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...ico -- A raid on the magazine of the capital -- Building of Brigantines on the lake -- A demonstration towards destroying the sacrificial altars -- A ... ... state of defence -- Cortez builds a fleet of Brigantines -- A battle upon the lake -- A wail of anguish -- Desperate fight on the causeways -- The Sp... ...torture of Guatemozin and the prince of Tacuba -- Mexican treasure sunk in the lake -- The Mexicans are reduced to slavery -- Work of rebuilding the c... ...oral pursuits, that portion of the country extending from the Mediterranean to Lake Gennesaret being given over to that occupation. A much larger port... ...Nunez De Balboa, who had been made sub-governor of a colony at Santa Maria, in Darien, discovered the Pacific Ocean, the long sought for sea-route to ... ...n of the young cacique, after the greatest hardships he crossed the Isthmus of Darien, and from a western summit beheld the South Sea stretching away ... ...oved all Spain gave opportunity for his inveterate enemy, Davila, governor of Darien, whose hatred was first inspired by the honors which Spain had c... ...Balboa and the others condemned with him were beheaded at Castillo del Oro, in Darien, in 1517. After the death of Balboa, the Spaniards constructed s... ...bed the bold project of cutting a canal from sea to sea through the Isthmus of Darien. An attempt might have been made to have put his plans into exec...

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... for it yet. Epithalamy might do. 216 Ann Veronica “Like him who stood on Darien I view uncharted sea Ten thousand days, ten thousand nights Before m... ...ee, where the petrifying branches of trees lie in the blue deeps of an icy lake, and pine-trees clamber among gigantic boulders. A little inn flying a... ...ages there were chalets and Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hi... ... said Ann Veronica. “Then we go on to this place, the Oeschinensee. It’s a lake among precipices, and there is a little inn where we can stay, and sit... ...n stay, and sit and eat our dinner at a pleasant table that looks upon the lake. For some days we shall be very idle there among the trees and rocks. ... ...shall be very idle there among the trees and rocks. There are boats on the lake and shady depths and wildernesses of pine-wood. After a day or so, per...

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... them thither? Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down ... ...inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); 180 Moby Dic... ...he mate, a Vineyarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo. “‘Lakeman!—Buffalo! Pray, what is a Lak... ...bastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass. “On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but—I crave your courtesy—may be, you shall soon hear furth... ... stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by ... ...y this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one ...

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...them thither? Once more. Say, you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down ... ...inland Strella mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); and that still... ...e mate, a Vine yarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo.” “Lakeman! — Buffalo! Pray, what is a L... ...bastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass. “On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but — I crave your courtesy — may be, you shall soon hear f... ... stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by ... ...y this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one h...

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...de undula- tions of open cultivation, belts of jungle, copses, and a great lake as black as ebony. For a time the path ran thus open, and then the jun... ...ck with de- sire for the forests of Brazil, and the Pacific, and—a peak in Darien. Immediately the school was frowsty beyond endur- ance, and for the ... ... up mountains and over passes and swam in the warm clear water of romantic lakes and loved each other mightily always, in chestnut woods and ol- ive o... ...h sheep and cattle, its castle and clustering mosques, its spa- cious blue lake and the great mountains rising up towards Olympus under the sun. And t... ...up towards Olympus under the sun. And there was the first view of the blue Lake of Presba seen between silvery beech stems, and that too had Olympus i... ...enham, “we will get an extra horse and a tent.” The way presently became a lake and they reached Scutari by boat towards the dawn of the next day… . T...

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... must hold themselves at liberty to increase their naval armament upon the Lakes if they shall find that proceeding necessary. The condition of the b... ...n, and Beaufort, in South Carolina; of Savannah, St. Marys, and Brunswick (Darien), in Georgia; of Mobile, in Alabama; of Pearl River (Shieldsboro), N...

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...t had been crying, was more welcome to her longing eyes than ever had been lake or mountain. Isabel and little Catharine stood on the step; but as Mr.... ...NG ING ING ING ING WEST WEST WEST WEST WESTW W W W WARD ARD ARD ARD ARD On Darien’s sands and deadly dew. —Rokeby. ENTERPRISE AND SPEED both alike dir...

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...st log-hut, I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there. It is unusual to find a camp so far in the woods at that season, when lumbering operations have ceased, and I was glad to avail myself of the...

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...hest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick... ...hat case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman’s lif... ...g through a high and hilly country, in view of Cold Stream Pond, a beautiful lake four or five miles long, and came into the Houlton road again, here c... ...e wall here, and, as we had no pocket map, we resolved to trace a map of the lake country. So, dipping a wad of tow into the lamp, we oiled a sheet of... ... be a labyrinth of errors, carefully following the outlines of the imaginary lakes which the map contains. The Map of the Public Lands of Maine and Ma... ... like Balboa’s first sight of the Pacific from the mountains of the Isthmus of Darien. “When we first came in sight of the St. Lawrence,” he says, “from ...

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...ess, fitliest called Chaos: here Satan with his angels lying on the burning lake, thunderstruck and astonished, after a certain space re covers, as ... ...es: So stretcht out huge in length the Arch fiend lay Chain’d on the burning Lake, nor ever thence Had ris’n or heav’d his head, but that the will And... ...l on dry Land He lights, if it were Land that ever burn’d With solid, as the Lake with liquid fire; And such appear’d in hue, as when the force Paradi... ...e New courage and revive, though now they lye Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire, As we erewhile, astounded and amaz’d, No wonder, fall’n suc... ...any cells prepar’d, That underneath had veins of liquid fire Sluc’d from the Lake, a second multitude With wondrous Art founded the massie Ore, Severi... ...ard as farr Antartic; and in length West from ORANTES to the Ocean barr’d At DARIEN, thence to the Land where flowes GANGES and INDUS: thus the Orb he...

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... So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay Chain’d on the burning Lake, nor ever thence 210 Had ris’n or heav’d his head, but that the wil... ... dry Land He lights, if it were Land that ever burn’d With solid, as the Lake with liquid fire; And such appear’d in hue, as when the force 230... ...New courage and revive, though now they lye Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire, 280 As we erewhile, astounded and amaz’d, No wonder, fal... ...ls prepar’d, 700 That underneath had veins of liquid fire Sluc’d from the Lake, a second multitude With wondrous Art founded the massie Ore, - ... ...igher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful Lake benumme not still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to o... ... farr Antartic; and in length West from ORANTES to the Ocean barr’d 80 At DARIEN, thence to the Land where flowes GANGES and INDUS: thus the Orb ...

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..., Dr. Christo- pher Wordsworth, just then meditating a visit to his native lakes. That visit in a short time ‘came off,’ and then, without delay, our ... ...ct that would arise from the opening of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien, viz., the introduction to each other—face to face— of two separate ... ...ation, which terminated in the destruction of Jerusalem, two cities on the lake of Gennesaret were besieged by Vespasian. One of these was Tiberias: t...

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...gically fated; the most mark- ing incidents in Scottish history – Flodden, Darien, or the Forty-five were still either failures or defeats; and the fa... ...f a cabin port, the sea lying smooth along its shores like the waters of a lake, the colourless clear light of the early morning making plain its heat... ..., wilfully foregoing pleasure, stoops to “twopence coloured.” With crimson lake (hark to the sound of it – crimson lake! – the horns of elf-land are n... ...on lake! – the horns of elf-land are not richer on the ear) – with crimson lake and Prussian blue a certain purple is to be compounded which, for cloa... ...e. Walter Scott is out and away the king of the romantics. The Lady of the Lake has no indisputable claim to be a poem beyond the inherent fitness and... ...and green possession, not unworthy of that beautiful name, The Lady of the Lake, or that direct, romantic opening – one of the most spirited and poeti...

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...o spaces of terrace and garden, of park and woodland and shining artificial lake, of richly condensed horizon, all dark blue upland and church towered ... ...ding park, with its acres and acres of garden and its majesty of artificial lake—though that, for a person so familiar with the “great” ones, might be ... ...f the immortal lines had sufficed to stamp them in his memory. His “peak in Darien” was the sudden hour that had transformed his life, the hour of his ... ... he stood, the others, with their steps, below, the gardens, the park, the lake, the cir cling woods, lay there as under some strange midnight sun. I... ...had n’t quitted for an hour, during her adventure, the shore of the mystic lake; he had on the contrary stationed himself where she could signal to hi... ...presented their sinking together, hand in hand for a time, into the mystic lake where he had begun, as we have hinted, by seeing her paddle alone—the ...

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... or distance of its different provinces from the sea, by the number of its lakes and rivers, and by what may be called the fertility or barrenness of ... ...vers, and by what may be called the fertility or barrenness of those seas, lakes, and rivers, as to this sort of rude produce. As population increases... ...n quest of them along the coast of Terra Firma, and towards the Isthmus of Darien. In consequence of this mistake of Columbus, the name of the Indies ... ...at carried Ovieda, Nicuessa, and Vasco Nugnes de Balboa, to the Isthmus of Darien; that carried Cortes to Mexico, Almagro and Pizarro to Chili and Per...