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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Frobisher, Martin 1536- (search)
Frobisher, Martin 1536- Navigator; born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, about 1536; was a mariner by profession, and yearned for an opportunity to go in search of a northwest passage to India. For fifteen years he tried in vain to get pecuniary aid to fit out ships. At length the Earl of Warwick and others privately fitted out two small barks of 25 tons each and a pinnace, with the approval of Queen Elizabeth, and with these he sailed from Deptford in June, 1576, declaring that he would succeed or never come back alive. As the flotilla passed the palace at Greenwich, the Queen, sitting at an open window, waved her hand towards the commander in token of good — will and farewell. Touching at Greenland, Frobisher crossed over and coasted up the shores of Labrador to latitude 63°, where he entered what he supposed to be a strait, but which was really a bay, which yet bears the name of Frobisher's Inlet. He landed, and promptly took possession of the country around in the name
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17: London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
g severities in which they had indulged; Hayward, poor in health, taking a light dinner; Stephen Price sipping his gin and water, &c. Next I dined with Mr. Justice Vaughan and Lady St. John en famille; next with Baron Alderson, where we had Sir Gregory Lewin, Sir Gregory A. Lewin died in 1845, aged fifty-one. He served in the navy from 1808 to 1818; then studied at Cambridge, and made choice of the law as his profession. He joined the Northern Circuit; and, in 1842, became Recorder of Doncaster. He wrote upon the Poor Laws. He accompanied Sumner to Oxford; arranged for his visit to the Thames Tunnel; and invited him to breakfast at 32 Upper Harley Street. Sir Francis Palgrave, 1788-1861. He wrote several books upon English history and antiquities, and was Deputy Keeper of her Majesty's Public Records. Serjeant Talfourd, and Lockhart; next with the Lord Mayor at Guildhall; next passed the day at Windsor Castle, the guest of the household, breakfasting and lunching with Lord
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22: (search)
Chapter 22: Edgeworthtown. English lakes.-York. Doncaster. Wentworth house. Journal. August 21.—We set out pretty early this morning to make a visit, by invitation, to the Edgeworths, at Edgeworthtown, sixty-five English miles from Dublin. . . . The whole country we passed through was like a succession of prairies, so little inequality was there in the surface, and it was only at rare intervals we even saw any tolerably sized hills in the horizon. Nor were the objects on the road more various. . . . . The ruins of an old castle of the Leinsters, at Maynooth, two mounds, which were probably burial-places of the aborigines, a good many ruined churches, and a good many villages, some very squalid and wretched, and some as comfortable as the poorer Scotch hamlets, were all we noticed. . . . . At last we approached the house. There was no mistaking it. We had seen none such for a long time. It is spacious, with an ample veranda, and conservatory covering par
The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], The ground in Pennsylvania. (search)
es have been worked in its vicinity for twelve years past. Franklin, the central county of the three, has an area of 740 square miles, and a population exceeding 40,000. Lippincott's Gazette says: "The greater part of the county consists of a broad limestone valley, watered with copious and unfalling mountain springs, and having a soil of unsurpassed fertility. In 1850 this county yielded 837,062 bushels of wheal the greatest quantity produced by any county of the State except Doncaster. Limestone, marble and slate are abundant; the mines of iron ore are rich, and extensively worked." The county is traversed by the Cumberland valley and its continuation, the Franklin railroad, extending from Harrisburg to Hagers town and passing through Chambersburg, the seat of justice, which is 52 miles from Harrisburg. It has about 5,000 inhabitants, and manufactures of cotton, wool, flour, paper, and iron. The Cumberland Valley railroad, which forms the direct railway conn
The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Interesting European news. (search)
the river were three and four yards deep in water. Great numbers of men are now engaged getting dead bodies out of houses where they have been drowned in bed. Others are being gathered in from gardens into which they have floated. Excitement in the town cannot be described. Business is at a standstill. Extent of mischief cannot be ascertained; hundreds of lives are sacrificed. The dam was a new one. The immense volume of water is still pursuing its course of destruction. Rotherham, Doncaster and many other towns will suffer ere the river Trent receives the excess of water which has been set at liberty. Dead.[from the Sheffield telegraph, March 14.] From the large quantity of trees and brushwood brought down the river the victims, who were for the most part drowned while escaping from their beds, are found bruised and quite nude if nude those may be called who have received, instead of the night dresses the driftwood has removed, a thin clothing of clay. Some of the d