Field and Forest Rambles: With Notes and Observations on the Natural History of Eastern CanadaHenry S. King & Company, 1873 - 333 páginas |
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... inches at the capital , eighty - two miles from its mouth . Moreover , the vertical rise in some of the most distant reaches of the Bay of Fundy attains the unexampled height of sixty to seventy feet , or even more . Such conditions ...
... inches at the capital , eighty - two miles from its mouth . Moreover , the vertical rise in some of the most distant reaches of the Bay of Fundy attains the unexampled height of sixty to seventy feet , or even more . Such conditions ...
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... inches in thickness ) against the bank , tearing up soil , and pushing everything before them . Occasionally an island in mid - river , formed of alluvium , and famous for its splendid crops of hay , gets completely covered Breaking ...
... inches in thickness ) against the bank , tearing up soil , and pushing everything before them . Occasionally an island in mid - river , formed of alluvium , and famous for its splendid crops of hay , gets completely covered Breaking ...
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... inch after inch of their noble forests , and dwindle down to a handful of degenerate beings , preyed on by poverty , disease , and vice , which , in the ordinary course of events , must exterminate the race before another century or two ...
... inch after inch of their noble forests , and dwindle down to a handful of degenerate beings , preyed on by poverty , disease , and vice , which , in the ordinary course of events , must exterminate the race before another century or two ...
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... inches in length , from an old encampment on the Tobique river , where the natives , and their foes the Mohawks , were wont to engage in desperate fights . Stone hatchets of divers size , some very finely polished , such as fig . 6 ...
... inches in length , from an old encampment on the Tobique river , where the natives , and their foes the Mohawks , were wont to engage in desperate fights . Stone hatchets of divers size , some very finely polished , such as fig . 6 ...
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... inches long by two inches in breadth . Reverting to the finely polished specimens . Many are so exquisitely fashioned , particularly the arrow edges , that the present race often express wonder how their forefathers fabri- cated such ...
... inches long by two inches in breadth . Reverting to the finely polished specimens . Many are so exquisitely fashioned , particularly the arrow edges , that the present race often express wonder how their forefathers fabri- cated such ...
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