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...ere the Central Pacific railroad begins to climb the sides of the Sierras; and northward, for what I know, the white head of Shasta looking down on Or... ...ble; the ocean breeze blew killing chill; and, al- though the upper sky was still unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, ov... ...began silently to clothe herself with white sails, homeward bound for England. For some way beyond Vallejo the railway led us through bald green pastu... ... at its north end, blockaded by our mountain. There, at Calistoga, the railroad ceases, and the traveller who intends faring farther, to the Gey- sers... ...rower told me of Mons Meg, it was like magic. “From the dim shieling on the misty island Mountains divide us, and a world of seas; Yet still our heart... ...I was presented to Mr. Corwin, the landlord; to Mr. Jennings, the engineer, who lives there for his health; to Mr. Hoddy, a most pleasant little gentl...

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... book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary ?Pike County? dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with...

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... extremest form of the back woods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dia lect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shading... ...rful govment, wonderful. Why, looky here. There was a free nigger there from Ohio — a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt... ...ee nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after. We would sell the ra... ...e was after. We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out of trouble. Well, the secon... ...ures hung on the walls — mainly Washingtons and Lafayettes, and battles, and Highland Marys, and one called “Signing the Declaration.” There was some ... ... had to account for things some way, so I says: “My folks was living in Pike County, in Missouri, where I was born, and they all died off but me and P... ...es, Bilgewater?” The duke told him, and then says: “I’ll answer by doing the Highland fling or the sailor’s hornpipe; and you — well, let me see — oh,...

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...son, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge. But, as in his nar- row-flowing monomania, not one jot of A... ...n of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the... ...- mill beneath him. On the occasion in question, Queequeg fig- ured in the Highland costume—a shirt and socks—in which to my eyes, at least, he appear... ...le. Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled—the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found ... ... you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer. But in the great Sperm ... ...tains must run wine today! W ould now, it were old Orleans whiskey, or old Ohio, or unspeakable old Monongahela! Then, Tashtego, lad, I’d have ye hold... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a 396 Moby Dick fiddler’... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it...

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...dson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge. But, as in his narrow flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab... ...n of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the... ...read mill beneath him. On the occasion in question, Queequeg figured in the Highland costume — a shirt and socks — in which to my eyes, at least, he ap... .... Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled — the delicious death of an Ohio honey hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found ... ... you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer. But in the great Sperm ... ...tains must run wine to day! Would now, it were old Orleans whiskey, or old Ohio, or unspeakable old Monongahela! Then, Tashtego, lad, I’d have ye hold... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddler’s frolic on the ... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it...

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...as origi- nally told me by an old servant of my father’s, an excellent old Highlander, without a fault, unless a preference to moun- tain-dew over les... ...er, in proportion to the tameness with which they had sur- rendered to the Highlanders in 1745, the mob inflicted upon poor Jean Gordon no slighter pe... ...had visited, on the day that opens our history, some monastic ruins in the county of Dumfries, and spent much of the day in making drawings of them fr... ...heir griefs to the privy council of Charles II, anent the coming in of the Highland host in 1678.” For undertaking this patriotic task he under- went ... ...issioner Bertram; he got his commissionership in the great contest for the county, that ye must have heard of, for it was appealed to the House of Com... ...t the auld castle, just till they could get conveniency to send him to the county jail—and that cost me eneugh o’ siller—But I ken what Sir Thomas wan... ...he trees He leaves the shelter of his native wood, He leaves the murmur of Ohio’s flood, And forward rushing in indignant grief, Where never foot has ...

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...It rained all day as I once thought it never did rain anywhere, but in the Highlands of Scotland. The river was full of floating blocks of ice, which ... ... but slumber, in the House of Lords. I have seen elections for borough and county, and have never been impelled (no matter which party won) to damage ... ...t of its way to ripple near this mound: and there are few places where the Ohio sparkles more brightly than in the Big Grave Creek. All this I see as ... ...sts. Within a few minutes afterwards, we were out of the canal, and in the Ohio river again. The arrangements of the boat were like those of the Messe... ...the world began. Nor was the scenery, as we approached the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, at all inspiriting in its influence. The trees... ... have a display of goods in their windows, such as may be seen in thriving county towns in England; and there are some which would do no discredit to ... ... night too. In this beautiful place: the fairest among the fair and lovely Highlands of the North River: shut in by deep green heights and ruined fort... ...e learn that the Hon. Charles C. P. Arndt, Member of the Council for Brown county, was shot dead on the floor of the concil chamber, by James R. Vin...

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...er, hawked, in the thick of the throng, the lives of Measan, the bandit of Ohio, Murrel, the pirate of 4 The Confidence-Man the Mississippi, and the ... ...l possible be- nevolence taxes; as in America here, the state-tax, and the county-tax, and the town-tax, and the poll-tax, are by the assessors rolled... ...threatened to sue for libel. I won’t say anything about his afterwards, in Ohio, being found in the act of gracefully putting a bar across a rail-road... ...s hues, that of the cochineal pre- dominating, in style participating of a Highland plaid, Emir’s robe, and French blouse; from its plaited sort of fr... ...barked upon the Wabash in boats, proposing descending that stream into the Ohio, and the Ohio into the Missis- sippi, and so, north-wards, towards the...

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...rk is almost invariably justified by the fact. The streets are full of the Highland fishers, lubberly, stu- pid, inconceivably lazy and heavy to move.... ...fe. The man was back at his work, and I asked him how he was; but he was a Highlander, and – need I add it? – dickens a word could I understand of his... ...ere-about – that is to say, 6 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 the Highlanders, not the northmen – don’t understand me. I have lost a shilling... ... I am in the cars between Pittsburgh and Chicago, just now bowling through Ohio. I am taking charge of a kid, whose mother is asleep, with one eye, wh... ...ul in peace, and continue to possess my body on any terms. CALISTOGA, NAPA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA All which is a fortnight old and not much to the point n... ...onceive the kingdom of the Muses mildlier mannered; and in particular that county which you administer and which I seem to see as a half-suburban land...

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...ants of the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going fort... ...ustard, the fat tail’d sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf I see the highlands of Abyssinia, I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig tr... ...lly loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates. O the farmer’s joys! Ohioan’s, Illinoisian’s, Wisconsinese’, Kanadian’s, Iowan’s, Kansian’s, M... ...th, Thy wealthy daughter states, Eastern and Western, The varied products of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and the rest, Thy limitless... ... heavy plank’d wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river between, Shadows, aureola an... ...mortal. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 409 THE O X T AMER In a far away northern county in the placid pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme o... ...friend, Whom a hundred oxen love there in his life on farms, In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 410 ... ... I should need to name, O Western World, your po 526 In a far away northern county in the placid pastor 410 In a little house keep I pictures suspen...

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..., “so that there could be any amount of Scottish songs. Prospero is an old Highland chief, who has been set adrift with his daughter—Francie V anderki... ..., and choir generally. They had cap- tured Prospero’s supplanter (he was a Highland chief in league with the Whigs) by the leg, while the exiled fello... ...oating accident, there he would be the ruling Sir Roger de Coverley of the county, a pillar of Church and State, and I should be a free man.” “Won’t t... ... appear at the next Petty Sessions. Reginald Mohun, used to the justice of county magistrates, and the unflinching dealings of courts-martial, was det... .... And now he has set up for himself, and has been going about all over the county. Mother has been quite different ever since she met him one day in A... ...we split.” Then came a song of Prospero, not much disguised by a plaid and Highland bonnet, interrupted by the pretty, graceful Miranda, very shy and ... ... “Office of ‘Lacustrian Intelligencer,’ “Jonesville, Ohio, “March 20. “Dearest Cherie, “I told you in my l... ...re clear. —E. B. Browning. “No. 14, Huron St., Jonesville, Ohio, “July 19. “My Dear Madam, “You were so kind as...

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...f persons can hear me think. I went by the way of Cincinnati, and down the Ohio and Mississippi. My idea was to take ship, at New Orleans, for Para. I... ...Is Man and Other Essays 120 changed. A slave came flying from Palmyra, the county seat, a few miles back, and was about to escape in a canoe to Illin... ...no choice. It brought in a true bill, and pres ently the case went to the county court. The trial was a fine sensation. The prisoner was the principa... ...e were thirty What Is Man and Other Essays 128 thousand kings reigning in County Cork alone in his time, fifteen hundred years ago. It got so that th... ...ter of economy of labor. I will illustrate: PRESENT FORM: through, laugh, highland. SIMPLIFIED FORM: thru, laff, hyland. PHONOGRAPHIC FORM: [ Image... ...ic alpha bet, the pen has to make only three strokes. To write the word “highland,” the pen has to make twenty two strokes. T o write “hyland,” the ...

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... was printed before the boundary question was settled, this single Penobscot county, in which we were, was larger than the whole State of Vermont, wit... ... “wood land” of North America is limited almost solely to the valleys of the Ohio and some of the Great Lakes, and the great pine forests of the globe... ...ely are not likely to be scared by an owl, are referred to the valley of the Ohio to get an idea of a forest; but they would not know what to do with ... ...aid was followed, respecting the eastern boundary of Maine, as determined by highlands and streams, at the time of the difficulties on that side. He wa... ...began to despair of finding it. I re membered hearing a good deal about the “highlands” dividing the waters of the Penobscot from those of the St. Joh... ...These, then, according to her interpretation of the treaty of ’83, were the “highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the St. La...