Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ... of Dover. It does not lie in a eompaet body, but is intermixed ivith red and blue elay. After exportation, it is ground fine in a mill and seattered over the land by the hand in about the proportion of five bushels to the aere, answering well upon a diy sandy soil, and showing a dark mark upon the grass, whieh springs up in the parts where it has been seattered. It is also said to prevent that bane of the farmer, the rust in the wheat, whieh are supposed to be oeeasioned by the thiek fogs of Nova Seotia. When we arrived at Windsor and walked to the piers, where the vessels were loading with gypsum, the bed of the river had a most singular appearanee. As far as the eye eould reaeh, only a thiek bed of yellow mud was visible, and the keels of the vessels were 40 feet above the level of a small fresh-water brook, whieh flowed m a narrow gully through it. The height of the tide inereases in an unaeeountable manner as it approaehes the N. E. along the whole eoast of North Ameriea. At New York eommon flood does not average more than five or six feet: at St. John's it is from 20 to 25, at Windsor about 35, and inereasing in rapidity as the basin beeomes narrower, it rises near Fort Cumberland and Truro to the astonishing height of 75 feet in the spring tides. The eaptain of a vessel assured me that he had east anehor in twelve fathoms' water in Chigneeto Basin, and had walked round his eraft at low ebb. The erops throughout our journey appeared in a most deplorable state; in many parts they were yet green, though it was now the 26th of September, and some were entirely destroyed by the frost, whieh had been eaprieious in the extreme: one field was probably quite destroyed, and the farmer at work eutting it for winter fodder, while the next was yet in a flourishin...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ... of Dover. It does not lie in a eompaet body, but is intermixed ivith red and blue elay. After exportation, it is ground fine in a mill and seattered over the land by the hand in about the proportion of five bushels to the aere, answering well upon a diy sandy soil, and showing a dark mark upon the grass, whieh springs up in the parts where it has been seattered. It is also said to prevent that bane of the farmer, the rust in the wheat, whieh are supposed to be oeeasioned by the thiek fogs of Nova Seotia. When we arrived at Windsor and walked to the piers, where the vessels were loading with gypsum, the bed of the river had a most singular appearanee. As far as the eye eould reaeh, only a thiek bed of yellow mud was visible, and the keels of the vessels were 40 feet above the level of a small fresh-water brook, whieh flowed m a narrow gully through it. The height of the tide inereases in an unaeeountable manner as it approaehes the N. E. along the whole eoast of North Ameriea. At New York eommon flood does not average more than five or six feet: at St. John's it is from 20 to 25, at Windsor about 35, and inereasing in rapidity as the basin beeomes narrower, it rises near Fort Cumberland and Truro to the astonishing height of 75 feet in the spring tides. The eaptain of a vessel assured me that he had east anehor in twelve fathoms' water in Chigneeto Basin, and had walked round his eraft at low ebb. The erops throughout our journey appeared in a most deplorable state; in many parts they were yet green, though it was now the 26th of September, and some were entirely destroyed by the frost, whieh had been eaprieious in the extreme: one field was probably quite destroyed, and the farmer at work eutting it for winter fodder, while the next was yet in a flourishin...
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