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The Settlers in Canada, by Frederick Marryat
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Title: The Settlers in Canada
Author: Frederick Marryat
Release Date: September 3, 2007 [eBook #22496]
Language: English
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SETTLERS IN CANADA
by
CAPTAIN MARRYAT
Author of "Children of the New Forest," "Peter Simple," "Little Savage," "Newton Foster," "Privateersman," "Monsieur Violet," etc., etc.
With Illustrations
George Routledge and Sons London: Broadway, Ludgate Hill New York: 9 Lafayette Place
[Illustration: BEE-HUNTING.]
CHAPTER I.
It was in the year 1794, that an English family went out to settle in Canada. This province had been surrendered to us by the French, who first colonized it, more tha