An Emigrant's Five Years in the Free States of AmericaT. C. Newby, 1860 - 321 ページ |
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209 ページ - N. the southerly winds, at this period, combat and overcome, as it were, those of the north, and, restoring warmth to the air, fine weather becomes permanent. All the birds common in summer make their appearance early in May, and enliven the woods with their melody ; while the frogs, those American nightingales, or, as they are often called, bog choristers, also strain their evening concerts. Vegetation proceeds with surprising quickness ; wheat and oats are sown, the fields and deciduous trees assume...
152 ページ - Above all, I sincerely believe that the public institutions and charities of this capital of Massachusetts are as nearly perfect as the most considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity can make them.
26 ページ - ... among his resources for food ; his knowledge in architecture surpassed, both in strength and durability, by the skill of the beaver ; bended saplings the beams of his house ; the branches and rind of trees its roof ; drifts of...
165 ページ - Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age and upwards (excepting paupers and persons under guardianship), who shall have resided within the Commonwealth one year, and within the town or district, in which he may claim a right to vote...
26 ページ - No axe had levelled the giant progeny of the crowded groves, in which the fantastic forms of withered limbs, that had been blasted and riven by lightning, contrasted strangely with the verdant freshness of a younger growth of branches. The wanton...
208 ページ - The temperature of the climate of British America, as well as that of the United States, is extremely variable, not only in regard to sudden transitions from hot to cold, and vice versd, but in respect to the difference between the climate of one colony or state and that of another.
209 ページ - American nightingales, or, as they are often called, bog choristers, also strain their evening concerts. Vegetation proceeds with surprising quickness ; wheat and oats are sown, the fields and deciduous trees assume their verdure ; various indigenous and exotic flowers blow ; and the smiling face of nature is truly delightful, and in grateful unison with the most agreeable associations.
208 ページ - ... the sense understood in England, but the duration of autumn is as long as in countries under the same latitude in Europe, and is, over the whole continent of North America, the most agreeable season of the year. The climate of America is colder in winter, and hotter in summer, than under the same parallels of latitude in Europe, and the daily variations of temperature, which depend on the winds, are also greater ; but the transitions from dry to wet weather are by no means so sudden as in England...
212 ページ - ... dams, marshes, &c. These autumnal fevers are not directly fatal, but they gradually undermine the constitution, and very sensibly shorten life. Other travellers have observed before me, that in South Carolina, for instance, a person is as...
245 ページ - A, illustrates the mode of laying off township exteriors north of the base line and east and west of the principal meridian, whether between the base and first standard, or between any two standards ; and the same general principles will equally apply to townships south of the base line and east and west of the meridian, and between any two standards south, where the distances between the base and first standard, and between the standards themselves, are five townships or thirty miles.