An Historical and Descriptive Account of British America;: Comprehending Canada, Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New-Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas and the Fur Countries; Their History from the Earliest Settlement; Their Statistics, Topography, Commerce, Fisheries, &c.; and Their Social and Political Condition; as Also an Account of the Manners and Present State of the Aboriginal Tribes, Svazek 1Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street, 1840 |
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of British America ..., Svazek 1 Hugh Murray Zobrazení fragmentů - 1901 |
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Strana 187 - An Act to amend an Act of the fourteenth year of His Majesty, King George the Third, for establishing a fund towards defraying the Charges of the Administration of Justice and the Support of the Civil Government...
Strana 16 - Temiscaming; and, from the head of the said lake, by a line drawn due north, until it strikes the boundary line of Hudson's Bay, including all the territory to the westward and southward of the said line, to the utmost extent of the country, commonly called or known by the name of Canada*.
Strana 126 - Be patient ; this disaster is an affliction which has fallen from Heaven upon us. The sun, which hath been cloudy, and sent this disaster, will shine again with its pleasant beams. Take courage...
Strana 153 - I am not ashamed to own to you that my heart does not exult in the midst of this success. I have lost but a friend in General Wolfe. Our country has lost a sure support and a perpetual honour.
Strana 187 - ... of Quebec and Montreal, on the other hand, deprecate with equal earnestness any departure from the principle on which the appointment of the members of the Legislative Council is regulated by the Act of 1791, and denounce any such change as pregnant with the most formidable evils. 66. The King is most unwilling to admit, as open to debate, the ques' No. CXIV. lion whether one of the vital principles of the provincial government shall undergo alteration.
Strana xiii - Shoe fall, from its shape, according to the most careful estimate, is 2100 feet broad, and 149 feet 9 inches high. The other or American, fall is 1140 feet broad, and 164 feet high. The former is far superior to the latter in grandeur. The great body of the water passes over the...
Strana 55 - ... representing all that has been done for it, the disgrace it incurs by not protecting its votary, and, finally, the danger that, in case of repeated neglect, it may be discarded for another. Nor is this considered merely as an empty threat ; for if the manitou is judged incorrigible, it is thrown away ; and by means of a fresh course of fasting, dreaming, sweating, and painting, another is installed, from whom better success may be hoped. The absence of temples, worship, sacrifices, and all the...
Strana 184 - Papiiieau was elected speaker; an appointment which, on account of his violent opposition to the measures of administration, Lord Dalhousie refused to sanction. The consequence was, that no session of either house was held in the winter of 1827-1828.* Discontent had now risen to an alarming height ; and in the latter year a petition was presented to the king, signed by 87,000 inhabitants, complaining of the conduct of successive governors, particularly of the Earl of Dalhousie, and urging a compliance...
Strana xvii - ... of the soft shale upon which it rests. This effect is produced by the action of the spray powerfully thrown back upon the stratum of shale ; and hence has arisen the great hollow between the descending flood and the precipice. An immense fragment fell on the 28th of December, 1828, with a crash that shook the glass vessels in the adjoining inn, and was felt at the distance of two miles from the spot. By this disintegration, the angular or horse-shoe form of the great fall was lessened, and its...
Strana 152 - If the world were sensible at how dear a price we have purchased Quebec in his death, it would damp the public joy. Our best consolation is, that Providence seemed not to promise that he should remain long among us. He was...