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... 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 the points in my book upon which I have bestowed much deliberation , I have not put them ...
... 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 the points in my book upon which I have bestowed much deliberation , I have not put them ...
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... North - east America not a danger- ous competitor in the English wheat market . - Duty upon Canadian wheat . - Importance of the direct trade to Europe by the St Lawrence . - Erie Canal ; its traffic and revenue.- Number of emigrants ...
... North - east America not a danger- ous competitor in the English wheat market . - Duty upon Canadian wheat . - Importance of the direct trade to Europe by the St Lawrence . - Erie Canal ; its traffic and revenue.- Number of emigrants ...
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... North America . - Rimouski . - Irish landlord.- Scotch settlers at Mitis , • XV Page 322 CHAPTER XIII . THE AGRICULTURE AND WHEAT - PRODUCING CAPABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA - AND THE NAVIGATION OF THE ST LAWRENCE . Ideas ...
... North America . - Rimouski . - Irish landlord.- Scotch settlers at Mitis , • XV Page 322 CHAPTER XIII . THE AGRICULTURE AND WHEAT - PRODUCING CAPABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA - AND THE NAVIGATION OF THE ST LAWRENCE . Ideas ...
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... Dalhousie .-- Settlement on the Eel River.— Illustrations of social and domestic differences between the States and the provinces . - Ancient republics and modern , - Page 384 NOTES ON NORTH AMERICA CHAPTER I. Halifax in Nova Scotia.
... Dalhousie .-- Settlement on the Eel River.— Illustrations of social and domestic differences between the States and the provinces . - Ancient republics and modern , - Page 384 NOTES ON NORTH AMERICA CHAPTER I. Halifax in Nova Scotia.
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... North Moun- tains . Ironworks of Bear river . - Healthiness of the country.— Handiness of the Nova Scotians . - Blue - nose provincialisms . ON Saturday the 28th of July , at 3 P.M. , I sailed from Liverpool in the steam - ship America ...
... North Moun- tains . Ironworks of Bear river . - Healthiness of the country.— Handiness of the Nova Scotians . - Blue - nose provincialisms . ON Saturday the 28th of July , at 3 P.M. , I sailed from Liverpool in the steam - ship America ...
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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.