 | Edward Duffield Neill - Great Britain - 1871 - 376 pages
...leagues short of the Falls,1 being in the latitude of 41, on the 26th of June. This place without all question is the most pleasant and healthful place...sturgeons in a place where the river is not above twelve * fathom broad. And as for deer, buffaloes, bears, turkeys, the woods do swarm with them, and the soil... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Fisheries - Fish culture - 1876 - 844 pages
...We came to an anchor two leagues short of the falls, [falls of the Potomac.] This place without all question is the most pleasant and healthful place...temperate in summer, and not violent in winter. It abounds with all manner of fish. The Indian in one night commonly will catch thirty sturgeons in a... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - Maryland - 1876 - 198 pages
...leagues short of the Falls,4 being in the latitude of 41, on the 26th of June. This place without all question is the most pleasant and healthful place...air temperate in summer and not violent in winter. Itaboundeth with all manner of fish. The Indians in one night commonly will catch thirty sturgeons... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Maryland - 1879 - 598 pages
...leagues short of the Falls,' being in the latitude of 41, on the 26th of June. This place, without all question, is the most pleasant and healthful place...sturgeons in a place where the river is not above twelve fathom broad. And as for deer, buffaloes, bears, turkeys, the woods do swarm with them, and the soil... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - Maryland - 1879 - 594 pages
...leagues short of the Falls,8 bsing in the latitude of 41, on the 26th of June. This place, without all question, is the most pleasant and healthful place...sturgeons in a place where the river is not above twelve fathom broad. And as for deer, buffaloes, bears, turkeys, the woods do swarm with them, and the soil... | |
 | William Thomas Roberts Saffell - Maryland - 1882 - 314 pages
...the lower Potomac were described as the most healthful and pleasing in all the country, and as the most convenient for habitation ; the air, temperate in summer, and not violent in winter. The river abounded in all manner of fish. The Indians in one night would commonly catch thirty sturgeons... | |
 | Joseph West Moore - Architecture, Domestic - 1884 - 324 pages
...wrote of the tract around Washington : " This place is without question the most healthful and pleasant in all this country and most convenient for habitation...air temperate in summer and not violent in winter. The river aboundeth in all manner of fish, and for deer, buffaloes, bears and turkeys the woods do... | |
 | Joseph West Moore - 1887 - 320 pages
...wrote of the tract around Washington : " This place is without question the most healthful and pleasant in all this country and most convenient for habitation...air temperate in summer and not violent in winter. The river aboundeth in all manner of fish, and for deer, buffaloes, bears and turkeys the woods do... | |
 | United States National Museum - Science - 1889 - 884 pages
...journal : " Monday, the 25th June, we set sail for the town of Tofroga, where we came to an anchor 2 leagues short of the falls. • * * This place, without...sturgeons in a place where the river is not above 12 fathoms broad, and as for deer, buffaloes, bears, turkeys, the woods do swarm with them. * * * The... | |
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This place, without all question, is the most pleasant and healthful place in all this country, and most convenient for habitation, the air temperate in summer and not violent in winter. 
