Canada: Historical, المجلد 2Clarendon Press, 1890 - 365 من الصفحات |
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... took possession of it at that date . Hurrying on to and from tropical America and the sunny West Indies , intent on the wonders of Mexico and the gold of Peru , the Spaniards were not likely to take heed of the insignificant islands ...
... took possession of it at that date . Hurrying on to and from tropical America and the sunny West Indies , intent on the wonders of Mexico and the gold of Peru , the Spaniards were not likely to take heed of the insignificant islands ...
الصفحة 15
... took the oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without a King or House of Lords . ' On the other hand the Restoration of Charles the Second eight years later , in 1660 , appears to have been at once ...
... took the oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without a King or House of Lords . ' On the other hand the Restoration of Charles the Second eight years later , in 1660 , appears to have been at once ...
الصفحة 17
... took the Somers islands ' to be no commonwealth but a private inheritance inclosed to the use of the purchasers 1 . ' Tobacco planting , the main industry of the islands , was carried on in great measure by tenants , half of whose ...
... took the Somers islands ' to be no commonwealth but a private inheritance inclosed to the use of the purchasers 1 . ' Tobacco planting , the main industry of the islands , was carried on in great measure by tenants , half of whose ...
الصفحة 24
... fever was in 1864 . 2 Down to 1797 the Governor sat with , and took part in the delibera- tions of , the Legislative Council . I. total number of electors is about one thousand . 24 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE COLONIES .
... fever was in 1864 . 2 Down to 1797 the Governor sat with , and took part in the delibera- tions of , the Legislative Council . I. total number of electors is about one thousand . 24 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE COLONIES .
الصفحة 35
... took Jamaica . in the The characteristics of the Spaniards as a colonising nation Character- have been pointed out in another place . They were a istics of the Spaniards . crusading , conquering people ; religious and warlike ; ruth ...
... took Jamaica . in the The characteristics of the Spaniards as a colonising nation Character- have been pointed out in another place . They were a istics of the Spaniards . crusading , conquering people ; religious and warlike ; ruth ...
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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.