Travels Through Lower Canada, and the United States of North America, in the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808: To which are Added, Biographical Notices and Anecdotes of Some of the Leading Characters in the United States ... |
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Page 279 - Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form, And empty noise ; and loves itself in man.
Page xiii - What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything, and who, having eyes to see what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on!
Page 273 - It is natural to suppose they are zealous of their religion. They are very ignorant : it was the policy of the French government to keep them so : few or none can read. Printing was never permitted in Canada till we got possession of it. Their veneration for the priesthood is in proportion to their ignorance...
Page 214 - Disorders and divisions, from the nature of things, could not be aveided in attempting to establish the civil government in Canada, agreeable to my instructions, while the same troops who conquered and governed the country for four years remained in it. They were commanded by an officer, who by the civil establishment had been deprived of the government of half the province, and who remained , in every respect, independent of the civil establishment.
Page 213 - They consist of a noblesse, who are numerous, and who pique themselves much upon the antiquity of their families, their own military glory, and that of their ancestors. These noblesse are...
Page 213 - I report them to be, in general, the most immoral collection of men I ever knew : of course, little calculated to make the new subjects enamoured with our laws, religion and customs ; and far less adapted to enforce those laws which are to govern them.
Page 391 - ... must be hidden from them. I am now on the earth, sent by the Great Spirit to instruct you. Each village must send me two or more principal chiefs to represent you, that you may be taught. The bearer of this talk will point out to you the path to my wigwam. I could not come myself to Abre Croche, because the world is changed from what it was.
Page 455 - ... his real interest or inclination might have been, has several times been obliged to become our enemy. • It appears, nevertheless, from several recent volumes of the Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. that the culture of hemp in Canada was not an hopeless undertaking, but that it required proper people to conduct it, and a sufficient capital to carry it into execution. In their preface to volume 2 1st.
Page 403 - Many of the French inhabitants and Indians, who were eyewitnesses to the scene, state, that a great way up the river of Trois Rivieres, about eighteen miles below Quebec, the hills which bordered the river on either side, and which were of a prodigious height, were torn from their foundations, and plunged into the river, causing it to change its course, and spread itself over a large tract of land recently cleared ; the broken earth mixed with the waters, and for several months changed the colour...
Page 405 - There are three circumstances, however, which have rendered this extraordinary earthquake particularly remarkable : the first is its duration, it having continued from February to August, that is to say, more than six months almost without intermission ! It is true, the shocks were not always equally violent. In several places, as towards the mountains behind Quebec, the thundering noise and trembling motion continued successively for a considerable time. In others, as towards Tadoussac, the shock...