ISBN: 1150854782

[EAN: 9781150854781], Neubuch, [PU: General Books LLC], FRANCIS POOLE,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 80 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book ma… Meer...

[EAN: 9781150854781], Neubuch, [PU: General Books LLC], FRANCIS POOLE,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 80 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.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. 1872. Excerpt: . . . 326 CHAPTER XX. VIEW OF VICTORIA--HOMEW. VRD-BOUXD SAN FRANCISCO--COPFEROPOIJS--STOCKTON--THE KING OF TREES MANZANILLA ARISTOCRATIC THIEVES--MEXICAN LIFE--ACAPULCO--BLACK SWIMMING-BOYS TMC FERATURE--SUNSETS--TAIL OF A HURRICANE--PANAMA CITY BACK ACROSS THE ISTHMUS--FROM COLON TO NEW YORK CANADIAN HEADQUARTERS--ON THE WAY TO ENGLAND. The Queen Charlotte Mining Company having approved my Report, provided for the removal of my late workmen, and handsomely acknowledged my services, 1 was free to return to England, or to resume the more regular professional work in Canada, from which I had temporarily severed myself. Before briefly narrating my return-voyage, I shall say a word on the capital of British Columbia. Outside Victoria, towards the north, is an excellent racecourse, with some high land in the centre of it called Beacon-hill. I took my stand there, to have a farewell look at the colony. In the North Pacific strangers are said to incline to the use of superlatives while surveying the scenery. Perhaps so; yet, most mificent, most glorious, are the expressions that i4 VIEW OF VICTORIA. 327 do rise to ones mind in presence of the perfect natural beauty to be viewed on all sides. The prospect for miles and miles round the capital could not but enlist enthusiastic admiration. What I saw included an interminable extent of bold seacoast, cut up into lovely coves and future bathingplaces, that forcibly recalled our Devon and Cornwall at home. Beyond these came, here the ocean in all its expanded beauty, there the straits and the inland seas I had learnt to know so well, and, beyond the straits again, the long mountain-chains of the Oregon Territory rearing their snow-clad crests in stern splendour. I sat for hours, hardly taking my eyes from off the lands. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781150854781

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either pa… Meer...

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ISBN: 9781150854781

Queen Charlotte Islands, A Narrative Of Discovery And Adventure In The North Pacific, Ed. By John W. Lyndon Francis Poole, Books, History, Queen Charlotte Islands, A Narrative Of Discover… Meer...

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