Articles liés à Statistical Account of Upper Canada Volume 1
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Synopsis
Lang:- eng, Vol:- 1, Pages 666 . Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back[1822]. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. , Original Title:- Statistical account of Upper Canada Vol: 1 1822 [Hardcover], Author: Gourlay, Robert, ,Bidwell, Barnabas,
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Présentation de l'éditeur
The views of the Falls of Niagara have been drawn from my pencilingand directions, by a celebrated artist, landscape painter to the late Queen Charlotte, and author of many elegant works; Mr, Craig. That in the title of volume first, and the ground sketch, page 66, have been examined in Upper Canada, and most highly approved of. That in the title of volume second I know will be still better thought of by those who have visited the falls; and these plates, together with the description given by the Writer of the Sketches, page 65, and onward, will, I hope afford the British public some faint conception of the sublimest sceneon earth; a .scene, perhaps designed by providence, to tempt us across the A tlantic, to know, associate with, and esteem our distant fellow men. It is my sanguine expectation, that we shall proceed from England to America by steam boats in less than twenty years, speedily, comfortably, and safely. In the mean time I earnestly wish that some well-qualified person would go abroad, and make panorama pictures of the Falls and Rapids of Niagara, from the stations marked on my ground sketch fine view and grand view. The globe does not afford more intwieating subjects, and the pictures, exhibited in London, would pay well. My wish for this is ardent, not so much to gratify curiosity, as to increase it; to tempt people of fashion and taste across the A tlantic. The Tour of Europe has become stale. Every flower by the way has been picked up, smelt, and flung aside. The Tour of the West would be found a thousand times more interesting, instructive, and beneficial How delightful to cross the Atlantic in the month of May: to behold vast islands of ice; and to enjoy a days fishing on the banks of Newfoundland !to enter the mouth of theS
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