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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Submarine cables. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sun-worshippers. (search)
Sun-worshippers.
The Indians found in the region of the Gulf of Mexico and on the lower Mississippi by the Europeans, had undoubtedly been in contact with the higher civilization of Mexico and South America at that time, and were sun-worshippers.
They regarded that orb as the Supreme Deity, for they perceived that it was the sum of light and life on the earth.
In all their invocations for blessings, the sun was appealed to as we appeal to God— May the sun guard you!
May the sun be with you!
were usual forms of invocation.
At the beginning of March the men of a community selected the skin of a large deer with the head and legs attached, which they filled with a variety of fruit and grain.
Its horns were garlanded with fruit and early spring flowers.
The effigy, appearing like a live deer, was carried in a procession of all the inhabitants to a plain, was placed on a high pole, and at the moment of sunrise the people all fell upon their knees and implored the god of day to g
Tampico,
A seaport town of Mexico, in the State of Tamaulipas, on the Panuco River, 5 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; was taken possession of by the fleet of Commodore Conner, Nov. 14, 1846, in the early part of the war with Mexico.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Florida,
One of the United States; lies between lat. 31° and 24° 30′ N., and long.
79° 48′ and 87° 38′ W. The Perdido River separates it from Alabama on the west.
It is mostly a peninsula, 275 miles long and averaging 90 miles in width, extending south to the Strait of Bimini, and separating the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. Georgia and Alabama bound it on the north.
Area, 59,268 square miles in forty-five counties.
Population, 1890, 391,422; 1900, 528,542.
Capital, Tallahassee.
Juan Ponce de Leon, sailing from Porto Rico in search of new lands, discovers Florida, March 27; lands near St. Augustine, plants the cross, and takes possession in the name of the Spanish monarch......April 2, 1512
Diego Miruelo, a pilot, sails from Cuba with one vessel, touches at Florida, and obtains pieces of gold from the natives......1516
Spaniards, under Francis Hernandez de Cordova, land in Florida, but are driven off by the natives and return to Cuba......1517
Ponce de
Louisiana,
The central gulf State of the United States, has for its southern boundary the Gulf of Mexico, and south of 31° N. it extends from the Sabine River on the west to the Pearl River on the east, about 250 miles. North of lat. 31° N. its eastern boundary is the Mississippi River, which separates it from Mississippi, and the Sabine River and Texas form its western boundary.
That portion of the State lying east of the Mississippi River is bounded on the north by the State of Mississippi
Mississippi,
One of the Gulf States of the United States, is bounded north by Tennessee.
The Tennessee River touches the State in the extreme northeast corner.
On the west the Mississippi River separates it from Arkansas and Louisiana above lat. 31° N., which divides the State from Louisiana on the south, 110 miles east from the Mississippi River to the Pearl.
That portion of the State east of the Pearl River extends south to the Gulf of Mexico, affording a coast-line of about 80 miles. Alabama forms the entire eastern boundary.
It is limited in latitude between 30° 13′ and 35° N., and in longitude between 88° 7′ and 91° 41′ W. Area, 46,340 square miles, in seventy-five counties; population, 1890, 1.289,600; 1900, 1,551,270.
Capital, Jackson.
Fernando De Soto, on his expedition, enters the present State of Mississippi near the junction of the Tombigbee and Black Warrior rivers; crosses the Pearl in Leake county, and reaches the Indian village of Chickasaw......December,
Texas,
One of the Southern States of the United States, is bounded on the north by Oklahoma and Indian Territories, east by Arkansas and Louisiana, south by the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico, and west by Mexico and New Mexico.
It lies between lat. 25° 51′ and 36° 30′ N., and long.
93° 27′ and 106° 40′ W. Area, 265,780 square miles.
Population, 1890, 2,235,523; 1900, 3,048,710.
Capital, Austin.
Robert Cavalier de La Salle, sailing from France with four ships, July 24, 1684, fails to discover the mouth of the Mississippi and lands near the entrance to Matagorda Bay......Feb. 18, 1685
La Salle builds Fort St. Louis on the Lavaca......July, 1685
La Salle murdered by two followers near the Neches River......March 30, 1687
Captain De Leon, sent from Mexico against French settlers at Fort St. Louis, on the Lavaca River, finds it deserted......April 22, 1689
Spanish mission of San Francisco at Fort St. Louis established......1690
Don Domingo Teran de los Rios appoint