Canada and NewfoundlandDoubleday, Page, 1924 - 311 páginas |
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... he discovered the American continent were stern cliffs of gray rock such as this near St. John's , which now has a tower erected in his honour , five hundred feet above the water . CHAPTER II THE KEY TO THE ST . LAWRENCE MAGINE.
... he discovered the American continent were stern cliffs of gray rock such as this near St. John's , which now has a tower erected in his honour , five hundred feet above the water . CHAPTER II THE KEY TO THE ST . LAWRENCE MAGINE.
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... rock . At the heads of the coves and smaller bays we can see the white houses of little villages , clinging to the hill- sides above tiny beaches . On top , these great rock ridges are covered with low scrub , now in red and brown ...
... rock . At the heads of the coves and smaller bays we can see the white houses of little villages , clinging to the hill- sides above tiny beaches . On top , these great rock ridges are covered with low scrub , now in red and brown ...
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... rock straight ahead , and we get a glimpse of the harbour and the city beyond . The passage is only six hundred feet wide , and it seems much less from the deck of our steamer . Here the French , during their brief possession of St ...
... rock straight ahead , and we get a glimpse of the harbour and the city beyond . The passage is only six hundred feet wide , and it seems much less from the deck of our steamer . Here the French , during their brief possession of St ...
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... in spring hover about the rock - bound entrance to St. John's harbour . The channel is so narrow that the French once closed it to the British ships by a chain from shore to shore . St. John's , the capital city of Newfoundland , sits.
... in spring hover about the rock - bound entrance to St. John's harbour . The channel is so narrow that the French once closed it to the British ships by a chain from shore to shore . St. John's , the capital city of Newfoundland , sits.
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... Rocks . " " Come by Chance " is a railroad station in eastern New- foundland , while just to the north is " Random . " Most of ... Rock you need not fear . P CHAPTER IV THE COD FISHERIES OF NEWFOUNDLAND ERHAPS you 12 CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND.
... Rocks . " " Come by Chance " is a railroad station in eastern New- foundland , while just to the north is " Random . " Most of ... Rock you need not fear . P CHAPTER IV THE COD FISHERIES OF NEWFOUNDLAND ERHAPS you 12 CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND.
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Página 258 - Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam round the Pole God only knows. He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell; Though he'd often say in his homely way that 'he'd sooner live in hell.
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Página 206 - Canon to the Plains of Far-away, But while its stream is running through the years that are to be, The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me. I shall hear the roar of rivers where the rapids foam and tear, I shall smell the virgin upland with its balsam-laden air, And shall dream that I am riding down the winding woody vale, With the packer and the packhorse on the Athabasca Trail.
Página 206 - I have seen the gorge of Erie where the roaring waters run, I have crossed the Inland Ocean, lying golden in the sun, But the last and best and sweetest is the ride by hill and dale, With the packer and the packhorse on the Athabasca Trail. I'll dream again of fields of grain that stretch from sky to sky And the little prairie hamlets where the cars go roaring by, Wooden hamlets as I saw them — noble cities still to be. To girdle stately Canada with gems from sea to sea. Mother of a mighty manhood,...
Página 246 - There's a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There's a land - oh, it beckons and beckons And I want to go back - and I will.
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