. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. otch; the Germans rankfourth in numbers and theFrench fifth, reaching over100,000; the Dutch are theonly other European peopleconsiderably represented ; butthere were in 1881 over 15,000Indians and 12,000 Africannegroes. The province is dis-tinguished for its excellentsystem of public education,and is making rapid progress. The University of Toronto is a notableseat of learni
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. otch; the Germans rankfourth in numbers and theFrench fifth, reaching over100,000; the Dutch are theonly other European peopleconsiderably represented ; butthere were in 1881 over 15,000Indians and 12,000 Africannegroes. The province is dis-tinguished for its excellentsystem of public education,and is making rapid progress. The University of Toronto is a notableseat of learning, and has a fine building. The foresting, or, as it is usually called, lumbering, business ofCanada is very considerable, and develops a noteworthy kind of many cases licences have been granted to merchants to cutdown trees in remote districts, known as the timber limits,and they have collected large numbers of labourers, horses, oxen, etc.,on their lots, housing them in log-shanties, smTounded on three sidesby sleeping berths, with light and air supplied from a central hole inthe roof, beneath which a large wood fire is kept up. The shantycook, says Professor Daniel Wilson, is an important member of the. A MANITOBAN FARM. Lumbering. 712 THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA. little community. Salt pork and beef, pease-soup, wheaten bread andtea, with potatoes, white beans, and onions, are the staple of the lumbershanty fare. As a rule, intoxicating liquors are absolutely excluded;and thus provisioned the foreman selects the proper trees, and lumberingoperations proceed throughout the winter. Many thousands of menare busy throughout the whole winter, felling the trees, cutting theminto logs, or hewing them into squared timber, and transporting themover the snow to suitable points for floating them down the rivers to themills, or directly to the place of export .... On the breaking upof the frost in the spring, the produce of the winters lumbering is floateddown the rivers. At su
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