Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - 415 páginas |
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... canal runs through it for sixty miles without a single lock . A single glance at this country , from the time we left Verona , showed into how different a region we had come since we had left the Mohawk Valley . A flat forest country of ...
... canal runs through it for sixty miles without a single lock . A single glance at this country , from the time we left Verona , showed into how different a region we had come since we had left the Mohawk Valley . A flat forest country of ...
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... canal ( of thirty - eight miles in length ) with the main trunk of the Erie canal , and is thus on the great lines of communication between Canada and western New York on the one hand , and between the Atlantic and the Western lakes and ...
... canal ( of thirty - eight miles in length ) with the main trunk of the Erie canal , and is thus on the great lines of communication between Canada and western New York on the one hand , and between the Atlantic and the Western lakes and ...
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... canal , in 1848 , as many as 18,000 barrels , at from 62 to 100 cents per barrel . This is a low price for good apples . But in New York the best apples sell for three or four , and in London for nine dollars a barrel . In Wayne County ...
... canal , in 1848 , as many as 18,000 barrels , at from 62 to 100 cents per barrel . This is a low price for good apples . But in New York the best apples sell for three or four , and in London for nine dollars a barrel . In Wayne County ...
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... Canal ; its length , and that of its branches . - Amount of traffic and revenue . - Number of emigrants from different countries . - Cost of passage from New York to Lake Erie . - Influence of the New England States on the development ...
... Canal ; its length , and that of its branches . - Amount of traffic and revenue . - Number of emigrants from different countries . - Cost of passage from New York to Lake Erie . - Influence of the New England States on the development ...
Página 204
... Canal , the railroad , and the lakes . The Genesee Valley , which gives its name to the finest samples of flour , produces wheat of the best quality . The soil on which it is grown is for the most part a rich drift clay - the ruins of ...
... Canal , the railroad , and the lakes . The Genesee Valley , which gives its name to the finest samples of flour , produces wheat of the best quality . The soil on which it is grown is for the most part a rich drift clay - the ruins of ...
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Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1 James Finlay Weir Johnston Visualização integral - 1851 |
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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.