| Bishop Davenport - North America - 1838 - 534 pages
...Canada consists of a fertile valley, mostly level, through the middle of which the St. Lawrence flows. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The winters are long and severe : the thermometer sometimes rises, in summer, to 100 degrees, and sinks, in winter, to 40 below 0. In a state... | |
| Bishop Davenport - North America - 1843 - 604 pages
...Canada consists of a fertile valley, mostly level, through the middle of which the St. Lawrence flows. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The winters are long and severe : the thermometer sometimes rises, in summer, to 100 degrees, and sinks, in winter, to 40 below 0. In a state... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 356 pages
...most populous part consists of a fertile valley mostly level, through which the St. Lawrence flows. 5. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The winters are long and severe. 4. Most of the other parts are still covered with forests, and are diversified by mountains and valleys.... | |
| Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 482 pages
...navigation of the said river, when both banks thereof shall belong to the same party." The climate of Maine is subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The winters are long and severe, with clear settled weather, which generally continues from the middle of September to the end of March,... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1852 - 492 pages
...river, which empties into the St. Lawrence near Montreal. Of Canada generally, it lias been said, that the climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold ; the thermometer ranging between 102° above, and 36° below Fahrenheit ; the ground being covered five... | |
| Sophia S. Cornell - Geography - 1861 - 414 pages
...interior has not been explored by Europeans. The soil is said to be sterile, but carefully cultivated. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold. The islands are believed to be very rich in mineral products. Inhabitants, etc.—The Japanese hear some... | |
| Sophia S. Cornell - Geography - 1863 - 114 pages
...most fertile portions e in the valley of the St. Johnas, and between the Penobscot and the Kenebcc. The climate is subject to great extremes of heat and cold ; the win?rs are long and severe. Among the most important productions are grain, otatoes, wool, butter,... | |
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