Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - 415 páginas |
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... usually commented upon by those who visit foreign countries , the reader will find in these volumes a kind and class of observations which he will not have met with in other books of travels . And though I may appear to incur the risk ...
... usually commented upon by those who visit foreign countries , the reader will find in these volumes a kind and class of observations which he will not have met with in other books of travels . And though I may appear to incur the risk ...
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... usually made in the Gulf of St Lawrence , off the shores of Cape Breton and Prince Edward's Island , and especially at Canseau , where the quantity of fish has been " so great at times as actually to obstruct navigation . " The ...
... usually made in the Gulf of St Lawrence , off the shores of Cape Breton and Prince Edward's Island , and especially at Canseau , where the quantity of fish has been " so great at times as actually to obstruct navigation . " The ...
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... usually seen over much greater distances in the interior of the country . Above Sackville , which as yet is little more than an inn , with its necessary outbuildings - but which will , no doubt , be the site of a future town - several ...
... usually seen over much greater distances in the interior of the country . Above Sackville , which as yet is little more than an inn , with its necessary outbuildings - but which will , no doubt , be the site of a future town - several ...
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... usually luxuriant herbage ; and had I not come from a far more arid region , it would have conveyed to my mind the impression that the agricultural capabilities of the township of Cornwallis had been much over - estimated . These dyked ...
... usually luxuriant herbage ; and had I not come from a far more arid region , it would have conveyed to my mind the impression that the agricultural capabilities of the township of Cornwallis had been much over - estimated . These dyked ...
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... usually means a bit of good luck ; but when an Englishman gets into an American forest , he will soon unlearn this home sense of the term , and come to class it among unlucky events , with the occurrence of an alder swamp or a Car ...
... usually means a bit of good luck ; but when an Englishman gets into an American forest , he will soon unlearn this home sense of the term , and come to class it among unlucky events , with the occurrence of an alder swamp or a Car ...
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Notes of North America: Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1 James Finlay Weir Johnston Visualização integral - 1851 |
Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1 James Finlay Weir Johnston Visualização integral - 1851 |
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