 | 1836 - 496 pages
...fragrance with whith the air was loaded — " as if," to use the words of their letter to Raleigh, " we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." "Arrived upon the coast, and sailing along upwards of one hundred and twenty miles, they at length... | |
 | 1837 - 490 pages
...fragrance with which the air was loaded — " as if," to use the words of their letter to Raleigh, " we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." "Arrived upon the coast, and sailing along upwards of one hundred and twenty miles, they at length... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - South Carolina - 1840 - 380 pages
...They reached the shores of the western continent, which saluted them with a fragrance which was "as if they had been in the midst of some delicate garden...of odoriferous flowers." They ranged the coast for one hundred and twenty miles, in search of a convenient harbor, entered the first haven which offered,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1841 - 368 pages
...July, 1584, were opposite the shores of Carolina. As they drew near land, the fragrance was " as if they had been in the midst of some delicate garden,...and twenty miles, in search of a convenient harbor; and, entering the first which offered, after thanks to God for their safe arrival, they landed to take... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1837 - 400 pages
...arrival there. July 2d we found shoal water, where we smelt so sweet and so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers; by which we were assured that the land could not be far distant. And keeping good watch, and bearing... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 pages
...contains a copy of it. was loaded, — " as if," to use the words of their letter to Raleigh, " we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kind of odoriferous flowers."* Arrived upon the coast, and sailing along upwards of 120 miles, they... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 616 pages
...gold. On the second of July they found shoal water, " and smelt so sweet and strong a smell, as if they had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." On the 13th they entered Ocracock inlet, on the coast of the present state of North Carolina, and landed... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1847 - 470 pages
...fragrance with which the air was loaded — " as if," to use the words of their letter to Raleigh, " we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." Arrived upon the coast, and sailing along upward of one hundred and twenty miles, they at length found... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1850 - 448 pages
...fragrance with which the air was loaded — " as if," to use the words of their letter to Raleigh, " we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." Arrived upon the coast, and sailing along upward of one hundred and twenty miles, they at length found... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1851 - 282 pages
...north, and were soon opposite the shores of Carolina. As they drew near land, the fragrance was " as if they had been in the midst of some delicate garden,...the coast for a distance of one hundred and twenty mues, in search of % convenient harbour ; they entered the first haven which offered, and, after thanks... | |
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The second of July we found shoal water, where we smelled so sweet and so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers... 
