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Page 127 - Are you ignorant of the difference between the king of England and the king of France? Go see the forts that our king has established and you will see that you can still hunt under their very walls. They have been placed for your advantage iu places which you frequent.
Page 226 - I now mixed up some vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed, in large characters, on the South-East face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial - 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
Page 62 - It would be hard to tell you," he writes to a friend, "how tired I was with paddling all day, with all my strength, among the Indians; wading the rivers a hundred times and more, through the mud and over the sharp rocks that cut my feet; carrying the canoe and luggage through the woods to avoid the rapids and frightful cataracts; and half starved all the while, for we had nothing to eat but a little sagamite, a sort of porridge of water and pounded maize, of which they gave us a very small allowance...
Page 20 - Shall the kings of Spain and Portugal divide all America between them, without suffering me to take a share as their brother ? I would fain see the article in Adam's will that bequeaths that vast inheritance to them.
Page 128 - The English, on the contrary, are no sooner in possession of a place than the game is driven away. The forest falls before them as they advance, and the soil is laid bare, so that you can scarce find the wherewithal to erect shelter for the night.
Page 237 - Said our Lady of the Snows. A Nation spoke to a Nation, A Throne sent word to a Throne: 'Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own!
Page 172 - Christmas Eve, in the year 1814, the Treaty of Peace between England and the United States was signed at Ghent, — a worthy commemoration of that blessed event when the Herald Angels were heard singing to the shepherds on the plains of Bethlehem, — " Peace on earth, good will towards men.
Page 3 - ... melt, and room be found for the mass constantly increasing by falling snows. On it comes, bearing with it the rocks that it tears off in its passage, slides into this arm of the sea that we have supposed to occupy the place of Lake Ontario, thus forms icebergs, which float southward till they strand on what is now the northern part of the State of New York, and leave their rocky burdens to form the boulders that are so common over the face of that country. How...
Page 68 - I have not come to deliberate but to act ; it is my duty and my honour to found a colony at Montreal, and I would go if every tree were an Iroquois.