| Horatio Gates Spafford - 1813 - 376 halaman
...the Hudson, 10 miles N. of Albany, and 4 N. of Tioy. It is handsomely seated on a fine level surface, and on the point of land formed by the junction of the upper sprout or delta of the Mohawk with the Hudson, and is the most populous Town in the County, and... | |
| 1837 - 312 halaman
...Armstrong. From this place Gibson and two Indians rode to Fort du Quesne, standing near the extremity of the point of land formed by the junction of the Alleghany and the Monongahela, about sixty miles from Kittanning. Here he was first introduced to the before-named Bisquittam. Elizabeth... | |
| Gideon Miner Davison - 1840 - 404 halaman
...is mostly deserted by strangers in the summer. It is situated on the Maryland side of the Potomae, and on the point of land formed by the junction of the Eastern Branch. The Dis. trict of Columbia in which the city is located, was ceded to the United States... | |
| William Henry Carpenter - 1872 - 342 halaman
...with Tanacharison, the half-king, and various Indians assembled at Logstown ; had carefuly examined the point of land formed by the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela with the Ohio, with a view to the construction of a fort at that place ; and had delivered... | |
| David B. Scott - 1881 - 258 halaman
...give up the forts. 1754. 5. Building of Fort Du Quesne. — On his journey, Washington had noticed the point of land formed by the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers as an admirable place for a fort. To this point, early in 1754, the Ohio Company... | |
| Charles Edward Brown - 1915 - 642 halaman
...p. 478). The settlers remember that the Indians camped along the south side of the Wolf in that city and on the point of land formed by the junction of the Wolf and the Embarrass (No. 18). The site of another camp (No. 19) was at a spring near the corner... | |
| Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 1902 - 884 halaman
...I tire your patience : three letters from this place, and yet it remains undescribed ! Excuse me : I now commence. No inland town in the United States,...the Ohio. The British garrison Fort Pitt (so called 'Travels on an inland voyage through the states of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky... | |
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