A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, المجلد 2Clarendon Press, 1890 |
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... continent , nearly every colonising nation has set its foot . Here Spaniards , French , English , Dutch , and Danes have played a part and still retain a hold . Here the Swedes once owned an island , and the Portuguese on their way to ...
... continent , nearly every colonising nation has set its foot . Here Spaniards , French , English , Dutch , and Danes have played a part and still retain a hold . Here the Swedes once owned an island , and the Portuguese on their way to ...
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... Continent of America , by William Castell , published in 1644 ( see the Harleian Collection of Voyages ) . The writer says , ' Besides it is as much if not more than any other place infested with most tempestuous fearful winds called ...
... Continent of America , by William Castell , published in 1644 ( see the Harleian Collection of Voyages ) . The writer says , ' Besides it is as much if not more than any other place infested with most tempestuous fearful winds called ...
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... continent . Thus they were left in the main to work out their own salva- tion , not seriously molested by foreign foes , and little inter- fered with by the Home government . The American war of Inde- pendence . When the Spaniards in ...
... continent . Thus they were left in the main to work out their own salva- tion , not seriously molested by foreign foes , and little inter- fered with by the Home government . The American war of Inde- pendence . When the Spaniards in ...
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... continent , and in turn the 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 ...
... continent , and in turn the 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 ...
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... continent , and contrasting them with the Caribbean islands : according to this latter explanation Cuba , Hispaniola , Jamaica , and Porto Rico would be the Greater Antilles , and Curaçoa , & c . , the Lesser Antilles . 2 Compare the ...
... continent , and contrasting them with the Caribbean islands : according to this latter explanation Cuba , Hispaniola , Jamaica , and Porto Rico would be the Greater Antilles , and Curaçoa , & c . , the Lesser Antilles . 2 Compare the ...
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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.