A step from the New world to the Old, and back again; with thoughts on the good and evil in both. By Henry P. Tappan.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781425530334
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; History / United States / General; United States - General
First sentence: THE Maase or Meuse at Rotterdam, the Waal-so called above the junction with the Meuse as far as Pannerden- the Ligne, the Leck, the Old Rhine at Leyden, the Vecht at Utrecht, the Yssel that flows past Zutphen and thence to the Zuyder Zee, what are these but the Rhine itself, which having received the waters of a multitude of tributaries, finds the ocean through the mud and sand of Holland-mud and sand which it has itself these deposited?