A Subaltern's Furlough: Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New-Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, During the Summer and Autumn of 1832, Volumen2J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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... covered with forest that the water is not visible from the former ; and in many places it is so boggy and unsound that no houses can be built upon it . Two adjoining squares in the town , encircled with a wooden railing and a grove of ...
... covered with forest that the water is not visible from the former ; and in many places it is so boggy and unsound that no houses can be built upon it . Two adjoining squares in the town , encircled with a wooden railing and a grove of ...
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... covered with forest that the water is not visible from the former ; and in many places it is so boggy and unsound that no houses can be built upon it . Two adjoining squares in the town , encircled with a wooden railing and a grove of ...
... covered with forest that the water is not visible from the former ; and in many places it is so boggy and unsound that no houses can be built upon it . Two adjoining squares in the town , encircled with a wooden railing and a grove of ...
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... covered with extensive ranges of mills . Judge Rochester , whose family resides in the neigh- bourhood , was the great proprietor of the land upon which the town is built ; he was a man of considerable influence in the State , and stood ...
... covered with extensive ranges of mills . Judge Rochester , whose family resides in the neigh- bourhood , was the great proprietor of the land upon which the town is built ; he was a man of considerable influence in the State , and stood ...
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... covered with trees ; but a road has been formed round it , and across it , to a position on the opposite side , from which the Canadian . Fall is seen to great advantage . Another platform ( for - upon some detached masses of stone ...
... covered with trees ; but a road has been formed round it , and across it , to a position on the opposite side , from which the Canadian . Fall is seen to great advantage . Another platform ( for - upon some detached masses of stone ...
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... covered with a cold soil . Although the scenery in those parts where the river from being contracted amongst the islands for some distance suddenly expands again into a broad lake , is rather pretty , yet generally it is very tame and ...
... covered with a cold soil . Although the scenery in those parts where the river from being contracted amongst the islands for some distance suddenly expands again into a broad lake , is rather pretty , yet generally it is very tame and ...
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acres American amongst Annapolis River appearance army arrived banks barracks Basin Bay of Fundy beautiful Bedford Basin British canal carriage CHIGAN cholera coach Connecticut River crossed descending English erected Falls farm feet in height forest formed Fort Edward Fredericton French ground half Halifax harbour head heavy hill horses Indian inhabitants Irondequoit Creek Island John's journey Kamouraska labour lake land late Lawrence ment miles distant miles in length military minutes morning Mount Lafayette Mountains nearly New-York night Nova Scotia numerous occupied officers opposite party passed Pemigewasset River pine possession pretty prison proceeded province Quebec Rapids rear Rideau Canal rising river road rock rocky scarcely Schuylerville seen settlement side situated six miles soil steamer stream streets summit thick thing three miles timber town trees Upper Canada vessel vicinity village visited walked White Mountains width wind wood Yankee yards
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Página 120 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 119 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Página 119 - He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the Tenure of their Offices and the...
Página 122 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us.
Página 122 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...
Página 106 - Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Página 121 - Future ages will scarcely believe that the hardiness of one man adventured, within the short compass of twelve years only, to lay a foundation so broad and so undisguised for tyranny over a people fostered and fixed in principles of freedom.
Página 119 - He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation...
Página 122 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Página 119 - He has erected a multitude of new offices by a selfassumed power, and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.