Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time |
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... REGIONS . BY JAMES WILSON , ESQ . , F.R.S. E. & M.W.S. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX , CONTAINING REMARKS ON A LATE MEMOIR OF SEBASTIAN CABOT , WITH A VINDICATION OF RICHARD HÅKLUYT . ILLUSTRATED BY A MAP , AND NINE ENGRAVINGS BY ...
... REGIONS . BY JAMES WILSON , ESQ . , F.R.S. E. & M.W.S. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX , CONTAINING REMARKS ON A LATE MEMOIR OF SEBASTIAN CABOT , WITH A VINDICATION OF RICHARD HÅKLUYT . ILLUSTRATED BY A MAP , AND NINE ENGRAVINGS BY ...
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... Regions . The navigator has no- where to contend with such formidable obstacles , nor does he elsewhere behold an aspect of nature so pe- culiar . The EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY COM- menced with a volume descriptive of the Polar Seas and ...
... Regions . The navigator has no- where to contend with such formidable obstacles , nor does he elsewhere behold an aspect of nature so pe- culiar . The EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY COM- menced with a volume descriptive of the Polar Seas and ...
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... Regions . The tracts , also , over which they passed , -being tenanted by animals of remark- able and varied form , adorned by nature with the richest and most beautiful furs , -yielded numerous objects not only of the highest interest ...
... Regions . The tracts , also , over which they passed , -being tenanted by animals of remark- able and varied form , adorned by nature with the richest and most beautiful furs , -yielded numerous objects not only of the highest interest ...
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... Regions , he has enjoy- ed peculiar advantages in preparing the interesting Sketches now submitted to the public . The stu- dent of natural history who has perused the sum- maries of African and Indian Zoology which have appeared in the ...
... Regions , he has enjoy- ed peculiar advantages in preparing the interesting Sketches now submitted to the public . The stu- dent of natural history who has perused the sum- maries of African and Indian Zoology which have appeared in the ...
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... Regions. The tracts, also, over which they passed, — being tenanted by animals of remarkable and varied form, adorned by nature with the richest and most beautiful furs, — yielded numerous objects not only of the highest interest to the ...
... Regions. The tracts, also, over which they passed, — being tenanted by animals of remarkable and varied form, adorned by nature with the richest and most beautiful furs, — yielded numerous objects not only of the highest interest to the ...
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Page 290 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble.
Page 203 - 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 246 - Each of us thought the other weaker in intellect than himself, and more in need of advice and assistance.
Page 148 - ... do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country without...
Page 163 - ... so cruelly wounded. On this request being made, one of the Indians hastily drew his spear from the place where it was first lodged, and pierced it through her breast near the heart. The love of life, however, even in this most miserable state, was so predominant, that though this might...
Page 355 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in the air he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour,...
Page 391 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 355 - Tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention.
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Page 148 - Women were made for labour; one of them can carry or haul as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night ; and in fact there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance...