A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, المجلد 2Clarendon Press, 1890 |
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الصفحة 10
... appear . ' See the reference given in the note above , p . 8 . 2 From the singularly beautiful little poem beginning— ' Where the remote Bermudas wide , In ocean's bosom unespied . ' It was probably written about 1645 . Waller's1 ...
... appear . ' See the reference given in the note above , p . 8 . 2 From the singularly beautiful little poem beginning— ' Where the remote Bermudas wide , In ocean's bosom unespied . ' It was probably written about 1645 . Waller's1 ...
الصفحة 15
... appears to have been turned against the Quakers , acts and proclamations were promulgated against them , and an order was made by the Company prohibiting their landing in the islands1 . At the time of the execution of Charles the First ...
... appears to have been turned against the Quakers , acts and proclamations were promulgated against them , and an order was made by the Company prohibiting their landing in the islands1 . At the time of the execution of Charles the First ...
الصفحة 16
... appears to have been a place of exile for the religious malcontents of the mother colony . Salt - rak- ing in the Turks Islands . Complaints by the settlers against the Company . But Eleutheria , ' or Eleuthera as it is now called , was ...
... appears to have been a place of exile for the religious malcontents of the mother colony . Salt - rak- ing in the Turks Islands . Complaints by the settlers against the Company . But Eleutheria , ' or Eleuthera as it is now called , was ...
الصفحة 18
... appears they are the only people of all the British Plantations who hold a general correspondence with the rest . ' And Burke says , in similar terms , ' The chief and indeed only business of these islanders is the building and ...
... appears they are the only people of all the British Plantations who hold a general correspondence with the rest . ' And Burke says , in similar terms , ' The chief and indeed only business of these islanders is the building and ...
الصفحة 29
... appear to have been at any time very forward in the colony . At the present time schools , which are it is compulsory , carried on in aided under local boards of management subject to a central Board of Education . 1 In the Memorials of ...
... appear to have been at any time very forward in the colony . At the present time schools , which are it is compulsory , carried on in aided under local boards of management subject to a central Board of Education . 1 In the Memorials of ...
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America Antigua Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermudas Britain British colony British Guiana British Honduras buccaneers Caicos Cape Gracias Caribs Carlisle Caroni century CHAPTER coast cocoa Columbus continent Council Courland Crown district Dominica Dutch early east East Falkland eastern England English Essequibo European export Falkland French given Governor Gracias à Dios grant Grenada Gulf of Paria Harbour Hispaniola importance inhabitants Jamaica King Kitts labour land Leeward Islands Lord Willoughby Lucia mainland mainly Maroons ment Montserrat Mosquito mountains natives negroes Nevis northern Orinoco parish peace plantations population Port of Spain possession revenue river runs SECTION sent settled settlement settlers ships shore slavery slaves southern Spaniards Spanish square miles sugar tion Tobago took town trade treaty Trinidad Turks Vincent voyage West Indian West Indian colonies West Indian islands West Indies western side Windward Islands Yucatan
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الصفحة 230 - For a while, at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
الصفحة 262 - Britannic 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 299 - A New English Dictionary, on Historical Principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by James AH Murray, LL.D., with the assistance of many Scholars and men of Science.
الصفحة 13 - 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 301 - Twiss. The Law of Nations considered as Independent Political Communities. By Sir Travers Twiss, DCL Part I. On the Rights and Duties of Nations in time of Peace. New Edition. 8vo. 155. Part II. On the Rights and Duties of Nations in time of War.
الصفحة 168 - ... that is to say, upon all dead commodities of the growth or produce of this island, that shall be shipped off the same, shall be paid to our Sovereign Lord the King, his heirs and successors for ever, four and a half in specie for every five score.
الصفحة 10 - Virginia company and formed a company under the name and style of the Governor and Company of the City of London, for the plantation of the Somer Islands.
الصفحة 93 - 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 60 - 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 60 - ... 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.