The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... Nantucket , description of , · • an essay - · 30 19 185 Night , an idea in the , - - 179-370 Curiosity , literary , 506 Niagara , Falls of , · - 450-488 Dickinson College , account of , - 239 Owenson , Miss Sidney , 317 Evenings , an ...
... Nantucket , description of , · • an essay - · 30 19 185 Night , an idea in the , - - 179-370 Curiosity , literary , 506 Niagara , Falls of , · - 450-488 Dickinson College , account of , - 239 Owenson , Miss Sidney , 317 Evenings , an ...
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... NANTUCKET . The description and view of Nantucket , which illustrate this month's Port Folio , will be surveyed with additional delight , when the public are apprized that , both for the sketch and the essay we are indebted to the ...
... NANTUCKET . The description and view of Nantucket , which illustrate this month's Port Folio , will be surveyed with additional delight , when the public are apprized that , both for the sketch and the essay we are indebted to the ...
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... Nantucket depends , and which gives a peculiar character to its inhabitants , who are reckoned the most expert whalers in the world , is said to have been first attempted , about the year 1690 , in boats , from the shore . In 1715 they ...
... Nantucket depends , and which gives a peculiar character to its inhabitants , who are reckoned the most expert whalers in the world , is said to have been first attempted , about the year 1690 , in boats , from the shore . In 1715 they ...
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... Nantucket , and idleness is a vice . Every man upon the island is well acquainted with the cheapest method of procuring lumber from Kennebeck or Passamaquoddy , beef and pork from Connecticut , flower and biscuit from Philadelphia , or ...
... Nantucket , and idleness is a vice . Every man upon the island is well acquainted with the cheapest method of procuring lumber from Kennebeck or Passamaquoddy , beef and pork from Connecticut , flower and biscuit from Philadelphia , or ...
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... opened once a year , at the time prescribed in the almanack ; but the offi- cers of justice only assembled to smoke a pipe or two , and ad- journ the court . During the war even this formality. DESCRIPTION OF NANTUCKET . 37.
... opened once a year , at the time prescribed in the almanack ; but the offi- cers of justice only assembled to smoke a pipe or two , and ad- journ the court . During the war even this formality. DESCRIPTION OF NANTUCKET . 37.
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