Canada: Historical, المجلد 2Clarendon Press, 1890 - 365 من الصفحات |
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... northern lake districts 1 . The most common trees are the Juniper or ' cedar , ' which is constantly referred to throughout Bermudian history , and the Oleander . The flora of the islands is not extensive . The cultivated fruits are ...
... northern lake districts 1 . The most common trees are the Juniper or ' cedar , ' which is constantly referred to throughout Bermudian history , and the Oleander . The flora of the islands is not extensive . The cultivated fruits are ...
الصفحة 33
... northern section of Leeward islands and a southern section of Wind- ward islands , which project further into the Atlantic . In 1671 this division was made a political one , and the English Caribbean islands , which had before ...
... northern section of Leeward islands and a southern section of Wind- ward islands , which project further into the Atlantic . In 1671 this division was made a political one , and the English Caribbean islands , which had before ...
الصفحة 35
... northern coast of South America was known as the Spanish main1 ; and , in tracing Spaniards British colonisation and the rise of British colonies in the West West Indies , the first point to remember is , that here the circle of Indies ...
... northern coast of South America was known as the Spanish main1 ; and , in tracing Spaniards British colonisation and the rise of British colonies in the West West Indies , the first point to remember is , that here the circle of Indies ...
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... northern peoples of Europe began systematically to settle in the West Indies . English ships were first seen in West Indian waters in 1516 , when two vessels under the command of Sebastian 1 Florida was so called ' because it was ...
... northern peoples of Europe began systematically to settle in the West Indies . English ships were first seen in West Indian waters in 1516 , when two vessels under the command of Sebastian 1 Florida was so called ' because it was ...
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... northern coast of Hayti had in 1640 been placed under a French Governor , so that by the middle of the seventeenth century the French had not only firmly planted themselves in the larger Carib islands , but had begun to encroach upon ...
... northern coast of Hayti had in 1640 been placed under a French Governor , so that by the middle of the seventeenth century the French had not only firmly planted themselves in the larger Carib islands , but had begun to encroach upon ...
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America Anguilla Antigua Assembly Bahamas Barbadians Barbados Belize Berbice Bermudas Britain British colony British Guiana British Honduras buccaneers Caicos Caribs Carlisle Cayman century chap CHAPTER coast cocoa Columbus continent Council Crown district Dominica Dutch early east eastern Edition England English Essequibo European export Extra fcap France French given Governor grant Grenada Guadeloupe Harbour Hispaniola included inhabitants Jamaica King Kitts labour land Leeward Islands Lord Willoughby Lucia mainland mainly Maroons Martinique ment Montserrat Mosquito mountains natives negroes Nevis northern Notes Orinoco parish peace plantations population Port possession revenue river SECTION sent settled settlement settlers ships shores side slavery slaves southern Spain Spaniards Spanish square miles sugar tion Tobago town trade treaty Trinidad Turks Turks islands Vincent Virgin Islands voyage West Indian West Indian colonies West Indian islands West Indies western Windward islands
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الصفحة 236 - For a while, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the...
الصفحة 306 - Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which His subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the Territory of Spain in that part of the world...
الصفحة 15 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
الصفحة 97 - We have done the like to the Windward English Islands; and both in England and Scotland and Ireland, you will have what men and women we can well transport.
الصفحة 1 - A New English Dictionary, on Historical Principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by James AH Murray, LL.D., President of the Philological Society; with the assistance of many Scholars and men of Science.
الصفحة 64 - But though the policy of Great Britain with regard to the trade of her colonies has been dictated by the same mercantile spirit as that of other nations, it has, however, upon the whole, been less illiberal and oppressive than that of any of them.
الصفحة 64 - ... with all the other colonies of France, though it no doubt retarded, had not been able to stop its progress altogether. The course of its prosperity returned as soon as it was relieved from that oppression. It is now the most important of the sugar colonies of the West Indies, and its produce is said to be greater than that of all the English sugar colonies put together.
الصفحة 304 - ... situated in the West Indies, or in any part of America, which the said King of Great Britain and His subjects do at present hold and possess, so...
الصفحة 266 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.