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Howison's story of the ill-starred colony and the conjectural refuge of its remnants among the Croatan Indians of Virginia as Raleigh named the whole region, including the present North Carolina fittingly completes the history of Sir Walter's American enterprise.
If he gets a glisk o' ye, he'll tak to his trotters in a minnit, and gie us an infernal rin for't. See what lang legs the sinner has." "I think I could rin him ony day," replied Howison's concurrent, "and gie him a start o' a hunner yards to the bargain." "I'm no sure o' that," rejoined Howison, shaking his head doubtingly; "ye dinna ken hoo a man can rin wi' a caption at his heels.
A good deal of information on the soil, agriculture, productions, climate, &c.: the zoology imperfect. Hall's Travels in Canada and the United States, 1816-17. 8vo. Howison's Sketches of Upper Canada. 8vo. 1821. Hall's is a pleasant and lively work, unfolding many of the peculiarities of the manners, customs, &c., of Canada and the adjacent parts of the United States.
He turned round, but without quitting the arms of the fair ladies who hung upon him, and looked frowningly on Howison. "What do you mean, sir?" inquired Jacob, indignantly, and now glancing also at Howison's companion, who stood close by, with his stick tucked under his arm.
She is now a large and beautiful town the capital of the Eastern Province situated on the slopes of the Zuurberg range, near the head waters of the Kowie River, 1760 feet above the sea, and thirty-six miles distant therefrom. She is also the focus where all the roads from the interior converge to enter the only available gap through the mountains Howison's Poort.
"But Maister Hogarth," said one of Jamie Howison's colleagues, "we look to you to mind the interests of them that has nae votes, and that is a large body, as ye ken." "Yes, a very large body indeed, when you include the women and children," said Francis.
It lay entirely unnoticed by anyone for twenty years, until I, in an address before Professor Howison's philosophical union at the university of California, brought it forward again and made a special application of it to religion. By that date the times seemed ripe for its reception. The word 'pragmatism' spread, and at present it fairly spots the pages of the philosophic journals.
Howison's is the work of an abler man: it is rich in valuable information to emigrants; and is, moreover, highly descriptive of scenery and manners. The part relative to the United States is superficial. Collection des Plusieures Relations du Canada, 1632-1672. 43 vols. 12mo. Charlevoix's Travels in North America, translated from the French. 1772. 2 Vols. 4to.