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" I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by ; when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water : but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold... "
The Writings of George Washington: pt.i. Official letters relating to the ... - Page 444
by George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834
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Kings without crowns; or Lives of American presidents, with a sketch of the ...

Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by,...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged, as...
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Magazine of Western History, Volume 6

1887 - 734 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft that the ice might pass by,...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 13

Mary Mapes Dodge - 1886 - 504 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. 1 put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by,...stream threw it with so much violence against the pole p on page 1*79 of February ST. NICHOLAS. IN GTO N. • «!i |i|. ilf: „ -ft-if ^iwtt ; il l£i 371...
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The French in the Allegheny Valley

Thomas Jefferson Chapman - 1887 - 224 pages
...expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try and stop the raft that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with such violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved...
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Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley: Historical and ...

William Henry Venable - 1891 - 550 pages
..."jammed in the ice " in a most dangerous manner, and they expect to perish. " I put out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, that the Ice might pass by...against the Pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet of Water; But I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft Logs." The incidental...
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Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley

William Henry Venable - 1891 - 548 pages
..."jammed in the ice" in a most dangerous manner, and they expect to perish. I put out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, that the Ice might pass by...against the Pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet of Water; But I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft. Logs." The incidental...
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Studies in American History

Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 pages
...perish. I put out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, . . . when the Rapidity of the Stream . . . jerked me out into ten Feet Water : but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft Logs. . . . [We] arrived at Mr. Gist's on the second day of January.94 On Washington's return...
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The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 14

John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1885 - 832 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft that the ice might pass by,...rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence * The scene of this attempt upon the life of Washington is believed to have been in the present Forward...
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The Bookman, Volume 10

1899 - 676 pages
...pole to prevent our being swept down the stream ; but the rapidity of the current threw the raft willi so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water, and I was like to have drowned. This wind and sleet seem warm when I remember that, and had...
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Stories of Pennsylvania, Or, School Readings from Pennsylvania History

Joseph Solomon Walton, Martin Grove Brumbaugh - 1897 - 316 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by ; when the rapidity of the stream threw it with such violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved...
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