 | John Marshall - 1804 - 562 pages
...with our baggage, to meet us at the Forks of the Ohio, about ten miles, there to cross the Aleghany. As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time...think extremely well situated for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land -at the point is twenty or twenty-fivefeet above the... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 654 pages
...with our baggage, to meet us at the forks of Ohio, about ten miles ; there, to cross the Alleghany. As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time...think extremely well situated for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land at the point is twenty, or twenty-five feet above the... | |
 | John Marshall - 1804 - 648 pages
...with our baggage, to tneet us at the forks of Ohio, about ten miles ; there, t» cross the Alleghany. As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time...think extremely well situated for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land at the point is twenty, or twenty-five feet above the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 590 pages
...adventurer reached the forks of the Ohio, a distance of about fifty miles. 'I spent some time (says he) in viewing the rivers, and the land in the fork; which...think extremely well situated for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land, at the point, is twenty or twenty-five feet above the... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...the place now occupied by the Point brewery, he thus speaks of the spot on which your City stands. " As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time...the land in the fork, which I think extremely well suited for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land at the point is twenty or... | |
 | 1832 - 564 pages
...with our baggage, to meet us at the forks of Ohio, about ten miles; there, to cross the Alleghany. As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time...think extremely well situated for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land at the point is twenty, or twenty -five feet above the... | |
 | Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...to the forks of C the Ohio river; intending to cross the Alleghany there. In his journal he wrote, " as I got down before the canoe, I spent some time...the land in the fork, which I think extremely well suited for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land at the point is twenty or... | |
 | George Washington - 1834 - 574 pages
...with our baggage, to meet us at the Fork of the Ohio, about ten miles ; there to cross the Allegany. " As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time...think extremely well situated for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land at the point is twenty, or twenty-five feet above the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 574 pages
...with our baggage, to meet us at the Fork of the Ohio, about ten miles ; there to cross the Allegany. " As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time...think extremely well situated for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land at the point is twenty, or twenty-five feet above the... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 290 pages
...which is now before me. " As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time in viewing the rivers and land in the fork, which I think extremely well situated for a fort, as it has the absolute command of both rivers. The land at the point is twenty-five feet above the common level... | |
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As I got down before the canoe, I spent some time in viewing the rivers and the land in the fork, which I think extremely well situated for a fort; as it has the absolute command of both rivers. 
