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...hese southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward of us.” Captain Cowley’s Voyage round the Globe. A.D. 1729. * * *... ...e whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...he whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpublished. “It is impossible to mee... ... head board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our knee pans were warming pans. We felt very nic... ...ore, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by ... ...d his far away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open hi... ...; for what knows he, this New England colt, of the black bisons of distant Oregon? No: but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of t... ...e knowl edge of the demonism in the world. Though thousands of miles from Oregon, still when he smells that savage musk, the rending, goring bison he...

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...o generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking ... ...on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie boo... ...chiefs with scarlet blankets… . Far off whistles at night, round the river bend, plunking paddles reech- oed by the pines, and a glow on black sliding... ...mnastics in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a ... ...ss-section she in- spected a broad-beamed grocer in an alpaca coat who was bending over the apples and celery on a slanted plat- form in front of his ... ...y. That was it, for a beginning! She conceived so clear a picture of their bending over large fair pages by the fire (in a non-existent fireplace) tha... ...he hinted to Kennicott of the probable medical advantages of Mon- tana and Oregon. She knew that he was satisfied with Gopher Prairie, but it gave her...

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...VII: NIAGARA ...................................................................................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI ...........................................................

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...e by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ........................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST................................................................ ...nds a tower upon the rock,—after stretching to this, the line of the ledge bends inward against the flood— in, and in, and in—till one is led to think... ...count for the two already admitted States on the Pa- cific, California and Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Nebraska, Washing... ...hese huge but thinly-populated re- gions in either rank. Of California and Oregon it may prob- ably be said that it is their ambition to form themselv... ...d Washington, the seat of the Federal Government 75,321 California 384,770 Oregon 52,566 The Territories of— Dacotah 4,839 Nebraska 28,892 Washington ... ...graceful, and in itself alluring. It sucks the sap out of men’s bones, and bends their backs, and sometimes breaks their hearts; but though it be so, ...

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... my school-days in Georgetown were spent at the school of John D. White, a North Carolinian, and the father of Chilton White who represented the distr... ...one would form going there now. I had been east to Wheeling, Virginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, and south to Bou... ...the United States and New Mexico—another Mexican state at that time—on the north and west. An empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population... ....” Poor Slaughter! it was his last sea voyage. He was killed by Indians in Oregon. By the last of August the cholera had so abated that it was deemed ... ...rdered to Fort V ancouver, on the Columbia River, 107 U. S. Grant then in Oregon Territory. During the winter of 1852-3 the territory was divided, al... ...he territory was divided, all north of the Columbia River being taken from Oregon to make Washington T erritory. Prices for all kinds of supplies were... ...t sure that all the troops would be up by that time. Fort Henry occupies a bend in the river which gave the guns in the water battery a direct fire do... ...ith the en- 239 U. S. Grant tire command, to Young’s Point and Milliken’s Bend, while I returned to Memphis to make all the necessary preparation for... ...nd tortuous course, making it impossible to turn the 240 Personal Memoirs bends with vessels of any considerable length. Marching across this country...

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...s much? We dwell a while in every city and town, We pass through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, ... ...ht, Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm life o... ...ancestor continents away group’d together, The present and future continents north and south, with the isthmus between. See, vast trackless spaces, As... ...amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 41 ... ...der her sky sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud, My eyes settle the land, I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck. The boatmen and clam di... ...eizes fast to them, They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch, They do not think whom they souse with spray. Leaves of Gra... ... rais’d out doors? is he Kanadian? Is he from the Mississippi country? Iowa, Oregon, California? The mountains? prairie life, bush life? or sailor fro... ...alifornia, Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon; Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to rema... ... Illinoisian’s, Wisconsinese’, Kanadian’s, Iowan’s, Kansian’s, Missourian’s, Oregonese’ joys! To rise at peep of day and pass forth nimbly to work, To...

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...ing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman?s lif...

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...may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in... ...ainous region of the State of Maine stretches from near the White Mountains, northeasterly one hundred and sixty miles, to the head of the Aroostook R... ...his master. Leaping over a fence, we began to follow an obscure trail up the northern bank of the Penobscot. There was now no road further, the river ... ...and now, having got a bite at last, with a lusty shove, which makes his pole bend and quiver, and 30 The Maine Woods the whole boat tremble, he gains... ... man’s Land. We have advanced by leaps to the Pacific, and left many a lesser Oregon and California unexplored behind us. Though the railroad and the t... ...d run about a hundred rods and sought the stream again, cutting off a slight bend. No doubt, a better hunter would have tracked it to this spot at onc... ...er novelties to the Indians than to me. After this, on Old Fort Hill, at the bend of the Penobscot, three miles above Bangor, looking for the site of ...

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... where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-trees; where the Northern Babel lies, with its warehouses, and its bridges, its graceful fac... ...jetty— eyes black as night—midsummer night—when it lightens; haughty noses bending like beaks of eagles—eager quivering nostrils—lips curved like the ... ...in; but all other things must yield to the service of the United States of North America. I have done. What would you, Sire?” and the intrepid republi... ...n ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the flaxen down of in... ...now, as Louis spoke, Tatua’s face assumed a glance of ineffable scorn, as, bending his head, he took the bauble. “I will give it to one of my squaws,”... ... posses- sion of the “Repudiator’s” crew. They were busy in her rig- ging, bending her sails to carry her out of the harbor. The well- known heave of ... ...e account at 17 primmium, down to nix; my Juan Fernandez, my Great Central Oregons, prostrit. There was a momint when I thought I shouldn’t be alive t...

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...ne moral. Through the bruteness and tough- ness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise... ...etual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavour of the human spirit “to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.” In Perceforest and Am... ...ganic being. In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, 23 Emerson east, west, to the centre of every province of th... ...p itself. The genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of ... ...pposite magnetism takes place at the other end. If the south attracts, the north repels. To empty here, you must condense there. An inevitable dualism... ...n some one. He is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five,—east, west, north, or south; or an initial, medial, and terminal acrostic. And why not?... ... est men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its am... ...r them when they came to see me, and could well consent to their living in Oregon, for any claim I felt on them,—it would be a great satisfaction. 31...

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...idea. When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, and submit myself to my in stinct to decide for me, I fin... ...ng like this is the prevailing tendency of my countrymen. I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I m... ...art of them, says that “the species of large trees are much more numerous in North America than in Eu rope; in the United States there are more than ... ...lish traveler and a Governor Gen eral of Canada, tells us that “in both the northern and south ern hemispheres of the New World, Nature has not only... ...gers; but the traveler can lie down in the woods at night almost anywhere in North America without fear of wild beasts. These are encouraging testimon... ...oes by and the cars return. “Gentle breeze, that wanderest unseen, And bendest the thistles round Loira of storms, Traveler of the windy glen...

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...r man than I am, Gunga Din! Kipling 28 OONT OONT OONT OONT OONTS S S S S (Northern India Transport Train) Wot makes the soldier’s ‘eart to penk, wot ... ...uard watched her flee. They knew that the King had spent his soul On a North-bred dancing-girl: That he prayed to a flat-nosed Lucknow god, And ki... ...e Khyber hills — his grace is manifold; He has taken toll of the North and the South — his glory reacheth far, And they tell the t... ... Heaven defend the farmer’s hut When I am loosed from thrall. It’s woe to bend the stubborn back Above the grinching quern, It’s woe to hear the leg... ...a thief to catch a thief — and a thief has caught us all! By every butt in Oregon and every spar in Maine, The hand that spilled the wind from her sai... ...rts pale ran down the rail as the sealing-rifles spoke. The bullets bit on bend and butt, the splinter slivered free (Little they trust to sparrow-dus...

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...e Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fifth. Whether the people of that settlement, or a majority... ... Colonel Doniphan, too, the favorite Whig of Missouri, and who overran all Northern Mexico, on his return home in a public speech at St. Louis condemn... ...mit I do not certainly know what he would do on the Wilmot Proviso. I am a Northern man or rather a Western Free-State man, with a constituency I beli... ... us, all was peace and quiet. The nation was looking to the forming of new bends of union, and a long course of peace and pros- perity seemed to lie b... ...rget the Washington territorial law passed in 1853. This was a division of Oregon, organizing the north- ern part as the Territory of Washington. He a... ...He asserted that by this act the Ordinance of ’87, theretofore existing in Oregon, was repealed; that nearly all the members of Con- gress voted for i...

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...n by a grey drill field. In front of them the column stretched to the last bend in the road, where it disappeared on a hill among mus- tard-yellow sub... ...Fuselli. “They say we’re going to the Third Army.” “Where’s that?” “In the Oregon forest,” ventured somebody. “That’s at the front, ain’t it?” At that... ...oad; French, British, every old kind.” “Tell me they’s raisin’ hell in the Oregon forest.” They walked slowly across the road. A motorcycle despatch- ... ...ls, and the elephants glistening with jewelled harness. Naked slaves would bend their gleam- ing backs before him as they laid out a carpet at his fee... ...tring the barbed wire for you?” “There warn’t no barbed wire strung in the Oregon forest where we was, boy. What d’ye want barbed wire when you’re adv... ... “Harvard.” “Harvard … . Guess we haven’t got a chapter there … . I’m from North Western. Anyway you want to go to school in France here if you can. S... ...is whole body, in the rustling silence of the woods, where the moss on the north side of the boles of the trees was emerald, and where the sky was sof... ...s a deserter? The cart and the old man had already disap- peared round the bend in the road. Andrews lay a long while listening to the jingle of the h...

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... happiness of all the States in the Union, without preference or regard to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various poli... ...n. Local inter ests are not less fostered by it. Our fellow citizens of the North engaged in navigation find great encourage ment in being made the ... ...ory which lies beyond the Rocky Mountains. Our title to the coun try of the Oregon is “clear and unquestionable,” and already are our people preparin... ...r of his Country made “the” then “recent accession of the important State of North Carolina to the Constitution of the United States” one of the subje... ...ld gone? We say “Farewell.” Is a new world coming? We welcome it—and we will bend it to the hopes of man. To these trusted public servants and to my f... ...S OF THE UNITED STATES 364 Problems that once seemed destined to deepen now bend to our efforts: our streets are safer and record numbers of our fell...

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...speak with a certain appearance of fluency; but there are few who can ever bend it to any practical need, few who can ever be said to express themselv... ...nty shall minister to the highest wish of Benevolence, and where the chill north wind of Prudence shall never blow over the flowery field of Enjoyment... ...rposes of those great in- land states, and for T exas, and California, and Oregon;” – a statement which is among the happiest achievements of American... ...t: the needle did not tremble as with richer natures, but pointed steadily north; and as he saw duty and inclination in one, he turned all his strengt... ..., by the support of some wind (blow it from the south, or blow it from the north, it is of no matter), come to the ears of the chief offenders. But wh...