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The whole population has been estimated by different travellers as amounting to from fifteen to thirty thousand, consisting of Mohammedans, Jews, and the various sects of Christians. Description of the Country Northward of Jerusalem. Anne; Description by Dr. Clarke; Vale of Zabulon; Vicinity of Acre.
He had 'girdled' the trees for an acre or two around, preparatory to clearing a space for corn and potatoes. In the meantime he maintained his family entirely by his rifle, and I soon found him to be a first-rate huntsman. Under his tutelage I received my first effective lessons in 'woodcraft. "The more I knew of a hunter's life, the more I relished it.
This was all they had at John Connolly's to face the winter withal, and I was curious to know what rent they paid for their little cabin and the field attached. An acre was quite as much as they appeared to have, and for this they were "set," as it is called here, at 3l. per annum, and, in addition, were charged 2s. 6d. for the privilege of cutting turf, and 5s. 6d. for the seaweed.
The Modus upon the flax in England, affects only lands reclaimed since the year 1690, and is at the rate of five shillings the English acre, which is equivalent to eight shillings and eightpence Irish, and that to be paid before the farmer removed it from the field.
'Bob, what are these? The old gentleman stopped before an expanse of blackened stumps, among which a multitude of molehills diversified the soil. 'Potatoes, sir. That's the Canadian way of raising them on new land in hills of five thousand to the acre. You see ridges would be out of the question, or any even system of culture, on account of the stumps and roots. 'I suppose so, said Mr.
With the quickness of jealousy, Reddin knew that Edward was making a garden for Hazel. It enraged him. 'I could have made her a garden, and a deal better than that! he thought. 'She could have had half an acre of the garden at Undern; I could have it made in no time. He uttered an exclamation of contempt. 'The way he fools with that spade! He's never dug in his life.
Every here and there, a long road is left, with cross ones, to obtain access to the farms, much in the same way, but not near so conveniently, or well done, as the concession lines in Upper Canada, which embrace large spaces of a hundred acre or two hundred acre lots, including many of these lots, and giving a sixty-six feet or a forty foot road, as the case may be, and thus dividing the country into a series of large parallelograms, and making every farm accessible.
Indeed, she looked for all the world as if she had been put into a furnace and blown red hot. Jorrocks having got rid of his "worser half," as he calls her, let out a reef or two of his acre of white waistcoat, and each man made himself comfortable according to his acceptation of the term.
To show the value he attaches to this element, the fact will suffice that he usually keeps 65 bullocks, cows, and calves, 100 sheep, and a number of pigs, besides his horses, making one head to every acre of his farm. With this amount of live stock he makes from 4 to 5 pounds worth of meat per acre annually.
Outside of his authorship, he lived an active, practical life trod the boards of a theatre, managed men, looked after his money, rubbed against society in multiplied ways and kept himself strong, healthy, and abundantly fed with that food which was necessary to him. Shakspeare had genius, it is true, but genius without food is quite as helpless as a barren acre.
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