Canadian Scenery: Volume I (of 2)

by Nathaniel Parker Willis

La Potherie corroborates this statement, with this difference, that he attributes the Spaniards' idea of the nothingness of the country to its being covered with snow. He says also that the Indians, on the arrival of Jacques Cartier, frequently pronounced these words: Aca nada (nothing here), which is a very plausible derivation. The words were taught them probably by the Spaniards, who had visited the Baie des Chaleurs, and pronounced them because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508891818
• ISBN13: 9781508891819
• Release Date: March 1842
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"