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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... ....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...y to-day? Sugars have fallen; how are teas?” Of course Jones thinks that I’m a brute; but what can I do? I have been somewhat surprised to find the tr... ...ness. The Arabia touched at Halifax; and as the touch ex- tended from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. we had an opportunity of seeing a good deal of that colony; no... ...giments of men up there at night, and that in face of enemies who held the summits. One grieves that he should have fallen there and have never tasted... ...through the oaks, and climb the bluffs, and lay about on the bold but easy summits. The boat, however, steams quickly up against the current, and the ... .... Such a house, therefore, will not represent a total expenditure of above 4000 pounds a year. There are churches on each side of Fifth Avenue—per- ha...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...hat editor and his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., i... ...eelings by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solem... ...ing and closing, hiding and restoring. On such a morning, and reaching the summits of the forest mountain about sunrise, we shall have one chance the ... ...ger brother,—in subsequent times a little middy on board many a ship of H. M., and the most predestined rebel upon earth against all assumptions, smal... ...ge family, found, no doubt, a vast fund of interesting suggestions in Lord M.’s “Dissertations on the Origin of Language;” but to 75 Autobiographic S... ...pt) had assembled upon this point a respectable force; some say upwards of 4000, others not more than 1100. The disgraceful result is well known: the ... ...hree miles, with occasional intermis- sions,) but at times is carried over summits too steep for a road by all the rules of engineering, and yet too l...

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... Chapter 1 Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr. B . B . B . B . Bedfor edfor edfor edfor edford M d M d M d M d Meets Mr eets Mr eets Mr eets Mr eets Mr. Cav . Cav . Cav .... ... it old Watling Street, still paved in places, starts like an arrow to the north. I used to stand on the hill and think of it all, the galleys and leg... ... dear sir, if the thing is so important to you..” “It’s vital. Y ou see, I’m—I’m an investigator—I am engaged in a scientific research. I live -” he p... ... The First Men in the Moon emption. I recalled the old Spanish monopoly in American gold. It wasn’t as though it was just this planet or that—it was a... ...se spacious ringlike ranges vaster than any terres- trial mountains, their summits shining in the day, their shad- ows harsh and deep, the gray disord... ...reeping lichens, and wherever the shade remained the snow-drifts lingered. North, south, east, and west spread an identical monotony of unfa- miliar f... ...at began the century, arising out an announcement by Mr. Nikola Tesla, the American electrical celebrity, that he had received a message from Mars. Hi... ... an- cestors had been evolved. Three times had I to repeat that of all the 4000 miles of distance between the earth and its cen- tre men knew only to ...

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...stared, focused glasses, and wrangled over charts; and the sun was overhead and the land close ahead before we found them. To a ship ap- proaching, li... ...rison in my mind, I was struck to remember the sluttish mounds of turf and stone in which I have sat and been entertained 13 Robert Louis Stevenson i... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...ear ending July 1888 there were twelve deaths and but one birth in the district of the Hatiheu. Seven or eight more deaths were to be looked for in th... ... matter of surprise if the population in that part should have declined in forty years from six thousand to less than four hundred; which are, once mo... ...ually from the land down gaps of splintered precipice; now, between the sentinel islets of the entry, it came in gusts from sea- ward. Heavy and dark ... ...not more different from the Sahara. On the one hand, and chiefly in groups of from eight to a dozen, volcanic islands rise above the sea; few reach an...

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... ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classi... ... ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A ... ...idnight The moon arose; and lo! the ethereal cliffs Of Caucasus, whose icy summits shone Among the stars like sunlight, and around Whose caverned base... ... islets darted _750 The light of moonrise; in the northern Heaven, Among the clouds near the horizon driven, The mountains la... ...as power—and when the shades of evening lie On Earth and Ocean, its carved summits cast The sunken daylight far through the aerial waste. _1... ... In sudden panic those false murderers fled, Like insect tribes before the northern gale: But swifter still, our hosts encompassed ... ... the revolution eight hundred students, and among them several Germans and Americans. The munificence and energy of many of the Greek princes and merc... ... reported that this Messiah had arrived at a seaport near Lacedaemon in an American brig. The association of names and ideas is irresistibly ludicrous...

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...f the plants collected by me at the Keel- ing Islands; and the Reverend J. M. Berkeley has described my cryptogamic plants. I shall have the pleasure ... ...e V oyage of the Beagle of dust which fell on a vessel a few hundred miles northward of these islands. Professor Ehrenberg* finds that this dust consi... ...om the coast of Africa, and at points sixteen hun- dred miles distant in a north and south direction. In some dust which was collected on a vessel thr... ... St. Jago. Even the form of a cra- ter can but rarely be discovered on the summits of the many red cindery hills; yet the more recent streams can be d... ...rior case, but does not extend within the extreme conical points. In some *M. Montagne, in Comptes Rendus, etc., Juillet, 1844; and Annal. des Scienc.... ...e shall hereafter see) to an analogous conclusion with regard to the South American ostrich, the females of which are parasitical, if I may so express... ...t from their habits. The Saurophagus sulphuratus is typi- cal of the great American tribe of tyrant-flycatchers. In its structure it closely approache... ...ng to Captain King, in the Strait of Magellan descends to between 3000 and 4000 feet. To find an acre of level land in any part of the country is most... ...nt in the Strait of Magellan, where the summer is so cool, to only 3500 or 4000 feet above the level of the sea; although in Norway, we must travel to...