A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial History of Canada and the United States of America, Nova Scotia, Hudson's Bay, Newfoundland, St. John's, &c., &c., to the Present Period: With a Concise Account of the Climate, Seasons, Soil, and Agriculture, Navigation, Manufactures, Animal, Vegetable, & Mineral Productions, &c., a Description of the Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Cities, Towns, &c., and the Manners and Customs of the Savage and Civilized Inhabitants, Their Naval and Military Strength, &cDean & Munday, 1814 - 68 pages |
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Page 33 - ... charms and variety to the prospect, which is further enlivened by many beautiful plants and birds, particularly the humming bird, sucking the honey of various flowers, and rapidly glancing in the sun its indescribable hues of green, purple, and gold. Here a plain from 150 to 200 miles in breadth, reaching from the mountains to the sea, is studded with the villas of rich proprietors, the ancient hospitable country gentlemen of the United States. Similar levels appear in the Carolinas and Georgia....
Page 25 - Patomak, although only navigable fur small craft, (excepting about half a mile above the' junction of the rivers,) will nevertheless afford a capacious summer harbour; as an immense number of ships may ride in the great channel opposite to, and below, the city.
Page 49 - ... towards Upper Canada. Here are warm springs, and mineral waters ; but the chief natural curiosities seem to be the grand lakes, rivers and cataracts. Among the latter, the celebrated falls of Niagara are chiefly on the side of Upper Canada, the river being there six hundred yards wide, and the fall one hundred and forty-two feet.
Page 57 - Labrador is generally hilly, and even mountainous. The eastern coast exhibits a most barren and iron-bound appearance, the rocky mountains rising suddenly from the sea ; and is lined with thousands of islands abounding with the eider-duck and other sea-fowl. Rivers, brooks, lakes, pools, and ponds, are abundant, rich in fish, and frequented by innumerable birds. In the interior the air is milder ; there are many trees, and some symptoms of fertility. The mountaineers...
Page 31 - ... the east of the Apalachian chain the summer heats are immoderate; and in some places even ice will not preserve poultry or fish from putrefaction. Towards the mountains the climate is salutary, even in the southern states, as is evinced by the bloom of the damsels in the back settlements of Virginia. In the northern states the winter is longer and more severe than in England, but the summer heat more intense. A NE wind commonly attends rain, while on the west, side of the Apalachian mountains...
Page 32 - The face of these extensive territories is not so minutely diversified as might have been expected, the features of nature being here on a larger and more uniform scale than in Europe. Nor are there any scenes of classical or historical reminiscence,, which transport the mind -to remote centuries, and impart a crowd of relative ideas. The abundance of timber, and the diversity of the foliage, contribute greatly to enrich ,the landscape ; but it is here reputed a weed, and the planter seldom spares...
Page 9 - Here's to the United States!" said the first speaker,— "bounded on the north by British America, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean!
Page 25 - PLAN OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON IN THE TERRITORY OF COLUMBIA. CEDED BY THE STATES OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND BY THEM ESTABLISHED AS THE SEAT OF THEIR GOVERNMENT, AFTER THE YEAR MDCCC.
Page 60 - The tide being out, the water in the river was perfectly fresh; but I am certain of its being the sea, or some branch of it, by the quantity of whalebone and seal-skins which the Esquimaux had at their tents, and also by the number of seals which I saw on the ice.
Page 46 - Tire manners and customs of the settlers in Canada are considerably tinctured with French gaiety and urbanity. The women can generally read and write, and are thus superior to the men ; but both are sunk in ignorance and superstition, and blindly devoted to their priests. They universally use the French language, English being restricted to the few British settlers.