Canada in 1849: Pictures of Canadian Life, Or, the Emigrant Churchman, Volumen1R. Bentley, 1850 |
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Página 206 - ... property. Families comprising several settlers entitled to lands, preferring to reside on a single lot, will be exempted from the obligation of building and of residence, (except upon the lot on which they live) provided that the required clearing of the land be made on each lot. The non-accomplishment...
Página 262 - England," by an ordinance issued in 1649. Under the authority of this ordinance a general collection was made in all the Counties, Cities, Towns, and Parishes in England and Wales, and lands were purchased with the money so collected. On the Restoration a Royal Charter, dated 7th February, 14 Car : 2d was issued, erecting the Corporation anew by a title which it still bears, "The Company for the propagation of the Gospel in New England and the parts adjacent in America.
Página 206 - ... after which accomplishment only shall the settler have the right of obtaining a title of property. Families comprising several settlers entitled to lands, preferring to reside on a single lot, will be exempted from the obligation of building and of residence, (except upon the lot...
Página 258 - Indians clad in these in the hottest days in summer, as well as the coldest in winter. In the other parts of their dress they differ in nowise from Europeans, save in the " shoe-packs,
Página 215 - Penetanguishene," the writer says, " is situated at the bottom of a bay extremely shallow on one side, and is a small military and naval station, the latter force consisting of two iron war-steamers, of about sixty-horse power each. There is said to be a nice little society in this (until lately) out of the way station of Upper Canada. The probability is, however...
Página 15 - The sky cleared brightly-blue over head, and the magnificent mass immediately took the tint from the heavens, assuming the softest cerulean hue that the imagination could conceive. The exquisite apparent smoothness of it was also another feature for which I was not at all prepared. I had prefigured to myself a large, rough, white mass ; but the alabaster polish of the general surface, and the...
Página 273 - ... double duty. Instead of being removed to some place where a sound night's rest might be enjoyed, I and my party found ourselves, on the morning of the 4th, ordered to advance, and to occupy the foremost chain — from which we had the satisfaction of beholding the enemy, in very considerable strength, at the distance of little more than a quarter of a mile from our sentries.
Página 262 - England, by the erection of a corporation to be called by the name of the President and Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England...
Página 15 - ... waves rolled and foamed beneath and around. The thought of striking against such a mass in the darkness and tempest, and being suddenly sent by the shock to the depths beneath, seemed enough to curdle the very life-blood in our veins, and afforded a vivid idea of the perils undergone by the Polar voyagers and whalers. Whilst we gazed upon it, we encountered a most lovely and agreeable surprise. The sky cleared brightly blue overhead, and the magnificent mass immediately took the tint from the...
Página 14 - AN ICEBERG. I THINK we were on the larboard tack when we first got sight of the berg. It appeared at a distance of nine or ten miles on the horizon, a beautiful " twoforked hill" of crystalline, its dazzling peaks irradiated by the early morning beams. We very much feared at the time that a fog would close in and shut it from our view. Towards the latter part of the day, however, the haze cleared, and by about three or four o'clock, PM, we had beat up to it, and were...