Minnesota and the Far WestW. Blackwood and Sons, 1855 - 306 páginas Oliphant acted as secretary to Lord Elgin during the negotiation at Washington of the reciprocity treaty with Canada. He then accompanied Lord Elgin to Quebec. There he was appointed superintendent of Indian affairsE, and made a journey to Lake Superior and back by the Mississippi to Chicago. |
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... Western Powers - Slavery : the Cuba question - A Babel of languages - Pembina and Red River settlers , 266-282 CHAPTER XXIV . STEAMBOAT LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI - THE BLUFFS . The " Pig's Eye " shallow - The settlement of Wild Land ...
... Western Powers - Slavery : the Cuba question - A Babel of languages - Pembina and Red River settlers , 266-282 CHAPTER XXIV . STEAMBOAT LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI - THE BLUFFS . The " Pig's Eye " shallow - The settlement of Wild Land ...
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... western States to reach the sea by a route which is infinitely the shortest , and which will only involve one transhipment . The journey from Montreal to Boston will be made this summer in fourteen hours . The distance from Portland to ...
... western States to reach the sea by a route which is infinitely the shortest , and which will only involve one transhipment . The journey from Montreal to Boston will be made this summer in fourteen hours . The distance from Portland to ...
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... western rivers in a bark canoe . By the present mode of conveyance , it takes , under the most favourable circumstances , twenty - one hours to reach the town of Brockville from Montreal . When the railway is completed , the time ...
... western rivers in a bark canoe . By the present mode of conveyance , it takes , under the most favourable circumstances , twenty - one hours to reach the town of Brockville from Montreal . When the railway is completed , the time ...
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... western States of America to the seaboard of that continent , to enable us to per- ceive how vast must be the traffic across a bridge at which several of the most important railways in Canada meet . Fears were entertained that the ...
... western States of America to the seaboard of that continent , to enable us to per- ceive how vast must be the traffic across a bridge at which several of the most important railways in Canada meet . Fears were entertained that the ...
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... western counties of Upper Canada has been taken up , the tide of emigration will soon be turned . The price of land has already risen thirty per cent in the town- ships along this road ; and when the Grand Trunk Railway is opened next ...
... western counties of Upper Canada has been taken up , the tide of emigration will soon be turned . The price of land has already risen thirty per cent in the town- ships along this road ; and when the Grand Trunk Railway is opened next ...
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Página 58 - Reed-that-bends," he said, addressing the young culprit by name, and in his proper language, " though the Great Spirit has made you pleasant to the eyes, it would have been better that you had not been born. Your tongue is loud in the village, but in battle it is still. None of my young men strike the tomahawk deeper into the war-post — none of them so lightly on the Yengeese.
Página 255 - ... pear tree, or a pumpkin, to a sweet potato or a tobacco plant. Why, sucker, do you know you have frosts about two weeks earlier in Illinois than we do here? It is a fact ! We will show these people sights who come up here in May, and go shivering back home, saying that Minnesota is "too cold for crops.