 | George Bancroft - 1852 - 490 σελίδες
...luscious of them all. There every luxury of the table might be enjoyed at the sole expense of labor.8 The lovely and cheerful region attracted settlers, alike...numbers were rated even so high as twenty-five hundred CHAP. souls, of whom five hundred were men able to bear ^-^-^ arms,1 or as three or four hundred French... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1852 - 484 σελίδες
...luscious of them all. There every luxury of the table might be enjoyed at the sole expense of labor.8 The lovely and cheerful region attracted settlers, alike...so occupied the two banks of the river that their num1 Eraser to Gen. Gage, 15 May, ' Charlevoix, iii. 256. 4to edit. 1765. ' Mante, 524, 525. bers were... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 448 σελίδες
...yielding maize, wheat, and every vegetable. The forests were natural parks stocked with buffaloes, deer, quails, partridges, and wild turkeys. "Water-fowl...four hundred French families. Yet an enumeration in 176i proved them not so numerous, with only men enough to form three companies of militia ; and in... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1856 - 812 σελίδες
...were natural parks stocked with buffaloes, deer, quails, partridges and wild turkeys. Water-fowl of delicious flavor hovered along its streams, which...banks of the river, that their numbers were rated even as high as twenty-five hundred souls, of whom were five hundred men able to bear arms ; three or four... | |
 | 1856 - 788 σελίδες
...were natural parks stocked with buffaloes, deer, quails, partridges and wild turkeys. Water-fowl of delicious flavor hovered along its streams, which...banks of the river, that their numbers were rated even as high as twenty-five hundred souls, of whom were five hundred men able to bear arms ; threo or four... | |
 | 1856 - 792 σελίδες
...were natural parks stocked with buffaloes, deer, quails, partridges and wild turkeys. Water-fowl of delicious flavor hovered along its streams, which...banks of the river, that their numbers were rated even as high as twenty-five hundred souls, of whom were five hundred men able to bear arms ; three or four... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 440 σελίδες
...the white fish, the richest and most luscious of them all. There every luxury of the table might he enjoyed by the sole expense of labor. " This lovely...were rated even so high as twenty-five hundred souls, uf whom were five hundred men able to bear arms; three or four hundred French families. Yet an enumeration... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 472 σελίδες
...luscious of them all. There every luxury of the table might be enjoyed at the sole expense of labor.3 The lovely and cheerful region attracted settlers, alike...of the river that their numbers were rated even so higli as twenty-five hundred CHAP. souls, of wlioin five hundred were men able to bear ^^*> arms,1... | |
 | 1856 - 732 σελίδες
...; and the French had so occupied the two banks of the river, that their numbers were rated even as high as twenty-five hundred souls, of whom were five...arms ; three or four hundred French families. Yet an enuumeration in 17G4 proved them not so numerous, with ouly men enough to form three companies of militia... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 482 σελίδες
...luscious of them all. There every luxury of the table might be enjoyed at the sole expense of labor. 3 The lovely and cheerful region attracted settlers, alike...numbers were rated even so high as twenty-five hundred CHAP. souls, of whom five hundred were men able to bear ^-vw arms, 1 or as three or four hundred French... | |
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This lovely and cheerful region attracted settlers, alike white men and savages; and the French had so occupied the two banks of the river, that their numbers were rated even so high as twenty-five hundred souls, of whom were five hundred men able to... 
