The book Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains was written by author Franois Andr Michaux Here you can read free online of Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains a good or bad book?
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From that time they were no longer protected, nor could they stir out of the inclosure of their village. Out of two that had strayed not more than two hundred yards, one was scalped and murdered, and the other carried a prisoner a great distance into the interior. When I was at Gallipoli they had just heard from him. He gained his livelihood very comfortably by repairing guns, and exercising his trade as a goldsmith in the Indian village where he lived, and did not express the least wish to ret...urn with his coi""^*" ;, - men. The war being terminated, the congress, in order to indemnify these unfortunate Frenchmen for the [100] successive losses which they had sustained, gave them twenty thousand acres of land situated between the 184 Early Western Travels [Vol. 3 small rivers Sandy and Scioto, seventy miles lower than Gallipoli. These twenty thousand acres were at the rate of two hundred and ten acres to every family. Those among them who had neither strength nor resolution enough to go a second time, without any other support than that of their children, to isolate themselves amidst the woods, hew down, burn, and root up the lower parts of trees, which are frequently more than five feet in diameter, and afterward split them to inclose their fields, sold their lots to the Americans or Frenchmen that were somewhat more enterprising.
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