Sketches of Upper Canada ...: To which are Added, Practical Details for the Information of Emigrants of Every Class; and Some Recollections of the United States of America |
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Page 111 - high but sloping bank extends from its base to the edge of the river; and on the summit of this there is a narrow slippery path, covered with angular fragments of rock, which leads to the Great Fall. The impending cliffs, hung with a profusion of trees and brushwood, overarch this road, and seem to vibrate with the thunders
Page 111 - the bottom of the Fall presents many more difficulties than that which leads to the Table Rock. After leaving the Table Rock, the traveller must proceed down the river nearly half a mile, where he will come to a small chasm in the
Page 111 - in which there is a spiral staircase enclosed in a wooden building. By descending this stair, which is seventy or eighty feet perpendicular height, he will find himself under the precipice on the top of which he formerly
Page 110 - other, and a little only escapes from its confinement; and even this is less distinctly heard than it would otherwise be, as the profusion of spray renders the air near the cataract a very indifferent conductor of sound. The road
Page 114 - A gentle breeze ruffled the waters, and beautiful birds fluttered around, as if to welcome its egress from those clouds and thunders and rainbows, which were the heralds of its precipitation into the abyss of the cataract. The American Fall, which it is quite unnecessary to
Page 189 - hardly to be met with in any other part of the world. The difference in point of wealth, which exists among them, is as yet too trifling to create any distinctions of rank, or to give one man more influence than another ; therefore, the utmost harmony prevails in the colony, and the intercourse of its people is
Page 151 - up two or three thousand bushels of grain in their barns; but this amelioration in their condition, unfortunately, has not produced a corresponding effect upon their manners, character, or mode of life. They are still the same untutored incorrigible beings that they probably were, when, the ruffian remnant of a disbanded regiment, or the outlawed refuse of some European
Page 139 - there many years ago. An Indian woman, and her child, who was about seven years old, were travelling along the beach to a camp a few miles distant. The boy observed some wild grapes growing upon the top of the bank, and expressed such a
Page 304 - Canandaguia and Geneva to have been built as places of summer resort, for persons of fortune and fashion ; since so much taste, elegance, comfort, and neatness, are displayed in the design, appearance, and arrangement of the houses which compose them.
Page 190 - importance, generally become most obtrusive and assuming in the end; and it is a remarkable circumstance, that, in Upper Canada, the ne plus ultra of vanity, impudence, and rascality, is thought to be comprised under the epithet Scotch Yankey.