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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesacres amongst appearance Atahensic Balsam Lake bark beautiful boiled Buckhorn Buckhorn Lake called camp Canada West Canadian canoe cedar Charlevoix Chippewas Christian church Colonel commenced councillors daughter Deer Bay distance Douro emigrant England fall feet fire foot forests freeholder friends Goat Island Goderich harbour head honour hundred inches Indian Iroquois islands labour Lake Huron Lake Ontario land Luckily miles Mississauga molasses months mother Municipal nearly night orchard Otonabee Otonabee river person Peter Peterborough pine poor portage proprietor or tenant rapids Rice Lake river road rock rough round Rowlandson seen settlement settlers shanty shore side sister soon squaws stick Stony Lake stream Suffolk sugar summer temperature timber tion Toronto town township of Douro tree tribes twenty Upper Canada upwards village whiskey wife wigwam wild wind winter wood yards young Popular passagesPage 250 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Page 9 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again. Page 20 - Two or three frosty nights in the decline of autumn transform the boundless verdure of a whole empire into every possible tint of brilliant scarlet, rich violet, every shade of blue and brown, vivid crimson, and glittering yellow. The stern, inexorable fir tribes alone maintain their eternal sombre green. All others, in mountains or in valleys, burst into the most glorious vegetable beauty, and exhibit the most splendid and most enchanting panorama on earth... Page 272 - ... as before mentioned, of the united Reeves and Deputy Reeves. These various Municipalities elect their own officers, the County Warden being chosen by the County Council. The qualifications necessary to the being eligible as Councillors are : For Township Councillors the being rated on the Roll, for real property in his own right or that of his wife, — as proprietor, to the amount of £100, or tenant, of £200. A Police Trustee must be rated, as above, for £100 ; a Village Councillor, — if... Page 270 - ... or naturalized subjects of Her Majesty, and of the full age of twenty-one years, and who were severally but not jointly rated on the last revised Assessment Rolls, for real property in the Municipality or Police Village, held in their own right or that of their wives, as proprietors or tenants, and who had paid all municipal taxes due by them on or before the sixteenth day of December next preceding the election... Page 12 - Ontario, which is 4.52 feet deep, is as low as most parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, while Lake Erie is only 60 or 70 feet deep ; but the bottoms of Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior are all, from their vast depths, although their surface is so much higher, on a level with the bottoms of Lake Ontario, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Can there be a subterranean river running from Lake Superior to Huron, and from Huron to Lake Ontario? Page 30 - To the east and west of the Lakes (especially in the latter direction) high summer means of temperature are invariably associated with low winter means ; in other words, great and often injurious extremes of temperature occur, particularly in the Western States. Compare the subjoined temperatures of the seasons at the stations named : — Mean Year. Page 253 - The noise, tumult and rapidity of this falling sea, the rolling clouds of foam, the vast volumes of vapour which rise into the air, the brilliancy and variety of the tints, and the beautiful rainbows which span the abyss, the lofty banks, and immense woods, which surround this wonderful scene, have been considered by experienced travellers as eclipsing every similar phenomenon. The noise is heard, and the cloud of vapours seen, at the distance of several miles. The fall on the Canadian side is 630... Page 48 - One famous dugout was made of a pine tree twenty-six feet long and three feet, nine inches in the beam. It could easily carry nine 'barrels of pork, and four or five men to paddle. Pine, black walnut, basswood and a tree for which the Flats were famous, the buttonwood... Page 184 - Well, Canada is no place for ghosts. The country is too new for such gentry. We have no fine, old, ruined castles, crumbling monastic walls, or ivy-clad churches — no shelter here but the wild, wild wood. However, it was no ghost I saw, as you shall hear. Bibliographic information
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