Minnesota and the Far WestW. Blackwood and Sons, 1855 - 306 sider Oliphant acted as secretary to Lord Elgin during the negotiation at Washington of the reciprocity treaty with Canada. He then accompanied Lord Elgin to Quebec. There he was appointed superintendent of Indian affairsE, and made a journey to Lake Superior and back by the Mississippi to Chicago. |
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... soon cover the entire peninsula . Portland has nearly doubled its population within the last fifteen years , and now contains about twenty- five thousand inhabitants . After " the stranger " has followed the advice of the newspaper ...
... soon cover the entire peninsula . Portland has nearly doubled its population within the last fifteen years , and now contains about twenty- five thousand inhabitants . After " the stranger " has followed the advice of the newspaper ...
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... soon be turned . The price of land has already risen thirty per cent in the town- ships along this road ; and when the Grand Trunk Railway is opened next year , a more rapid develop- ment of their resources must speedily follow . Coburg ...
... soon be turned . The price of land has already risen thirty per cent in the town- ships along this road ; and when the Grand Trunk Railway is opened next year , a more rapid develop- ment of their resources must speedily follow . Coburg ...
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... soon forced itself upon us , that we exercised very little influence over our own fate . However , it seemed inclined to favour us upon this occasion , in spite of our having so rashly tempted it ; and we were just beginning to breathe ...
... soon forced itself upon us , that we exercised very little influence over our own fate . However , it seemed inclined to favour us upon this occasion , in spite of our having so rashly tempted it ; and we were just beginning to breathe ...
Side 60
... soon after by taking some fine pickerel , weighing from five to eight pounds each ; and before luncheon hooked another maske- longe , when Bury , profiting by experience , was ready with his gaff - hook , and jerked him most ...
... soon after by taking some fine pickerel , weighing from five to eight pounds each ; and before luncheon hooked another maske- longe , when Bury , profiting by experience , was ready with his gaff - hook , and jerked him most ...
Side 62
... soon unconscious of existence ; -more fortu- nate than my companion , who had remained awake to his miseries almost until morning , and then was disturbed by finding that an enormous toad had taken up a permanent lodgment upon his ...
... soon unconscious of existence ; -more fortu- nate than my companion , who had remained awake to his miseries almost until morning , and then was disturbed by finding that an enormous toad had taken up a permanent lodgment upon his ...
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Side 245 - The proceeds of all lands that have been, or may hereafter be, granted by the United States to the State for the support of a university, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called "The University Fund...
Side 309 - There is no map in this noble Atlas upon which we might not be tempted to write largely. Almost every one suggests a volume of reflection, and suggests it by presenting, in a few hours, accurate truths which it would be the labour of a volume to enforce in words, and by imprinting them, at the name time, upon the memory with such distinctness that their outlines are not likely afterwards to be effaced. The