Forest Scenes and Incidents, in the Wilds of North America: Being a Diary of a Winter's Route from Halifax to the Canadas, and During Four Months' Residence in the Woods on the Borders of Lakes Huron and Simcoe

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J. Murray, 1838 - 419 עמודים
 

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עמוד 126 - ... fatigue which had gone by, was hardly sufficient to inspire confidence as to what was to come ; and this reflection it was, perhaps, that gave a colour to my thoughts at once serious and pleasing. Distant scenes were brought to my recollection, and I mused on...
עמוד 121 - ... had increased to such a pitch of violence, that it seemed impossible for any human creature to withstand it ; it bid defiance even to their most extraordinary exertions. The wind now blew a hurricane. We were unable to see each other at a greater distance than ten yards, and the drift gave an appearance to the surface of snow we were passing over, like that of an agitated sea.
עמוד 259 - ... each log to the hearth, he rejoices in the clearance of the encumbered earth, when those of the civilized world pay dearly for the enjoyment of warmth. An emulative feeling stimulates the natural industry of his constitution. The rattling clank of a neighbour's axe, the crashing fall of a heavy tree, seem to demand responsive exertion on his part, and give rise to an energy, which, even if the tinkling frosty air at his fingers...
עמוד 80 - ... horses could only make their way by floundering with all their might. ' Sometimes they stopped short, and with distended nostrils, and eyes expressive of fear, they seemed inclined to give it up altogether. But they were both high-spirited animals, and we were indebted to them for overcoming difficulties, which a person less experienced than the driver would have hesitated to set their faces to. ' Occasionally, during this stage, we encountered some little ravines, or precipitous gullies, which...
עמוד 156 - ... from the point we were endeavouring to reach. I could not help admiring the determination and address of the men at this moment ; for they jumped out, above their knees in water, sometimes up to their hips, while they used their utmost strength to drag the canoe forward by the rope. Although the surface gave way continually under their feet, letting them down upon the large slabs of ice which were floating underneath, they managed, by pulling and hauling, and with their axes occasionally cutting...
עמוד 204 - ... noise, I will not pretend to say ; still less to describe the various intonations, which in every direction struck upon the ear. A dreary undulating sound wandered from point to point, perplexing the mind to imagine whence it came, or whither it went, and whether aerial or...
עמוד 121 - I hardly could bear up, and stand against it. The dreary howling of the tempest, over the wide waste of snow, rendered the scene even still more desolate ; and, with the unmitigated prospect before us of cold and hunger, our party plodded on in sullen silence, each, in his own mind, well aware that it was utterly impracticable to reach that night the place of our destination. " But, in spite of every obstacle, the strength of the two Canadians was astonishing ; with bodies bent forward, and leaning...
עמוד 16 - Waggon loads of frozen pigs were exposed for sale, quite hard and stiff, and in a fit state to keep till the spring. They had an unusually uncouth appearance ; for their mouths were generally open, and the last services seemed never to have been properly paid to the defunct. Their limbs were not arranged with decent regularity, and they appeared to have given up the ghost in the act of squalling, and at full gallop. Some were placed standing at the doors in the streets, like rooking-horses before...
עמוד 159 - ... obstructing blocks, which opposed our progress in ridges seven or eight feet high. The Canadians were, however, indefatigable : every obstacle, so soon as encountered, was surmounted in a moment. Hard ice was hewn down with the hatchets. They were active as ants : all was energy, spring, and bustle. They were in the canoe and out of the canoe, paddling and cutting, pushing with the boat-hook, and hauling on the rope, all with instantaneous impulse, and appliance of strength in different ways,...
עמוד 122 - ... snow we were passing over, like that of an agitated sea. Wheeled round every now and then by the wind, we were enveloped in clouds so dense, that a strong sense of suffocation was absolutely produced. We all halted : the Canadians admitted that farther progress was impossible ; but the friendly shelter of the forest was at hand, and the pines waved their dark branches in token of an asylum.

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