| 1818 - 638 pages
...turned our backs on the old world, and find ourselves in the very stream of emigration. Old America seems to be breaking up, and moving westward. We are...us, some with a view to a particular spot ; close t» a brother perhaps, or a friend, who has gone before, and reported well of the country. Many like... | |
| Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 336 pages
...old world, and find ourselves in the very stream of emigration. Old America seems to be breaking Dp and moving westward. We are seldom out of sight, as...groups, behind and before us ; some with a view to a particnlar spot, close to a brother, perhapi, or a friend, who has gone before, and reported well of... | |
| 1818 - 428 pages
...turned oar backs *n the old world, and find ourselves in the very stream of emigration. Old America seems to be breaking up, and moving westward. We are seldom out 01 sight, as we tiavel on thin grand track, towards the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before as,... | |
| Archer Butler Hulbert - Pennsylvania Road - 1903 - 214 pages
...from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. " M Of the scenes about him Mr. Birkbeck writes :91 ' ' Old America seems to be breaking up, and moving westward. We are...this grand track, towards the Ohio, of family groups. . . To give an idea of the internal movements of this vast hive, about 12,000 wagons passed between... | |
| Frederick Jackson Turner - Mississippi River Valley - 1906 - 428 pages
...westward," wrote Morris Birkbeck in 1817, as he passed on the National Road through Pennsylvania. " We are seldom out of sight, as we travel on this grand...the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us. ... A small waggon (so light that you might almost carry it, yet strong enough to bear a good load... | |
| Frederick Jackson Turner - History - 1906 - 402 pages
...westward," wrote Morris Birkbeck in 1817, as he passed on the National Road through Pennsylvania. " We are seldom out of sight, as we' travel on this...the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us. ... A small waggon (so light that you might almost carry it, yet strong enough to bear a good load... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1906 - 1070 pages
...moving westward ", wrote Birkbeck in 1817, as he passed on the National Road through Pennsylvania. We are seldom out of sight, as we travel on this grand...the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us. ... A small waggon (so light that you might almost carry it, yet strong enough to bear a good load... | |
| James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - United States - 1909 - 600 pages
...be breaking up and moving Westward," wrote a traveller who passed along the National Road in 1817. "We are seldom out of sight, as we travel on this grand track toward the Ohio, of family groups behind and before us." Fifteen thousand wagons, containing emigrants... | |
| Reuben Gold Thwaites, Calvin Noyes Kendall - United States - 1912 - 572 pages
...increased more rapidly than ever before. A traveler on the National Road wrote in 1817: " Old America seems to be breaking up and moving westward; we are...towards the Ohio, of family groups behind and before 1 There were two Spanish provinces, East Florida and West Florida. We commonly refer to them collectively,... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1913 - 554 pages
...westward," wrote Morris Birkbeck in 1817, as he passed on the National Road through Pennsylvania. " We are seldom out of sight, as we travel on this grand...the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us. ... A small waggon (so light that you might almost carry it, yet strong enough to bear a good load... | |
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