View of the Climate and Soil of the United States of America: To which are Annexed Some Accounts of Florida, the French Colony on the Scioto, Certain Canadian Colonies, and the Savages Or NativesJ. Johnson, 1804 - 503 pages |
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Page 324 - I will venture to say [declared Volney] that if a prize were proposed for the scheme of a regimen most calculated to injure the stomach, the teeth, and the health in general, no better could be invented than that of the Americans. In the morning at breakfast they deluge their stomach with a quart of hot water, impregnated with tea, or so slightly with coffee that it is mere colored water; and they swallow, almost without chewing, hot bread, half baked, toast soaked in butter, cheese of the fattest...
Page 324 - ... all which are nearly insoluble. At dinner they have boiled pastes under the name of puddings, and the fattest are esteemed the most delicious; all their sauces, even for roast beef, are melted butter; their turnips and potatoes swim in hog's lard, butter, or fat; under the name of pie or pumpkin, their pastry is nothing but a greasy paste, never sufficiently baked. To digest these...
Page 18 - Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as is also the Federal Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 384 - At breakfast he coldly gives his orders to his wife, who receives them with coldnesss and timidity, and obeys them without contradiction. If the weather be fair, he goes out, ploughs, fells trees, makes fences, or the like: if it be wet, he takes an inventory of the contents of his house, barn, and stables, repairs the doors, windows, or locks, drives nails, makes chairs or | tables* and is constantly employed in rendering his habitation secure, convenient, and neat. With these, dispositions, sufficient...
Page 423 - I see every person in his shop employed about something : one makes shoes, another hats, a third sells cloth, and every one lives by his labor. I say to myself, which of all these things can you do ! Not one. I can make a bow or an arrow, catch fish, kill game, and go to war: but none of these is of any use here. To learn what is done here would require a long time.
Page 473 - I have not presumed to describe them from casual narratives, or my own conjectures, but either from certainty, where I myself was a spectator, or from the most exact information I have been able to collect from others. This indeed was a work of no little difficulty, because even such as were present at those actions disagreed in their accounts about them, according as affection to either side or memory prevailed.
Page 471 - For, the natural wealth of their soil increasing the power of some amongst them, that power raised civil dissensions, which ended in their ruin, and at the same time exposed them more to foreign attacks. It was only the barrenness of the soil, that preserved Attica through the longest space of time, quiet and undisturbed, in one uninterrupted series of possessors. One, and not the least convincing, proof of this is, that other parts of Greece, because of the fluctuating condition of the inhabitants,...
Page 273 - The eastern and southeastern breezes come on generally in the afternoon. They have advanced into the country very sensibly within the memory of people now living. They formerly did not. penetrate far above Williamsburgh.
Page 207 - ... musical instrument from which its name is borrowed. Nine great pillars of carbonate of lime occur in this same compartment, rising from the floor to the ceiling ; of these the lower third is usually of great diameter, and very irregular in form, while the remaining, or upper portion, usually exhibits the shape of an inverted cone, the base of which is in the ceiling, while the vertex is in connexion with the lower portion of the pillar.
Page 423 - Taking all things together you have the advantage over us ; but here I am deaf and dumb. I do not talk your language ; I can neither hear, nor make myself heard. When I walk through the streets, I see every person in his shop employed about something : one makes shoes, another hats, a third sells cloth, and every one lives by his labor. I say to myself, which of all these things can you do ? Not one.