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... roads or in American steamers . And if it can be at the same time shown , as I think it can , that our natural advantages are in many respects , in point of situation and products , superior to those of California , * Dugald M'Tavish ...
... roads or in American steamers . And if it can be at the same time shown , as I think it can , that our natural advantages are in many respects , in point of situation and products , superior to those of California , * Dugald M'Tavish ...
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... roads are as yet hewn through the forest into the interior , on looking at the map we are struck by the fact that the Fraser River and the Colum- bia are the only avenues through which the country can be penetrated , if we except the ...
... roads are as yet hewn through the forest into the interior , on looking at the map we are struck by the fact that the Fraser River and the Colum- bia are the only avenues through which the country can be penetrated , if we except the ...
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... road , the labour is greatly increased . Sometimes , with the tracking line passed across his shoulders , the miner drags his boat or canoe against a swift current , often wading up to his waist in water . At other times we meet him ...
... road , the labour is greatly increased . Sometimes , with the tracking line passed across his shoulders , the miner drags his boat or canoe against a swift current , often wading up to his waist in water . At other times we meet him ...
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... roads , and the country being heavily timbered and rough , we see as yet no farming population . Admitting the exhaustibility of the surface gold which I have shown above , the earliest efforts of legis- lation ought to be to plant a ...
... roads , and the country being heavily timbered and rough , we see as yet no farming population . Admitting the exhaustibility of the surface gold which I have shown above , the earliest efforts of legis- lation ought to be to plant a ...
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... road is execrable , and while a small expenditure would render Victoria Harbour one of the most com- modious on the coast for whalers or merchant vessels , it remains unlighted and unfrequented . The island is unimproved , progress ...
... road is execrable , and while a small expenditure would render Victoria Harbour one of the most com- modious on the coast for whalers or merchant vessels , it remains unlighted and unfrequented . The island is unimproved , progress ...
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