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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 20 20 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 7 7 Browse Search
M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background 6 6 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 6 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 6 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 4 4 Browse Search
Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline (ed. John Selby Watson, Rev. John Selby Watson, M.A.) 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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onymous with Fortress Monroe; and there was probably a trial of some guns this morning at the Craney Island batteries. The report of heavy guns, by the way, is distinctly heard in the upper part of this city, and when the weather is favorable for the communication of sound, it can be heard at a much greater distance. Old Point is distant from this city — air line — only eleven miles. It has been stated to be sixteen miles. The name Point Comfort was given to this noted ___location in 1607, "on account of the good channel and safe anchorage it afforded," and the word "old" distinguishes it from New Point Comfort. Between Old Point and Sewell's Point, and opposite, (eastwardly,) to Fortress Monroe, at a distance of 1,900 yards, is the ___location of the Rip-Raps, or, more properly, Castle Calhoun upon an artificial island, made by an immense deposit of rocks at a depth of 26 feet. The water there, by the action of the sea just below, and reacted upon by the bar, near at hand,