The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary ...: Accompanied by an Atlas, Volume 2

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Page 249 - The buffaloe or elk-skin robe decorated with beads, sea-shells, chiefly mother-of-pearl, attached to an otterskin collar and hung in the hair, which falls in front in two queues ; feathers, paints of different kinds, principally white, green, and light blue, all of which they find in their own country: these are the chief ornaments they use. In the winter they wear a short shirt of dressed skins, long painted leggings and moccasins, and a plait of twisted grass round the neck.
Page 272 - ... appears to catch the water and force it under the boat, which the same stroke pushes on with great velocity.
Page 99 - Gothic architecture, containing, on the screens in the aisles, some singular legendary paintings of St. Augustine and St. Anthony, with a distich in uncouth language to each. Part of the western wing was demolished in the civil wars, at which period about...
Page 254 - Christmas Island, like most others in this ocean, is bounded by a reef of coral-rocks, which extends but a little way from the shore. Farther out than this reef, on the west side, is a bank of fine sand, extending a mile into the sea. On this bank is good anchorage, in any depth between eighteen and thirty fathoms. In less than the first-mentioned depth, the reef would be too near ; and, in more than the last, the edge of the bank would not be at a sufficient distance. During the time we lay here,...
Page 272 - The upper edge of the gunwale itself is about five eighths of an inch thick and four or five in breadth, and folds outward, so as to form a kind of rim, which prevents the water from beating into the boat.
Page 322 - THE present territory of Connecticut, at the time of the first arrival of the English, was possessed by the Pequot, the Mohegan, Podunk, and many other smaller tribes of Indians. The Pequots were numerous and warlike. Their country extended along the sea coast from Paukatuck to Connecticut river.
Page 62 - From the last- mentioned place, the inland navigation, through Stumpy and Toomer's sounds, is continued with a diminished draft of water, and by cutting two low and narrow necks, not exceeding three miles together, to Cape Fear river ; and thence, by an open, but short and direct run along the coast, is reached that chain of islands, between which and the main the inland navigation is continued to St. Mary's, along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.
Page 318 - There is nothing so vile in nature, that does not serve for a negro's fetiche ; the horn, the hoof, the hair, the teeth, and the bones of all manner of quadrupeds ; the feathers, beaks, claws, skulls, and bones of birds ; the heads and skins of snakes ; the shells and fins of fishes ; pieces of old iron, copper, wood, seeds of plants, and sometimes a mixture of all, or most of them, strung together.
Page 303 - ... only forty-five yards wide, through which the whole body of the Columbia must press its way. The water, thus forced into so narrow a channel, is thrown into whirls, and swells and boils in every part with the wildest agitation.
Page 62 - These are the isthmus of Barnstable ; that part of New Jersey which extends from the Rariton to the Delaware ; the peninsula between the Delaware and the Chesapeake ; and that low and marshy tract which divides the Chesapeake from Albemarle sound. It is ascertained that a navigation for sea vessels, drawing eight feet of water, may be effected across the three last ; and a canal is also believed to be practicable, not perhaps across the isthmus of Barnstable, but from the harbour of Boston to that...

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