Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - 415 páginas |
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... emigrants from different countries . - Influence of New England on the development of the new States . - Demo- cratic party . - Principles of the Old Hunkers and the Barn- burners , 192 CHAPTER VIII . BUFFALO AND THE NORTH - WESTERN ...
... emigrants from different countries . - Influence of New England on the development of the new States . - Demo- cratic party . - Principles of the Old Hunkers and the Barn- burners , 192 CHAPTER VIII . BUFFALO AND THE NORTH - WESTERN ...
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... emigrant is to look for those rural attractions which are to dispose him to settle in Nova Scotia . One would scarcely expect that much should ever have been done in such a locality for the general promotion of North American ...
... emigrant is to look for those rural attractions which are to dispose him to settle in Nova Scotia . One would scarcely expect that much should ever have been done in such a locality for the general promotion of North American ...
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... emigrants , as they arrived , followed their example : and thus not only was the progress of farming discouraged and retarded , but a belief began to prevail that the colony was unfitted for agricultural pursuits . The occasional large ...
... emigrants , as they arrived , followed their example : and thus not only was the progress of farming discouraged and retarded , but a belief began to prevail that the colony was unfitted for agricultural pursuits . The occasional large ...
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... emigrants , with money to purchase farms at two to four pounds an acre , might settle comfortably here . This alluvial land has been long famed for its grass and its produce of hay . In this country , where hay has hitherto been the ...
... emigrants , with money to purchase farms at two to four pounds an acre , might settle comfortably here . This alluvial land has been long famed for its grass and its produce of hay . In this country , where hay has hitherto been the ...
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... emigrant who had £ 20 in his pocket , after paying for his land , would be easy . He only required a little to carry him on till his first crops were gathered . His own 200 acres , with the 60 cleared , he said , might now be worth ...
... emigrant who had £ 20 in his pocket , after paying for his land , would be easy . He only required a little to carry him on till his first crops were gathered . His own 200 acres , with the 60 cleared , he said , might now be worth ...
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Página 419 - Every step in Scotland Is historical; the shades of the dead arise on every side; the very rocks breathe. Miss Strickland's talents as a writer, and turn of mind as an individual, in a peculiar manner fit her for painting a historical gallery of the most illustrious or dignified female characters in that land of chivalry and song."— Mtackwwid'e Mayasiite.
Página 196 - Having provided himself with a home, he commenced translating the record, by the gift and power of God, through the means of the Urim and Thummim ; and being a poor writer, he was under the necessity of employing a scribe to write the translation as it came from his mouth.
Página 195 - a curious instrument, called by the ancients the Urim and Thummim, which consisted of two transparent stones, clear as crystal, set in the two rims of a bow.
Página 421 - An extraordinary work, which has earned for itself a lasting place in the literature of the country, and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration of which Mr Alison's labours have been devoted. It exhibits great knowledge, patient research, indefatigable industry, and vast power.
Página 419 - Miss Strickland has not only been fortunate in the selection of her subject, but she has sustained to the full the high reputation for research which her previous writings have acquired. Her choice has indeed been evidently directed to that period when Scottish history assumes the highest interest, and connects itself most closely with the sympathies of the present day.