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... Illustrated FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND SKETCHES SPECIALLY MADE FOR THIS WORK BY W. F. RENNIE , J. HAYWARD , AND S. H. PARSONS ( PHOTOGRAPHER ) ; DRAWN BY PERCIVAL SKELTON ; AND ENGRAVED BY GEO . PEARSON . Supplemented by Artistic ...
... Illustrated FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND SKETCHES SPECIALLY MADE FOR THIS WORK BY W. F. RENNIE , J. HAYWARD , AND S. H. PARSONS ( PHOTOGRAPHER ) ; DRAWN BY PERCIVAL SKELTON ; AND ENGRAVED BY GEO . PEARSON . Supplemented by Artistic ...
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... illustration of a section of it , places the " Prima Vista " near the eastern point of the present island of Cape Breton ; and as the Gut of Canso had not then been discovered , the island on the map forms a part of the present Nova ...
... illustration of a section of it , places the " Prima Vista " near the eastern point of the present island of Cape Breton ; and as the Gut of Canso had not then been discovered , the island on the map forms a part of the present Nova ...
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... , The mail service - Cost of the postal department - The police force - Thirty - two lighthouses and beacons - The light dues . -Bank statistics • . 473 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . Above Waterford Bridge - Four miles xxii CONTENTS .
... , The mail service - Cost of the postal department - The police force - Thirty - two lighthouses and beacons - The light dues . -Bank statistics • . 473 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . Above Waterford Bridge - Four miles xxii CONTENTS .
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... ILLUSTRATIONS . Above Waterford Bridge - Four miles from St. John . Section of the Mapamundi of Sebastian Cabot , 1544 . John Cabot in London . Sebastian Cabot Jacques Cartier . • Sir Humphrey Gilbert Reading his Commission Sir Humphrey ...
... ILLUSTRATIONS . Above Waterford Bridge - Four miles from St. John . Section of the Mapamundi of Sebastian Cabot , 1544 . John Cabot in London . Sebastian Cabot Jacques Cartier . • Sir Humphrey Gilbert Reading his Commission Sir Humphrey ...
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... Camp in Winter Copper Mine , Bett's Cove • Facing p . 304 407 " " · 411 First Excursion Trip on the Newfoundland Railway ; " Train about to start " 453 then stood on the beach of St. John's harbour - xxiv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
... Camp in Winter Copper Mine , Bett's Cove • Facing p . 304 407 " " · 411 First Excursion Trip on the Newfoundland Railway ; " Train about to start " 453 then stood on the beach of St. John's harbour - xxiv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
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Page 301 - With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. "And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Page 301 - Did send a dismal sheen: Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Page 337 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 336 - British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island), and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 176 - Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ; Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 31 - The cup, the cup itself, from which our Lord Drank at the last sad supper with his own. This, from the blessed land of Aromat — After the day of darkness, when the dead Went wandering o'er Moriah — the good saint...
Page 6 - Dickens : The Letters of Charles Dickens edited by his Sister-inlaw and his eldest Daughter 4 v.
Page 337 - Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same, or either of them, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such...
Page 336 - ... that the Inhabitants of the said United States shall have forever, in common with the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the Liberty to take Fish of every kind on that part of the Southern Coast of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, on the Western and Northern Coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands...
Page 361 - ... a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of fishermen'.