Last Leaves of American History: Comprising a Separate History of CaliforniaA.S.Barnes & Company, 1853 - 277 sider |
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Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Agua Nueva Ameri Angeles arrived artillery attack August batteries battle Bent's Fort Buena Vista Cali Californian battalion camp capitulation Capt Carson Castro Chihuahua Clay command Commodore Stockton Congress Contreras Cowenga Cruz defence Doniphan emigrants enemy flag force fornia Fremont garrison Gillespie gold governor governor of California Indians inhabitants Jesuits July Kearny Kearny's killed Kit Carson Lake land leaving Lieut loss March Mazatlan ment Mexican Mexico miles military Miñon mission Monterey Mormon battalion Mormons mountain nation officers Oregon party peace Pico President presidios prisoners Puebla regiment Republic river road route Saltillo San Diego San Gabriel Santa Anna Santa Fé Scott Senate sent Sierra slavery Sloat Sonoma South Pass southern Spanish Stockton Suter's Taylor territory Texan Texas tion treaty troops Union United Upper California valley Vera Cruz victory volunteers wagons Webster Willard's Wool wounded
Populære avsnitt
Side 143 - We were now entering a region which for us possessed a strange and extraordinary interest. We were upon the waters of the famous lake which forms a salient point among the remarkable geographical features of the country, and around which the vague and superstitious accounts of the trappers had thrown...
Side 146 - ... the waters of the Inland Sea, stretching in still and solitary grandeur far beyond the limit of our vision. It was one of the great points of the exploration ; and as we looked eagerly over the lake in the first emotions of excited pleasure, I am doubtful if the followers of Balboa felt more enthusiasm when, from the heights of the Andes, they saw for the first time the great Western ocean.
Side 136 - It will be seen that it in no manner resembles the places to which the term is commonly applied — nothing of the gorge-like character and winding ascents of the Alleghany passes in America; nothing of the Great St. Bernard and Simplon passes in Europe. Approaching it from the mouth of the Sweet Water, a sandy plain, one hundred and twenty miles long, conducts, by a gradual and regular ascent, to the .summit, about seven thousand feet above the sea; and the traveler, without being reminded of any...
Side 145 - Crossing, in the afternoon, the point of a narrow spur, we descended into a beautiful bottom, formed by a lateral valley, which presented a picture of home beauty that went directly to our hearts. The edge of the wood, for several miles along the river, was dotted with the white covers of emigrant wagons, collected in groups at different camps, where the...
Side 215 - I feel myself, therefore, with great deference to your professional and personal character, constrained to say that, until you and Commodore Stockton adjust between yourselves the question of rank, where I respectfully think the difficulty belongs, I shall have to report and receive orders, as heretofore, from the Commodore.
Side 149 - Mary's, at some days' journey in the Great Basin; and thence, still on southeast, to the reputed Buenaventura river, which has had a place in so many maps, and countenanced the belief of the existence of a great river flowing from the Rocky mountains to the bay of San Francisco. From the Buenaventura the next point was intended to be in that section of the Rocky mountains which includes the heads of Arkansas river, and of the opposite waters of the Californian gulf; and thence down the Arkansas to...
Side 143 - In our occasional conversations with the few old hunters who had visited the region, it had been a subject of frequent speculation ; and the wonders which they related were not the less agreeable because they were highly exaggerated and impossible.
Side 170 - This future state is admirably situated to become a powerful maritime nation, with two of the finest ports in the world, — that within the straits of Juan de Fuca, and San Francisco. These two regions have, in fact, within themselves every thing to make them increase, and keep up an intercourse with the whole of Polynesia, as well as the countries of South America on the one side, and China, the Philippines, New Holland, and New Zealand, on the other.
Side 186 - John's, and preparing cannon. I thank you for your kindness and good wishes, and would write more at length as to my intentions did I not fear that my letter would be intercepted. We have, in...
Side 135 - Agreeably to your orders to explore and report upon the country between the frontiers of Missouri and the South Pass in the Rocky Mountains, and on the line of the Kansas and Great Platte rivers, I set out from Washington city on the 2d day of May, 1842, and arrived at St.