 ... live in a big house, so a small country cannot support a big river. Now, to an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams, but in the Ottawa, a mere affluent of the St. Lawrence,...  Blackie's geographical readers - Side 116af W G. Baker - 1884Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Sandford Fleming - 1878 - 122 sider
...said: — " To an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhene, would appear considerable streams; but in the Ottawa, a...its mouth, we have a river nearly 550 miles long, and throe or four times as big as any of them. But, even after having ascended the St. Lawrence itself... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (Great Britain) - 1878 - 458 sider
...— •• To an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams; but in the Ottawa, a...its mouth, we have a river nearly 550 miles long, and three or four times as big as any of them. But, even after having ascended the St. Lawrence itself... | |
 | Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Sandford Fleming - 1878 - 120 sider
...said: — " To an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or tho Rhone, would appear considerable streams ; but in the Ottawa, a...reaches the parent stream 600 miles from its mouth, we havo a river nearly 550 miles long, and three or four times as big as any of them. But, even after... | |
 | Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Sandford Fleming - 1878 - 122 sider
...said : — " To an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams ; but in the Ottawa, a...moreover, which reaches the parent stream 600 miles from ils mouth, we have a river nearly 550 miles long, and three or four times as big as any of them. But,... | |
 | William Leggo - 1878 - 946 sider
...big river. Now to an Englishman or a Frenchman the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone would appear considerable streams, but in the Ottawa, a...affluent moreover which reaches the parent stream six hundred miles from its mouth, we have a river nearly five hundred and fifty miles long, and three... | |
 | George Stewart - 1878 - 704 sider
...river. Now, to an Englishman or a Frenchman the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams, but in the Ottawa, a...affluent, moreover, which reaches the parent stream six hundred miles from its mouth, we have a river nearly five hundred and fifty miles long, and three... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (Great Britain) - 1878 - 464 sider
...said : — '' To an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams ; but in the Ottawa, a...affluent, moreover, which reaches the parent stream 000 miles from its mouth, we have a river nearly 550 miles long, and three or four times as big as... | |
 | Canada. Department of Agriculture - 1878 - 74 sider
...river. Now, to an Englishman or a Frenchman the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams, but in the Ottawa, a...affluent, moreover, which reaches the parent stream six hundred miles from its mouth, we have a river nearly five hundred and fifty miles long, and three... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 174 sider
...between the Atlantic and the Pacific, thus described the great natural water-ways of the Dominion: — To an Englishman, the Severn or the Thames appear...affluent, moreover, which reaches the parent stream G00 miles from its mouth, we have a river nearly 550 miles long. Even after ascending the St. Lawrence... | |
 | John Macoun, George Monro Grant, Alexander Begg, John Campbell McLagan - 1882 - 736 sider
...river. Now, to an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams, but in the Ottawa, a...affluent, moreover, which reaches the parent stream six hundred miles from its mouth, we have a river nearly five hundred and fifty miles long, and three... | |
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