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Page 255 - Campbell beautifully expresses it, waves " the flag that braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze...
Page 253 - ... the country, the more was I struck with the remarkable average intelligence which prevails : I never met a stupid American ; I never met one man from whose conversation much information might not be gained, or who did not appear familiar with life and business, and qualified to make his way in them. There is one singular proof of the general energy and capacity for business which early habits of self-dependence have produced ; — almost every American understands politics, takes a lively interest...
Page 235 - But, gentle reader, although it be a well-worn tale, I had not seen the Falls for five years, and I wish to tell you whether they are altered or improved; and most likely you will take some little interest in so old a friend as the Falls of Niagara; for you must have read about those before you read Robinson Crusoe, and have had them thrust under your notice by every tourist, from Trollope to Dickens. They say, on dit, I mean, which is not translatable into English, that this is the age of Materialism...
Page 68 - My conductor at once saw the extent of the mischiefgoing on, and finding that the gang, although distant from the camp-fire, was numerous, advised that we should retrace our steps. We, however, interrogated the boy, who would scarcely answer, and pretended to know nothing. The dog began to be inquisitive too, and one of the dogs we had with us venturing a little too near a savoury piece of pork, the nature of the young half-hred ruffian suddenly blazed out, and the uxe was uplifted to kill poor Dash.
Page 16 - ... heartily in Canada, as in Londonderry, and are loyal to the backbone. If they are Repealers, they come here sure of immediate wealth, to kick up a deuce of a row, for two shillings and six pence is paid for a day's labour, which two shillings and sixpence was a hopeless week's fortune in Ireland ; yet the Catholic Irish who have been long settled in the country are by no means the worst subjects in this Transatlantic realm, as I can personally testify, having had the command of large bodies of...
Page 273 - ... large bay of Lake Huron, the grand lake, which is 240 miles long, without it averaging 86 miles in width, also averaging 1,000 feet deep, as far as soundings have been tried, contains 20,400 square miles, and is also about 584 feet above the tidal waters. Off Saginaw Bay, in this lake, leads have been sunk 1,800 feet, or 1,200 feet below the level of the Atlantic, without finding bottom. Green Bay, an arm of Michigan, is in itself 106 miles long, 20 miles wide, and contains 2,000 square miles....
Page 275 - Huron is to sail or row over the submarine or sublacune mountains, and to feel giddy from fancy, for it is like being in a balloon, so pure and tintless is the water.
Page 57 - Works will hereafter be one subjected to severe but not to vexatious scrutiny, and at the same time carefully guarded against political influence, and only rendered tenable with honour by the capacity of the person selected to fill it and of his subordinates. Canada is, as I have written two former volumes to prove, a magnificent country. I doubt very much if Nature has created a finer country on the whole earth. The soil is generally good, as that made by the decay of forests for thousands of years...
Page 96 - The fare is five dollars in the cabin, or about £1 sterling; and two dollars in the steerage. In the former you have tea and breakfast, in the latter nothing but what is bought at the bar. By paying a dollar extra you may have a state-room on deck, or rather on the half-deck, where you find a good bed, a large looking-glass, washing-stand and towels, and a night-lamp, if required. The captains are generally part owners, and are kind, obliging, and communicative, sitting at the head of their table,...
Page 252 - ... has used them quietly to reason on apparent conclusions, that the United States has answered a purpose hitherto, and that a wise one ; for the impatience of control which every new-comer from the Old World naturally feels, when he discovers that he has only escaped the dominion of long established custom to fall under the more despotic dominion of new opinions, prompts him, if he differs, and he always naturally does, where so many opinions are suddenly brought to light and forced on his acquiescence,...