Canada: Historical, المجلد 2Clarendon Press, 1890 - 365 من الصفحات |
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... present day , the area of British possessions is , owing to the vast extent of the Canadian Dominion , larger than in any other part of the globe . The following is a table of the American dependencies of Great Britain , showing the ...
... present day , the area of British possessions is , owing to the vast extent of the Canadian Dominion , larger than in any other part of the globe . The following is a table of the American dependencies of Great Britain , showing the ...
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... present day . tative in- Bermudas . The division into tribes formed the basis for the repre- Represen- sentative institutions which were established in the Bermudas stitutions after the first few years of the settlement , subject to the ...
... present day . tative in- Bermudas . The division into tribes formed the basis for the repre- Represen- sentative institutions which were established in the Bermudas stitutions after the first few years of the settlement , subject to the ...
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... present century agriculture and handicrafts were neglected and left to slaves , while the settlers built ships from their cedar , and busied themselves with the transit trade between the West Indies and North America1 , with wrecking ...
... present century agriculture and handicrafts were neglected and left to slaves , while the settlers built ships from their cedar , and busied themselves with the transit trade between the West Indies and North America1 , with wrecking ...
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... present century , the colony boasted of a militia in which every adult male , including slaves , was enrolled . The close connexion , which had always existed between the Bermudas and the North American colonies , and the fact that ...
... present century , the colony boasted of a militia in which every adult male , including slaves , was enrolled . The close connexion , which had always existed between the Bermudas and the North American colonies , and the fact that ...
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... present seat of defined lagoon , and the land being higher than in other coral islands . The report also speaks of the group as being probably an ancient volcano . 1 The islands are about 240 miles to the south and 400 to the east of ...
... present seat of defined lagoon , and the land being higher than in other coral islands . The report also speaks of the group as being probably an ancient volcano . 1 The islands are about 240 miles to the south and 400 to the east of ...
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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 CHAPTER climate coast cocoa Columbus Company continent Council Crown Demerara district Dominica Dutch early east East Falkland eastern Edition England English Essequibo European export Falkland French given Governor grant Grenada Gulf of Paria Harbour Hispaniola included inhabitants Jamaica King Kingston Kitts 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 slaves south-west southern Spain Spaniards Spanish square miles sugar tion Tobago took town trade treaty Trinidad Turks Vincent Virgin Islands voyage West Indian West Indian islands West Indies western side 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.