 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.) - 1839 - 362 pages
...extent, while the other lakes are found in some parts unfathomable. But to return to the chateau : it is a long wooden building, chiefly of rough logs, with...a covered porch running along the south side. Here I found suspended, among sundry implements of husbandry, one of those ferocious animals of the feline... | |
 | 324 pages
...accumulated, and a new vegetation sprung forth, of flowers, and bushes, and sucklings. The chateau is a long wooden building, chiefly of rough logs, with...a covered porch running along the south side. Here I found, suspended, among sundry implements of husbandry, one of those ferocious animals of the feline... | |
 | John Charles Dent - Canada - 1881 - 360 pages
...on it." Of the chateau itself and its immediate surroundings, she says : " It " (the chateau) " is a long wooden building, chiefly of rough logs, with...a covered porch running along the south side. Here I found suspended, among sundry implements of husbandry, one of those ferocious animals of the feline... | |
 | George Maclean Rose - Canada - 1888 - 828 pages
...hands.' He has built his tower, like the eagle his eyry, on a bold cliff overhanging the lake. It is a long wooden building, chiefly of rough logs, with...a covered porch running along the south side. Here I found suspended, among sundry implements of husbandry, one of those ferocious animals of the feline... | |
 | John George Bourinot - History - 1900 - 374 pages
...settlement of Upper Canada was exercised by one Colonel Talbot, the founder of the county of Elgin. Mrs Anna Jameson, the wife of a vice-chancellor of...with a covered porch running along the south side." Such homes as Colonel Talbot's were common enough in the country. Some of the higher class of immigrants,... | |
 | Charles Oakes Ermatinger - Canada - 1904 - 456 pages
...he solemnized all the marriages in his district ! " Mrs. Jameson describes the Colonel's chateau as a long wooden building chiefly of rough logs, with a covered porch running along the south side, from the rafters of which were suspended among implements of husbandry a ' cat-a-mountain," or American... | |
 | John George Bourinot - Canada - 1909 - 372 pages
...settlement of Upper Canada was exercised by one Colonel Talbot, the founder of the county of Elgin. Mrs Anna Jameson, the wife of a vice-chancellor of...with a covered porch running along the south side." Such homes as Colonel Talbot's were common enough in the country. Some of the higher class of immigrants,... | |
 | 384 pages
...settlement of Upper Canada was exercised by one Colonel Talbot, the founder of the county of Elgin. Mrs Anna Jameson, the wife of a vice-chancellor of...written in 1838, the home of this great proprietor, a Talhot of Malahide, one of the oldest families in the parent state. The chateau — as she calls it,... | |
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But to return to the chateau : it is a long wooden building, chiefly of rough logs, with a covered porch running along the south side. Here I found suspended, among sundry implements of husbandry, one of those ferocious animals of the feline kind, called... 