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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

tells us that Grant's life "transcends Plutarch," that "it was a happy thought to build the Hudson River

The whole river is now spread with it—some immense cakes.

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

below there—and the beautiful curious liquid "In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

a very large place, the United States a republic of federated nations, the Mississippi an immense river

science of geography was in its earliest dawn—when not one man in ten thousand had heard of towns or rivers

Turner could not have given the misty curve of his horizons, the perspective of his rivers winding in

The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!

practical labor of farms, factories, foundries, workshops, mines, or on shipboard, or on lakes and rivers—resumes

primal man—the gigantic and multiplied possibilities of a continent of vast lakes and praries, and rivers

Already there is a shimmer of frozen rivers in the distance, a ripple of soft reverberations from vanished

gives the following picture:— In the upper of a little wooden house of two stories near the Delaware river

A Chronicle of New York The Hudson River Chronicle Sing-Sing, NY December 19, 1843 [1] [Unsigned] The

The Delaware, broader than the East River, flows between the two cities.

everything else rests; New York, Brooklyn, experimentation—down to New Orleans and up the Mississippi River

expedition (my brother Jeff with me) through all the Middle States and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

This quotation is taken from Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

toward dusk near the cottonwood or pekantrees, The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red river

Earth of shine and dark mottlin6 the tide of the river!

streets and public halls .... coming naked to me at night, Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river

make their living in some way as longshoremen, while some ... are pretty well known by the police as river

Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1970.

breakfast table and listened from the rooftop to a thirty-gun salute as it resounded across the East River

Thus Dimock sees “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” as being situated si- multaneously on the East River and the

Harkening back to that river, the pouring-in of the flood-tide and the falling-back of the ebb-tide now

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

Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Poems of the River Spirit (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1996),

—have jaunted over 3000 miles mostly river & Lakes—(I believe I sent you a couple of my current letters

great part—(the "School of Athens" in the magazine, & the thoughts, & statistics about the Mississippi River

Drove down yesterday four miles to "Billy Thompson's," on the Delaware river edge, to a nice dinner,

that will probably be the finish— I get out almost daily in wheel chair —was out yesterday down to river

pretty warm—was out last evening (sunset) two hours down to the Delaware shore, high water)—sky & river

—I have been out to-day noon in wheel chair to the river shore as secluded as I c'd find & staid over

pretty comfortable as I write—have been out a little nearly every day for a week—some days across the river

is a broad, magnificent place in its natural features—avenues, spaces, vistas, environing hills, rivers

Pleasant September days & nights here—I have just been out for an hour on the river—now, 2 p. m., sitting

all day & in the room—one of the watermen came to see me yesterday afternoon & told me all ab't the river

October 31 I am decidedly better—feel well as I write this—was out three hours to-day, crossing the river

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

good & quiet—& this bright mellow October weather around us—I am now off for a couple of hours on the river

mouth of St Lawrence—shall spend a week there—then to Montreal—then on to Quebec—then to the Saguenay river—am

Weather fine, country ditto—these noble waters, the lake, & the St Clair river, dotted with steamers

well as usual—A severe winter here—have had fine sleigh-rides, & enjoyed them—or some days on the river

both—Things are going on pretty much the same with me as when I last wrote—that was an awful affair on the river

I get out on the river, (the Delaware) or over in Philadelphia most every day—lately I go down to the

The river is full of ice & the boats have a pretty tough time—but the nights are light, the full moon

Lakes of the Thousand Islands St Lawrence River Aug 1 I am here in a handsome little steam yacht (owned

1000 sq miles) on earth—I am pretty well—go to Montreal Tuesday—then to Quebec—then to the Saguenay river—back

From my large open window I have an extensive view of sky, Potomac river, hills & fields of Virginia,

Who knows but that element, like the course of some subterranean river, dipping invisibly for a hundred

As the river continues navigable, and the canals ditto, produce of all kinds remains low in price and

Ice begins to make its appearance in the East river, floating along in "pretty considerable" masses,

families, start out on excursions to the country, or on some of the steamboat trips up the North or East Rivers

Banvard departed yesterday for Europe, with his panoramas of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers

We have panoramic views, now, of nearly all the principal rivers of the country.

Hundreds of sloops, steamboats, and barges, are busily engaged now, bringing produce down the river,

It looks somewhat ticklish, running close along the river, and often touching it, with the great mountains

A large portion of voters are like the bubbles on a river; they run just which way the current runs.

spent in the open air down in the country in the woods and fields, and by a secluded little New Jersey river—His

you & George down a couple of big fresh ones, such as I see them bringing in every haul, from the river—A

seemed to be much greater even than usual—well I took some three hours of it—then slowly across the river

& then go out & over the ferry to Philadelphia—I don't know what I should do without the ferry, & river

, & crossing, day & night—I believe my best times are nights—sometimes appear to have the river & boat

this time but I will be down soon & tell you all the news —After I write this I am going out on the river

America, (if convenient,) give him my address here in Camden —(Philadelphia is on one side of the river

Delaware, & Camden immediately opposite on the other—ferries constantly running—I live near the river

I have been spending the summer in Canada, especially on the Lakes, & the Thousand Islands, & the river