History of Long Island: Containing an Account of the Discovery and Settlement; with Other Important and Interesting Matters to the Present TimeE. French, 1839 - 536 halaman |
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... period of their for- mation ; which is the fact in the towns of North Hempstead and Riverhead . In the town of Brooklyn there are no remaining records reaching beyond the revolution , they having been carried away about the close of the ...
... period of their for- mation ; which is the fact in the towns of North Hempstead and Riverhead . In the town of Brooklyn there are no remaining records reaching beyond the revolution , they having been carried away about the close of the ...
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... period abounded , it cannot but be matter of some importance , as well as of curio- sity , to trace the progress of this strange eventful history , to mark the revolutions of time , and transmit its more important details to posterity ...
... period abounded , it cannot but be matter of some importance , as well as of curio- sity , to trace the progress of this strange eventful history , to mark the revolutions of time , and transmit its more important details to posterity ...
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... period after , along the beach to the eastward , even as far as Fire Island , more than fifty miles from the place where the accident occurred . That the existence of this current not being exten- sively known among mariners may account ...
... period after , along the beach to the eastward , even as far as Fire Island , more than fifty miles from the place where the accident occurred . That the existence of this current not being exten- sively known among mariners may account ...
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... period covered by the waters of a lake ; and there are many geological facts in corroboration of the opinion also entertained , that the shores of Long Island and the Island of Manhattan were once contiguous . A tradition is said to ...
... period covered by the waters of a lake ; and there are many geological facts in corroboration of the opinion also entertained , that the shores of Long Island and the Island of Manhattan were once contiguous . A tradition is said to ...
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... period in the year ; but do not bring an ocean swell , and the waves which they raise fall upon the shore in a line nearly perpendicular to the trend of the coast ; so that their effect is to grind the pebbles and gravel to sand by the ...
... period in the year ; but do not bring an ocean swell , and the waves which they raise fall upon the shore in a line nearly perpendicular to the trend of the coast ; so that their effect is to grind the pebbles and gravel to sand by the ...
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