Iroquois Ridge South

Famous quotes containing the words iroquois, ridge and/or south:

“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognita to them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The light passes
from ridge to ridge,
from flower to flower.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“To lib and die in Dixie!
Away, away, away down South in Dixie!”
—Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815–1904)