Twenty-seven Years in Canada West: Or, The Experience of an Early Settler, Volúmenes1-2R. Bentley, 1853 - 184 páginas |
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Twenty-seven Years in Canada West: Or, The Experience of an Early Settler Samuel Strickland Vista de fragmentos - 1970 |
Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West: Or, the Experience of an Early Settler ... Samuel Strickland Sin vista previa disponible - 2022 |
Términos y frases comunes
acres appearance Balsam Lake bark beautiful bush called Canada Company Canada West Canadian canoe cedar CHAPTER Charlevoix Chippewas chopping church clear Cobourg Colonel commenced course creek dark deer distance Doctor Douro Dunlop emigrant England fall farm feet fire foot forest friends Galt Goderich ground Guelph harbour head heard honour hundred Huron tract inches Indian islands labour Lake Huron Lake Ontario land length logs ment miles Mississauga morning nearly neighbours night Otonabee Otonabee river oxen party person Peterborough pine poor rapids residence Rice Lake river road rocks seen settlement settler shanty shore side snow soon spring Stony Lake stream Suffolk sugar summer timber tion Toronto town township of Douro trees Upper Upper Canada upwards village weather whiskey wife wigwam wild wind winter wolves woods Yankee yards young
Pasajes populares
Página 11 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Página 224 - I alone am left on earth ! To whom nor relative nor blood remains, No ! — not a kindred drop that runs in human veins...
Página 252 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Página 22 - Two or three frosty nights in the decline of autumn, transform the boundless verdure of a whole empire into every possible tint of brilliant scarlet, rich violet ; every shade of blue and brown, vivid crimson, and glittering yellow. The stern, inexorable fir tribes alone maintain their eternal sombre green ; all others, on mountains or in valleys, burst into the most glorious vegetable beauty, and exhibit the most splendid and most enchanting panorama on earth.
Página 172 - ... should be to erect a frame or log-barn; I should strongly recommend the former, if boards can be obtained in the neighbourhood, as it is undoubtedly the best and cheapest in the long run. If I were commencing life again in the woods, I would not build anything of logs except a shanty or a pig-sty; for experience has plainly told me that log buildings are the dirtiest, most inconvenient, and the dearest when everything is taken into consideration. As soon as the settler is ready to build, let...
Página 274 - ... as before mentioned, of the united Reeves and Deputy Reeves. These various Municipalities elect their own officers, the County Warden being chosen by the County Council. The qualifications necessary to the being eligible as Councillors are : For Township Councillors the being rated on the Roll, for real property in his own right or that of his wife, — as proprietor, to the amount of £100, or tenant, of £200. A Police Trustee must be rated, as above, for £100 ; a Village Councillor, — if...
Página 195 - He was trudging on steadily, singing cheerfully as he walked, when a sound came on the nightair that sent a shiver through the young pedestrian's frame — the war-cry of the wolves. At first he hoped he was not the object of pursuit ; but the hideous uproar came nearer and nearer, and then he knew that he must instantly adopt some plan for his escape. His route lay by the river shore, and he could swim well ; but the night was dark, and he might be hurried into the rapids ; and to be dashed to pieces...
Página 14 - ... parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, while Lake Erie is only 60 or 70 feet deep ; but the bottoms of Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior are all, from their vast depths, although their surface is so much higher, on a level with the bottoms of Lake Ontario, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Can there be a subterranean river running from Lake Superior to Huron, and from Huron to Lake Ontario?
Página 289 - The following average of ten years for the Huron tract, has been published : — Wheat, 25 bushels ; barley, 30 bushels ; oats, 40 bushels ; rye, 30 bushels ; potatoes, 250 bushels per acre. Swedish turnips, mangel-wurzel, and other roots of a similar kind, are not yet sufficiently cultivated, to enable an average yield to be given; but it may very safely be said, that, with similar care, culture, and attention, the produce will not be less per acre than in England. Indeed, it may be said with truth...
Página 88 - Then the dead bodies are carried from the cabins for the general reinterment. A great pit is dug in the ground, and thither, at a certain time, each perfon, attended by his family and friends, marches in folemn filence, bearing the dead body of a fon, a father, or a brother.
Referencias a este libro
Listening to Old Woman Speak: Natives and AlterNatives in Canadian Literature Laura Smyth Groening Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Work of Words: The Writing of Susanna Strickland Moodie John Harry Thurston Vista previa limitada - 1996 |