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Página iii
... regard I entertain for yourself and your family , and as affording me an oppor- tunity of expressing my sense of the many acts of kindness I experienced during a prolonged stay at Fredericton , under your hospitable roof . Believe me ...
... regard I entertain for yourself and your family , and as affording me an oppor- tunity of expressing my sense of the many acts of kindness I experienced during a prolonged stay at Fredericton , under your hospitable roof . Believe me ...
Página vi
... regard to that of America will not be acceptable . These observations on rural matters are also so mixed up with remarks on other subjects as not , I hope , to fatigue even the ordinary readers of books of travels . It has long struck ...
... regard to that of America will not be acceptable . These observations on rural matters are also so mixed up with remarks on other subjects as not , I hope , to fatigue even the ordinary readers of books of travels . It has long struck ...
Página vii
... regard to the agricul- ture and to the productive capabilities of the wheat regions of North America . I will not maintain that more knowledge might not somewhat change my views on these subjects ; but as these form in reality one of ...
... regard to the agricul- ture and to the productive capabilities of the wheat regions of North America . I will not maintain that more knowledge might not somewhat change my views on these subjects ; but as these form in reality one of ...
Página xiii
... regard to the several new States . - Land sold in each in 1847. - Minnesota , the New England of the West . - Influence of these new States on the future traffic of the St Lawrence . Wonders of the hog crop of Ohio . - Indian corn the ...
... regard to the several new States . - Land sold in each in 1847. - Minnesota , the New England of the West . - Influence of these new States on the future traffic of the St Lawrence . Wonders of the hog crop of Ohio . - Indian corn the ...
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... regard to it , have seen only the coast line , or the interior of its rocky harbours ; and these are cer- tainly as naked and inhospitable as an inhabited country can well be . Those who have sailed along the Baltic shores of Sweden and ...
... regard to it , have seen only the coast line , or the interior of its rocky harbours ; and these are cer- tainly as naked and inhospitable as an inhabited country can well be . Those who have sailed along the Baltic shores of Sweden and ...
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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.