Letters from Canada, Written During a Residence There in the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808 |
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... trees , however , appearing scraggy and dwarfish , present a most desert and me- lancholy aspect , without the least appear- ance of the country being the residence of human beings . Probably it looks pretty much the same now that it ...
... trees , however , appearing scraggy and dwarfish , present a most desert and me- lancholy aspect , without the least appear- ance of the country being the residence of human beings . Probably it looks pretty much the same now that it ...
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... trees , the trunks of very large trees , scorched black to the very top . The fire lays waste every thing be- fore it for many miles beyond what those who first kindled it , intended , or could cultivate ; and you see a new forest grown ...
... trees , the trunks of very large trees , scorched black to the very top . The fire lays waste every thing be- fore it for many miles beyond what those who first kindled it , intended , or could cultivate ; and you see a new forest grown ...
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... ciently advanced to cover the ground , and the forest trees are not yet in leaf . Vege- tation , in general , is very little advanced , although we are now at the end of May . One cannot help being struck with this tardy appearance of 37.
... ciently advanced to cover the ground , and the forest trees are not yet in leaf . Vege- tation , in general , is very little advanced , although we are now at the end of May . One cannot help being struck with this tardy appearance of 37.
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... trees as they pass along . If an Indian or Canadian voyageur wishes to make a journey to any particular place , to which there is no known tract ; — he goes into the woods without the smallest dread ; he makes a straight course , and ...
... trees as they pass along . If an Indian or Canadian voyageur wishes to make a journey to any particular place , to which there is no known tract ; — he goes into the woods without the smallest dread ; he makes a straight course , and ...
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... trees at some distance ; he started up , —and made towards it . Conceive his astonishment , his joy - it was his own house : he thought him- self at least forty miles from it . In fact , he had been travelling all day in a circle , and ...
... trees at some distance ; he started up , —and made towards it . Conceive his astonishment , his joy - it was his own house : he thought him- self at least forty miles from it . In fact , he had been travelling all day in a circle , and ...
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Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...