The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 255: January to June 1897 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Urban, Sylvanus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333248075 ISBN 13 : 9781333248079

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January 1885. THE UNFORESEEN. By A lice OH anlon. Chapter I. IN THE BACKWOODS. ALMOST due north of Quebec, a hundred and twenty-five miles in a straight line across unbroken spruce forests, lies a large, oddly-shaped sheet of water a lake deep, and dark, and lonely. Thirty miles at its greatest width, and the cradle of one of the deepest rivers in the world, this lake stretches in every direction long arms, like the radiations of some gigantic star-fish, far into the surrounding solitudes. At present there exists on its banks a flourishing and growing colony; but forty years ago with which time we have to do the settlement, though not quite in its infancy, was at least comparatively small It consisted of some dozen houses all modest, one-storied structures of hewn pine-logs, with cone-shaped roofs and projecting eaves clustered at irregular distances about a clap-boarded church, nearly large enough (like the churches of most Canadian villages) to contain them all. The clearing effected amidst that primeval forest had proved remarkably fertile. The soil was rich and warm, for the climate, owing to the northern sweep of the isothermal line, is there some degrees milder than on the banks of the St. Lawrence, so far to the south, and spring dawns, as a rule, a week or two earlier. But whilst plentiful harvests rewarded the settlers toil, there was no market for their produce nearer than Quebec, a distance which, although for the loon, or crow, only that specified above, was represented to those wingless French peasants by two hundred and fifty miles of water, in addition to a tedious I nd journey. Further, it VOL. ccLV iii. NO. 1849.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1333248075
• ISBN 13: 9781333248079
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 540