Highways And Byways Of New England1915 |
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Page 31 - I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
Page 28 - He could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain. He could find his path in the woods at night, he said, better by his feet than his eyes. He could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye; he could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.
Page 18 - Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here,
Page 27 - ... was then in use. After completing his experiments, he exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied, that he should never make another pencil. " Why should I ? I would not do again what I have done once.
Page 4 - ... has been calculated that in the island of St. Kilda, assuming it to be inhabited by 200,000 of these birds feeding for seven months in the year, and with an allowance of five herrings each per day, the number of fish for the summer subsistence of a single species of bird cannot be under 214,000,000. Compared with the enormous consumption of fish by birds and by each other, the draughts made upon the population of the sea by man, with all his ingenious fishing devices, seem to dwindle into absolute...
Page 160 - Earthquakes have been here, (and no where but in this precinct, as can be discerned; that is, they seem to have their centre, rise and origin among us,) as has been observed for more than thirty years. I have been informed, that in this place, before the English settlements, there were great numbers of Indian inhabitants, and that it was a place of extraordinary Indian Pawaws, or in short, that it was a place where the Indians drove a prodigious trade at worshipping the devil.
Page 160 - May, 1791, about 10 o'clock, PM It was perceived as far distant as Boston and New York. A few minutes after there was another shock, which was perceptible at the distance of seventy miles. Here, at that time, the concussion of the earth, and the roaring of the atmosphere, were most tremendous. Consternation and dread filled every house. Many chimnies were untopped and walls thrown down.
Page 50 - At the age of fourteen the humorist's schooldays ended, and he left home to make his own way in the world. For a time he worked in the neighboring town of Norway, and thither I followed on his trail.
Page 69 - God made the world — and rested, God made man — and rested, Then God made woman; Since then neither God nor man has rested.