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"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe."
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"On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor."
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"Everything has to do with geography."
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"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
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"Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources!"
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"It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses."
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"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."
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"Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable."
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"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
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"A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand."
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"Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house."
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"Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures."
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"Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses."
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"It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below."
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"We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption."
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"The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule."
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"Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity."
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"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution."
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"Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell."
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