The shoe and canoe; or, Pictures of travel in the Canadas, Volume 2 |
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The Shoe and Canoe: Or Pictures of Travel in the Canadas John Jeremiah Bigsby No preview available - 2015 |
The Shoe and Canoe: Or Pictures of Travel in the Canadas John Jeremiah Bigsby No preview available - 2015 |
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American astronomer bank basaltic basin beach beautiful bottom British called Canada canoe Cape Captain Bayfield Cloche coast Company copper cove deep distance Drummond Island east encamped Fabr Falls Family feet high fish Fort William four Gargantua Genus Grand Portage granite Gros Cap half Harbour headland height hills Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Indian Isle islets K.N.S. Genus Kingston Lake Huron Lake Simcoe Lake Superior land limestone lofty looked Manitouline Marmoaze marshes Mary's Michipicotou miles long Missassaga Montreal morning mounds mouth Namaycan narrow Niagara Nibish Nipigon Nipigon Bay north shore north-east north-west North-west Company passed Penetanguishene picturesque Pigeon River pines Point precipices Queenston Rainy Lake rapids ridges rock rocky round route sand scenery shallow side six miles south-east strait stream three miles Thunder Toronto travelling trees Tribe west end wind woods woody young
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Page 20 - And hung his bow upon thy awful front, And spoke in that loud voice which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake The "sound of many waters," and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back And notch his centuries in the eternal rocks. Deep calleth unto deep. And what are we That hear the...
Page 21 - And hung his bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, The sound of many waters ; and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks.
Page 21 - O, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar ? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to HIM Who drowned a world and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains ? — a light wave That breaks and whispers of its Maker's might.
Page 21 - The sound of many waters;" and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His cent'ries in the eternal rocks. Deep calleth unto deep. And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime ? Oh! what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ! Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar ! And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him, Who drown'da world, and heap'd the waters far Above its loftiest mountains...
Page 221 - How divine, The liberty, for frail, for mortal man To roam at large among unpeopled glens And mountainous retirements, only trod By devious footsteps ; regions consecrate To oldest time ! and, reckless of the storm That keeps the raven quiet in her nest, Be as a Presence or a motion — one Among the many there...
Page 127 - I was surprised at the value and extent of this gentleman's library ; a thousand well-bound and well-selected volumes, French and English, evidently much in use, in winter especially ; and not gathered together in these days of cheap literature. Mr. Johnson was an Irishman of good family, and died in 1828.
Page 322 - But the barons proud Then spoke aloud, " This is not the boon we desire ; Your heart and love, My pretty dove, Is the free gift we require." Oh, the violet, white and blue " Oh, my heart so true Is not for you, Nor for any of high degree ; I have pledged my truth To an honest youth, With a beard so comely to see.
Page 209 - that it. "is an upright slab, from thirty to thirty-five feet high, placed "on some scantily-clad rocks, 120 feet above the lake and H t an "interval from it, which, though looking small, is much greater "than it appears.
Page 87 - Dr. Drake ascertained that in» summer, at the surface, and 200 feet below it, the temperature of the water was 56°. " One of the most curious things in the shallow " parts of Huron is to sail or row over the sub...