Views of Canada and the Colonists Embracing the Experience of an Eight Years' Residence: Views of the Present State, Progress, and Prospects of the Colony; with Detailed and Practical Information for Intending EmigrantsA. and C. Black, 1851 - 468 |
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agreeable American amount banks Bay of Quinte British bushels Bytown Canal chiefly churches cleared land Cobourg Colborne Districts colony commenced contained crop currency per acre distance district in 1848 DISTRICTS OF UPPER eastern emigrants extent farms feet fertile forest front Gore Grand River Hamilton harbour head of Lake Home District houses Indian inhabitants interior interior townships Island Johnstown District Kingston Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Ontario Lake Simcoe Lawrence loam London Lower Canada miles Montreal mouth natives navigation nearly Newcastle Newcastle District Niagara River occupied Otanabee Ottawa picturesque population portion possessed present produce prosperous quantity of land quantity of wild Quebec returned Rideau Canal River St road sandy scenery schools Scotland settled settlements settlers shores of Lake situated soil streams Thames timber tion Toronto town townships trade treal United Upper Canada upwards vessels village watered western westward wheat wild land wooded
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Strona 269 - One day, nigh weary of the irksome way, From her unhasty beast she did alight; And on the grass her dainty limbs did lay, In secret shadow, far from all men's sight ; From her fair head her fillet she undight, And...
Strona 194 - The mass only wanted the vigorous interference of a wellintentioned Government, strong enough to control both the extreme parties, and to proclaim wholesome truths, and act for the benefit of the country at large in defiance of ultras on either side. " But, apart from all this political effect, I am delighted to have seen this part of the country ; I mean the great district, nearly as large as Ireland, placed between the three lakes — Erie, Ontario, and Huron. You can conceive nothing finer!
Strona 290 - Of buskin'd limb, and swarthy lineament ;* The red wild feathers on his brow were blent, And bracelets bound the arm that help'd to light A boy, who seem'd, as he beside him went, Of Christian vesture, and complexion bright, Led by his dusky guide, like morning brought by night.
Strona 236 - GOD hath set His rainbow on thy forehead : and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And He doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Strona 194 - The variety of soils, and the diversity of their combinations, observable in these four districts, are by no means so great as might be expected in so extended a region. The whole tract is alluvial in its formation, and chiefly consists of a stratum of black, and sometimes yellow loam, above which is deposited, when in a state of nature, a rich and deep vegetable mould, the substratum beneath the bed of loam being generally a tenacious gray or blue clay, which in some parts appears at the surface,...
Strona 269 - Nor pierceable with power of any star: And all within were paths and alleys wide, With footing worn, and leading inward far: Fair harbour, that them seems, so in they entered are. And forth they pass, with pleasure forward led, Joying to hear the birds
Strona 236 - Unfathom'd and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead, and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thine altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.