... instead of poverty would now have been the state of that Company; but instead of this, branches as numerous almost as blackberries on a bush, were pushed out into barren districts (as if to embrace all the land in the district, not caring what the population ...

... British Preference. The Samuel Douglass Testimonial. Testimonials are in these days of railway commotion as numerous as blackberries on a bush. It is quite right to testify to a man's merits. We say nothing against the prin.. ciple of the thing properly ...