The Georgian Bay: An Account of Its Position, Inhabitants, Mineral Interests, Fish, Timber and Other Resources ...Carswell Company, limited, 1893 - 170 páginas |
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Página 70 - Ye who love the haunts of Nature, Love the sunshine of the meadow, Love the shadow of the forest, Love the wind among the branches, And the rain-shower and the snow-storm, And the rushing of great rivers Through their palisades of pine-trees, And the thunder in the mountains, Whose innumerable echoes Flap like eagles in their eyries;— Listen to these wild traditions, To this Song of Hiawatha!
Página 34 - It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
Página 42 - ... vitreous quartz. The only other minerals which could be identified in the section are calcite and a few grains of a glassy, striated feldspar. The presence of this latter mineral is very noteworthy, as we should expect it to have disappeared during the vicissitudes through which this rock has passed. After a careful study of this rock I find it possible only to interpret it as a remarkable instance of a very ancient volcanic glass-breccia, preserved through the lucky accident of silicification....
Página 62 - Olenelg, in his instructions to Sir Francis Bond Head: (Appendix to Journals of Assembly, 1837-8, p. 180.) He wrote thus: " The first step to the real improvement of the Indians is to gain them over from a wandering to a settled life, and for this purpose it is essential that they should have a sense of permanency in the locations assigned to them; that they should be attached to the soil by being taught to regard it as reserved for them and their children hy the strongest securities.
Página 42 - Nor did this process go on, as is usual, through dentrification and loss of structure, but rather like the gradual replacement of many silicified woods, whose every minute detail of structure is preserved. The rarity of such rocks in the earth's oldest formations is readily intelligible, but for this very reason the exceptional preservation of a rock like this is all the more welcome proof that explosive volcanic activity took place at the surface, then as now, and on a scale, if possible, even greater...
Página 93 - In my opinion it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth, that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts ; when, instead of...
Página 27 - David Thompson was an entirely different order of man from the orthodox fur-trader. Tall and fine looking, of sandy complexion, with large features, deep-set studious eyes, high forehead and broad shoulders, the intellectual was well set upon the physical. His deeds have never been trumpeted as those of some of the others, but in the westward explorations of the Northwest Company no man performed more valuable service or estimated his achievements more modestly.
Página 76 - ... keen lion-looks Pierced to the heart of things. Nor needed he Counsels of strength and goodness. To be free Required no teacher, no historic page, No large examples sought from age to age. For such things were himself, and, as his breath, Instinctive, pleaders 'gainst the fears of death. HARRISON. Sleep well, Tecumseh, in thy unknown grave, Thou mighty savage, resolute and brave ! Thou, master and strong spirit of the woods, Unsheltered traveller in sad solitudes, Yearner o'er Wyandot and Cherokee,...
Página 80 - She was told with pride that, on one occasion, he began a speech at sunrise which lasted without intermission till sunset.
Página 83 - I landed there, and found on the projecting rocks a quantity of tobacco, rotting in the rain; together with kettles, broken guns, and a variety of other articles. His spirit is supposed to make this its constant residence; and here to preside over the lake, and over the Indians, in their navigation and fishing.