Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ABOUT thirty centuries ago there existed on the eastern coast of America a settlement of a most peculiar nature, to a brief account of which this article is devoted. That such a settlement had once existed there had long been a traditional belief, but until the last five years nothing definite about it was known. The exploring expedition sent out by the government in 4845 brought back from the eastern coast of America some most important relics, and among them some papers relating to this town of Harvard. It is expected that there will soon appear a work on America...
...move these gentlemen to declare themselves, but as the prospect of ever hearing from them has been growing beautifully less as time wears on, and we are no nearer a fixed standard than before, we think it highly necessary, by drawing attention to the subject, to have a settlement effected on this important point...
THERE is in New York State a college called Union College, and its organ, the College Spectator, favors us with some gratuitous advice with reference to the settlement of the Yale-Harvard difficulties, which is, to say the least, amusing. As its deductions are all drawn from the false premise that "Harvard has charged Yale with an attempt of a malicious foul," it is needless to particularize, and we would only suggest that meddling in other people's affairs without any knowledge of the facts is extremely hazardous...
...reply to the question as to which was the largest English settlement in this country, a Fresh, replied, "The Alabama." - University Press...
Leaving the bright-roofed city of Quebec, the steamboat takes us down the St. Lawrence to Tadousac, one of the oldest French settlements in Canada. Here we transfer our provisions and rods to the smaller boat which plies between the mouth of the Saguenay and Ha-Ha Bay, - a charming trip, by the way, - passing Cape Eternity and overhanging Trinity opposite. All the way up the river we see at frequent intervals the mouths of tributaries. These small rivers are leased by the government for from five to twenty years to private parties for fishing purposes...