10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POKELOGAN»
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pokelogan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Barron's How to Prepare for the TAKS: Texas Assesment of ...
In the fourth paragraph, the essay reads, "[The tracks] were particularly numerous
where there was a small bay, or pokelogan, as it is called, bordered by a strip of
meadow, or separated from the river by a low peninsula covered with coarse ...
Peggy Kennedy, Linda Powley,
2004
2
Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada
In this respect it resembles perfectly those blind coves, commonly also the lower
ends of old closed passages behind islands, which are called in Maine by the
topographical term pokelogan; and like the typical pokelogan also, this Harbour
is ...
3
The Union Magazine of Literature & Art
They are fond of the water, and visit all these island-meadows, swimming as
easily from island to island as they make their way through the thickets on land.
Now and then we passed whst McCauslin called a pokelogan, an Indian term for
what ...
Caroline Matilda Kirkland,
1848
4
"Contact"---Mysteries that Matter: Thoreau's Complex ...
Lostness, or detachment from the deity (otherwise known as nature), can be seen
in images such as that of the Pokelogan, which Thoreau describes 'an inlet which
leads nowhere" (51). Because of the immensity of the lakes, a voyager may go ...
Theron Lyle Francis,
2007
5
From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
... and gullies; dividing land into commons and wasteland; and labeling species
of trees (sometimes inaccurately), on rare occasions transforming Algonquian
words such as "pokelogan" or "pecelaygan" (backwater or wetlands) into "logan.
6
English Language Word Builder
... PERIDROME PESTHOUSE PLEASEMEN POKELOGAN POLYAXIAL
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ROTATORES RUDDLEMAN ...
we passed what McCauslin called a pokelogan, an Indian term for what the
drivers might have reason to call a poke-logs-in, an inlet that leads nowhere. If
you get in, you have got to get out again the same way. These, and the frequent ...
8
The Maine Woods (Extended Annotated Edition):
They were particularly numerous where there wasa small bay, or pokelogan, asit
is called, borderedbyastripof meadow, or separated from the riverby alow
peninsula covered with coarse grass, woolgrass, etc., wherein they had waded
back ...
Henry David Thoreau,
2014
9
Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)
I leavemyboat inHosmer's pokelogan andwalk upthe bank. A bluebird's nest
andfiveeggs inahollow appletree three feet from ground near the old bank
swallow pit, made with much stubble and dried grass. Can see the bird sitting
from without.
Henry David Thoreau,
2013
They were particularly numerous where there was a small bay, or pokelogan, as
it is called, bordered by a strip of meadow, or separated from the river by a low
peninsula covered with coarse grass, wool-grass, etc., wherein they had waded ...
Henry David Thoreau,
1873