Traditions of the Earliest Visits of Foreigners to North America, the First Formed and First Inhabited of the Continents

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J.P. Morton & Company (Incorporated) printers to the Filson Club, 1908 - 179 Seiten
 

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Seite 164 - THE WILDERNESS ROAD: A description of the routes of travel by which the pioneers and early settlers first came to Kentucky.
Seite 164 - JOHN FILSON, the first historian of Kentucky. An account of his life and writings, principally from original sources, prepared for The Filson Club and read at its second meeting in Louisville, June 26, 1884, by Reuben T. Durrett, AM,LL. D., President of the Club.
Seite 124 - Their churches have almost as many parsons and sharers as there are principal men in the parish. The sons, after the decease of their fathers, succeed to the ecclesiastical benefices, not by election, but by hereditary right possessing and polluting the sanctuary of God.
Seite 103 - Welsh coracle, made of raw hides, the skins of buffaloes, stretched underneath a frame made of willow or other boughs, and shaped nearly round, like a tub; which the woman carries on her head from her wigwam to the mater's edge, and having stepped into it, stands in front, and propels it by dipping her paddle forward, and drawing it to her, instead of paddling by the side.
Seite 30 - Bennet and Sir William Berkeley sent two ships to Port Royal, now called South Carolina, which is sixty leagues southward of Cape Fair, and I was sent therewith to be their minister. Upon the 8th of April we set out from Virginia, and arrived at the harbor's mouth of Port Royal the...
Seite 21 - ... thitherward againe. Therefore it is to be supposed that he and his people inhabited part of those countreys: for it appeareth by Francis Lopez de Gomara, that in Acuzamil and other places the people honored the crosse.
Seite 21 - ... did murther one another, he prepared a number of ships, and got with him such men and women as were desirous to live in quietness : and taking leave of his friends took his way thitherward again.
Seite 95 - ... alone he could depend on for a continuance of their existence, all laid low; when he came back to his lodge, where he covered his whole family in a pile, with a number of robes, and wrapping another around himself, went out upon a hill at a little distance, where he lay several days, despite all the solicitations of the Traders, resolved to starve himself to death.
Seite 20 - Madoc another of Owen Guyneth his sonnes left the land in contention betwixt his brethren, & prepared certaine ships, with men and munition, and sought adventures by Seas, sailing West, and leaving the coast of Ireland so farre North, that he came unto a land unknowen, where he saw many strange things.
Seite 10 - There you may have game enough in hunting all sorts of wild beasts, of which there is such plenty that in their feasts there is nothing wanting either as to pomp or delight. The adjoining sea furnished them plentifully with fish, for the ocean there naturally abounds with all sorts.

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