...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...ames. No other river has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlant... ...ies with another party of Indians; and at last they reached the mouth of the Arkansas (about a month out from their start ing point), where a tribe o... ... in the shadow of the dense forests, and in time arrived at the mouth of the Arkansas. First, they were greeted by the natives of this locality as Mar... ...s. These performances took place on the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas, and there the first confisca tion cross was raised on the bank... ...free man and may speak the whole truth, regardless of his parish’s opinions; writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankl... ...was supposed that there was collusion between the association and the under writers, but this was not so. The latter had come to compre hend the exc...

...oss The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDA... ...; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to tra... ...misery and danger. I followed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through i... ..., translated names of cities, where the Missis- sippi runs by T ennessee and Arkansas; and both, while I was crossing the continent, lay, watched by a... ...ast, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwell dis- persed, unshielded, among the intelligent bourgeois. T... ...and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbi... ...ining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or the first...

.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ .......................... ...................................... 231 Extract from Adam’s Diary ............................................................ ...from being mis taken for anybody else’s. Uncredited quotations from other writers often leave a reader in doubt as to their authorship, but McClintoc... ...een pleased to place her affections. Many have been the themes upon which writers and public speakers have dwelt with intense and increasing interest... ....—I see by the papers that this imfamous old fraud has just died again, in Arkansas. This makes six times that he is known to have died, and always in... ...ess, that dreamy spirituality about it, which many of the first critics of Arkansas have objected to in the Murillo school of Art. Ruskin. The express...