Five years' residence in the Canadas: including a tour through part of the United States of America, Volumen 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824 |
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... Town of York - Garrison and Public Buildings · LETTER VI . 80 84 88 93 94 97 102 ⌘ ཚཆཆ ཆ་ ་ ཚ ཆ སྟྲ Choice of a Settlement Colonel Thomas Talbot's eccentric habits 103 105 Preference of the Township of London 106 Progress towards this ...
... Town of York - Garrison and Public Buildings · LETTER VI . 80 84 88 93 94 97 102 ⌘ ཚཆཆ ཆ་ ་ ཚ ཆ སྟྲ Choice of a Settlement Colonel Thomas Talbot's eccentric habits 103 105 Preference of the Township of London 106 Progress towards this ...
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... town · Rash Adventure of a British Soldier • PAGE 324 326 The Falls of West - Flamborough -327 Mineral and Saline Springs 330 Want of Encouragement for the Manufacture of Salt - Conduct of the Provincial Legislature 332 Gypsum - Marl ...
... town · Rash Adventure of a British Soldier • PAGE 324 326 The Falls of West - Flamborough -327 Mineral and Saline Springs 330 Want of Encouragement for the Manufacture of Salt - Conduct of the Provincial Legislature 332 Gypsum - Marl ...
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... town , from which we had an extensive view of the harbour and its various fortifications . In this place we remained upwards of a month , before we heard of the arrival of the BRUNSWICK . She is a very fine ship , and elegantly fitted ...
... town , from which we had an extensive view of the harbour and its various fortifications . In this place we remained upwards of a month , before we heard of the arrival of the BRUNSWICK . She is a very fine ship , and elegantly fitted ...
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... towns on the river . No longer regarding it as a nuisance of which they cannot be too speedily rid , they will then suffer their manure to accumulate and become useful ; and , not trust- ing to the common , but foolish , idea of “ the ...
... towns on the river . No longer regarding it as a nuisance of which they cannot be too speedily rid , they will then suffer their manure to accumulate and become useful ; and , not trust- ing to the common , but foolish , idea of “ the ...
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... town , are all well - calculated to pre- possess the mind of a spectator ; but when he enters into the streets , squares , and alleys , especially of the lower town , and finds the whole to be con- fined , ill - constructed , and ...
... town , are all well - calculated to pre- possess the mind of a spectator ; but when he enters into the streets , squares , and alleys , especially of the lower town , and finds the whole to be con- fined , ill - constructed , and ...
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Página 85 - Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Página 298 - Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground ; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Página 85 - ... past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl. But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas' tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon.
Página 4 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes...
Página 182 - ... of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 147 - Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ; As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept All by the name of dogs : the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed, whereby he does receive Particular addition...
Página 388 - And whereas We are desirous, upon all Occasions, to testify Our Royal Sense and Approbation of the Conduct and Bravery of the Officers and Soldiers of Our Armies, and to reward the same...
Página 117 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Página 137 - When two persons stand very near to each other, they can mutually hear their ordinary conversation ; when removed to a small distance, they are obliged to halloo ; and, when removed a little farther, cannot be heard at all. Every other sound is drowned in the tempest of noise made by the water, and all else in the regions of nature appears to be dumb. This noise is a vast thunder, filling the heavens, shaking the earth, and leaving the mind, although perfectly conscious of safety, and affected with...