The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths doc

... should have made the internal affairs of New England seem of less consequence to the royal authorities than had been the case in the days of Charles I and Archbishop Laud, when the obtaining of the ... coarse in language and habits, and given to practices characteristic of the peasantry of England at that time. The fact that hardly a fifth of those in Mas...

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... 5. Fruiting branch. 6. Section of fruit. 7. Nut. Castanea sativa, var. Americana, Watson and Coulter. Castanea dentata, Borkh. Castanea vesca, var. Americana, Michx. Chestnut. ... feathering and the metallic sheen of trunk and branches make the yellow birch one of the most attractive trees of the New England forest. Bark.—Bark of trunks and large limbs in old t...

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... had penetrated along the easy pathway of the plains. South of the great granaries of North America and Eurasia the plains are broken, but occur again in the Orinoco region of South America ... hollow and the ridges of Africa and Australia on either hand. The last of the four sides contains the Atlantic Ocean and is bounded by Africa and Europe on one hand an...

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... one of the fascinating autobiographies of the old school of shipmasters who had the gift of writing. Captain Amasa Delano, "Narrative of Voyages and Travels" (1817). Another of the ... tempting was the foreign war trade, that a fleet of them was sent across the Atlantic until the American Government barred them from the war zone as too easy a pre...

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... available the wonderful riches of the inland country, across the Appalachian barrier and around the Great Lakes, into which American pioneers had already made their way. Those immemorial pathways, ... looking at the nearest parallel in the facts of history, each of us may make his own guess. The airship appears now to be much farther advanced than the steamboat was for m...

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... to the railroad magnate; quite naturally, therefore, the farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other. As in the parallel case of ... by a large number of stockholders, all of whom had equal voice in the management of the company. The stores sold goods at ordinary rates, and then at the end of...

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... 220 The Narragansetts prepare to take the war-path 221 And Governor Winslow leads an army against them 222, 223 Storming of the great swamp fortress 224 Slaughter of the Indians 225 Effect of the ... part and parcel of their mental habits. For the want of it the home government at Rome became more and more unmanageable until it fell into the hands of the army, wh...

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... because 'It will please your whole army, as it shows them the way to gain by their gallantry the hearts and affections of the Ladys.' And even a city of the 'Great Awakening,' ... hogshead of the best Jamaica rum for the garrison of the Royal Battery, won him a great deal of goodwill, in spite of the fact that his 'Admiral's eighth...

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