A book of the United StatesExhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government ..and presenting a view of the Republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present timeThe biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . n yard,and just at that moment, their leader, happening to sound his bugle note,our goose, in whom its new habits had not quite extinguished the love ofliberty, and remembering the well-known sound, spr
A book of the United StatesExhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution, and government ..and presenting a view of the Republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land, from its first discovery to the present timeThe biography of about two hundred of the leading men: a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . n yard,and just at that moment, their leader, happening to sound his bugle note,our goose, in whom its new habits had not quite extinguished the love ofliberty, and remembering the well-known sound, spread iis wings, mountedinto the air, joined the travellers, and soon disappeared. In the succeedingautumn, the wild geese, as usual, returned from the northward, in greatnumbers, to pass the w^inter in our bays and rivers. Mr. Piatt happenedto be standing in his yard, when a flock passed directly over his barn. Atthat instant, he observed three geese detach themselves from the rest, andafter wheeling round several times, alight in the middle of the yard. Im-agine his surprise and pleasure, when, by certain well-remembered signs,he recognised in one of the three his long-lost fugitive. It was she indeed!She had travelled many hundred miles to the lakes ; had there hatchedfind reared her ofTspring; and had now returned with her little family, tokhare with them the sweets of civilized Wild Swan. Uild Swan.—This Inrd is found widely spread over the whole of thenorthern continent. During the winter, great numbers of them resort tothe Chcsapeak bay, and whilst there, form rolNvtions of from one to five WilLl ^7 I ^•- ^ ^^•? ••^-•vcrc contrsLs Uiko placeZ]ZZ? 7T •ViLsstnirks kuIIs, an-l ;^!, u ^^,^^ncc .)r two -cncrallt•I»o^ .h i^ s<, ilu-y an- .Irivon ofl. If the is remarkably-wZ.^-M I •?»^oii^%i CaZ>Mi«/. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 21 U hundred on the flats near the western sliore. Thc?e birds are so exceed-ingly vigil
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