England and Canada

England and Canada - A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes

TO The Right Honourable the Marquis of Lorne, K.T. G.C.M.G., P.C., &C., &C., ONE OF CANADAS TRUEST AND WARMEST FRIENDS, WITH SINCERE RESPECT THIS RECORD OF A JOURNEY FROM THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, THROUGH CANADIAN TERRITORY, IS DEDICATED. If we carry ourselves in imagination to that part of North America nearest to Europe, we find that we have reached the most easterly coast of the Island of Newfoundland, an outlying portion of the continent. Standing on Cape Bonavista and looking from this promontory over the waste of waters, we discover that between the Equator and Greenland the Atlantic Ocean is generally of much greater width in every other parallel than opposite our present position: that its breadth rapidly increases as we proceed southward, if but a few degrees of latitude, and that, in the parallels of New York or Philadelphia, the ocean is more than double the width. Towards the continent of Europe the first land the eye rests upon is that of the British Islands. Four centuries back the first recorded discoverer of Newfoundland sailed from those shores, and from the time of the Tudor monarchs2 this stretch of ocean has been unceasingly traversed by European ships. It has thus been the cradle of ocean navigation. Adventurous men, who planted the early settlement of America, crossed to the new world on this narrow belt. The vessels which carried them were indeed frail craft compared with the creations of modern ship-building. But, step by step, they were enlarged and developed to the magnificent clipper, which again has been supplanted by the still more magnificent ocean steamer. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50433
Author: Fleming, Sandford
Release Date: Nov 11, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English