Five Years' Residence in the Canadas: Including a Tour Through Part of the United States of America, in the Year 1823, Volumes 1-2 |
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... obtaining a suffi- cient supply of water impregnated with saline matter , is , by boring for it in the immediate vici- nity of a salt - spring . Some people are compelled to bore down two or three hundred feet , before they can obtain ...
... obtaining a suffi- cient supply of water impregnated with saline matter , is , by boring for it in the immediate vici- nity of a salt - spring . Some people are compelled to bore down two or three hundred feet , before they can obtain ...
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... obtain work of any kind , they are at length compelled to solicit the cold hand of charity , to relieve them from those embarrassments which they never anticipated until they were felt in the most aggra- vating circumstances . In this ...
... obtain work of any kind , they are at length compelled to solicit the cold hand of charity , to relieve them from those embarrassments which they never anticipated until they were felt in the most aggra- vating circumstances . In this ...
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... obtain The performance of settlement duties on the land , which must be done to entitle the proprietor to a deed , —25 acres cleared and fenced , at £ 4 . A log - house , 30 feet by 20 , with four apartments , and 2 brick chimnies A ...
... obtain The performance of settlement duties on the land , which must be done to entitle the proprietor to a deed , —25 acres cleared and fenced , at £ 4 . A log - house , 30 feet by 20 , with four apartments , and 2 brick chimnies A ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Departure for Cove | 13 |
A Description of her AccommodationsEmbarkation | 25 |
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