 | 1847 - 524 strani
...is not strong enough materially to retard an ascending traveller. Nor are the banks less favourable to agriculture than the waters themselves to navigation,...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.... | |
 | Sir George Simpson - 1847 - 506 strani
...Woods, is decidedly the finest stream on the whole route in more than one respect. From Fort Frances downwards, a stretch of nearly a hundred miles, it...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... | |
 | Sir George Simpson - 1847 - 498 strani
...agriculture than the waters thexnselves to navigation, resembling, in some 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 a plentiful growth • of birch, poplar, beech,... | |
 | Millington Henry Synge - 1848 - 80 strani
...is not strong enough materially to retard an ascending traveller. Nor are the banks less favourable to agriculture than the waters themselves to navigation,...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.... | |
 | Edward Capps - 1859 - 224 strani
...the banks less favourable to agriculture ' than the waters themselves to navigation, resem' bling, in some measure, those of the Thames near ' 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,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1862 - 664 strani
...current is not strong enough materially to retard an ascending traveller. Nor are the banks," he adds, "less favorable to agriculture than the waters themselves...very brink of the river there rises a gentle slope ni green sward, crowned in many places with a plentiful growth of birch, poplar. beech, elm, and oak."... | |
 | Thomas Rawlings - 1865 - 278 strani
...hundred miles in length, along our northern boundary, and whose banks Sir George Simpson describes as a gentle slope of greensward, crowned in many places...plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beech, elm, and oak, resembling the banks of the Thames in fertility; and (3.) The summit level of the Mississippi, with... | |
 | 1867 - 850 strani
...materially to retard an ascendingtraveller," and he continues thus : — " Nor are the banks less favourable to agriculture than the waters themselves to navigation,...those of the Thames near Richmond. From the very brink THE LAST GREAT MONOPOLY. of the river there rises a gentle slope of greenward, crowned in many places... | |
 | 1869 - 668 strani
...River, with its slip of land and fringe of ice, ha had written : — " Nor are the banks less favourable to agriculture than the waters themselves to navigation,...measure, those of the Thames near Richmond. From the rery brink of the river there rises a gentle slope of green sward, crowned in many places with a plentiful... | |
 | 1869 - 1500 strani
...with its slip of land and fringe of ice, he had written : — " Nor arc the banks 'less favourable to agriculture than the waters themselves to navigation,...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.... | |
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Is it too much for the eye of philanthropy to discern, through the vista of futurity, this noble stream, connecting, as it does, the fertile shores of two spacious lakes, with crowded steamboats on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders? 
