The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war: With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies. . ivers came from remote regions to water that extenfive intervals between them were full of lakes, four of which meafured fromtwo to five hundred leagues in circumference. Thefe inland leas, as they maybe called, communicated with each other •, and after forming the finelt navigablecanal in the univcrfe, confiderably increafed the bed of the ocean by open
The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war: With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies. . ivers came from remote regions to water that extenfive intervals between them were full of lakes, four of which meafured fromtwo to five hundred leagues in circumference. Thefe inland leas, as they maybe called, communicated with each other •, and after forming the finelt navigablecanal in the univcrfe, confiderably increafed the bed of the ocean by opening thegulph of St. Laurence. Nature here appeared in fuch luxuriant majefly as commanded veneration andrefpeft. A thoufand wild graces broke upon the fight, far fuperior to the arci-jicial beauties of more cultivated regions. Here the imagination of the poet orpainter would have been elevated, roufed, and filled with thofe ideaswhich leave a lafting impreffioa upon the mind ; and the colonifls, whofeviews were otherwife direfted, found the air highly favourable to humanlife. Nor does this temperature lofe any thing of its wholelbmenefs bythe feverity of a long and intenfely cold winter; the rigour of which muft in fome. T H E H I S T O R Y O F A M E R I C A. S39 fonie meafure be imputed to the woods, lakes, and mountains with which the CHAP. abounds, to the elevation of tlie land, and the direftioa of the windj, ^ which blow from north to fouth, over feas of eternal ice. The inhabitants of this fharp and bleak climate were, however, thinly their intercourfe with the French, a cloak of buffalo or beaver fkin,bound with a leathern girdle, and (lockings made of a roe-buck fkin,were the whole of their drefs. The additions which they have fince made>though not very confiderable, give great offence to their old men, who are con-tinually declaiming againtl the degeneracy of the manners, and the efl^eminacy ofnew cuftoms, with as much energy as the mofl rigi
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