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in the chimney, & the wood of which I cut & hauled up the hill myself, out of the window on to the river
sauntering home, red glare in the sky in the direction of Grosvenor Road, but on the opposite side of the river
The effect of the red glare on the water, with the black barges shooting by, & the river fire-engine's
The river is almost at the back-door, or at any rate only a short street away; so that I have the ferries
nearly altogether physically wreck'd (paralysis &c)—am living here in my little shanty by the Delaware river—Best
I row on the river every afternoon, all the men in the college who do not know how to row in the right
was on a clear, bright, sunny day in the month of September that I crossed by the ferry the Delaware river
unless his friends are his companions, and of late months rarely sees the casual visitors who cross the river
To-day promises to be even more memorable, I expect to start up the Hudson River by the Mary Powell (
three or four miles to Gloucester, on the Delaware below here, to a fine old public house close to the river
the great boat, 20 black men rowing rhythmically, paying out the big seine—making a circuit in the river
JOHNS RIVER, FLA. HOTEL SAN MARCO, AINSLIE & McGILVRAY. Managers. DOGS NOT ALLOWED IN THE HOTELS.
A steady snow fall here to-day, the river a white plain.
—The house itself stands on the Palisades of the Hudson, about 500 feet or so above the river on a steep
—The house itself stands on the Palisades of the Hudson, about 500 feet or so above the river on a steep