Her
territory had been saturated with population; that is to say, her
territory, with the primitive method of production, had supported the maximum limit of population.
In the wide field of Western
territory, therefore, we perceive an ample theatre for hostile pretensions, without any umpire or common judge to interpose between the contending parties.
When he has penetrated into hostile
territory, but to no great distance, it is facile ground.
But I reckon I got to light out for the
Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it.
It will be remembered that the French, when masters of the Canadas and Louisiana, claimed the whole of the
territory in question.
Under the confusion of names, it has been an easy task to transfer to a republic observations applicable to a democracy only; and among others, the observation that it can never be established but among a small number of people, living within a small compass of
territory.
Our sovereign alone has protested against the seizure of the Duke of Oldenburg's
territory, and even..." Count Rostopchin paused, feeling that he had reached the limit beyond which censure was impossible.
In looking at species as they are now distributed over a wide area, we generally find them tolerably numerous over a large
territory, then becoming somewhat abruptly rarer and rarer on the confines, and finally disappearing.
On leaving Omaha, it passes along the left bank of the Platte River as far as the junction of its northern branch, follows its southern branch, crosses the Laramie
territory and the Wahsatch Mountains, turns the Great Salt Lake, and reaches Salt Lake City, the Mormon capital, plunges into the Tuilla Valley, across the American Desert, Cedar and Humboldt Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and descends, via Sacramento, to the Pacific--its grade, even on the Rocky Mountains, never exceeding one hundred and twelve feet to the mile.
They did this because, subsisting on their pay and without
territory, they were unable to support many soldiers, and a few infantry did not give them any authority; so they were led to employ cavalry, with a moderate force of which they were maintained and honoured; and affairs were brought to such a pass that, in an army of twenty thousand soldiers, there were not to be found two thousand foot soldiers.
Texas plumed itself upon its 330,000 natives; Florida, with a far smaller
territory, boasted of being much more densely populated with 56,000.
The Boys' Home was the best hotel on our branch of the Burlington, and all the commercial travellers in that
territory tried to get into Black Hawk for Sunday.