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"Look at the river, lying off there—flowing—and the city across—and the mist.

And by and by we turned to the left and to the river.

He remarked sails of schooners—and masts, a slight line into the mists—far up the river.

told it to Longaker the other day—in the phrase of the lumbermen, when the logs all clutter up the river—and

, "It is beautiful, masterful—yes, as you say, has an Indian flavor, almost—fresh odors of woods, rivers

'Leaves of Grass' is a seashore, a mountain, floating cloud, sweeping river, storm, lightning, passion

At once across the river—up to Bush's in 6th Avenue elevated—to 18th.

sells his own books to purchasers, and gets outdoors in good weather, propelled down to the Delaware River

Neither have the clouds distinction—or the haughty rivers."

But he will never set the river afire."

occasion, and tell him we think of him at Concord as often as we look out over the meadow across the river

now as they did then, and they are an emblem to all believers and poets of the landscape beyond the river

And when I said, "I think it is rather hotter over the river," he allowed, "Likely, likely—but it seems

in New York—they were—many of them—horrible ramshackles, almost ready to tumble pell-mell into the river

Philadelphia is not bad, either—how could it be, with such a noble river?

We paused on the Pavonia road to take a glimpse of the river, shot through with beams of golden gorgeous

If a fellow wants the fresh air, river, sea, sky—he has it there, too, for the asking.

on the sunny side of one of the Camden ferry boats, taking his daily two or three trips across the river

That is a beautiful country, both sides—Port Huron, Sarnia—the river between. The noble river!

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time

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.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

contributions," and that such a poet must "incarnat[e] [ his country's] geography and natural life and river

Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him. ( 1856, 183–184) In the 1860 edition, his ambition

Thoreau, Henry David A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Boston James Munroe and Co. loc.03445

Leonard History of Rome Sigourney Water-Drops Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia Soulie, Frederick Pastourel

The pages contain notes about each of the states, with particular attention paid to mountains, rivers

begins to make note of the state's mountains—the Mohegans and the Katskills—as well as the major rivers—the

Perpetual but infinitely various— as a river of a thousand miles, traversing, from its birthplace in

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

grave, Since I crossed this restless wave; And the evening, fair as ever, Shines on ruin, rock and river

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

Marraton sees his wife, whose recent death he is lamenting, standing on the opposite bank of a river.

looks, her hands, her voice, called him over to her, and at the same time seemed to tell him that the river

He plunges, nevertheless, into the stream, and finding it to be nothing but "the phantom of a river,"

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

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

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

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

Venezuela and Brazil, taking photographs of cities and of many natives as he traveled up the Orinoco River

full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only— a swimmer in the river

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

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

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

To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others

Cold dash of waves at the ferrywharf, Posh and ice in the river . . . . half-frozen mud in the streets

Pasted on p. 19, newspaper article titled "Bathing in River Stopped Running of Mr. Ball's Mill."

The headline reads: "Bathing in River Stopped Running of Mr.

Vorhees, and a train disaster known as the "Hudson River Horror."

About this time Walt introduced his brother to Italian opera and frequently took him across the East River

Water Works, a progressive system of deriving municipal water supplies from artesian wells instead of rivers

probably Flad who, as a member of the Board of Water Commissioners, invited Jeff on a Mississippi River

had recommended that the new waterworks be located at the Chain of Rocks, a site on the Mississippi River

Furthermore, river water was becoming inreasingly polluted with city sewage, causing periodic outbreaks

soon i hear from Jeff and mat once in a while Jeff has or has had great anxiety about the works the river

Well, mother, I must close—it is now a little after 10—there is a pleasant breeze blowing in from the river

On my way back, I went up in the pilot house & sailed across the river three times—a fine breeze blowing

a great deal of the time— Tuesday afternoon 9th I was out yesterday a great part of the day on the river

The evenings here are delightful and I am always out in them, sometimes on the river, sometimes in New

I have been over to New York to-day on business—it is a pleasure even to cross the ferry—the river is

o'clock—had some business in New York, which I attended, then came back & spent an hour & a half on the river

doing nothing, spending a great deal of time with my mother, & going out a few hours every day on the river

to the wharf to participate with you in the pleasures of the delicious air, the sunshine upon the River

Well here I am camped on a sand bank on the Rio Grande River the weather is hot and we have seen little

built houses for themselves some of mud some of willow and some have dug houses in the bank by the River

He has now gone below I Suppose to his dinner— On the opposite side of the river WmsBgh.

day & night—he has settled up & sold out in Washington, & left—He is building a home on the Hudson river

—has 10 acres of land on west side of river.

ab't L of G—probably the last pages are the most curious & incredible—Have had some New England (Fall River