Agricultural Tour in the United States and Upper Canada, with Miscellaneous NoticesW. Blackwood & sons, 1842 - 181페이지 |
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39 페이지 - His stock comprehends 400 cattle, steers, heifers and bulls, and about 2000 sheep of the Merino breed, and I could not but regret seeing land so valuable covered with stock of so inferior a description. The red breed of cattle which I had seen all over the State of New York, Colonel Wordsworth informs me are considered to be Devons. If so they are much degenerated, being of diminutive size, coarse, and evidently bad feeders, averaging not more than from 25 to 30 stones.
154 페이지 - L. 2, 11s. extraordinary signs of these repulsive qualities, I found good breeding, politeness, frank hospitality, and every generous feeling prevailing amongst them, in as great a degree and with as few exceptions as at home. In the cities I saw none of the open displays of depravity, which disfigure our large towns, and in all my journeying I never saw the face of a policeman — never met a beggar or any one in the garb of mendicity — never heard uttered an oath or imprecation — and never...
39 페이지 - Colonel Wordsworth's young stock are partly bred by himself or bought in at one year old for about 25s. a head ; they seem starved and stunted in their growth, and as miserable in appearance as the worst stock on the bleak sides of our Grampian hills, and yet were depasturing land of a quality equal to what with us in Scotland might bring a rent of L.
xiv 페이지 - ... constables, police, magistracy, and treadmills, to punish them and keep them in order. Nobody talks or even appears to think of housebreakers, and dwellings at distances of miles apart from neighbours are often left without the doors being locked or bolted, in summer and in winter, all night long. If the surplus population of Britain, who cannot obtain adequate remuneration for their labour at home, could but be prevailed upon to transport themselves at once to this country, and seek for employment...
154 페이지 - ... the Americans are attentive to their religious duties, and this opinion has been confirmed by a further acquaintance with them. One does not meet here with any pretension to the high fashion bred in courts and pervading their atmospheres, but exclude this from the comparison, and, between the States and England, there will be found in private society, such a resemblance of manners as for the moment makes a Briton forget he is not in his own country — or if that shall be called to his mind,...
30 페이지 - ... front seat, three on a back seat, and three on a bench hung in the middle ; instead of panels, it has oil-skin curtains to shut down at night ; its body is something in the form of a boat, resting on strong leather slings instead of steel springs, which indeed would not stand a mile on their roads ; it consequently dances in the air like a balloon, giving a certain kind of variety to the monotony of a journey. The coachman sits on a bench, considerably lower than the top of the coach, and lower...
30 페이지 - ... dances in the air like a balloon, giving a certain kind of variety to the monotony of a journey. The coachman sits on a bench, considerably lower than the top of the coach, and lower even than the horses, and there being no pad-terrets, the reins dangle loose and afford no command of the horses ; but then they are so admirably broken that, although fine high-spirited animals, they regulate their pace instantly at his call. Each man drives a twelve or fifteen mile stage, and what much surprised...
166 페이지 - ... death, he carried on his back, all the way from Aberdeen, a bundle of young trees, which he planted in the den of Ury with his own hand, sorely to the vexation of the old gentleman, who complained that the protecting of the plants annoyed the people's sheep.
67 페이지 - During one of my excursions from Hamilton, I visited and dined with another old friend, Adam Ferguson, who resides about seven miles from that place, on a small property which he has named Woodhill after his estate in Scotland. Here he has built a cottage commanding beautiful views, particularly of Burlington Bay, but its own situation is rugged, solitary and gloomy, — so much so that I could not help giving utterance to my...