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Abbé Acadians Admiral amongst Anne Anticosti Baie des Chaleurs beach boats Bonaventure Bonaventure Island British called Campbellton Canada Canadian canoe Cape Capt Captain Cartier Chicoutimi church coast command Coudres Cove Crane Island crew cross distance English erected Father Crespel feet fire fishermen fishery fishing fleet forest France French Gamache Gaspé Grand Gulf Gulf of St guns Halifax harbor hill Hotel hundred Indian inhabitants Isle Jacques Cartier John Kamouraska land Lawrence leprosy Levi lobster Lower St Magdalen Islands mariners Messrs Micmac miles Miscou Montreal mountain Murray Bay night north shore parish Paspebiac Percé Percé Rock pilot Port Daniel Quebec Restigouche Rimouski river rock Roman Catholic church Saguenay sail salmon says scenery schooner seals seen Seigneur seigniory settlement ship side spot steamer stream summer Tadousac tide town Tracadie vessels village visited whale whilst wind winter
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Page 165 - Still stands the forest primeval, but under the shade of its branches Dwells another race, with other customs and language. Only along the shores of the mournful and misty Atlantic
Page 10 - the forest primeval! The murmuring pines and the hemlocks Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms, This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman ? Where
Page 205 - Sweet memory, wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far
Page 24 - 0 ! never may the moon again disclose me such a sight As met my gaze when first I looked on that accursed night. I've seen a thousand horrid shapes begot of fierce extremes Of fever, and most frightful things have haunted in my dreams.
Page 250 - and black rock shining with moisture, as if it were the ruin of an' ancient wall built by Titans. . . . Take it altogether, it was a most wild and rugged and stupendous chasm, so deep and narrow where a river had worn itself a passage through a mountain of rock, and all around was the comparatively untrodden wilderness.
Page 11 - is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman ? Where
Page 366 - the pathless woods; There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society where
Page 105 - white limestone, quarried on the island, and is ninety feet high. It shows, at an elevation of 110 feet above the level of high water, a fixed white light, which in clear weather should be visible from a distance of fifteen miles. The lighthouse on
Page 331 - the Governor. Men were flocking in from the parishes far and near, and on the evening of the fifteenth about twenty-seven hundred, regulars and militia, were gathered within the fortifications, besides the armed peasantry of Beauport and Beaupre", who were ordered to watch the river below the Town, and resist the English should they attempt to
Page 330 - Carmel, while a number of light pieces were held in reserve for such use as occasion might require. The Lower Town had no defensive works, but two batteries, each of three guns, eighteen and twenty-four pounders, were placed here at the edge of the river.* Two days passed in completing these defences under the eye of