 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Commerce - 1873 - 304 pages
...fogs of the lake, and the moisture of the ground from the springs that issue frc-m beneath the hills. There are meadows in the vicinity that yield abundance...hitherto been an object of serious consideration. When the people from Montreal have arrived at the Grande Portage, which is nearly nine miles over,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 648 pages
...fogs of the lake, and the moisture of the ground from the springs that issue from beneath the hills. There are meadows in the vicinity that yield abundance...hitherto been an object of serious consideration. When, the people from Montreal have arrived at the Grande Portage, which is nearly nine miles over,... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - Explorers - 1902 - 378 pages
...fogs of the lake, and the moisture of the ground from the springs that issue from beneath the hills. There are meadows in the vicinity that yield abundance...notices, to give some further account of the people from Montreal.—When they are arrived at the Grande Portage, which is near nine miles over, each of them... | |
 | Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Fur trade - 1903 - 376 pages
...fogs of the lake, and the moisture of the ground from the springs that issue from beneath the hills. There are meadows in the vicinity that yield abundance...they are arrived at the Grande Portage, which is near nine miles over, each of them has to carry eight packages of such goods and provisions as are necessary... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - Algonquian languages - 1927 - 544 pages
...fogs of the lake, and the moisture of the ground from the springs that issue from beneath the hills. There are meadows in the vicinity that yield abundance...they are arrived at the Grande Portage, which is near nine miles over, each of them has to carry eight packages of such goods and provisions as are necessary... | |
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... soil immediately bordering on the lake has not proved very propitious, as nothing but potatoes have been found to answer the trouble of cultivation. This circumstance is probably owing to the cold damp fogs of the lake, and the moisture of the ground... 