A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, المجلد 2Clarendon Press, 1890 |
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... shores of Europe to a similar if a colder climate , and , with the exception of a few aboriginal Indians , all the inhabitants are of European origin . The West Indies on the contrary , lie over against West Africa ; their tropical heat ...
... shores of Europe to a similar if a colder climate , and , with the exception of a few aboriginal Indians , all the inhabitants are of European origin . The West Indies on the contrary , lie over against West Africa ; their tropical heat ...
الصفحة 11
... shore and thereby to include the Bermudas . In the autumn of the same year the Company sold the islands to certain members of their own body , who in 1615 were 1 From the burlesque poem , ' The Battle of the Summer islands . ' It was ...
... shore and thereby to include the Bermudas . In the autumn of the same year the Company sold the islands to certain members of their own body , who in 1615 were 1 From the burlesque poem , ' The Battle of the Summer islands . ' It was ...
الصفحة 19
... Battle of the Summer islands is a mock heroic account of a fight between the inhabitants of the Bermudas and two whales cast on their shores . I. SECTION the islanders and their kinsmen on the American C 2 THE BERMUDAS . 19.
... Battle of the Summer islands is a mock heroic account of a fight between the inhabitants of the Bermudas and two whales cast on their shores . I. SECTION the islanders and their kinsmen on the American C 2 THE BERMUDAS . 19.
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... shores of the continent within the range of the Spaniards and Portuguese . Dutch settlers are said The Dutch to have planted themselves on the coast of Guiana as early as 1580 ; while the French Huguenots , under the home The guidance ...
... shores of the continent within the range of the Spaniards and Portuguese . Dutch settlers are said The Dutch to have planted themselves on the coast of Guiana as early as 1580 ; while the French Huguenots , under the home The guidance ...
الصفحة 82
... shores of Florida to the north - west of Hayti , shutting in the outlet of the Gulf of Mexico , and fringing the northern coast of Cuba . The whole space , which they occupy , is a very rough triangle , the apex of which is formed by ...
... shores of Florida to the north - west of Hayti , shutting in the outlet of the Gulf of Mexico , and fringing the northern coast of Cuba . The whole space , which they occupy , is a very rough triangle , the apex of which is formed by ...
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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.