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Page 205
... four miles , and so came to the side of James River , where a man may jump over it , and there we pitched our tents . As the people were lighting the fire , there came out of a large log of wood a prodigious snake , which they killed ...
... four miles , and so came to the side of James River , where a man may jump over it , and there we pitched our tents . As the people were lighting the fire , there came out of a large log of wood a prodigious snake , which they killed ...
Page 214
... 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 ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
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