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done that, And Lee as you say must have been badly hurt or he would never let Hooker come across the river

Mother, you have no idea of the splendor and the comfort of these western river steam-boats.

We expect to get as far as Cairo to night on the Mississipi river.

charter in these words: "to prevent divers persons from transporting themselves and goods over the river

Now what right had a colonial governor or any body else to prevent any person from crossing the river

The East River is, and always has been a public highway, and it never was in the power of any man or

two hundred feet in width, without the least obstruction to the navigation of the river.

The East River, at the foot of Fulton street, is 2193 feet wide, being nearly half a mile.

It has the aspect then of a river, not a lake; and at this point there is no snow—the ice being heaped

up into enormous ridges & pinnacles like a river when there is a long reach of rapids, only in the glacier

The wild, tossing confusion of the ice-river contrasted strangely with the absolute stillness and immoveability

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

As the medical historian Howard Markel observes, “the river of human pathology at Bellevue had no end

their tiny leaves . . . without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

in the woods or by the road-side (hundreds, thousands, obliterated)— the corpses floated down the rivers

the diaspora of “the strayed dead” whose unburied bodies littered battlefields and became lost to rivers

grog, which they took in a manner peculiar to themselves—first a cup of whisky, and then a cup of river

Now and then a "specimen" of the by-gone race of river boatmen, who have mostly settled down to farming

They exist in some numbers in the interminable forests of the Gambia river.

Dutch Administration was applied, (as a Province) to "all the tracts, in America adjoining the Hudson river

Connecticut large manufactures of clocks, cotton goods, and gutta‑percha, shad fishery of Connecticut river

Maryland Alleghany Mts Cattskills Catskills Valley of the Mohawk Great lakes & small lakes, Susquehannah river

Bay." the falls of Niagara,— The amplitude, ease, and perfect proportions of the scenery— the broad river

Roanoke —500 length Savannah 600 miles Altamaha 500 Alabama 500 the sluggish rivers, flowing over the

White river the Arkansas river 1200 m —the beautiful valleys of the Arkansas and the Washita —a great

Jefferson county, West Virginia, to recover about twenty-one acres of land, situated on the Potomac river

alias Trombley, from the Light House Reservation of the United States at the mouth of the Saginaw river

The Delaware River, which must be crossed to get there, is invariably covered with oil which diffuses

the pale, green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

honey in the comb (of wh' I have a little supply) to send in a sick lady next door—was down to the river

even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

with them about each one, in every part of the United States, and many of the engagements on the rivers

Still sweeping the eye around down the river toward Alexandria, we see, to the right, the locality where

And how full of breadth is the scenery, everywhere with distant mountains, everywhere convenient rivers

There were nearly 200 of them, come up yesterday by boat from James River.

Delaware River—Days and Nights.....Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights, . . .

DELAWARE RIVER—DAYS AND NIGHTS. April 5, 1879.

HUDSON RIVER SIGHTS.

SWALLOWS ON THE RIVER. Sept. 3 .

UNFULFILL'D WANTS—THE ARKANSAS RIVER.

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

pass through the city, and embark from the wharves; (How good they look, as they tramp down to the river

take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; Behold the silvery river—in

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry, lit by torches, hastening the embar- cation embarcation

I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed; Ah, river!

His spirit responds to his country's spirit: he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

The river and bay scenery, all about New York island, any time of a fine day—the hurrying, splashing

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

rivers.

Rivers.

Rivers.

; Pawtucket River; Patuxet River.

Rivers.

come no more with demands like these to my free cities, or my teeming country towns, or along my rivers

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed to

"The swamps of Santee" may refer to the fighting that took place near the Santee River in South Carolina

Upon the banks of a pleasant river stood a cottage, the residence of an ancient man whose limbs were

up from opposite directions, and stood together at a tomb built on a hill by the borders of a fair river

A boy again, and in the confiding heart of a boy, I walk with Eva by the river's banks.

— startling me with the overture some unnamable horror calmly sailing me all day on a broad bright river

— calmly sailing me down and down over down the broad deep sea river.— —startling me with the overture

ages, the inextricable, the river-tied and the mountain-tied.

the section from the poem that would be titled "To Think of Time" beginning: "Posh and ice in the river

through, so small was it—and gazed forth upon the land, and the trees, and a small strip of the bright river

gestures of wonder—and then both hurried away toward a path which led from the village along the river's

Some few miles off he could see a gleam of the Hudson river, and above it a spur of those rugged cliffs

Dull route, 1541 27 River Mississippi discovered.

Dutch housewife, 1608 6 Hudson River discovered.

—Caspian sea, Ural river & mts (Asia) South Mediterranean Countries —Iceland, 60,000 —Norway, 1,328,000

Red Mts Madagascar R Cape of Good Hope (8550 miles from New York Rivers—in Africa the Niger 2300 miles

Atlantic through Lower Guinea The Nile The white black and venerable vast mother, the Nile, White River

Ethiopia, emptying in the Nile Senegal , 900 miles, emptying into the Atlantic through Senegambia Orange River

exhalations cities, ignorance, enti altogether unenlightened and unexplored Fellahtas, on the Niger river

(how sunny and florid fresh and good look'd the river, the people, the vehicles, and Market and Arch

Through the trees he occasionally caught glimpses of a majestic river; on the opposite bank of which

The gentle Violet and her son would frequently recreate themselves with a sail upon the river which passed

Thus it was: Evening had began to sprinkle her hue of gloom on the trees and the river.

Violet and her son were floating idly along the current of the river, in their boat, toward home.

conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river

clients was an elderly widow, a foreigner." who kept a little ale-house, on the banks of the North River

how shall I describe the quiet beauties of the spot, with its long low piazza looking out upon the river

They would not bury him in the city, but away—by the solitary banks of the Hudson; The Hudson River flows

More than ten hours have I been wandering up and down the banks of the river, and through the wood, to

The young men made themselves a rude raft, and were floating down the river toward their destination—for

"And lest I should oversleep myself," said the boy, "come to my window, which opens on the river, and

He pushed open, a small, swinging door, and stood a few minutes gazing over the river, in the direction

A little and verdant grass-patch, only, intervened between them and the river, which the dwelling fronted

He pointed as he spoke, to a spot forty or fifty rods distant, on the same side of the river where they

The child, then small, was swept away by a freshet in a river, and Arrow-Tip had dashed into the foaming

conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river

I lay upon the ground, on a pier jutting out into the river.

I raised myself on my hands and knees, and my first thought was to throw myself over into the river,

Starting at one of the eastern wharves, is a street running up from the river—a narrow, dirty street,

My walk skirted the banks of the river.

conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river

More than ten hours have I been wandering up and down the banks of the river, and through the wood, to

The house of P ETER B ROWN was situated at one end of the village, near the river, in a pleasant place

He pointed as he spoke, to a spot forty or fifty rods distant, on the same side of the river, where they

The child, then quite small, was swept away by a freshet in a river, and A RROW -T IP had dashed into

"And lest I should oversleep myself," said the boy, "come to my window, which opens toward the river,

Some few miles off, he could see a gleam of the Hudson river—and above it, a spur of those rugged cliffs

basement—perhaps she still lives there—in one of the streets leading down from B ROADWAY to the North river

an aged black woman, a widow, occupied a basement in one of the streets leading down to the North river

found that she was a Swiss immigrant, a widow, and kept a little ale-house on the banks of the North river

how shall I describe the quiet beauties of the spot, with its long, low piazza looking out upon the river

10th, the whole body of the detained merchantmen were allowed, by common consent, to proceed up the river

At four o'clock the next morning, she went to the river side to hire a boat to take her to the S ANDWICH

A coffin swimming buoyantly on the swift flowing current of the river Yes I believe in the Trinity,—God

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers