Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - 415 páginas |
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... means of facilitating and hastening the communication between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick , the execution of this railway would be of great benefit to both pro- vinces . With good steamers on the Bay of Fundy , this short line would ...
... means of facilitating and hastening the communication between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick , the execution of this railway would be of great benefit to both pro- vinces . With good steamers on the Bay of Fundy , this short line would ...
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... 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- riboo bog ...
... 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- riboo bog ...
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... called agricultural industry into play ; the export of the timber employed shipping , and afforded the means of paying for the British manufactures and West India produce VICISSITUDES IN THE LUMBER TRADE . 35 imported in return.
... called agricultural industry into play ; the export of the timber employed shipping , and afforded the means of paying for the British manufactures and West India produce VICISSITUDES IN THE LUMBER TRADE . 35 imported in return.
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... - if the lumber - trade fail , and we can raise at home only enough of food to support one - half of our population , where are the means to be obtained by which the other half is to be kept 42 THE RIVER ST JOHN . alive ? In such.
... - if the lumber - trade fail , and we can raise at home only enough of food to support one - half of our population , where are the means to be obtained by which the other half is to be kept 42 THE RIVER ST JOHN . alive ? In such.
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... means of renovating it . Old habits were to be overcome , new practices to be adopted , and a system of painstaking and care to which they had been previously unaccustomed . Hence , no doubt , the reason why I was almost everywhere told ...
... means of renovating it . Old habits were to be overcome , new practices to be adopted , and a system of painstaking and care to which they had been previously unaccustomed . Hence , no doubt , the reason why I was almost everywhere told ...
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acres agricultural already appears Atlantic average banks Bay of Fundy beautiful beds British Brunswick buckwheat Buffalo bushels Canada West cent chiefly clay cleared colony considerable crops cultivated culture descended distance district emigrants England English Erie Canal Europe export Falls farm farmers feet fertile flat flour forest French Canadian grain hitherto horses important improvement increase Indian corn interest intervale Island Kamouraska Kingston labour Lake Erie Lake Ontario land less limestone Lower Canada manure miles Montreal mountains mouth natural neighbourhood Niagara North America Nova Scotia oats population potatoes produce profitable province quantity Quebec region rent Restigouche rich ridges Rimouski river road Rochester rocks rocky Roman Catholic rural salt sandstone seed seen settled settlers shales shores soil St John St Lawrence surface tion town trees turnips upland Upper Canada valley western New York wheat whole winter
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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.