The Countries of the World: Indians of North America ; Arctic regions ; Canada ; Pacific CoastCassell, 1876 |
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... cultivated with any success . The turnip , indeed , requires a favourable summer to produce anything like tolerable ... cultivate potatoes , but the tubers never attain a size larger than marbles , and are only grown and eaten as ...
... cultivated with any success . The turnip , indeed , requires a favourable summer to produce anything like tolerable ... cultivate potatoes , but the tubers never attain a size larger than marbles , and are only grown and eaten as ...
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... cultivation , grain of all kinds and vegetables being grown . Mr. Rowan considered Ontario the best position of Canada for ... cultivated . The country is well adapted for stock raising , and accordingly Ontario sends large quantities of ...
... cultivation , grain of all kinds and vegetables being grown . Mr. Rowan considered Ontario the best position of Canada for ... cultivated . The country is well adapted for stock raising , and accordingly Ontario sends large quantities of ...
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... cultivated valleys , well watered and wooded , but that we were now in the wilderness . No longer was our eye ... cultivation , though good spots here and there , we met three Indians returning to the Siletz Reservation from Mr ...
... cultivated valleys , well watered and wooded , but that we were now in the wilderness . No longer was our eye ... cultivation , though good spots here and there , we met three Indians returning to the Siletz Reservation from Mr ...
Contents
THE ARCTIC REGIONS IN GENERAL | 17 |
SEA ICE GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS | 48 |
LIFE IN POLAR LANDS | 71 |
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abundant accordingly Arctic Ocean Arctic regions Baffin Bay bear beaver boats British Columbia Brunswick California called camp Canada Canadian canoes Cascade range Cascades Cassell's Cheap Edition chief civilisation climate Cloth coast Coloured Danish Davis Strait east Eastern England Eskimo feet fish fjords forest fur animals fur countries fur-trade glacier Greenland ground horses Hudson Bay Company hunter ice-fields icebergs Illustrated Indians interior killed Klamath Lake land latitude live logs Manitoba marten miles narwhal natives North America North-West northern Nova Scotia Ontario Oregon Pacific pine Polar portion prairie province Quebec Railway range reindeer River rocks Rocky Mountains sail seal season seen settlement settlers ship shores side skin snow soil sometimes species Spitzbergen Strait streams summer territory timber trade trapper traps traveller trees tribes valley Vancouver Island vessel vicinity Vols walrus West western whale wild winter woods