 | Michigan - 1873 - 756 pages
...city in in 1852, and his public life closed with the expiration of his term of office as alderman. swampy beyond description; and it is with the utmost...place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited in many of the marshes by their being... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - History - 1873 - 152 pages
...consisting of near "one half swamps," and the other half a sterile, barren waste, says: "And it ia with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found, over which horses can be conveyed." The only answer I can make to this, is to refer to the fact, that on the first of June, 1870, we had... | |
 | Michigan - 1874 - 740 pages
...city in in 1852, and his public life closed with the expiration of his term of office as alderman. swampy beyond description ; and it is with the utmost...place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited in many of the marshes by their being... | |
 | Michigan - 1874 - 740 pages
...city in in 1852, and his public life closed with the expiration of his term of office as alderman. swampy beyond description ; and it is with the utmost...place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited in many of the marshes by their being... | |
 | James J. Hogaboam - Bean Creek (Mich. and Ohio) - 1876 - 160 pages
...forming a kmd of deep basins, the bottoms of many ot which are composed of a marsh similar to that above described. The streams are generally narrow...place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. A. circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited in many of the marshes, by their being... | |
 | James J. Hogaboam - Bean Creek (Mich. and Ohio) - 1876 - 144 pages
...Harrow and very deep compared with their width, the shores and bottoms of which are (with a very'few exceptions) swampy beyond description; and it is with...place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited in many of the marshes, by their being... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1878 - 654 pages
...hills, forming a kind of deep basins, the bottoms of many of which are composed of marsh similar to the above described. The streams are generally narrow...place can be found over which horses can be conveyed. marshes by their being thinly covered with a sward of grass, by walking on which evinced the existence... | |
 | Franklin Ellis - Genesee County (Mich.) - 1879 - 670 pages
...generally narrow, and very deep compared with their width, the shores and bottoms of which are, with very few exceptions, swampy beyond description ; and...place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. " A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited in many of the marshes, by their... | |
 | Michigan. Board of State Building Commissioners - Michigan - 1879 - 324 pages
...country as consisting of near " one half swamps," and the other half a sterile, barren waste, says: "And it is with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found, over which horses can be conveyed." The only answer' I can make to this, is to refer to the fact, that on the first of June, 1870, we had... | |
 | Franklin Ellis - Livingston County (Mich.) - 1880 - 616 pages
...generally narrow, and very deep compared with their width, the shores and bottoms of which are, with very few exceptions, swampy beyond description ; and...place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. i8 before and behind the person passing over it. The margins of many of the lakes and streams... | |
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... it is with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found over which horses can be conveyed in safety. A circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited in many of the marshes by their being thinly covered with a sward of grass, by walking on... 
