The Modern Voyager & Traveller, Through Europe, Asia, Africa, & America ...H. Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson, 1836 - America |
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... species of wild quadrupeds , five amphibious creatures , fourteen shell - fish , fifty - one species of birds , and sixty- two sorts of fish , that are in the course of the year brought to market . Butchers ' meat , fish , and fowls ...
... species of wild quadrupeds , five amphibious creatures , fourteen shell - fish , fifty - one species of birds , and sixty- two sorts of fish , that are in the course of the year brought to market . Butchers ' meat , fish , and fowls ...
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... species of farming produce , which they send in flats and keel - boats to the New Orleans market . The demand created by this trade , added to a large domestic consumption , insures the most remote farmer a certain market . Some of ...
... species of farming produce , which they send in flats and keel - boats to the New Orleans market . The demand created by this trade , added to a large domestic consumption , insures the most remote farmer a certain market . Some of ...
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... species , when sown here , are found to thrive to admiration , taking possession of the soil , to the ex- clusion of indigenous grasses . It has been observed , that where the little caravans of travellers or emi- grants have encamped ...
... species , when sown here , are found to thrive to admiration , taking possession of the soil , to the ex- clusion of indigenous grasses . It has been observed , that where the little caravans of travellers or emi- grants have encamped ...
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... species of eel , are all favourite fish ; but the pickerel or poisson dorée , is esteemed the best , though in size it does not exceed a haddock . Another species of smelts here , called Tommy Cods , are caught with hooks and lines in ...
... species of eel , are all favourite fish ; but the pickerel or poisson dorée , is esteemed the best , though in size it does not exceed a haddock . Another species of smelts here , called Tommy Cods , are caught with hooks and lines in ...
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... species and variety at present known . The reptiles in Upper Canada are numerous , and many of them noxious ; but in Lower Canada the rattlesnake is unknown . A small tor- toise , called a terrebin , or tarrapin , found in small rivers ...
... species and variety at present known . The reptiles in Upper Canada are numerous , and many of them noxious ; but in Lower Canada the rattlesnake is unknown . A small tor- toise , called a terrebin , or tarrapin , found in small rivers ...
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Page 185 - Indian customs, he knew that he had now to run for his life, with the dreadful odds of five or six hundred against him, and those armed Indians ; therefore cunningly replied that he was a very bad runner, although he was considered by the hunters as remarkably swift. The...
Page 158 - The men in the hindmost canoes discovered a large brown bear lying in the open grounds, about three hundred paces from the river ; six of them, all good hunters, immediately went to attack him, and, concealing themselves by a small eminence, came unperceived within forty paces of him ; four of the hunters now fired, and each lodged a ball in his body, two of them directly through the lungs : the furious animal...
Page 139 - The party consisted of nine young men from Kentucky, fourteen soldiers of the United States army who volunteered their services, two French watermen — an interpreter and hunter — and a black servant belonging to captain...
Page 295 - In the solitude of the seas, we hail a star as a friend from whom we have long been separated. Among the Portuguese and the Spaniards, peculiar motives seem to increase this feeling ; a religious sentiment attaches them to a constellation, the form of which recalls the sign of the faith planted by their ancestors in the deserts of the New World...
Page 186 - They were frequently on the raft during the day, and were seen through the chinks by Colter, who was congratulating himself on his escape, until the idea arose that they might set the raft on fire. In horrible suspense he remained until night, when hearing no more of the Indians, he dived...
Page 179 - Indians give the name of wappatoo, is their great article of food, and almost the staple article of commerce on the Columbia. It is never out of season...
Page 165 - ... their heads flattened in such a manner that the forehead is in a straight line from the nose to the crown of the head...
Page 296 - It is a time-piece that advances very regular nearly four minutes a day ; and no other group of stars exhibits to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made.
Page 185 - They were first inclined to set him up as a mark to shoot at; but the chief interfered, and seizing him by the shoulder, asked him if he could run fast. Colter, who had been some time amongst the Kee-kat-sa, or Crow Indians, had in a considerable degree acquired the Blackfoot language, and was also well acquainted with Indian customs.
Page 160 - Indian road through the interval of the hills, arrived at the top of a ridge, from which they saw high mountains, partially covered with snow, still to the west of them. The ridge on which they stood formed the dividing line between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.