The Explorations of Jonathan Oldbuck, F.G.S.Q., in Eastern Latitudes: Canadian History-legends-scenery-sport

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L. J. Demers & frère, 1889 - 265 pagina's
 

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Pagina 2 - An Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of that Band of Heroes who traversed the Wilderness in the Campaign against Quebec in 1775.
Pagina 230 - The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is...
Pagina 194 - Yon shadowy Bark hath been to that wreck, And the dim blue fire that lights her deck Doth play on as pale and livid a crew, As ever yet drank the churchyard dew ! To Deadman's Isle, in the eye of the blast, To Deadman's Isle, she speeds her fast ; By skeleton shapes her sails are furled, And the hand that steers is not of this world...
Pagina 237 - ... perpendicular wheel, on each side, without any circular band or rim. To the end of each double spoke is fixed a square board, which enters the water, and, by the rotary motion of the wheel, acts like a paddle.
Pagina 230 - Ever and aye, by shine and shower, Sixteen short howls, not over loud; Some say, she sees my lady's shroud.
Pagina 86 - You can have no conception what kind of men composed their officers. Of those we took, one Major was a blacksmith, another a hatter; of their captains, there was a butcher, a — *, a tanner, a shoemaker, a tavernkeeper, &c., &c. Yet they all pretended to be gentlemen.
Pagina 89 - Brothers, we are the children of those people who have now taken up the hatchet against us. More than one hundred years ago we were all as one family. We then differed in our religion, and came over to this great country by consent of the king. Our fathers bought land of the savages, and have grown a great people — even as the stars in the sky.
Pagina 118 - People have been accustomed, in England, to hear of only two parties in Canada, the English and the French, but there are in fact three parties, the OFFICIAL, the English and the French, besides some important French classes altogether distinct from the party which goes by that name. The Official— or as the French term it, Bureaucratic party — is composed of a few old men, holding the highest offices. They seem to be fond of privilege, jealous of interference, and ready to take offence at any...
Pagina 51 - Louis), is situated on the west or steepest side of the mountain, just above the lower city. It is not properly a palace, but a large building of stone, two stories high, extending north and south. On the west side of it is a courtyard, surrounded partly with a wall and partly with houses. On the east side, or towards the river, is a gallery as long as the whole building, and about two fathoms broad paved with smooth flags and included on the outside by iron rails, from whence the city and river...
Pagina 122 - To enumerate these, and to detail the history of this country for so many years, would occupy more time than can be spared by those whom I have the honour to address. Suffice it, then, at a glance, to compare our present happy situation with that of our fathers on the eve of the day, when George the Third became their legitimate monarch. Suffice it to...

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