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... four , and the upper- most three , divided from each other by only a narrow strait . The soil is rich in all of them , the timber large , and a kind of pea , very grateful to cattle and horses , holds green all the winter . Roanoke ...
... four , and the upper- most three , divided from each other by only a narrow strait . The soil is rich in all of them , the timber large , and a kind of pea , very grateful to cattle and horses , holds green all the winter . Roanoke ...
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... four miles arrived at the mouth of Sable creek . On the eastern bank of that creek , six paces from the mouth , and just at the brink of the river Dan , stands a sugar tree , which is the beginning of my fine tract of land in Carolina ...
... four miles arrived at the mouth of Sable creek . On the eastern bank of that creek , six paces from the mouth , and just at the brink of the river Dan , stands a sugar tree , which is the beginning of my fine tract of land in Carolina ...
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... four . Like his older brother , Philip Pendleton Cooke , and many another Virginia writer , he was torn between the practice of literature and the practice of law . But he re- solved the dilemma earlier than most . The year 1854 saw ...
... four . Like his older brother , Philip Pendleton Cooke , and many another Virginia writer , he was torn between the practice of literature and the practice of law . But he re- solved the dilemma earlier than most . The year 1854 saw ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
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