Letters from Canada, Written During a Residence There in the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 406 halaman |
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Halaman 14
... carry us across the banks , so that , with the exception of one day , we had no opportu- nity of fishing for cod . I was called on deck one day to look at a banker ; I immediately thought of Lom- bard - street : yet it seemed strange ...
... carry us across the banks , so that , with the exception of one day , we had no opportu- nity of fishing for cod . I was called on deck one day to look at a banker ; I immediately thought of Lom- bard - street : yet it seemed strange ...
Halaman 19
... carried on without a harbour in the island , and the harbour of Louisburgh is the principal one for that purpose . Great advantages are likely to accrue from the valuable coal - mines in Cape Breton . There is also abundance of iron ...
... carried on without a harbour in the island , and the harbour of Louisburgh is the principal one for that purpose . Great advantages are likely to accrue from the valuable coal - mines in Cape Breton . There is also abundance of iron ...
Halaman 20
... carry on , however , a con- siderable trade in oil , seal - skins , cod - fish , & c . which they send to Europe , or to Que- bec , whence they receive in return the various articles they have occasion for , such as flour , liquors ...
... carry on , however , a con- siderable trade in oil , seal - skins , cod - fish , & c . which they send to Europe , or to Que- bec , whence they receive in return the various articles they have occasion for , such as flour , liquors ...
Halaman 25
... carrying on a trade with the Esquimaux Indians . Higher up the river you have The Bay of Seven Islands , a secure harbour for ships in any wind . In this neighbourhood are what are called The King's Posts . The French king established ...
... carrying on a trade with the Esquimaux Indians . Higher up the river you have The Bay of Seven Islands , a secure harbour for ships in any wind . In this neighbourhood are what are called The King's Posts . The French king established ...
Halaman 52
... carried so far out , or where the river does not deepen so suddenly , the vessels lie dry at low water . The Lower Town is not included in the fortifications , but the passes to it are com- manded by the batteries in the line of for ...
... carried so far out , or where the river does not deepen so suddenly , the vessels lie dry at low water . The Lower Town is not included in the fortifications , but the passes to it are com- manded by the batteries in the line of for ...
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Halaman 352 - Equator, to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint River ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's River ; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's River to the Atlantic Ocean.
Halaman 64 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Halaman 290 - Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile, or else deep snow and ice...
Halaman 352 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Halaman 402 - ... all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, •or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.
Halaman 99 - Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds; As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear, astonished, rends. Dim-seen, thro' rising mists, and ceaseless show'rs, The hoary cavern, wide-surrounding, low'rs. Still, thro...
Halaman 405 - And the three commissioners so appointed, shall be sworn, impartially to examine and decide the said question, according to such evidence as shall respectively be laid before them on the part of the British government and of the United States.
Halaman 352 - Mississippi ; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude : south by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Halaman 405 - Declaration of the commissioners under the fifth article of the treaty of 1794 between the United States and Great Britain, respecting the true river St. Croix, by Thomas Barclay, David Howell, and Egbert Benson, commissioners appointed in pursuance of the fifth article of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America finally to decide the question "What river was truly intended under the name of the river St.
Halaman 401 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...