 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 624 sider
...Bennington, Montpelier, Brattleborougn, Burlington and Windsor. The climate of Vermont is healthy, but subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The winters are long and very cold ; and, in many parts of the state, some snow falls almost every day for three months. The... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - 1838 - 534 sider
...Canada consists of a fertile valley, mostly level, through the middle of which the St. Lawrence flows. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The winters are long and severe : the thermometer sometimes rises, in summer, to 100 degrees, and sinks, in winter, to 40 below 0. In a state... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - 1843 - 604 sider
...Canada consists of a fertile valley, mostly level, through the middle of which the St. Lawrence flows. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The winters are long and severe : the thermometer sometimes rises, in summer, to 100 degrees, and sinks, in winter, to 40 below 0. In a state... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1844 - 356 sider
...most populous part consists of a fertile valley mostly level, through which the St. Lawrence flows. 5. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The winters are long and severe. 4. Most of the other parts are still covered with forests, and are diversified by mountains and valleys.... | |
 | Francis Wyse - 1846 - 482 sider
...navigation of the said river, when both banks thereof shall belong to the same party." The climate of Maine is subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The winters are long and severe, with clear settled weather, which generally continues from the middle of September to the end of March,... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 492 sider
...river, which empties into the St. Lawrence near Montreal. Of Canada generally, it lias been said, that the climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold ; the thermometer ranging between 102° above, and 36° below Fahrenheit ; the ground being covered five... | |
 | Sarah S. Cornell - 1857 - 422 sider
...fertile portions lie along the valley of the St. John's, and between the Penobscot and Kennebec Rivcrs. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and...are iron, limestone, granite and slate. Inhabitants, ete. — The inhabitants are mainly of British descent. A few of the aboriginals still inhabit some... | |
 | Sarah S. Cornell - 1857 - 420 sider
...interior has not been explored by Europeans. The soil is said to be sterile, but carefully cultivated. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The islands are believed to be very rich in mineral products. Inhabitants, etc. — The Japanese bear some... | |
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Rivers. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold; the winters are long and severe, the lakes being covered with ice from December to April. • Among the most important productions are grain, potatoes, wool, butter, cheese, bees'-wax... 
