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... Esq . , Provincial Treasurer , for their assistance in completing the tables of the trade and revenues of New Brunswick . An account of the pre- NEW BRUNSWICK . WITH Notes for Emigrants . COMPREHENDING THE PREFACE . vii.
... Esq . , Provincial Treasurer , for their assistance in completing the tables of the trade and revenues of New Brunswick . An account of the pre- NEW BRUNSWICK . WITH Notes for Emigrants . COMPREHENDING THE PREFACE . vii.
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... Esq . , Provincial Treasurer , for their assistance in completing the tables of the trade and revenues of New Brunswick . An account of the pre- vailing diseases of St. John was supplied by Dr. LIVINGSTONE PREFACE . vii.
... Esq . , Provincial Treasurer , for their assistance in completing the tables of the trade and revenues of New Brunswick . An account of the pre- vailing diseases of St. John was supplied by Dr. LIVINGSTONE PREFACE . vii.
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... trade , and industry call for increased facilities of overland transportation . Remarks on the contemplated Railway between Halifax and Quebec , and others , have been offered , and the Author's views respecting the several Lines ...
... trade , and industry call for increased facilities of overland transportation . Remarks on the contemplated Railway between Halifax and Quebec , and others , have been offered , and the Author's views respecting the several Lines ...
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... Trade - Manufac- tures- Lumber - Ship - building-- Great Fire — Destroyed Forests . County of Gloucester.- Surface - Parishes - Town of Bathurst- Rivers - Falls - Mining - Ship - building . - Pockmouche - Shippegan -Miscou . - Fisheries ...
... Trade - Manufac- tures- Lumber - Ship - building-- Great Fire — Destroyed Forests . County of Gloucester.- Surface - Parishes - Town of Bathurst- Rivers - Falls - Mining - Ship - building . - Pockmouche - Shippegan -Miscou . - Fisheries ...
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... Trade - Lumbering- The Forest - Kinds of Timber - Hard and Soft Woods - Lumbering Parties - Felling - Hewing - Forking - Drawing - Stream Driving- Rafting - Shipping - Saw Mills - Manufactures - Exports of Timber -Rocks and Minerals ...
... Trade - Lumbering- The Forest - Kinds of Timber - Hard and Soft Woods - Lumbering Parties - Felling - Hewing - Forking - Drawing - Stream Driving- Rafting - Shipping - Saw Mills - Manufactures - Exports of Timber -Rocks and Minerals ...
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Page 40 - States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared that the following shall be their boundaries, viz.: from the north-west angle of Nova Scotia, viz.: that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of the St. Croix river to the highlands; along the said highlands •which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the north-westernmost head of Connecticut river...
Page 230 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish.
Page 230 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 45 - In short, it is exactly the line now contended for by Great Britain, except that it concedes more than is claimed.
Page 54 - Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round.
Page 47 - Lawrence and the lake Champlain in 45 degrees of North latitude, passes along the High Lands, which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the sea; and also along the North coast of the Baye des Chaleurs, and the coast of the Gulph of St.
Page 45 - There is no positive proof that this map is actually the one marked by Franklin ; yet, upon any other supposition, it would be difficult to explain the circumstances of its agreeing so perfectly with his description, and of its being preserved in the place where it would naturally be deposited by Count de Vergennes. I also found another map in the Archives, on which the same boundary was traced in a dotted red line with a pen, apparently copied from the other.
Page 54 - With wild infracted course, and lessen'd roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals, at last, Along the mazes of the quiet vale.
Page 46 - That this red line, and not the hardly visible dotted line, was intended to represent the limits of the United States according to the Treaty of Peace, is conclusively shown by the circumstance, that the red line is drawn on the map all around the exterior boundary of the United States;— through the middle of the Northern Lakes, thence through the Long Lake and the Rainy Lake to the Lake of the Woods; and from the western extremity of the Lake of the Woods to the river Mississippi; and along that...
Page 239 - July, respecting the policy of granting permission to the fishermen of the United States to fish in the Bay of Chaleurs, and other large bays of a similar character on the coasts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and apprehending from your statements that any such general concession would be injurious to the interests of the British North American provinces, we have abandoned the intention we...