 From the very brink of the river there rises a gentle slope of green sward, crowned in many places with a plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beech, elm, and oak. Is it too much for the eye of philanthropy to discern, through the vista of futurity, this...  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 222edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 628 pages
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 | 1847 - 524 pages
...in abundance, the savages are too proud to become, as they loftily express themselves, " troublers of the earth." Upon this present occasion their chief...steam-boats on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders ?" The river which empties the Lake of the Woods into Lake Winipeg, forms so many rapids and falls... | |
 | Sir George Simpson - 1847 - 506 pages
...current is not strong enough materially to retard an ascending traveler. Nor are the banks less favorable to agriculture than the waters themselves to navigation,...does, the fertile shores of two spacious lakes, with crowded*steamboats on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders? In spite of a contrary wind, we... | |
 | Sir George Simpson - 1847 - 498 pages
...measure, those of the Tharo >s near Richmond. From the very brink of the river there rises a gentk slope of green sward, crowned in many places with...steamboats on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders ? In spite of a contrary wind, we next day got within fifteen miles of the farther end of the Lake... | |
 | Millington Henry Synge - 1848 - 80 pages
...Pluie into the Lake of the Woods is decidedly the finest on the whole route, in more than one respect. From Fort Frances downwards, a stretch of nearly a...on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders?" Surely the time is come for the opening of such scenes as these to relieve the crowds perishing around... | |
 | Edward Capps - 1859 - 224 pages
...Richmond. From the very brink rises a gentle 1 slope of green sward, crowned in many places with 1 a plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beech, elm and...stream, connecting as it does the fertile shores of CHAP. ni. ' two spacious lakes, with crowded steamboats on its ' bosom, and populous towns on its borders?'... | |
 | Minnesota. Bureau of Statistics - 1860 - 188 pages
...plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beech, elm and oak. Is it too much," he continues with enthusiasm, "for the eye of philanthropy to discern through the...vista of futurity, this noble stream, connecting as it dqes the fertile shores of two spacious lakes, with crowded steamboats upon its populous towns on its... | |
 | James Kirby - 1864 - 356 pages
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 | Canada. Parliament - 1865 - 1196 pages
...expanse of inland lake and river navigation, in the midst of a fertile country, he should exclaim — Is it too much for the eye of philanthropy to discern...steamboats on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders? (Applause.) Sir GEORGE SIMPSON was not a man likely to be carried away by were impulse; but viewing... | |
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