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first railroad in Cherokee country
128 Ross, John , president of constitutional convention 112 Ross, John , proclamation by 120 Ross, John , proposition for removal by 132 Ross, John , protest against removal treaty by 120 Ross, John , refusal of President Jackson to communicate with 126 Ross, John , signer of act of union 135 Ross, John , suit against Georgia by 119 Ross, John , threat of arrest 135 Ross, W. P. , editor of Cherokee Advocate 111 Ross, W. P. on death of Sequoya 148 Ross , ——, on Indian warfare in 1776 52 Ross , —— on Williamson’s expedition 50 Royce, C. C. , on adoption of Cherokee constitution 113 , 135 Royce, C. C. on Arkansas Cherokee 137 , 138 , 140 , 141 , 142 Royce, C. C. on arrest of Ross 123 Royce, C. C. on attack on Buchanans station 73 Royce, C. C. on attempted establishment of iron works in Cherokee country (1807) 86 Royce, C. C. on attempted purchase by Tennessee (1807) 86 Royce, C. C. on attempt to annul treaty of 1817 104 Royce, C. C. on Blount’s proposal (1795) 80 Royce, C. C. on building of Unicoi turnpike 87 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee attitude regarding land cession (1830) 119 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee census (1835) 125 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee desire to go west (1817–19) 104 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee emigration, 1817–19 103 , 104 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee invitations to Delawares, Shawano, and Oneida 105 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee land cessions 34 , 45 , 54 , 60 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee loss in Civil war 149 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee memorial to Congress (1834) 121 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee memorials to President Monroe 115 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee part in French and Indian war 39 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee part in Civil war 148 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee population 34 [ 569 ] Royce, C. C. , on Cherokee project to remove to Columbia river 120 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee relations with Creeks 383 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee relations with Tuscarora 32 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee suffering through Civil war 150 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee territory in 1800 81 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee war of 1760–61 45 Royce, C. C. on clearing of East Cherokee title to Qualla reservation 174 Royce, C. C. on Col. R. J. Meigs 215 Royce, C. C. on council at New Echota 122 Royce, C. C. on Davis’s letter to Secretary of War 127 Royce, C. C. on death of Sequoya 148 Royce, C. C. on deaths during Removal 133 Royce, C. C. on delegation to Washington (1835) 122 Royce, C. C. on desire for Indian lands 85 Royce, C. C. on destruction of Chickamauga towns 79 Royce, C. C. on General Dunlap’s address 128 Royce, C. C. on East Cherokee censuses 167 , 168 Royce, C. C. on East Cherokee participation in Removal fund 167 Royce, C. C. on Everett’s letter to Secretary of War 128 Royce, C. C. on extension of Georgia laws 221 Royce, C. C. on first railroad in Cherokee country 151 Royce, C. C. on Georgia acts effecting Cherokee 116 , 117 Royce, C. C. on Governor Gilmer’s declaration 129 Royce, C. C. on imprisonment of missionaries 120 Royce, C. C. on incorporation of Delawares and Shawano 151 Royce, C. C. on Indian war path 206 , 207 Royce, C. C. on Jackson’s attitude toward Cherokee 117 Royce, C. C. on Jefferson’s removal project 101 Royce, C. C. on McMinn’s estimate of Cherokee emigration 106 Royce, C. C. on massacre of Scott party and Bowl migration 100 Royce, C. C. on opposition to allotment project (1820) 114 Royce, C. C. on origin of Chickamauga band 54 Royce, C. C. on party feeling over removal plans 129 Royce, C. C. on payment of East Cherokee share in Removal fund 168 Royce, C. C. on Ross’s attitude during civil war 149 Royce, C. C. on Ross’s last efforts against removal 130 Royce, C. C. on royal proclamation of 1763 46 Royce, C. C. on Rutherford’s route 205 Royce, C. C. on Schermerhorn’s proposals for securing acceptance of Ridge treaty 122 Royce, C. C. on Scott’s proclamation 130 Royce, C. C. on Sweatland’s census 172 Royce, C. C. on Tellico conference 79 Royce, C. C. on threat to arrest Ross 135 Royce, C. C. on treaties of New Echota 123 , 125 , 159 Royce, C. C. on treaties of Tellico (1798, 1804, 1805) 81 , 85 Royce, C. C. on treaties of Washington (1816, 1819, 1846) 98 , 106 , 148 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Augusta 61 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Cherokee agency (1834) 120 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Chickasaw Old Fields (1807) 86 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Fort Gibson 125 Royce, C. C. of treaty of Holston 69 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Hopewell 62 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Philadelphia (1794)
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

FLEURY retired infantry captain comptroller
[Farewell.] FLEURY, retired infantry captain, comptroller of the Cirque-Olympique, and employed during the Restoration in Rabourdin's bureau, of the minister of finance.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

flowed round in copious curls
For its cheerful eyes and full countenance were shaded by the finest golden locks, which flowed round in copious curls; dark, slender, softly bending eyebrows showed themselves upon a brow of dazzling whiteness; and the living tinge of health was glancing on its cheeks.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

final resort in certain conditions
As the plants spread and the harvest increased, I built a dry-house on scientific principles, a large store-room, and later a laboratory in which I have been learning to prepare some of my crude material for the market, combining ideas of my own in remedies, and at last producing one your president just has indicated that I come to submit to you as a final resort in certain conditions.
— from The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

fire rose in choking clouds
The air was darkened by a tempest of missiles; and a fine dust, caused by the ashes of the late fire, rose in choking clouds from the trampling of many feet.
— from Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides

Forest Reserve in Clark County
I have seen only a shrub on the Forest Reserve in Clark County.
— from Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana) by Charles Clemon Deam

flood rivers is constantly changing
The Irrawaddy is rapid in its flow, and, like all flood rivers, is constantly changing its course, as the scour of the water washes away a portion of the bank from one spot, to form a sand-bank in the stream lower down.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Burma by R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) Kelly

Forest Reserve in Clark County
A large native tree on the Forest Reserve in Clark County ripens its fruit in August, which is of an excellent quality and usually has only one, and rarely more than three seeds.
— from Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana) by Charles Clemon Deam

fibres running in concentric circles
“Upon inverting the uterus, and brushing off the decidua, the muscular structure is very distinctly seen: the inner surface of the fundus consists of two sets of fibres, running in concentric circles round the orifices of the Fallopian tubes; these circles at their circumference unite and mingle, making an intricate tissue.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

Fortnightly Review is composed chiefly
Mr. Oyler’s article in the Fortnightly Review is composed chiefly of erroneous statements, wild guesses, and absurd interpretations of facts.
— from Glimpses of Indian Birds by Douglas Dewar


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