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for a few nights if Rochefort
For a centre of excursions it is good, but preferable is Lamalou-les-Bains, where are excellent hotels; but Bédarieux must be tarried at for a few nights if Rochefort, Lunas, and Boussagues are to be visited, or much time will be lost in the trains.
— from A Book of the Cevennes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

for a fortnight nearly it rained
Once, for a fortnight nearly, it rained in torrents, with but little intermission, and then the whole interior became flooded—bridges were washed away, roads submerged, [Pg 282] etc.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

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79 Cincinnati (Ark.): 28 , 35 Cincinnati Gazette: 58 , footnote , 88 , footnote Clarimore: 238 , footnote Clark, Charles T: 82 , footnote Clark, George W: 158 and footnote Clark, Sidney: 104 , footnote Clarke, G.W: 22 Clarkson, J.J: assigned to supreme command in northern part of Indian Territory, 129 -130; applies for permission to intercept trains on Santa Fé road, 129 , footnote ; at Locust Grove, 131 ; surprised in camp, 131 , footnote ; made prisoner, 132 ; Pike's reference to, 158 ; placed in Cherokee country, 159 , footnote Clarksville (Ark.): 287 -288, footnote Clay, Clement C: 176 , footnote Cloud, William F: 193 , 297 Cochrane, John: 56 -57 Coffee, J.T: 113 and footnote , 125 Coffin, O.S: letter, 82 and footnote Coffin, S.D: 208 Coffin, William G: testifies to disturbances among Osages, 46 , footnote ; pays visit to ruins of Humboldt, 54 , footnote ; plans for inter-tribal council, 69 ; orders countermanded for enlistment of Indians, 77 ; learns of refugees in Kansas, 80 ; compelled by settlers to seek new abiding-place for refugees, 86 ; refugees lodge complaint against, 87 and footnote ; military enrollment of Indians conducted under authority of Interior Department, 105 and footnote ; applies for new instructions regarding First Indian Expedition, 105 ; dispute with Elder, 116 -117, 207 , footnote ; anxious to have Osage offer accepted by refugee Creeks,
— from The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel


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