| Robert Cooney - Gaspé District (Québec) - 1832 - 378 pages
...country wore an aspect, far more appalling and desolate, than the most lively imagination, horrified by a vivid remembrance of this event, and a desire...of the country ; of the myriads of Salmon, Trout, Bass,and other fish, which poisoned by the alxsholy, formed by the^ ashes, precipitated into the river,... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - Gibraltar - 1834 - 656 pages
...to death : and rude and melancholy was their sepulchre — " unknelled, uncoih'ned, and unknown."f Thousands of wild beasts, too, had perished in the woods, and from their putresccnt carcases, issued streams of effluvium and stench, that formed contagious domes over the... | |
| Books - 1835 - 618 pages
...life to death ; and rude and melancholy was their sepulchre — ' unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.' Thousands of wild beasts, too, had perished in the...effluvium and stench, that formed contagious domes over tlle dismantled settlements. Domestic animals of all kinds lay dead and dying in different parts of... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - Great Britain - 1837 - 388 pages
..." unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown." The immediate loss of life was upwards of 500 human beings ! Thousands of wild beasts, too, had perished in the...contagious domes over the dismantled settlements. Domestic animals of all kinds lay dead and dying in different parts of the country ; myriads of salmon,... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - Bermuda Islands - 1837 - 388 pages
...sepulchre—" unknelled, uncomned, and unknown." The immediate loss of life was upwards of 500 human beings ! Thousands of wild beasts, too, had perished in the...contagious domes over the dismantled settlements. Domestic animals of all kinds lay dead and dying in different parts of the country; myriads of salmon,... | |
| John S. Springer - Logging - 1851 - 286 pages
...beings ! Thousands of wild beasts, too, had perished in the woods, and from their putrescent carcasses issued streams of effluvium and stench that formed contagious domes over the dismantled settlements. Domestic animals of all kinds lay dead and dying in different parts of the country. Myriads of salmon,... | |
| John S. Springer - Logging - 1851 - 282 pages
...unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.' The immediate loss of life was upward of five hundred beings ! Thousands of wild beasts, too, had perished in the woods, and from their putrescent carcasses issued streams of effluvium and stench that formed contagious domes over the dismantled settlements.... | |
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