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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A ... ...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the ... ...es Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Port... ...eConcordandMerrimackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and h... ... pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat Geeta. Warren Hastings, in his sensible letter recommending the translation of thi... ...of the homesteads of the Huguenots, on Staten Island, off the coast of New Jersey. The hills in the interior of this island, though comparatively low,... ...fifteen hundred acres, being the largest body of fresh water in Rockingham County,—comes in near here from the east. Rowing between Manchester and Bed... ...own [Goffstown]. He was one of the oldest practitioners of medicine in the county. He was many years an active member of the legislature.”—”Hon. Rober...

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