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...38 rebellion, further drained the country's dilapidated resources. By 1849, many Canadians were clamoring to join the United states. An Annexatio... ...0. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were, supported free trade. Northerners were vehement trade protectionists. The federal gove... ...st among crimes by the same offender. This system was developed by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in the early 1990s. UTAP, stands for... ...er, while traveling to Pretoria, he was unceremoniously thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and left shivering and brooding at Pieterma... ...d expensive - "Beefsteak (or steak) Tatar". The tenderized beef crossed over to northern Europe and was especially appreciated in Germany. Immig... ...tlawed polygamy only in 1882. Humans are not the only polygamous species. The Northern Fur Seal and the Baikal Seal, for instance, mate with a... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

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...ramic view of Thailand-rural, Khmer and Burmese individuals smiling in the northern regions and stolid Moslem and Indians in the south. The rural vie... ... is the symbol of Canada?" "Snowmen," said Nawin as he chuckled, "and Canadian dollars." He was enjoying the conversation. "What are they: ... ... of course in Montreal." "Why don't they have kings now?" "Well, Canadians do have the British monarchy. Canada is a commonwealth." He... ...of a nightjar cradled by the Laotian queen whose pigment was as light as a northern Chinese woman. He suckled at her nipple with the violence of his ... ... They flowed in tight brushstrokes of an earthy tone. They were of French-Canadian mannequins performing their perfunctory duties of marriage. A sum... ...bly. He scavenged money from Kazem's pants and took a taxi to an abandoned railway station with its severed tracks where weeds or moss grew a little o... ...es when I mix the glue and the pills. Tracks, dogs, and the old abandoned railway station seem to be breathing. I don't have anyone else. Sometimes...

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... have never been there. That morning, in Zurich, I climbed up a hill, next to the colossal railway, and rang an ornate bell at the gate of an unassu... ... hand like hot potato. We were all invited to her forthcoming wedding. She was to marry a Northern, elder man of means. He will adopt the child, s... ...hnologies – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 ...

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...ut Reagan’s challenge to Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall; about the Canadian constitutional crisis; about Wayne Gretzky being traded to the Los... ...elp too, as they positioned the boat on the cradle at the Big Chute marine railway that dropped them sixty feet to the next water- way. “This is wonde... ...he checked his charts during their descent. “It says here this is the only railway of its 77 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE kind in North America, and we are on... ... seed grower with two hundred em- ployees in three American states and two Canadian provinces. And then there were the endless government forms. It wa... ...ozy. And in this district, it must be worth a fair bit.” Jana lived on the northern fringes of the big city of Toronto. Anywhere in the area was a goo... ... last time, conflicting feelings had en- gulfed her. It was a great little Canadian company. She’d been happy at her job – had derived enormous satisf... ...land (Edinburgh), 0845 833-0200; www.ageconcernscotland.org.uk Age Concern Northern Ireland (Belfast), 028 9024 5729; www.ageconcernni.org Age Concern... ...g Voor een Vrijwillig Levenseinde (NVVE), www .nvve.nt (has English pages) Northern Territory Voluntary Euthanasia Society, Dar- win, NT, Australia, 6...

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...itorial sea: 15 nm Boundary disputes: none; Kosovo question with Yugoslavia; Northern Epirus question with Greece Climate: mild temperate; cool, cloud... ...c tons; 1.946 billion metric tons/km; highways 1.298 billion metric tons/km; railways 618.8 million metric tons/km; internal waterways 29.2 million me... ... frequent hurricanes, other tropical storms (July to October) Special notes: northernmost of Leeward Islands Population: 6,828 (1987), average annual ... ...south- east; subantarctic in southwest Terrain: rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Ande... ... 1987) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: Belgian National Railways (SNCB) operates 3,741 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, government ... ...25,857,943 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 0.91% Nationality: noun Canadian(s); adjec- tive Canadian 42 Ethnic divisions: 45% British Isles... ...es: Mobile Command, Maritime Command, Air Command, Communica- tions Command, Canadian Forces Europe, Training Command Military manpower: males 15-49, ... ...r: calendar year Communications Railroads: 14,925 km total; Cuban Na- tional Railways operates 5,295 km of 1.435-meter gauge track; 199 km electri- fi...

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...e infamous German "Lebensraum")? The author quotes James Jerome Hill, the American railway magnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "... ...ns implemented various models. In the United Kingdom, regions, such as Scotland and Northern Ireland were granted greater autonomy. The EU's "ever c... ...ever since the events in 1970s. The Taliban is not monolithic. Even less so is the Northern Alliance. Neither were the Afghan communists united. Th... ... military might. Because of this stratagem, Russia has supported the Tajiks of the Northern Alliance through Tajikistan - only sufficiently to form... ...or of Political Friends, an independent Russian think-tank, in an interview in the Canadian daily, National Post. These are not trivial concerns. R... ... really "just a farce" and its members mostly "petty despots" as Conrad Black, The Canadian media mogul, has it in recent interviews? Or, paradoxic... ...ddle Eastern petrochemicals sector is reliant on the kindness of strangers: Indian, Canadian, South Korean and, lately, Chinese. Singapore and Malay... ...ies. Russia was also instrumental in convincing the North to agree to reactivate a railway line connecting it to South Korea. Kim Jong-il, the Nort... ...ussian firms made inroads into the construction of Chinese hydroelectric plants and railways. The two countries have "plans for the construction of ...

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...of the populace. Conflicts erupted over ecclesiastical matters, the construction of railways and railway stations. Guerilla fighters soon realized t... ... and Serbia erupted upon the world stage no less frequently and regularly than its northern equivalent. Serbia, Montenegro and Russia fought a wa... .... No one cared what the local populace had to say. The Austrian brought roads and railways and modern mining and forestry and industry to this hit... ...assive campaign of forced assimilation. Thus, as Vojvodina prospered with roads and railways and large commercial farms ("the breadbasket of the emp... ...n lieu of the "Adriatic orientation") which benefited the economies of central and northern Serbia at the expense of Croatia and Slovenia. While Se... ...ister Milan Panic) from re-opening the schools of Kosovo and reducing the massive, Northern-Ireland-like Serb military presence in it. An agreement... ...es – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General M...

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...volutionized our lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, the railways, the radio and the telephone have been similarly heralded as "glo... ...09 volumes cost six shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eigh... ... debating the issue. So do Luxemburg and Norway. According to Wired, the Canadian Private Copying Collective, the music industry trade group, has p... ...s and MP3 players." Precedent is hardly encouraging. The aforementioned Canadian Collective has yet to distribute to its members even one tax doll... ...far the most popular search engine yet, having surpassed the more veteran Northern Lights, Fast, and Alta Vista. Its mind defying database (more than... ... or the latter day equivalent of previous networks (telegraph, telephony, railways) • A new continent These metaphors prove to be very useful (e... ...parts of the cycle. Central and Eastern Europe have just entered it while northern Europe, some parts of Asia, and North America are in the vanguard... ...President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager o...

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...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...different parts of the cycle. Central and Eastern Europe have just entered it while northern Europe, some parts of Asia, and North America are in th... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

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...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...different parts of the cycle. Central and Eastern Europe have just entered it while northern Europe, some parts of Asia, and North America are in th... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

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...ges than the rural areas. Atheists and agnostics make up 20 to 30% of the Canadian population. ―When we look at scientific studies of any... ...hing what the majority are saying? ―If we ask a thousand people in northern France some questions one year then the next year ask a thousand ... ...ufacturing, and the expense of a standing army. Then you have highway and railway building and maintenance. But these can be paid by ‗use‘ taxes on ... ...eipts or 25% of all governmental receipts. ―The U.S. should copy northern Europe in keeping its borrowing down and raising taxes to pay for... ...esser income. —―I know that the welfare states have been developed in northern Europe by Protestants. Why haven‘t the Catholics done it in the s... ...ups. It put the net cost to California residents at $433 per European and Canadian immigrant household, $1,240 per Asian immigrant household and $8,1...

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...time. Owing to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as... ...ough it was not in the hands of the rebels, neither was it in the hands of Northerners, and that therefore strangers could not go there; but this, tho... ...hese 700 were in the Southern army. The place had been made a hospital for Northern soldiers, and no doubt the site for that purpose had been well cho... ...th, was killed in the early days of the rebellion. He was a colonel in the Northern volunteer army, and on entering Alexandria found a secession flag ... ...i- zens of this class. The clerks and managers at hotels, the officials at railway stations, the cashiers at banks, the women in the shops—ah! they ar... ...ated that the colonels of regiments received large gratuities from certain railway companies for the regiments passing over their lines. Charges of a ... ...tween us and them, it would depend mainly, I think, on the feelings of the Canadians. Neither could they annex Canada without the good-will of the Can...

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...st on the line between V erona and Milan through the gross negligence of a railway porter. But I doubt if they would have thrown any very conclusive l... ... than the plain of Lombardy. When at last I motored away from Udine to the northern mountain front I passed through Campo- Formio and saw the white-fa... ...uipment of a modern army advancing. Everywhere I saw new roads being made, railways pushed up, vast store dumps, hospitals; everywhere the villages sw... ...ke operations far more deliberate than upon a level. An engineered road or railway in an Alpine valley is the most vulnerable of things; its curves an... ...at direct sense of the German danger that exists in the minds of the three northern Allies. To the Italian the tradi- tional enemy is Austria, and thi... ...ible to the civil- ian mind. The British hold the town, the Germans hold a northern suburb; at one point near the river the trenches are just four met... ...in British military circles because he had “had no military train- ing”? A Canadian expressed the new view very neatly on be- ing asked, in consequenc...

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... still she had on board Ned Land, the prince of harpooners. Ned Land was a Canadian, with an uncommon quick- ness of hand, and who knew no equal in hi... ...is look, which gave a singular ex- pression to his face. Who calls himself Canadian calls himself French; and, little communicative as Ned Land was, I... ...r me to hear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces. The harpooner’s family was originally from Quebec, and ... ...ch a day seemed an age, the Abraham Lincoln furrowed all the waters of the Northern Pacific, running at whales, making sharp deviations from her cours... ...tance. During some experiments of fishing by electric light in 1864 in the Northern Seas, we saw plates less than a third of an inch thick resist a pr... ...s even probable that a sixth current existed at one time or another in the Northern Indian Ocean, when the Caspian and Aral Seas formed but one vast s... ...l reefs of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, to perish miserably in a railway train! If this energetic man could have reflected during the last m...

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... itous fireworks for all the population of Bun Hill. And then had come the railway, and then villas and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-w... ...hed out of the Otterbourne and left it a dreadful ditch, and then a second railway station, Bun Hill South, and more houses and more, more shops, more... ... them anticipated a tithe of what the Brennan mono-rail would do for their railway securities and the face of the world. In a few, years they realised... ...irectly Great Britain and France declare war, wrecked the country upon the Canadian side for nearly ten miles inland. They began to bring up men and m... ...rge marbled with froth and then away to the west the great crescent of the Canadian Fall shining, flickering and foaming in the level sunlight and sen... ...the wounded one by one into the nearest of the large hotels that faced the Canadian shore. The hotel was quite empty except that there were two traine... ...re gigantic German, and the two went spinning to destruction together. The northern squadron of Asiatics came into the battle unnoted by Bert, except ...

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...the Mississippi Mark T wain 13 basin of the Mississippi, from its frozen northern springs to the sultry borders of the Gulf; from the woody ridges... ...ied it in a bar’l, before his wife got home, and off he went, and struck the northern trail and went to rafting; and this was the third year that the ... ... new railroad stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to Northern railway centers, began to divert the passenger travel from the s... ...road stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to Northern railway centers, began to divert the passenger travel from the steam ers... ...ich has not suffered from the assaults of the scientists. “AFTERNOON. At the railway stations the loafers carry both hands in their breeches pockets;... ...boat threw the miles out behind her with satisfac tory despatch. We found a railway intruding at Chester, Illinois; Chester has also a penitentiary n... ...ch St. Paul now occupies, in June 1837. Yes, at that date, Pierre Parrant, a Canadian, built the first cabin, uncorked his jug, and began to sell whis...

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...lked the deck and looked round upon my fellow- passengers, thus curiously assorted from all northern Eu- rope, I began for the first time to understan... ...so separated their thoughts and ways that not unions, not mutual dangers, nor steamers, nor railways, nor all the king’s horses and all the king’s men... ...splayed its superscription, and I could read the name of Smethurst, and the designation of ‘Canadian Felt Hat Manufacturers.’ There was no more hope o... ...the hat manufactory, Smethurst himself was standing in the garden gate. He was brushing one Canadian felt hat, and several others had been put to awai... ...e has not surrendered his will and con- tracted for the next hundred miles, like a man on a railway. He may change his mind at every finger-post, and,... ...to sing the same air myself in a more diffident manner. T ring was reached, and then T ring railway-station; for the two are not very near, the good p... ... of what she made easily a few years ago. The tide of prosperity came and went, as with our northern pit- men, and left nobody the richer. The women b... ...y forgiven our country-women; and I think they take a special pleasure in the legend of the northern quarter of the town, called L ’Anglade, because t...

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...r to their being reclaimed and rendered fit for cultivation; the grants to railway companies of alternate sections of land upon the contemplated lines... ...hoochee River, Georgia: I have seen your despatches objecting to agents of Northern States opening recruiting stations near your camps. An act of Con... ...e are at Rock Island, Illinois, as rebel prisoners of war, many persons of Northern and foreign birth who are unwilling to be exchanged and sent South... ...iculties have arisen, especially in Brazilian and British ports and on the northern boundary of the United States, which have required, and are likely... ... view of the insecurity of life and property in the region adjacent to the Canadian border, by reason of recent assaults and depredations committed by... ...e great enterprise of connecting the Atlantic with the Pa- cific States by railways and telegraph lines has been entered upon with a vigor that gives ...

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...he arches of the bridge, breaking to wild water at a remove; and a reddish Northern cheek of curdling pipeing East, at shrilly puffs between the Tower... ...nd owner of the place: ‘There you see Lakelands.’ The conveyances from the railway station drew up on a rise of road fronting an undulation, where our... ...eed, to do proper homage to the lady he so much respected. He had left the railway-station on foot instead of taking a fly, be- cause of a calculation... ...e it, besides the jotting down of trains and the station for the change of railways, Mr. Du- rance could say, that the active form of our sympathy con... ...n, and Mr. Pempton took their usual places. There was no fluting. A famous Canadian lady was the principal singer. A Galician 340 One of Our Conquero...

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... it all, that center which was constantly in the minds of people in remote Canadian forests and on the plains of India, when their thoughts turned to ... ...rmal type, who would have passed unnoticed in an omnibus or an underground railway. It was notable that the talk was confined to groups, and was, at f... ...ore deciding to stop an omnibus or encounter light again in an underground railway. Sandys, who was a barrister with a philosophic tendency, took out ... ...; some cause or idea or even (so her fancy ran) for some woman seen from a railway train, hanging up clothes in a back yard. When he had found this be... ...arbles, and gray days without any sun. She’s a typical example of the cold northern nature. I come from Devonshire—” Had they been quarreling, Mary wo... ... marry any one. She wanted to go away by herself, preferably to some bleak northern moor, and there study mathematics and the science of astronomy. Tw... ...when she tried to visualize it, took form as a wind scouring the flanks of northern hills and flashing light upon cornfields and pools. “Impossible,” ...

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...basis of the social theory of the United States were first combined in the Northern English colonies, more generally denominated the States of New Eng... ... honour of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; Do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in ... ... States and That of a Constitutional King of France Executive power in the Northern States as limited and as partial as the supremacy which it represe... ...ing seems to be more prejudicial to society than these virtues. The French Canadians, who have faithfully preserved the traditions of their pristine m... ...oping the resources of that vast continent. In 1831 there were 51 miles of railway in the United States; in 1872 there were 60,000 miles of railway.] ... ...chased an extensive estate with the earnings of a short term of labor, the Canadian paid as much for land as he would have done in France. Nature offe... ...iking, that the English are the masters of commerce and manufacture in the Canadian 383 Tocqueville country, that they spread on all sides, and confi...

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...ivers and seas, far removed from a commercial and yet romantic town of the northern hemisphere. But at that moment the mood of visions and words was c... ...hartered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Trans- port Company. A death leaves something behind, but there wa... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m... ...t was ever just the same with my writing. Some men, I have heard, write in railway carriages, and could do it, perhaps, sitting cross-legged on a clot... ...ced now to the first words of the ninth chap- ter, in the Friedrichstrasse railway station (that’s in Berlin, you know), on my way to Poland, or more ... ... Kiev. At that time there was an eight-hours’ drive, if not more, from the railway station to the country house which was my destination. “Dear boy” (...

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...e Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...afterwards) pooh, pooh! What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasti... ...thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights? W ould not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here? Would h... ...parate chap- ter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially re- served for t... ...ast they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunt- ers and trappers of the West, when the far west (... ...able as the steadfast land. And as the mighty iron Leviathan of the modern railway is so familiarly known in its every pace, that, with watches in the...

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...e whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...fterwards) — pooh, pooh! What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasti... ...thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights? Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here? Would he... ...separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the... ...last they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West, when the far west (in... ...able as the steadfast land. And as the mighty iron Leviathan of the modern railway is so familiarly known in its every pace, that, with watches in the...

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...ivers and seas, far removed from a commercial and yet romantic town of the northern hemisphere. But at that moment the mood of visions and words was c... ...r- tered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Transport Company. A death leaves some- thing behind, but there wa... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m... ...t was ever just the same with my writing. Some men, I have heard, write in railway carriages, and could do it, perhaps, sitting crossed-legged on a cl... ... Kiev. At that time there was an eight hours’ drive, if not more, from the railway station to the country-house which was my destination. “Dear boy” (... ...o well that I began to feel crushed before we reached Zurich. He argued in railway trains, in lake steamboats, he had argued away for me the obligator...

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...within the very shortest possible space of time after the ar rival of the railway train at Euston Square. And com missions and remembrances do so cr... ... court an action was trying, for damages sustained in some accident upon a railway. The witnesses had been examined, and counsel was addressing the ju... ...singular kind of coaching terminates at Fredericksburgh, whence there is a railway to Richmond. The tract of country through which it takes its course... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene... ...ch the changing rain bows made! I never stirred in all that time from the Canadian side, whither I had gone at first. I never crossed the river again... ... secret despatches for the self styled Patriots on Navy Island, during the Canadian Insurrec tion: sometimes dressing as a girl, and carrying them in... ... height and water, which lies stretched out before the view, with miles of Canadian villages, glancing in long white streaks, like veins along the lan...

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...inter or writer. “Why say, the letters that boy sent me on his trip to the Canadian Rockies, they just absolutely make you see the place as if you wer... ...ing freight-cars from the New York Cen- tral and apple orchards, the Great Northern and wheat- plateaus, the Southern Pacific and orange groves. 62 B... ...st-known pio- neer family of Zenith. He built state capitols, skyscrapers, railway terminals. He was a heavy-shouldered, big-chested man, but not slug... ...l shirt, and never come back to this dull decency! Or, like a trapper in a Northern Canada movie, plunge through the forest, make camp in the Rockies,... ...esick for the home he had left forever. Through the darkness, through that Northern pine-walled silence, he blundered down to the lake-front and found... ...s enormously important to win over the surly older man, who proved to be a railway clerk named Fulton Bemis. The conversation of the Bunch was exclama...

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...n abrupt accent, probably habitual to him; he spoke also with a gut- tural northern tone, which sounded harsh in my ears, accus- tomed to the silvery ... ...feel disposed for refreshment after walking nobody knows how far on such a Canadian night as this; but it shall not be brandy- and-water, and it shall... ...t was given of the sentiments entertained by resolute minds respecting old northern despo- tisms, and old southern superstitions: also, I have heard m... ...I was at X—— yesterday! your brother Ned is getting richer than Croesus by railway speculations; they call him in the Piece Hall a stag of ten; and I ...

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...gement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and began to go the Northern circuit. On April 3, 1820, Mrs. Patteson died, leav- ing one daugh... ...r, 1842, some severe spasmodic attacks made her family anxious; and as the railway communication was still incomplete, so that the journey to London w... ...ts, &c., is erected, and where shooting at targets with wooden darts, sham railway- trains and riding-horses, confectionery of every kind, beer of eve... ...d upon her.’ He chose to walk to the coach that would take him to join the railway at Cullompton. The last kisses were exchanged at the door, and the ... ...s por- tions of New Zealand. Finally, retaining only the north part of the northern island, to take the Melanesian Bishopric. ‘I urged this plan upon ... ... island of Eangitoto with its double peak and the easternmost point of the northern shore of the harbour, lies a very sheltered bay, with its sea-fron... ...ith a mo- notonous, not unpleasing refrain, reminded us of some old French Canadian ditties. I remember well the excitement when the Bishop sent up a ...

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...view; they won’t wait for truth; you may as well reason with the sea, or a railway train, as in such a case with an editor; and, as it makes no differ... ...hat editor and his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., i... ...ice in the art of contending with the rapids of the St. Lawrence and other Canadian streams. However, as the danger had been considerable, he was pro-... ...hire. The mountains of Wales range at about the same elevation as those of Northern England; three thousand and four to six hundred feet being the ex-... ...ublished upon this plan; previous papers, on the ordinary plan, viz., the “Northern Star” and the “Press,” having been violently put down by the gover...

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...sentiment alluded to in the last paragraph. I certainly did think that the Northern States, if wise, would have let the Southern States go. I had blam... ...ty of British opposition to American independence, so was the necessity of Northern opposi- tion to Southern secession. I do not say that in other res... ...here can be no doubt that the front of the offense given by England to the Northern States was this declaration of Lord John Russell’s. But it has bee... ...te; and a thriving, comfortable town it seems to be, full of banks, fed by railways and steamers, and going ahead quite as quickly as Roger Williams c... ...oyalty. If the Canadas were to rebel now, I should be for putting down the Canadians with a strong hand; but not the less have I an idea that it will ... ... first, I do not in the least believe in it. If a more expensive manner of railway traveling will pay in England, it would surely do so here. Were a b... ...enditure has had anything to do with it. I conceive it to be true that the railways are afraid to put themselves at variance with the general feeling ... ...ot obliged to reach that place via Montreal. Quebec is the present seat of Canadian government, its 52 North America V ol. 1 turn for that honor havi... ... a separation shall ever take place, I trust that it may be caused, not by Canadian violence, but by British generosity. Such a separation, however, n...

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...and prepared for something like the down-going sensa- tion of a switchback railway on a larger scale. Just for a mo- 13 H. G . Wells ment there was t... ...tithe of the thrill of those three descents one gets on the great mountain railway in the White City. There one gets a dis- agreeable quiver up one’s ... ...ch there is any manifest probabil- ity. Western Europe is now a network of railways, tramways, high roads, wires of all sorts; its chief beasts of bur... ...hem that the whole next 34 An Englishman Looks at the World generation of Canadians has drawn its ideas mainly from American publications, that India... ...e French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish Catholics, the French-Canadians who are now ousting the sterile New Englander from New England, t... ...- tion of the English-speaking, originally middle-class, English- thinking northerner in the American mind, it is to be found in the spread of social ... ...ng in the dark. One goes from the abound- ing movement and vitality of the northern cities to this sunny and enervating place through the negligently ...

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...rs in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian V oyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe a... ...trim looking building, but that is not Abenaki, that was Rome’s doings. Good Canadian it may be, but it is poor Indian. These were once a powerful tri... ...his master. Leaping over a fence, we began to follow an obscure trail up the northern bank of the Penobscot. There was now no road further, the river ... ...a practised eye could distinguish a safe course, or tell what was deep 3 The Canadians call it picquer de fond. Ktaadn 19 water and what rocks, frequ... ...was, as if we were upon a high table land between the States and Canada, the northern side of which is drained by the St. John and Chaudiere, the sout... ...st in one mould. The steamer here approached a long pier projecting from the northern wilderness, and built of some of its logs, — and whistled, where... ...he “carry,” appeared with a truck drawn by an ox and a horse over a rude log railway through the woods. The next thing was to get our canoe and effect... ... this lake, one of the heads of the Kennebec, into the Penobscot River. This railway from the lake to the river occupied the middle of a clearing two ... ...ontinually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway. I am told that in the Aroostook country the sleds are required b...

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... where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-trees; where the Northern Babel lies, with its warehouses, and its bridges, its graceful fac... ... there arrived in this metropulus, per seknd class of the London and Dover Railway, an ellygant young foring gentle- man, whom I shall danomminate Mun... ...n ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the flaxen down of in... ...ids me to speak, by a Sioux’s council-fire and I can patter 71 Burlesques Canadian French with the hunters who come for peltries to Nachitoches or Th... ...uare, and humbly begged pardon of his master for not having instructed the Railway Sec- retaries who answered his applications to apply at the area-be... ...have ad Earls and Ycounts— Barnits as many as I chose: and the pick of the Railway world, of which I form a member. Last Sunday was a grand Fate. I ha... ...the southern gate; Athelstane’s banner, the bull rampant, was still on the northern bartizan. “An Ivanhoe, an Ivanhoe!” he bellowed out, with a shout ...

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...us trough of stone from coast to coast and from island to island along the northern seas. At the age of eighty-four his high stature was bowed by his ... ...ess rather than possessed by you. Moreover, as we sat together in the same railway carriage, they were looking forward to a voyage in space, whereas I... ...er-buckets, pouring in the pas- sengers, and dipping them out of the great railway station under the inexorable pallid face of the clock telling off t... ... on board a North Sea coaster, I had come up from Lowestoft— my first long railway journey in England—to “sign on” for an Antipodean voyage in a deep-... ... in this matter nor yet penal servitude for anyone. The Di- rectors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company did not sell “safety at sea” to the people...

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...r and across the portage.” “But the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the tall French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed, when... ...consulted. And they felt the need of hurry, for the sun had already passed its northern solstice and was leading the winter south again. Skirting the ... ...clination, and at meridian now threw flaunting streaks of yellow light upon the northern sky. On the day following his mistake with the sugar bag, Cuth... ...he moose, the bear, and the little blue fox, and of the wild amphibians of the Northern seas; she was skilled in the lore of the woods and the streams... ...w that in that direction the Arctic Cir cle cut its forbidding way across the Canadian Barrens. This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Cop... ...from Lake The Wit of Porportuk 215 Le Barge, and, beyond, a half dozen French Canadian voyageurs, grouped by themselves. From afar came the faint cri... ...tically and eco nomically it was nothing if not orthodox. Presidents of great railway systems bought whole editions of it to give to their employees....