Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Svazek 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - Počet stran: 415 |
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... whole shores , but the best takes are usually made in the Gulf of St Lawrence , off the shores of Cape Breton and Prince Edward's Island , and especially at Canseau , where the quantity of fish has been " so great at times as actually ...
... whole shores , but the best takes are usually made in the Gulf of St Lawrence , off the shores of Cape Breton and Prince Edward's Island , and especially at Canseau , where the quantity of fish has been " so great at times as actually ...
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... for honest common sense , and for a warm but prudent zeal to improve the country in which he lived , is , as a whole , superior to any other book of the time I have hitherto LETTERS OF AGRICOLA . 13 met with in any language.
... for honest common sense , and for a warm but prudent zeal to improve the country in which he lived , is , as a whole , superior to any other book of the time I have hitherto LETTERS OF AGRICOLA . 13 met with in any language.
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... whole area is about 95,000 acres ; and supposing this to produce , at the same rate as the cultivated land of Great Britain - of which each 170 acres supports 100 inhabitants - they would raise food for about 60,000 inhabitants . But ...
... whole area is about 95,000 acres ; and supposing this to produce , at the same rate as the cultivated land of Great Britain - of which each 170 acres supports 100 inhabitants - they would raise food for about 60,000 inhabitants . But ...
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... whole day at this pace without any fatigue . I hoped to have been able during my sub- sequent visit to Canada to make a trial of this alleged easiness to the rider , but the opportunity did not fall in my way . Horses so trained are ...
... whole day at this pace without any fatigue . I hoped to have been able during my sub- sequent visit to Canada to make a trial of this alleged easiness to the rider , but the opportunity did not fall in my way . Horses so trained are ...
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... whole plain is criss - crossed with cart or horse tracks in all directions . It is jest about as silent , and lonesome , and desolate a place as you would wish to see . Each side of this desert are some most royal farms - some of the ...
... whole plain is criss - crossed with cart or horse tracks in all directions . It is jest about as silent , and lonesome , and desolate a place as you would wish to see . Each side of this desert are some most royal farms - some of the ...
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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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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.