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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it...

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... He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent hook was att... ...ped around it. The worm wriggled and strained against the swift currents of the river trying to entice the cun­ ning silver fish. But for most of the... ... come. As he stared into the crystal green water just below the surface of the river, his thoughts strayed to a time when he was very young and sat... ... and that only a few had ever been given this gift. One day as they sat at the river's edge his grandfather told him that he, too, had been given t... ...est. The memories cascaded through Seattle's mind as he sat on the bank of the river waiting for the silver fish that his grandfa­ ther had called "... ...eal estate in the world. "One day, maybe, a day like today, the currents of the Potomac will be lazily coursing their way to the sea; people crammed... ... you do it well. Our fate depends on it." Pierce walked over to the window, the Potomac River was a deep blue, and Pierce felt elated. His plan was ...

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...our Doors Poets to Come To You Thou Reader STARTING FROM PAUMANOK SONG OF MYSELF CHILDREN OF ADAM To the Garden the World From Pent-Up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Madness and Joy Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd O Hymen! O Hymene...

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... my relationship with Phaon affords discovery, Sumerian lassi- tude, great rivers and forests, prowling sand, the bay and its currents, the hull dipp... ... love of nature, his fondness for rustic surroundings, his boating on the river Aufidus, his fishing. He liked to play ball. I could visualize him, ... ...211 Peter’s—early morning Sivan 8 Shall we be like trees planted by rivers of water? Shall we mature slowly like the olive? Shall we endure tw... ...residence of Cloux, near the King’s summer palace at Amboise on the Loire River. Leonardo writes of his boyhood, his mother, his friends, his easel ... ...General woke me during the night? Dark days, dark nights. The Army of the Potomac had 100,000 soldiers. Their losses and gains are part of me. Deser... ... my spyglass and look through my window. A small sailboat moves along the Potomac. It is possible for a man to provision a boat, set sail, disappear... ...ew Wordsworth book into my saddlebag and ride into the country, along the Potomac. I will eat dry corn bread. I will lie in deep grass and read, all... ... the kitchen for a bowl of popcorn. Pretty soon that Greek goddess of the Potomac, little Miss Rosie, who is the perfect mulatto, traipsed in, holdi... ...4 It was only a few years ago that John Quincy Adams was swimming in the Potomac with his son. Adams used to rise at five, to read the Bible, Commen...

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...ne lincoln memoriAl circle 8 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine potomAc river 9 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine tidAl bAsin 10... ...oln memoriAl circle 8 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine potomAc river 9 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine tidAl bAsin 10 W a s h... ...hite house 15 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine footing - west potomAc pArk 16 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine world wAr ii m...

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...independence times. Accordingly, the local government systems north and east of the Potomac River (which flows through the Washington area) are sub... ...nce times. Accordingly, the local government systems north and east of the Potomac River (which flows through the Washington area) are substantiall...

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...ed them to rent a small sloop, named Voyager, and go for a lazy ride down the Potomac, and that he and Rawlings would find them around noon. "Thank... ...as elegantly as a garden. Garlands of flowers weaved through the table like a river. Servants moved like shadows as they brought in an assortment of... ...ears all the networks would be back in place, and the drugs would flow like a river. You are a consumer nation. Your country’s addiction to drugs is... ...ing bouquets of flowers as they passed. Pope Francis thought it looked like a river of rainbows. Bishop Diaz was excited at the Pope’s arrival, but...

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Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia Stat... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania State Univer sity, Elec... ...unity university. 3 HenryDavidThoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau Where’er thou sail’st who sailed with me, ... ... sailed with me, Though now thou climbest loftier mounts, And fairer rivers dost ascend, Be thou my Muse, my Brother—. I am bound, I am bo... ..., came all the beaver that was traded between Virginia and Canada,—and the Potomac was thought to come out of or from very near it. Afterward the Conn...

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...all do all I could and can to sustain you. Hoped that the opening of James River and putting W ool and Burnside in communication, with an open road to... ... junction between your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork rivers than by a land march. In order, therefore, to in- ... ...your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork rivers than by a land march. In order, therefore, to in- crease the strengt... ...nication can be safely estab- lished either north or south of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy... ...- tary of War. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Com- manding Army of the Potomac, before Richmond. PROCLAMATION REVOKING GENERAL HUNTER’S ORDER OF M... ...N: Geary reports Jackson with 20,000 moving from Ashby’s Gap by the Little River turnpike, through Aldie, toward Centreville. This he says is reliable... ... superior to his own. Under this pressure We thinned the line on the upper Potomac, until yesterday it was broken with heavy loss to us, and General B... ...ere, as we are here, it will be all we can do to prevent them crossing the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry or above. We have about 20,000 of McDowell’s forc... ... being to guard against Jackson’s returning by the same route to the upper Potomac over which you have just driven him out, and at the same time give ...

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...Washington was chosen with three special views: firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea-port; ... ...tages would be secured by the selected position. As regards the first, the Potomac affords to the city but few of the advantages of a sea-port. Ships ... ...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... ...as intended to be the center of the city. It faces eastward, away from the Potomac—or rather from the main branch of the Potomac, and also unfortunate... ...e State of Maine. The finished front of this building, looking down to the Potomac, is very good; but to my eyes this also has been much injured by th... ...look at, but it is built on marshy ground, not much above the level of the Potomac, and is very unhealthy. I was told that all who live there become s... ...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...

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...ANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information about deserters contained in your... ...UTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, November 3, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Samuel Wellers, private in Company B, Forty-ninth Pennsyl- vania V... ...MANSION W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 5, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Please suspend the execution of Samuel Wellers, Forty-ninth Pennsy... ...ANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., November 20, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: If there is a man by the name of King under sentence to be shot, p... ...TIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON. November 20, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: An intelligent woman in deep distress, called this morning, saying... ...the place, that he is not closely invested, and that he forages across the river. The other brings the firing up to 11 A.M. yesterday, being twenty-t... ...f establishing a yard and depot for naval purposes upon one of the Western rivers. A naval force has been created on those interior waters, and under... ...roposition for enlarging the wa- ter communication between the Mississippi River and the north- eastern seaboard, which proposition, however, failed f... ... yesterday to the Secretary of War. I wish you would go to the Mississippi River at once, and take hold of and be master in the contraband and leasing...

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...d out of dock yesterday afternoon and was now lying at her moorings in the river. And there she is! all eyes are turned to where she lies, dimly disce... ...water side, and are intersected by cross streets running parallel with the river. The houses are chiefly of wood. The market is abundantly supplied; a... ...ountry, glittering with some bright lake or pool, broad as many an English river, but so small here that it scarcely has a name; now catch hasty glimp... ...ould crush the structure beneath him, and bring it rattling down. The very river that moves the machin ery in the mills (for they are all worked by w... ...es its course; and to be as light headed, thought less, and brisk a young river, in its murmurings and tumblings, as one would desire to see. One wou... ... education of their children. The heights of this neighbourhood, above the Potomac River, are very picturesque: and are free, I should conceive, from ... ...the reader’s company, in a new chapter. CHAPTER IX —A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE ... ...with us; more orderly, and more polite. Soon after nine o’clock we come to Potomac Creek, where we are to land; and then comes the oddest part America...

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...! Read then of faith That shone above the fagot; Clear strains of hymn The river could not drown; Brave names of men And celestial women, Passed out o... ...stant passed. On a strange mob of panting trees, And fences fled away, And rivers where the houses ran The living looked that day. The bell within the... ...daily drunken there. Then look out for the little brook in March, When the rivers overflow, And the snows come hurrying from the hills, And the bridge... ... in— What then? Why, nothing, only Your inference therefrom! XI MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea... ...XIII WHEN I was small, a woman died. T o-day her only boy Went up from the Potomac, His face all victory, To look at her; how slowly The seasons must ... ...ssly leave. 280 LVII THE hills erect their purple heads, The Rivers lean to see— Yet Man has not, of all the throng, A curiosity. ...

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... 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... ...nsurrection shows, I think, that the extension of this District across the Potomac River at the time of establish- ing the capital here was eminently ... ...tection of the old flag. This leaves no armed insurrectionist north of the Potomac or east of the Chesapeake. Also we have obtained a footing at each ... ...es. That especially the army at and about Fortress Monroe, the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Western Virginia, the army near Munfordville, Kentucky... ...anuary 31, 1862. Ordered, That all the disposable force of the Army of the Potomac, after providing safely for the defence of Washing- ton, be formed ... ... and I have distinct and different plans for a movement of the Army of the Potomac—yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana, and...

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...ds, or rifts, as they were then termed in the language of the country, the river became navigable to the tide. While, in the pursuit of their daring p... ...CHAPTER 3 “Before these fields were shorn and till’d, Full to the brim our rivers flow’d; The melody of waters fill’d The fresh and boundless wood; An... ...xpected event. The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, over- hanging the water, and shadowing its dark current with a deepe... ... the natives who formerly inhabited the country between the Hudson and the Potomac, and of which we shall give a free translation for the benefit of t... ...of the language. “Y our fathers came from the setting sun, crossed the big river*, fought the people of the country, and took the land; and mine came ... ... and the reason is this: when there is higher water in the sea than in the river, they run in until the river gets to be highest, and then it runs out...

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...re the following incident oc- curred. Charlemagne, while chasing the Saxons (as he said), or being chased by them (as they said), arrived at the bank ... ..., and beyond that a nobler and loftier one. The Castle looks down upon the compact brown-roofed town; and from the town two picturesque old bridges sp... ...ot up and went into the west balcony and saw a wonderful sight. Away down on the level under the black mass of the Castle, the town lay, stretched alo... ...faces of only about fifty; but these I saw everywhere, and daily. They walked about the streets and the wooded hills, they drove in cabs, they boated ... ...ng- Ground Dueling by Wholesale One day in the interest of science my agent obtained permis- sion to bring me to the students’ dueling-place. We cross... ...opher Harris said that the average man would not yell in either case if he had an audience. Then he continued: “When our brigade first went into camp ...

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...absence of alternatives having become familiar to him by the waters of the Potomac. There were a great many things he did because if he didn’t do them... ...y. It was to consist of about twenty bright people, and they’d go down the Potomac to Mount Vernon. The Count an- swered that if Mrs. Steuben thought ... ...gue remarks—Pandora’s were the most definite—about the yellow sheen of the Potomac, the hazy hills of Virginia, the far-gleaming pediment of Ar- lingt... ...erested in Mount Vernon—when at last its wooded bluff began to command the river—than she had been in the Capitol, and after they had disembarked and ... ...oung man roamed with his first and fairest acquaintance. The breath of the Potomac, on the boat, had been a little harsh, but on the softly-curving la... ...h, but on the softly-curving lawn, beneath the clus- tered trees, with the river relegated to a mere shining presence far below and in the distance, t... ...r, obliquely, all the mag- nificence of the view; the immense sweep of the river, the artistic plantations, the last-century garden with its big box h...

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...ut when, after that battle, the Con- federate army, under Lee, crossed the Potomac and in- 43 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One vaded Marylan... ...a squad of sailors who had rowed him ashore from the flotilla in the James River, a negro picked up on the way serving as a guide. Never had the world... ...ge of nineteen, when a neighbor employed him to accompany his son down the river to New Orleans to dispose of a flatboat of produce—a commission which... ... New Orleans on a flatboat of his own con- triving, a pilot’s berth on the river—these were the means by which he subsisted until, in the summer of 18... ...ettysburg turned the tide of war, and the fall of Vicksburg made the great river free from its source to the Gulf. On foreign nations the influence of... ..., is sufficient to justify the belief that the improvement of the Sangamon River is an object much better suited to our infant resources……. What the c...

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...OF BIRTH—CHARACTER OF THE DIS- TRICT—TUCKAHOE—ORIGIN OF THE NAME— CHOPTANK RIVER—TIME OF BIRTH—GENEA- LOGICAL TREES—MODE OF COUNTING TIME— NAMES OF GR... ...la- tion of the place would have quitted it long ago, but for the Choptank river, which runs through it, from which they take abundance of shad and he... ...t- able, from mud or from dust, the coast is clear; he can plunge into the river or the pond, without the ceremony of undress- ing, or the fear of wet... ... ome ome ome THE NAME “OLD MASTER” A TERROR—COLONEL LLOYD’S PLANTATION—WYE RIVER—WHENCE ITS NAME—POSITION OF THE LLOYDS—HOME ATTRACTION—MEET OFFERING—... ...N OF THE LLOYDS—HOME ATTRACTION—MEET OFFERING—JOURNEY FROM TUCKAHOE TO WYE RIVER—SCENE ON REACHING OLD MASTER’S—DEPARTURE OF GRANDMOTHER—STRANGE MEETI... ...e-knife, driving a company of a hundred men, women, and children, from the Potomac to the slave market at New Orleans. These wretched people are to be...

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...n- tains nor deep valleys. Streams meander through it irregu- larly: great rivers mix their currents, separate and meet again, disperse and form vast ... ... tops of the Rocky Mountains. At the bottom of the valley flows an immense river, into which the various streams issuing from the mountains fall from ... ...all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it ... ...point of the table-land where they unite. Near the same spot rises another river,* which empties itself into the Polar seas. The course of the Mississ... ... miles in its course.** At the distance of 1,364 miles from its mouth this river attains an average depth of fifteen feet; and it is navigated by vess... ...hich fall into the Atlan- tic Ocean – the Hudson, the Susquehanna, and the Potomac -take their rise beyond the Alleghanies, in an open district, which... ...re constantly accessible to vessels of the greatest bur- den. But from the Potomac to the mouth of the Mississippi the coast is sandy and flat. In thi... ...re constantly accessible to vessels of the greatest bur- den. But from the Potomac to the mouth of the Mississippi the coast is sandy and flat. In thi...

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...sty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great as an English Princi... ...ause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great as an English Principal- it... ...he great darkling woods with a cloud of rooks returning; and the plain and river with Castlewood village beyond, and purple hills beautiful to look at... ...the booth at Ealing Fair— and on the next happy day they took water on the river, and Harry saw London Bridge, with the houses and booksellers’ shops ... ...turning home at evening made a great cawing. At the foot of the hill was a river, with a steep ancient bridge crossing it; and be- yond that a large p... ...tin verses over the rustic little beauty. He bade the dryads mourn and the river-nymphs deplore her. As her father fol- lowed the calling of Vulcan, h...

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... green New England reborn. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties... ...before hell-for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters a... ...; and she heard again the startled bells and thick puffing of high-stacked river steamers wrecked on sand-reefs sixty years ago. Along the decks she s... ...akota chiefs with scarlet blankets… . Far off whistles at night, round the river bend, plunking paddles reech- oed by the pines, and a glow on black s... ...his boyishness when they went tramping. They walked from St. Paul down the river to Mendota, Kennicott more elastic-seeming in a cap and a soft crepe ... ...orcoran Gallery, the Pan-American Building, the Lincoln Memorial, with the Potomac be- yond it and the Arlington hills and the columns of the Lee Mans...

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...out of our camp; the French, in theirs of Arlieu and about Arras. A little river, the Canihe I think ’twas called, (but this is writ away from books a... ... airing on horseback, being too weak for military duty,) they came to this river, where a number of English and Scots were assembled, talking to the g... ...llibly have sent him to the provost-marshal had he been on our side of the river. Whilst this parley was going on, three officers on horseback, on the... ...dged the salute, and looked at us hard. Even the idlers on our side of the river set up a hurrah. As for the Royal Cravat, he ran to the Prince’s stir... ...as dreadfully gloomy for a long time, though living in a fine house on the river, and carrying on a great trade to all appearance. At length Esmond sa... ...cupy, far away from Europe and its troubles, on the beautiful banks of the Potomac, where we have built a new Castlewood, and think with grateful hear...

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...ry. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have been held and occupied by descendants o... ...had a family of nine children, and was drowned at the mouth of the Kanawha River, Vir- ginia, in 1825, being at the time one of the wealthy men of the... ...eamer for Louisville or Cincinnati, or the first steamer going up the Ohio River to any point. Before I left St. Louis orders were received at Jeffers... ...arracks, at the end of twenty days. I knew my regiment had gone up the Red River, but I was not disposed to break the letter of my leave; besides, if ... ...ommands and rank, until the war had lasted many months. In the Army of the Potomac there was what was known as the “regular brigade,” in which, from t... ...o I had watched with very great interest the operations of the Army of the Potomac, looking upon that as the main field of the war. I had no idea, mys... ...ve anything if I were commanding a brigade of cav- alry in the Army of the Potomac and I believed I could do some good. Captain Hillyer spoke up and s... ...ls Howard and Slocum, Hooker in command of the whole, from the Army of the Potomac to reinforce Rosecrans. It would have been folly to send them to Ch... ...the 15th corps, Army of the T en- nessee; Geary’s, 12th corps, Army of the Potomac; and Cruft’s, 14th corps, Army of the Cumberland. Geary was on the ...

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...de in New York on the 4th of July, 1861. “The Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers,” he says, “with their hundred tributaries, give to the great centra... ... in 1795, stipulated for them a pre- carious right of navigating the noble river to the sea, with a right of deposit at New Orleans. This subject was ... ...ile portion is watered by the Mississippi and its vast tribu- taries. That river and those tributaries are navigable through the whole center of the A... ...he world, and not as facts to copy. The free use of the waters of a common river between two nations is an affair for treaty; and it has not yet come ... ...s fate. At that time General McClellan was in command at Washington on the Potomac, it being understood that he held his power directly under the Pres... ...with my narrative. At this time the North was looking for a victory on the Potomac; but they were no longer looking for it with that impatience which ... ...er fight. And so all through September and October the great armies on the Potomac rested comparatively in quiet— the Northern forces drawing to thems... ...e dear to Americans. Without Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky, without the Potomac, the Chesapeake, and Mount Vernon, the North would in- deed be shor... ...ps at Washington for the protection of the capi- tal; and that army of the Potomac, which has ever since occupied the Virginian side of the river, was...

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...DAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric....................105 A W... ...............492 Spain, 1873 74..................................492 By Broad Potomac’s Shore................493 From Far Dakota’s Canyons (June 25, 1... ...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... ... Sunlight by day on the valley of the Susquehanna, and on the valleys of the Potomac and Rappahannock, and the valleys of the Roanoke and Delaware, In... ... your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life old Thames, By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod, by you Patapsco, You Hudson, y... ...hy time. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 492 BY B ROAD P OTOMAC’S S HORE By broad Potomac’s shore, again old tongue, (Still uttering, still ejaculating, ca... ...this book of mine O blood red roses! Lave subtly with your waters every line Potomac! Give me of you O spring, before I close, to put between its page...

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...NTS OF THE UNITED STATES 37 Great Lakes and beyond the sources of the great rivers which communicate through our whole interior, no country was ever ... ...ature has done so much for us by intersecting the country with so many great rivers, bays, and lakes, approaching from distant points so near to each ... ...ead in vast numbers along the whole coast and on both sides of every bay and river as high up in each as it might be navigable for ships of war. By th... ...g States a free passage to the ocean, through the Province ceded, by several rivers, having their sources high up within their limits. It secures us a... ...DRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 55 Twenty five years ago the river Mississippi was shut up and our Western brethren had no outlet for ... ... it in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Beyond those monuments to heroism is the Potomac River, and on the far shore the sloping hills of Arling ton Nati...

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...sty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great as an English Princi... ...ause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great as an English Principal- it... ...he great darkling woods with a cloud of rooks returning; and the plain and river with Castlewood village beyond, and purple hills beautiful to look at... ...the booth at Ealing Fair— and on the next happy day they took water on the river, and Harry saw London Bridge, with the houses and booksellers’ shops ... ...turning home at evening made a great cawing. At the foot of the hill was a river, with a steep ancient bridge crossing it; and be- yond that a large p... ...tin verses over the rustic little beauty. He bade the dryads mourn and the river-nymphs deplore her. As her father fol- lowed the calling of Vulcan, h... ... 437 Thackeray from Europe and its troubles, on the beautiful banks of the Potomac, where we have built a new Castlewood, and think with grateful hear...

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... are gales it moves in uniform masses like the swift, still rush of a deep river. The airman, in Mr. Grahame- White’s phrase, can go to sleep on it. B... ...ound reliefs and opportunities more particularly along the shores of great rivers and inland seas. Trade and travel began, at first only a trade in ad... ...hyard; and the re- moval of Charing Cross Station to the south side of the river. Then, again, we have the systematic widening of various thor- oughfa... ...and choked with small particles of anthracite….” In Massachusetts, at Fall River, the Hon. J.F. Carey tells how little naked boys, free Americans, wor... ...inly the peculiar accident that has placed the seat of government upon the Potomac. T o the thoughtful visitor to the United States this hiding away o... ...op it. Man circumvents. If fire were human it would build boats across the rivers and outmanoeuvre the wind. It would lie in wait in sheltered places,...

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...ace which looked out from a leafy summit upon a noble prospect of vale and river and receding hills steeped in tinted mists—and all private, all the p... ...add one word more. I will soothe thee, in all thy grief, Beside the gloomy river; And though thy love may yet be brief; Mine is fixed forever. Receive... ... at last to lay that beloved master to rest in his peace ful grave by the Potomac. Ten years afterward—in 1809— full of years and honors, he died him... ...ted by children. 187 Mark Twain A LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY Riverdale on the Hudson, OCTOBER 15, 1902. THE HON. THE SECRETARY OF THE TR... ... for kindlings. Please deliver with all convenient despatch at my house in Riverdale at lowest rates for spot cash, and send bill to Your obliged serv... ...the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. In the artless simplicity natural to this time of li...

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...ork City . Others went to Arlington,Vir- ginia, to the Pentagon.Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session. At the other... ... . Others went to Arlington,Vir- ginia, to the Pentagon.Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session. At the other end of ... ...sked to fly the Hudson Corridor, a low-altitude “hallway” along the Hudson River that passes New Y ork landmarks like the World Trade Center. Heavy tr... ...unicated on the Manhattan dis- patch channel by an FDNY boat on the Hudson River; but to our knowledge, no one at the site received this information, ... ...Millions of containers are imported annually through more than 300 sea and river ports served by more than 3,700 cargo and passenger terminals.About 6... ...2001; interview of Clau- dia Richey, Sept. 15, 2001; interview of Rosarito Rivera, Sept. 25, 2001. 9. See TSA report,“Selectee Status of September 11t... ...ldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 (Greenwood,1999); James Locher, Victory on the Potomac:The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon (T exas A&M Univ . P...