Field and Forest Rambles: With Notes and Observations on the Natural History of Eastern CanadaHenry S. King & Company, 1873 - 333 стор. |
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... land . I can well remember the 24th of March , 1866 , when , from the deck of the troopship " Simoom , " I watched the familiar cliffs of the above - mentioned island fading in the distant horizon , and how there came over me feelings ...
... land . I can well remember the 24th of March , 1866 , when , from the deck of the troopship " Simoom , " I watched the familiar cliffs of the above - mentioned island fading in the distant horizon , and how there came over me feelings ...
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... land communication between the two continents . These researches would therefore be of intense interest to me , in connection with similar phenomena I had been investigating in the little insular group just left ; inasmuch as , when the ...
... land communication between the two continents . These researches would therefore be of intense interest to me , in connection with similar phenomena I had been investigating in the little insular group just left ; inasmuch as , when the ...
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... land , and although originally established on models of the old country , it has fought a hard battle for many years . How indeed could any one expect sons of the reclaimers of the primeval forest to care much for clas- sical educations ...
... land , and although originally established on models of the old country , it has fought a hard battle for many years . How indeed could any one expect sons of the reclaimers of the primeval forest to care much for clas- sical educations ...
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... land where both once flourished and multiplied ! Unfortunately , however , he is of obdurate heart and slow to adopt our manners and customs , the force of habit being strong within him ; moreover , he soon finds that his ways can never ...
... land where both once flourished and multiplied ! Unfortunately , however , he is of obdurate heart and slow to adopt our manners and customs , the force of habit being strong within him ; moreover , he soon finds that his ways can never ...
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... land , only relieved by the ugly church and mean wooden houses of a North American village . " The outer enclosure of the Lazaretto consists of a grass field , containing some three or four acres of land . Within these limits the lepers ...
... land , only relieved by the ugly church and mean wooden houses of a North American village . " The outer enclosure of the Lazaretto consists of a grass field , containing some three or four acres of land . Within these limits the lepers ...
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