The Traveller's Guide Through the Middle and Northern States, and the Provinces of CanadaDavison, 1837 - 446 sider |
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The Traveller's Guide Through the Middle and Northern States, and the ... Gideon Miner Davison Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1837 |
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Side 112 - Trinity church has erected this monument in testimony of their respect for the patriot of incorruptible integrity, the soldier of approved valor, the statesman of consummate wisdom, whose talents and virtues will be admired by grateful posterity long after this marble shall have mouldered into dust.
Side 366 - The ascent, for the distance of about two miles, is through a thick forest of hemlock, hackmetack, spruce, and other evergreen trees. Higher up, the mountain is encompassed with a zone, about half a mile in width, covered with small stunted trees, chiefly hemlock and spruce. Above the upper edge of this zone, which is about half a mile from the top, trees and shrubs disappear. The summit is composed chiefly of bare rocks, partly in large masses, and partly broken into small pieces; and it has less...
Side 333 - Macomb, with about 3,000 men, mostly undisciplined, foiled the repeated assaults of the enemy ; until the capture of the British fleet, after an action of two hours, obliged him to retire, with the loss of 2,500 men and a large portion of his baggage and ammunition.
Side 308 - It stands on the site of an old fort, built in 1665, on the right bank of the river Sorel, at its confluence with the St. Lawrence. The present town was commenced in 1785. It is regularly laid out with streets, crossing each other at right angles, leaving a space in the centre about 500 feet square.
Side 61 - ... are protected by a slope-wall laid from the bottom of the canal to the top of the bank, from six to two feet in thickness. The floor of the bridge is 90 feet above the bottom of the canal, extreme length 280 feet. Independently of the interest excited by the bridge, the view 'of the canal from its commanding height is grand beyond description. A flight of steps has been erected, to facilitate the ascent from the towpath up the bank. Directly south of the bridge is the Buck Tavern, kept by HT.
Side 424 - Even in this last refuge of desperation and despair, a sullen grandeur gathers round his memory. We picture him to ourselves seated among his care-worn followers, brooding in silence over his blasted fortunes, and acquiring a savage sublimity from the wildness and dreariness of his lurking place. Defeated, but not dismayed — crushed to the earth, but not humiliated — he seemed to grow more haughty beneath disaster, and to experience a fierce satisfaction in draining the last dregs of bitterness.
Side 219 - Having approached within a few hundred yards of the lake shore, she alighted from an elegant carriage, and the road being strewed by her followers with white handkerchiefs, she walked to the platform, and having announced her intention of walking across the lake on the water, she stepped...
Side 219 - ... they had faith that she could pass over, for if otherwise, she could not ; and on receiving an affirmative answer, returned to her carriage, declaring, that as they believed in her power, it was unnecessary to display it.
Side 166 - The saline waters bear bottling very well, particularly the Congress, immense quantities of which are put up in this way and transported to various parts of the world ; not, however, without a considerable loss of its gaseous property, which renders its taste much more insipid than when drank at the well. The chalybeate water is likewise put up in bottles for transportation, but a very trifling loss of its gas produces an immediate precipitation of its iron ; and hence this water when it has been...
Side 380 - Market street, a block of brick stores more than 400 feet in length, and 4 stories high ; and on Central Wharf another immense pile of buildings was completed the same year, 1240 feet long, containing 54 stores 4 stories high, having a spacious hall in the centre, over which is erected an elegant observatory.