A Historical and Statistical Account of New-Brunswick, B.N.A.: With Advice to EmigrantsAnderson & Bryce, 1844 - 284 pages |
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abundant ACCOUNT OF NEW-BRUNSWICK acres of cleared alluvial alluvium American appear banks Bathurst Bay of Fundy beautiful branch British called Canaan River capital Chatham church cleared land coal field colonies contains Creek cultivated deposits Digdeguash direction distance emigrant empties excellent extends Falls families farms feet fire Fish five miles forest formed Fredericton Grand Falls Grand Lake Gulf of St Halifax harbour head Indian inhabited houses intervale island Jemseg John's Keswick labour lime manure Maquapit Lake miles from St mineral Miramichi mouth north-east north-west northward Nova Scotia Oromocto parish pass Passamaquoddy Bay Petitcodiac plants present produce Province quantity Richibucto rises river St road rocks Salmon River salt settlement settlers Shediac Shepody shore situated soil south-west spruce St Andrew's St Croix St John strata stratum stream surface tide timber tion town track of country trees twenty miles village Washademoac wood Woodstock
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Page 156 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 262 - From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 262 - America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good Correspondence and Friendship which they mutually wish to restore; and to establish such a Beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two Countries upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience, as may promote and secure to both perpetual Peace and Harmony...
Page 264 - The undersigned cannot but regret the rejection of the decision of the King of the Netherlands, when he sees, throughout the note of Mr. Livingston, all the difficulties which attend the endeavors of the two Governments, actuated by the most frank and friendly spirit, to devise any reasonable means...
Page 148 - ... the eel ; but this property of seeing what is above gives it a particular advantage when lurking at the bottom for its prey, as the fish cannot discern any object under them, and the otter, seizing them from beneath by the belly, readily...
Page 159 - It is on the rivers, and the boatman may repose on his oars; it is on highways, and begins to exert itself along the courses of land conveyance; it is at the bottom of mines, a thousand feet below the earth's surface; it is in the mill, and in the workshops of the trades. It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints.
Page 199 - It had been stipulated, when the independence of the United States was acknowledged by Great Britain...
Page 270 - Time has. however, changed this state of things, and has brought about a condition of affairs in which the true interests of both countries imperatively require that this question should be put at rest. It is not to be disguised that, with full confidence often expressed, in the desire of the British government to terminate it, we are apparently as far from its adjustment as we were at the time of signing the treaty of peace in 1783.
Page 150 - ... general opinion, that it has the power to shoot them. It has four toes on the fore feet, and five on the hind, armed with sharp claws, with which it is enabled to climb trees. The female produces two at a birth. It dwells in hollow trees, or in cavities under their roots. It feeds on nuts, buds, and the bark and balsom of the fir tree. Its flesh is palatable and nutritious, and its quills are much valued by the Indians, who dye them of various colours, and use them in ornamenting their mochasens,...
Page 260 - ... the change of atmosphere is violent in the extreme. The very eyes feel wet and cold ! And the sea-breeze, which in England invites the invalid to the coast to inhale its freshness, drives the Nova Scotian within the walls of his house. This evil, however, is of short continuance, for the ice-islands, on whose gelid surfaces these damp fogs have been engendered, melt by degrees, and, dispersing themselves over the ocean, cease for the remainder of the year to interfere with the sun's dominion.