Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du CanadaRoyal Society of Canada., 1900 - Humanities |
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... Portage River .. James McIntosh . Patch Squirrel , Sugar Island , York County ... John Brittain . Black - backed Gull ( young ) .. Guillemont , Lomvia troile , Escuminac Great Blue Heron .. Guillemot , Lomvia arra , Neguac Brown ...
... Portage River .. James McIntosh . Patch Squirrel , Sugar Island , York County ... John Brittain . Black - backed Gull ( young ) .. Guillemont , Lomvia troile , Escuminac Great Blue Heron .. Guillemot , Lomvia arra , Neguac Brown ...
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... portage route around the Falls of Niagara . The ambition of the people of Upper Canada was always to obtain a continuous and secure system of water navigation from the lakes and Montreal . The Welland Canal between lakes Erie and ...
... portage route around the Falls of Niagara . The ambition of the people of Upper Canada was always to obtain a continuous and secure system of water navigation from the lakes and Montreal . The Welland Canal between lakes Erie and ...
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... Portage where both the Goods and Canoe [ are carried ] . In our Walk through the Woods the Day before we passed several Maple Trees which had been tapped for the Juice with which they make a very nice Sugar . It is done simply by ...
... Portage where both the Goods and Canoe [ are carried ] . In our Walk through the Woods the Day before we passed several Maple Trees which had been tapped for the Juice with which they make a very nice Sugar . It is done simply by ...
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... Portage of the Chaudière to which we walked and encamped . The Ceremony of Encamping is , that the moment we land a Fire is made , the Tent raised , the kettle put on the Fire and in the short space of a quarter of an Hour your Inn is ...
... Portage of the Chaudière to which we walked and encamped . The Ceremony of Encamping is , that the moment we land a Fire is made , the Tent raised , the kettle put on the Fire and in the short space of a quarter of an Hour your Inn is ...
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... Portage des Chênes - so called from the Quantity of Oaks which grow on the Island . It is a most enchanting Spot ; the most magnificent Oaks intermixed with the Elm , Plane , Mountain Ash , most fragrant Shrubs , Roses in full Bloom ...
... Portage des Chênes - so called from the Quantity of Oaks which grow on the Island . It is a most enchanting Spot ; the most magnificent Oaks intermixed with the Elm , Plane , Mountain Ash , most fragrant Shrubs , Roses in full Bloom ...
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Page 25 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 24 - A CES CAUSES, et autres à ce nous mouvant, de l'avis de notre Conseil et de notre certaine science...
Page xxxviii - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page xlix - Act, shall, upon being printed and published or reprinted and rppublished in Canada, be entitled to copyright under this Act ; but nothing in this Act shall be held to prohibit the importation from the United Kingdom of copies of such works legally printed there.
Page 193 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers : it being well understood that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which...
Page 83 - Louis , par la grâce de Dieu, roi de France et de Navarre , à tous présens et à venir, salut.
Page 57 - Kingston, addressing himself to the Clerk (who standing up, pointed to him and then sat down), proposed to the House for their Speaker, the...
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Page 31 - But to return to the chateau : it is a long wooden building, chiefly of rough logs, with a covered porch running along the south side. Here I found suspended, among sundry implements of husbandry, one of those ferocious animals of the feline kind, called here the cat-a-mountain, and by some the American tiger, or panther, which it more resembles. This one, which had been killed in its attack on the fold or...
Page 23 - They knew that there was a book which taught them there was a time to be silent, as well as a time to speak.