Canada: Historical, المجلد 2Clarendon Press, 1890 - 365 من الصفحات |
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... whole a collection of island dependencies . In Canada and Newfoundland the drawbacks to colonisation have been ice and snow , in the West Indies they have been tropical heat and hurricanes . In British North America colonists have come ...
... whole a collection of island dependencies . In Canada and Newfoundland the drawbacks to colonisation have been ice and snow , in the West Indies they have been tropical heat and hurricanes . In British North America colonists have come ...
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... whole of the islands . There was an overplus , the application of which gave rise to a sus- picion of jobbery against the Governor and some members of the Company . It may be mentioned here that the Virginia Company , ' in consideration ...
... whole of the islands . There was an overplus , the application of which gave rise to a sus- picion of jobbery against the Governor and some members of the Company . It may be mentioned here that the Virginia Company , ' in consideration ...
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... whole longitude from east to west not above twenty miles English ; in the latitude ( where most extended ) not fully two and a half . " 3 From the Report of the Voyage of the Challenger , Narrative , vol . i . first part , which should ...
... whole longitude from east to west not above twenty miles English ; in the latitude ( where most extended ) not fully two and a half . " 3 From the Report of the Voyage of the Challenger , Narrative , vol . i . first part , which should ...
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... whole food supply of the islands , including even the vegetables themselves , is imported from the United States . The old agricultural resources of the Bermudas are practically extinct . Tobacco is not grown , arrowroot is far less of ...
... whole food supply of the islands , including even the vegetables themselves , is imported from the United States . The old agricultural resources of the Bermudas are practically extinct . Tobacco is not grown , arrowroot is far less of ...
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... whole semicircle of islands from Florida to the Orinoco , and not grouped in any one corner of the Archipelago . They are the Bahamas , Jamaica with its little dependencies of the Turks and Caicos islands and the Caymans , the Lee- ward ...
... whole semicircle of islands from Florida to the Orinoco , and not grouped in any one corner of the Archipelago . They are the Bahamas , Jamaica with its little dependencies of the Turks and Caicos islands and the Caymans , the Lee- ward ...
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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.