Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - 415 páginas |
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... portion of the province , the upland is said to be comparatively fertile , and free from stones . The most improved of this kind of land , however , with farm - buildings attached , rarely sells so high as £ 10 an acre . The wild or ...
... portion of the province , the upland is said to be comparatively fertile , and free from stones . The most improved of this kind of land , however , with farm - buildings attached , rarely sells so high as £ 10 an acre . The wild or ...
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... portions of the American Union . The commercial , and I may say the entire internal and social condition of the province of New Brunswick , is in a transition state ; and as all transitions occasion em- barrassment and distress more or ...
... portions of the American Union . The commercial , and I may say the entire internal and social condition of the province of New Brunswick , is in a transition state ; and as all transitions occasion em- barrassment and distress more or ...
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... portion of the river . From the north - east enters the Washademoak River ; and fifteen or twenty miles above its mouth , the Salmon River , after traversing the Grand Lake , escapes into the St John . At the mouths of both these rivers ...
... portion of the river . From the north - east enters the Washademoak River ; and fifteen or twenty miles above its mouth , the Salmon River , after traversing the Grand Lake , escapes into the St John . At the mouths of both these rivers ...
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... portion of the day in going over these twelve miles . A few miles below Woodstock we stopped to look at a farm on the left bank of the river , owned and occupied by Mr Rankin . It consists of about 1100 acres of inter- vale and upland ...
... portion of the day in going over these twelve miles . A few miles below Woodstock we stopped to look at a farm on the left bank of the river , owned and occupied by Mr Rankin . It consists of about 1100 acres of inter- vale and upland ...
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... portion of the province . Woodstock , the chief town in the county of Carlton , is advantageously situated at the mouth of the Medux- nakik , on the right bank of the St John . It has four churches , a grammar school , and about 3000 ...
... portion of the province . Woodstock , the chief town in the county of Carlton , is advantageously situated at the mouth of the Medux- nakik , on the right bank of the St John . It has four churches , a grammar school , and about 3000 ...
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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.