A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, المجلد 2Clarendon Press, 1890 |
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... land at the Bermudas . The story of the storm and shipwreck reads curiously like the account of the tempest which cast St. Paul on Malta . The ship was wedged fast between two rocks , and on the twenty - eighth of July all the company ...
... land at the Bermudas . The story of the storm and shipwreck reads curiously like the account of the tempest which cast St. Paul on Malta . The ship was wedged fast between two rocks , and on the twenty - eighth of July all the company ...
الصفحة 10
... Land , and in par- ticular very near with the very city of Jerusalem , which is a clime of the sweetest and most pleasing temper of all others . ' A letter written in 1611-12 alludes to their being called ' Sommer islands as well in ...
... Land , and in par- ticular very near with the very city of Jerusalem , which is a clime of the sweetest and most pleasing temper of all others . ' A letter written in 1611-12 alludes to their being called ' Sommer islands as well in ...
الصفحة 13
... land to defray the public charges of the Company , while the rest was to be divided into eight tribes , each tribe containing fifty shares of twenty - five acres each , making four hundred shares in all1 . The tribes were named after ...
... land to defray the public charges of the Company , while the rest was to be divided into eight tribes , each tribe containing fifty shares of twenty - five acres each , making four hundred shares in all1 . The tribes were named after ...
الصفحة 16
... land , he established a colony consisting mainly of Bermudian settlers . The island had been called by Columbus Cigatio or Segatoo , and its new name of Eleutheria testified to the aim of the settlement , viz . that there ' Every man ...
... land , he established a colony consisting mainly of Bermudian settlers . The island had been called by Columbus Cigatio or Segatoo , and its new name of Eleutheria testified to the aim of the settlement , viz . that there ' Every man ...
الصفحة 26
... land , a safe and sheltered haven for vessels of light draught . The only two towns in the group are St. George , the old capital on the island of that name , and Hamilton , the present seat of defined lagoon , and the land being higher ...
... land , a safe and sheltered haven for vessels of light draught . The only two towns in the group are St. George , the old capital on the island of that name , and Hamilton , the present seat of defined lagoon , and the land being higher ...
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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.