Twenty-seven Years in Canada West: Or, The Experience of an Early Settler, Volumen1R. Bentley, 1853 |
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Twenty-seven Years in Canada West: Or, The Experience of an Early Settler Samuel Strickland Vista de fragmentos - 1970 |
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Página 9 - 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 250 - 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 20 - 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.
Página 24 - ... loud and incessant thunder; while at the same instant the atmosphere became thickly darkened with smoke. They had scarcely time to ascertain the cause of this awful phenomenon, before all the surrounding woods appeared in one vast blaze ; the flames ascending from one to two hundred feet above the tops of the loftiest trees, and the fire, rolling forward with inconceivable celerity, presented the terribly sublime appearance of an impetuous flaming ocean.
Página 242 - Having seen the effects of several similar hurricanes since my residence in Canada West, I shall describe one which happened in the township of Guelph, during the early part of the summer of 1829. The weather, for the season of the year (May) had been hot and sultry, with scarcely a breath of wind stirring. I had heard distant thunder from an early hour of the morning, which from the eastward is rather an unusual occurrence. About ten AM the sky had a most singular, I may say, a most awful appearance...
Página 12 - ... 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 20 - I' wo 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...
Página 248 - ... the ground will be made more fit for the raising of wheat, for which, in the original state, it is too strong. The rich meadows by the side of the rivers, (more especially such as are annually overflowed,) are ready without farther preparation, for tobacco, hemp, and flax. The lower meadows, and meadows adjoin• Mac Taggart's
Página 170 - Halifax currency, per cwt. to have nothing to do until he has made himself thoroughly acquainted with the process. As soon as the settler has cleared up fifteen or twenty acres, his first care 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...
Página 270 - ... or naturalized subjects of Her Majesty, and of the full age of twenty-one years, and who were severally but not jointly rated on the last revised Assessment Rolls, for real property in the Municipality or Police Village, held in their own right or that of their wives, as proprietors or tenants, and who had paid all municipal taxes due by them on or before the sixteenth day of December next preceding the election...