alle ...
Seite 77
... distance as if covered with fnow , but on examination the white appearance is found to arife from a bed of clam fhells , which by repeated plowing have become fine and mixed with the earth . It is worthy notice , that the mountains in ...
... distance as if covered with fnow , but on examination the white appearance is found to arife from a bed of clam fhells , which by repeated plowing have become fine and mixed with the earth . It is worthy notice , that the mountains in ...
Seite 81
... distance from the capes of Virginia to the termination of the tide water in this river is above three hundred miles , and navigable for fhips of the greatest burthen , nearly that distance . From thence this river , obftructed by four ...
... distance from the capes of Virginia to the termination of the tide water in this river is above three hundred miles , and navigable for fhips of the greatest burthen , nearly that distance . From thence this river , obftructed by four ...
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