Newfoundland: the Oldest British Colony: Its History, Its Present Condition and Its Prospects in the FutureChapman & Hall, 1883 - 489 sivua |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 44
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... covered , and the chronicler of the day is careful to record the name of the ship in which the discovery was made , but of the commander , whose genius and courage directed the enterprise , he says nothing . An interesting inquiry here ...
... covered , and the chronicler of the day is careful to record the name of the ship in which the discovery was made , but of the commander , whose genius and courage directed the enterprise , he says nothing . An interesting inquiry here ...
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... covered many of the small islands and were met with in large numbers as far out as the Banks . The last reference is to the " great auk , " now numbered among the extinct birds , but in Whitbourne's day it abounded in the Newfoundland ...
... covered many of the small islands and were met with in large numbers as far out as the Banks . The last reference is to the " great auk , " now numbered among the extinct birds , but in Whitbourne's day it abounded in the Newfoundland ...
Sivu 80
... covering for his potato cellar . " The sharp - eyed Governor surveyed the structure , and found , he declares , that " it had a complete chimney , if not two , and lodging for at least six or eight dieters ; " so that it was clearly ...
... covering for his potato cellar . " The sharp - eyed Governor surveyed the structure , and found , he declares , that " it had a complete chimney , if not two , and lodging for at least six or eight dieters ; " so that it was clearly ...
Sivu 119
... covered with splendid forests- in all nearly three million acres of fertile land . He further found that the island presents large developments of the " Quebec group , " which is the great metalliferous formation . of North America ...
... covered with splendid forests- in all nearly three million acres of fertile land . He further found that the island presents large developments of the " Quebec group , " which is the great metalliferous formation . of North America ...
Sivu 137
... covered with fine timber , and presenting every facility for agri- culture and grazing purposes . On proceeding further inland the interior proper is reached , and , like that of Ireland , is found to consist of an elevated undulating ...
... covered with fine timber , and presenting every facility for agri- culture and grazing purposes . On proceeding further inland the interior proper is reached , and , like that of Ireland , is found to consist of an elevated undulating ...
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abundant agricultural American annual annum appointed Bank Bay of Islands birch British Cabot Canada Cape Ray carried cent Church of England cloth coast of Labrador cod fishery cod-fish Codroy colony Conception Bay copper cultivation Dame Bay Demy 8vo district Edition English erected Exploits River exports extended favourable feet fertile fish fisheries fishermen Fortune Bay foundland French Gander George's Bay Government Governor grants Harbour Grace House of Assembly Humphrey Gilbert hundred Illustrations inches increase industry inhabitants interior John's justice labours Labrador land Large crown 8vo large number Legislature merchants miles in length mineral mining Newfound Newfoundland North Notre Dame Bay Placentia port portion present quintals railway Red Indian Lake resident population river rocks Roman Catholic salmon schools seal season settlement settlers ships shores side soil square miles steamers taken thousand timber tion Treaty valley vessels vols voyage winter
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Sivu 301 - With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. "And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Sivu 301 - Did send a dismal sheen: Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Sivu 337 - And the United States hereby renounce forever, any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on, or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Sivu 336 - British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island), and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Sivu 176 - Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ; Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Sivu 31 - The cup, the cup itself, from which our Lord Drank at the last sad supper with his own. This, from the blessed land of Aromat — After the day of darkness, when the dead Went wandering o'er Moriah — the good saint...
Sivu 6 - Dickens : The Letters of Charles Dickens edited by his Sister-inlaw and his eldest Daughter 4 v.
Sivu 337 - Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same, or either of them, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such...
Sivu 336 - ... that the Inhabitants of the said United States shall have forever, in common with the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty, the Liberty to take Fish of every kind on that part of the Southern Coast of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, on the Western and Northern Coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands, on the shores of the Magdalen Islands...
Sivu 361 - ... a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of fishermen'.