Notes of North America: Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Svazek 1W. Blackwood and sons, 1851 - Počet stran: 2 |
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... seen upon the map , reminds us of the equally indented Atlantic shores of Scandinavia ; and the character of the coast , as he sails along it — the rocky surface , the scanty herbage , and the endless pine forests - recall to the ...
... seen upon the map , reminds us of the equally indented Atlantic shores of Scandinavia ; and the character of the coast , as he sails along it — the rocky surface , the scanty herbage , and the endless pine forests - recall to the ...
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... seen in the streets of Halifax acting as porters , and in other humble employments . A few of these looked miserable enough . As far back as the close of the American war , numbers of coloured people came here , either with their ...
... seen in the streets of Halifax acting as porters , and in other humble employments . A few of these looked miserable enough . As far back as the close of the American war , numbers of coloured people came here , either with their ...
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... seen , under the blessed light of the sun , anything like the everlasting number of mackarel in one shoal on our sea - coast . Millions is too little a word for it ; acres of them is too small a tarm to give a right notion ; miles of ...
... seen , under the blessed light of the sun , anything like the everlasting number of mackarel in one shoal on our sea - coast . Millions is too little a word for it ; acres of them is too small a tarm to give a right notion ; miles of ...
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... seen on the broad naked granite surface of Point Pleasant , on which the fort stands , upwards of a hundred feet above the sea , and at other places in that immediate neighbourhood . These markings , with the accumulated drift and ...
... seen on the broad naked granite surface of Point Pleasant , on which the fort stands , upwards of a hundred feet above the sea , and at other places in that immediate neighbourhood . These markings , with the accumulated drift and ...
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... seen over much greater distances in the interior of the country . Above Sackville , which as yet is little more than an inn , with its necessary outbuildings — but which will , no doubt , be the site of a future town - several small ...
... seen over much greater distances in the interior of the country . Above Sackville , which as yet is little more than an inn , with its necessary outbuildings — but which will , no doubt , be the site of a future town - several small ...
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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.