Notes of North America: Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Svazek 1W. Blackwood and sons, 1851 - Počet stran: 2 |
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Strana 16
... means of facilitating and hastening the communication between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick , the execution of this railway would be of great benefit to both pro- vinces . With good steamers on the Bay of Fundy , this short line would ...
... means of facilitating and hastening the communication between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick , the execution of this railway would be of great benefit to both pro- vinces . With good steamers on the Bay of Fundy , this short line would ...
Strana 29
... means a bit of good luck ; but when an Englishman gets into an American forest , he will soon unlearn this home sense of the term , and come to class it among unlucky events , with the occurrence of an alder swamp or a Car- riboo bog ...
... means a bit of good luck ; but when an Englishman gets into an American forest , he will soon unlearn this home sense of the term , and come to class it among unlucky events , with the occurrence of an alder swamp or a Car- riboo bog ...
Strana 34
... for these men called agricultural industry into play ; the export of the timber employed shipping , and afforded the means of paying for the British manufactures and West India produce VICISSITUDES IN THE LUMBER TRADE . 35 35 imported in.
... for these men called agricultural industry into play ; the export of the timber employed shipping , and afforded the means of paying for the British manufactures and West India produce VICISSITUDES IN THE LUMBER TRADE . 35 35 imported in.
Strana 41
... - if the lumber - trade fail , and we can raise at home only enough of food to support one - half of our population , where are the means to be obtained by which the other half is to be kept 42 THE RIVER ST JOHN . alive ? In such.
... - if the lumber - trade fail , and we can raise at home only enough of food to support one - half of our population , where are the means to be obtained by which the other half is to be kept 42 THE RIVER ST JOHN . alive ? In such.
Strana 54
... means of renovating it . Old habits were to be overcome , new practices to be adopted , and a system of painstaking and care to which they had been previously unaccustomed . Hence , no doubt , the reason why I was almost everywhere told ...
... means of renovating it . Old habits were to be overcome , new practices to be adopted , and a system of painstaking and care to which they had been previously unaccustomed . Hence , no doubt , the reason why I was almost everywhere told ...
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acres agricultural already appears Atlantic average banks barley Bay of Fundy beautiful beds British Brunswick buckwheat Buffalo bushels Canada West cent chiefly clay cleared colony considerable crops cultivated culture descended distance district dollars emigrants England Erie Canal export Falls farm farmers feet fertile flat flour forest French Canadian grain hitherto horses important improvement increase Indian corn intervale Island Kamouraska Kingston labour Lake Erie Lake Ontario land less limestone Lower Canada manure miles Montreal mouth native natural neighbourhood Niagara North America Nova Scotia oats population potatoes produce profitable province quantity Quebec rapid region rent Restigouche rich ridges Rimouski river road Rochester rocks rocky Roman Catholic rural salt sandstone sandy seed seen settled settlers shales shores soil St John St Lawrence surface tion town trees upland Upper Canada valley western New York wheat whole winter
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Strana 218 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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 218 - Progressive Young Democracy." The New York Tribune, in reference to the origin of the names themselves, says that the name Hunkers " was intended to indicate that those on whom it was conferred had an appetite for a large hunk* of the ' spoils,' though we never could discover that they were peculiar in that.
Strana 162 - From fifty to sixty dollars an acre is the highest price which farms bring here ; and if twenty-five dollars an acre were expended upon any of it, the price in the market would not rise in proportion. Or if forty-dollar land should actually be improved onefourth by thorough-drainage, it would still, it is said, not be more valuable than that which now sells at fifty dollars ; so that the improver would be a loser to the extent of fifteen dollars an acre. This argument will appear to have greater...
Strana 24 - s uneven, or wavy, like the swell of the sea in a calm, and is covered with short, thin, dry, coarse grass, and dotted here and there with a half-starved birch and a stunted misshapen spruce. It is jest...
Strana 360 - An inventory. and made them unload ; but a multitude of the burgesses resisting, and being too strong for them, every one in his own tenement now collects his dung in a heap, and the poor sell theirs when and to whom they choose.
Strana 71 - ... houses of the inhabitants, with the wooded high grounds at a distance on our right, and the river on our left — on which an occasional boat, laden with stores for the lumberers, with the help of stout horses, toiled against the current towards the rarely visited head- waters of the tributary streams, where the virgin forests still stood unconscious of the axe.
Strana 145 - Oppenheim, Manheim, Danube, and Frankfort; and the mixed English and German sign-boards in the villages, show that there are numbers of the inhabitants to whom German is still the more familiar tongue. The city of Utica, fifteen miles farther, stands on the right bank of the river, in the midst of a broad expansion of the valley, resembling the bed of a great lake. It is a clean thriving place, of about fifteen thousand inhabitants, has a striking main street— is the seat of flourishing manufactories...
Strana 203 - the delusions of the system are hidden from the masses by the emissaries who have been dispatched into various countries to recruit their numbers among the ignorant and devoutly-inclined lovers of novelty. Who can tell what two centuries may do in the way of giving an historical position to this rising heresy ?' Their practices excited uncontrollable disgust wherever they first congregated...
Strana 211 - I hope the time may soon arrive when more skill and knowledge shall have forced it to become, far more productive, as a whole, than it is now." The Professor adds the formidable anticipation, that there we may by and by " find new Lothians, and Norfolks, and Lincolnshires, and a reproduction of the best farmers of all these districts — their very sons and grandsons, in fact, settled on American farms.