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The road is now, in all probability, finished, and that part of the creek rendered available where these permanent improvements may be made, without the fear of any future change; and when the shores of the North Arm shall be lined by wharfs, and the more elevated portions of Torrens' Island shall be covered with houses, few harbours will be able to boast of more picturesque beauty.
A large number of these blacks and their parents were carried away from the States by one of our admirals in the war of 1812, and landed at Halifax. The capital of Nova Scotia looks like a town of cards, nearly all the buildings being of wood. There are wooden houses, wooden churches, wooden wharfs, wooden slates, and, if there are side walks, they are of wood also.
If insulted or interrupted in their duty, to report the same to head-quarters. Hospital Servants forbid vending or prescribing medicines; and all applications to be made to the medical gentlemen for relief. Hogs forbid to be sent on board any vessel without permit. Idlers loitering about the wharfs, to be sent to hard labour; and if after sunset, to be imprisoned.
We went in gallantly, with the flag flying that "has braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze." I think the majority of the population must have lined the wharfs to see us come in. They rent the welkin with welcomes, and, among other demonstrations, cast up their caps, and cried with might and main "Long live George the Third!"
I was greatly pleased, as I think every stranger must be, with its general aspect, particularly as seen from the water, in which respect it has a great advantage over Toronto. The number of vessels lying at the different wharfs, and the constant arrival of noble steamers both from the United States and the Upper and Lower Province, give it a very business-like appearance.
Beyond the loss of a few old sheds along the shore, very little damage was sustained by the town. The streets near the wharfs were inundated for a few hours, and the cellars filled with water; but after the exit of the iceberg, the river soon subsided into its usual channel. The winter of 1852 was one of great length and severity.
She was glad to see Hector Garret, even if he did not bring a breath of the country with him. She parted from him with a sense of loss a passing sadness that hung upon her for an hour or two, like the vapour on the river, which misses the green boughs and waving woods, and sighs sluggishly past wharfs and warehouses.
They would then make their way to one of the less frequented wharfs, where Claire would arrange to have a rowboat in readiness, and in it they would take refuge on the steamer. An hour later, before the flight of Claire could be discovered, they would have started on their voyage to the mainland. "I warn you," said Billy, "that after we reach New York I have only enough to keep us for a week.
All along the cliff-face and the terraces the cave-dwellings now extended, and the smoke from a score of chimneys fashioned among the clefts rose on the temperate air of that sub-tropic winter. At the doors, nets hung drying. On the pool, boats were anchored at several well-built stone wharfs.
A report reached the old gentleman that the whole countryside was about to rise against you." "Who spread the report?" asked Steinmetz. "I believe it originated down at the wharfs. It has been traced to an old man and his daughter, a sort of pedler, I think, who took a passage down the river, but where they heard the rumor I don't know." Paul and Steinmetz carefully avoided looking at each other.
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