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wooding at night—the 20 deck hands at work briskly as bees—in going up the river the flat-boat loaded
Drove down yesterday four miles to "Billy Thompson's," on the Delaware river edge, to a nice dinner,
and follow it for two or three miles as it passes B—that is except at the points at the mouth of the river
Just now it is all emptied into the river that flows through the city and the deposit has become so great
that in the summer it is terribly offensive to those who live along the edge of the river I shall be
After all, the sunny, fertile, plain for me, with gentle hills around, with a woody deep, calm river
Seven weeks have glided by as swiftly and noiselesslyas a river through sunshine, not through shade.
And how does the River look?
But the New England valley has one advantage over theweald of Sussex in itsbroad and beautiful river,
with Indian name, Connecticut Quon- — nektacut, the long river— which winds through it.
have you also in our assocn association The idea of a great brotherhood—a kingdom, not confined by rivers