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Sound of silence: for high adventure and great fishing, tow your boat to Nootka Sound, on the shores of Vancouver Island.(TBM Destination)
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January 1, 2004|
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If you're a trailer boater who loves adventure, be forewarned. Getting to British Columbia's Nootka Sound isn't easy. And it isn't for everyone. Before you're done, you'll have towed your rig from wherever you call home to the ferry dock in Tsawwassen, B.C., on the U.S./Canada border. And that's just the start.
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After driving your rig aboard the 457-foot ferry, Queen of Alberni, you can relax for two-and-a-half hours, as the ferry chugs across the Strait of Georgia to Nanaimo on the southeast shores of Vancouver Island.
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...friendship, books." It was attributed to J. Thomson. Who is J. Thomson, and where can I find out more about this person? C.B., Chelmsford A. James Thomson (1700-1748) was a Scottish poet and contemporary of literary...
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New light on David Mallet.
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...recent years (see Gerrard). James Sambrook's study of one of the...half of the eighteenth century, James Thomson 1700-1748: A Life (1991), testifies to...eighteenth-century England. Although Thomson and his literary productions are...
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Comment: Our country and our culture
Magazine article from: The Hudson Review
; ...POEM SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON," James Thomson (1700-1748) imagines the apotheosis of the scientist amid...Washington, D.C., I found myself thinking of James Thomson. Although his poetic idiom is antiquated, Thomson...
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Gadfly - From froth blowers to hornswogglers
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...elegant sufficiency? was coined by the Scottish poet James Thomson (1700-1748) though it is by no means his great claim to fame. Thomson, and not many people may know this, also wrote...
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A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review
; ...American visual and literary arts, Kammen first sketches their European background. Works like The Seasons by James Thomson (1700-1748) "enjoyed considerable popularity in the young republic" but lost favor as the new nation grew less interested...
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Forgotten birthday celebrations for genius behind 'Rule Britannia'
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...years. But even Thomson's best known...later this year, Thomson's works and style...biographer, Professor James Sambrook, who believes Thomson should command...after his death in 1748. Fted by Frederick...on 11 September 1700 in the Borders...
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The List
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Wallace at Stirling Bridge. 1700: James Thomson, the poet and playwright...artist J M W Turner. Thomson was born in Roxburgh and...Notoriously idle, in later life Thomson received a royal pension...sinecure. He died in 1748 and is buried in Richmond...
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Tribute to Scots writer restored
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...structure with a bust of Thomson and an imposing sculpture...Address to the Shade of Thomson, was read at the...skilled stonemason. James Carter, the project manager, said: "Thomson celebrated the natural...Kelso in September 1700 before the family...where he died in 1748. ...
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