...tages of a sea-port. Ships can come up, but not ships of large burden. The river seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen, and at present it i... ...olute foundation of the edifice is bad— that the ground, which is near the river and swampy, would not bear the weight intended to be imposed on it. A... ...ington, whose seat, Mount Vernon, stands about twelve miles lower down the river and here, no doubt, Washington often stood, looking on the site he ha... ... be understood that the capital is on the eastern, or Maryland side of the river, and that Arlington Heights, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon are in Virg... ... that Arlington Heights, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon are in Virginia. The River Potomac divided the two old colonies, or States as they afterward bec... ...the foot of the Alleghany Mountains, and at the juncture of the two rivers Monongahela and Alleghany. Here, at the town, they come together, and form ... ... effect was probably increased by the general darkness of the weather. The Monongahela is crossed by a fine bridge, and on the other side the ground r...

...en the clusters of buds came forth. The main street, one block back from the river, and running parallel with it, was the sole business street. It was... ... that corner. The hamlet’s front was washed by the clear waters of the great river; its body stretched itself rearward up a gentle in cline; its most... ...so with the great flotilla of “transients.” These latter came out of a dozen rivers—the Illinois, the Missouri, the Upper Mis sissippi, the Ohio, the... ...en rivers—the Illinois, the Missouri, the Upper Mis sissippi, the Ohio, the Monongahela, the T ennessee, the Red River, the White River, and so on—an... ... the Upper Mis sissippi, the Ohio, the Monongahela, the T ennessee, the Red River, the White River, and so on—and were bound every The Tragedy of Pud... ...per, it gwine to kill you sho’. If you b’longed to me, I’ d sell you down de river ‘fo’ you git too fur gone. Fust time I runs acrost yo’ marster, I’s...

... come, and he fixes the place at Ossawatomie. This I believe is off of the river, and will require more time and labor to get to it. It will push me h... ...rritories south 51 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five of the Ohio River, Mr. Jefferson expressly provided for the prohibition of slavery. Jud... ...nt of this Northwest Territory, not contemplating terri- tory south of the river, for the States owning that territory had hitherto refrained from giv... ...t wonder if some of the Kentuckians would hear me on the other side of the river. For that reason I propose to address a portion of what I have to say... ...he North, first to say that the thing is right in your State over the Ohio River, and hence to say that that which is right there is not wrong here, a... ...the troubles across the river [the speaker pointing southwardly across the Monongahela, and smiling], there is no crisis but an artificial one. What i...

...nged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phan- tom of life; an... ... the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake... ...we stood on board the schooner. Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet river. On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-cove... ...se pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny... ...; through the holy-of-holies of great forests; on Roman arches over Indian rivers; through sun and shade; by happy hearts or broken; through all the w... ...! W ould now, it were old Orleans whiskey, or old Ohio, or unspeakable old Monongahela! Then, Tashtego, lad, I’d have ye hold a canakin to the jet, an...

...nged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and ... ... the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake... ... stood on board the schooner. Hoist ing sail, it glided down the Acushnet river. On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice cove... ...hese pig fish are a nosy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny... ...; through the holy of holies of great forests; on Roman arches over Indian rivers; through sun and shade; by happy hearts or broken; through all the w... ...y! Would now, it were old Orleans whiskey, or old Ohio, or unspeakable old Monongahela! Then, Tashtego, lad, I’d have ye hold a canakin to the jet, an...

...DAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric....................105 A W... ...ith eidolons only. The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities, like eyesight, ... ...exican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm life of these States or o... ...n shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 32 All hold spiri... ... with me, and I yet with any of them, Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river, yet in my house of adobie, Yet returning eastward, yet in the Seas... ... and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names, Okonee, Koosa, Ottawa, Monongahela, Sauk, Natchez, Chattahoochee, Kaqueta, Oronoco, Wabash, Miam...