The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . [1842, AUGUST. 31 Days. T 8UN ftlSES AND SETS, 8 J .I,?;i *= 2>gH 5 MOON RISES AND SETS. 1 1. MOONS PHASES. • New, 6th, 9 37 F. a 12th, 2 13 Full, 20th, 9 6 ;X L. Q. 28th, 10 41E. The sun now pours down its fiercest heat. Man and heasi seek the shady covert, or love towade in the pure streams that roar and foam through the green valleys. Scarcely have theshadows of night fallsn upon the earth, when the marsh and the brooks are ali
The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . [1842, AUGUST. 31 Days. T 8UN ftlSES AND SETS, 8 J .I,?;i *= 2>gH 5 MOON RISES AND SETS. 1 1. MOONS PHASES. • New, 6th, 9 37 F. a 12th, 2 13 Full, 20th, 9 6 ;X L. Q. 28th, 10 41E. The sun now pours down its fiercest heat. Man and heasi seek the shady covert, or love towade in the pure streams that roar and foam through the green valleys. Scarcely have theshadows of night fallsn upon the earth, when the marsh and the brooks are alive with the son-orous music of their amphibious inhabitants. As soon as the wings of the feathered choirare closed, the deep base of the pool and the fen awakes. The parched face of Nature hasscarcely been baptized in the dews of the night, when the East is again streaked with thebroad crimson of the dawn, and over the blazing hills the morning sun pours his fervent raysupon a waking world. Again, the insects hum, the song of birds, and the lowing of cattle,are heard ; the busy throng of mortals ply at their business through the long and listless day ;and the more fortunate seize the opportunity to visit the Springs, Niagara, or some ot
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