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" From the very brink of the river there rises a gentle slope of green sward, crowned in many places with a plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beech, elm, and oak. Is it too much for the eye of philanthropy to discern, through the vista of futurity, this... "
New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 222
redigeeritud poolt - 1847
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

1847 - 524 lehte
...in abundance, the savages are too proud to become, as they loftily express themselves, " troublers of the earth." Upon this present occasion their chief...steam-boats on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders ?" The river which empties the Lake of the Woods into Lake Winipeg, forms so many rapids and falls...
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Narrative of a Journey Round the World: During the Years 1841 and 1842, 2. köide

Sir George Simpson - 1847 - 506 lehte
...current is not strong enough materially to retard an ascending traveler. Nor are the banks less favorable to agriculture than the waters themselves to navigation,...does, the fertile shores of two spacious lakes, with crowded*steamboats on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders? In spite of a contrary wind, we...
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An Overland Journey Round the World: During the Years 1841 and 1842

Sir George Simpson - 1847 - 498 lehte
...measure, those of the Tharo >s near Richmond. From the very brink of the river there rises a gentk slope of green sward, crowned in many places with...steamboats on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders ? In spite of a contrary wind, we next day got within fifteen miles of the farther end of the Lake...
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Canada in 1848: Being an Examination of the Existing Resources of British ...

Millington Henry Synge - 1848 - 80 lehte
...Pluie into the Lake of the Woods is decidedly the finest on the whole route, in more than one respect. From Fort Frances downwards, a stretch of nearly a...on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders?" Surely the time is come for the opening of such scenes as these to relieve the crowds perishing around...
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The National Debt Financially Considered

Edward Capps - 1859 - 224 lehte
...Richmond. From the very brink rises a gentle 1 slope of green sward, crowned in many places with 1 a plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beech, elm and...stream, connecting as it does the fertile shores of CHAP. ni. ' two spacious lakes, with crowded steamboats on its ' bosom, and populous towns on its borders?'...
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Minnesota: Its Place Among the States. Being the First Annual Report of the ...

Minnesota. Bureau of Statistics - 1860 - 188 lehte
...plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beech, elm and oak. Is it too much," he continues with enthusiasm, "for the eye of philanthropy to discern through the...vista of futurity, this noble stream, connecting as it dqes the fertile shores of two spacious lakes, with crowded steamboats upon its populous towns on its...
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Parliamentary Debates on the Subject of the Confederation of the British ...

Canada. Parliament - 1865 - 1196 lehte
...expanse of inland lake and river navigation, in the midst of a fertile country, he should exclaim — Is it too much for the eye of philanthropy to discern...steamboats on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders? (Applause.) Sir GEORGE SIMPSON was not a man likely to be carried away by were impulse; but viewing...
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Speech

Alexander Morris - 1865 - 24 lehte
...lake and river navigation, in the midst of a fertile country, he should exclaim — Is it too mnch for the eye of philanthropy to discern through the...of two spacious lakes, with crowded steamboats on ite bosom, and populous towns on its borders? (Applause.) Sir GEORGE SIMPSON was not a man likely to...
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Littell's Living Age, 94. köide

1867 - 850 lehte
...crowned in many places with a plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beech, elm, and oak. /1 it too much fur the eye of philanthropy to discern, through the vista of futurity, this noble stream, connecting as il does the fertile shores of two spadons taken, icith crowded steam-boat» on its bosom, and populous...
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The North British Review, 50–51. köide

1869 - 668 lehte
...gentle slope of green sward, crowned in many places with a plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beecb, elm, and oak. Is it too much for the eye of philanthropy...two spacious lakes, with crowded steamboats on its bosc-i! and populous towns on its borders ?" There is no bint here ubout the slip of land and tbe perpetual...
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