A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860..: Comprising Annals of the Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures and Useful Arts, with a Notice of the Important Inventions, Tariffs, and the Results of Each Decennial Census, Volumen 1E. Young, 1861 |
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... Indians , of whom all fears had for some time been laid aside , and Berkeley with all his workmen and people , except one ... Indian , under pretense of hunting , to give him a sign by dropping his tomahawk at the place , ( he not daring ...
... Indians , of whom all fears had for some time been laid aside , and Berkeley with all his workmen and people , except one ... Indian , under pretense of hunting , to give him a sign by dropping his tomahawk at the place , ( he not daring ...
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... Indian canoes of great size . Some of these specimens of aboriginal boat building were capable of carrying eighty persons . The natives were no doubt equally amazed at the pro- portions and novel architecture of the largest vessel ...
... Indian canoes of great size . Some of these specimens of aboriginal boat building were capable of carrying eighty persons . The natives were no doubt equally amazed at the pro- portions and novel architecture of the largest vessel ...
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... India Islands , and other foreign and domestic ports , to be exchanged for the manufactures of Europe , salt , wines , and tropical products , or provisions from the Southern Colonies . The vessels were often sold in foreign ports after ...
... India Islands , and other foreign and domestic ports , to be exchanged for the manufactures of Europe , salt , wines , and tropical products , or provisions from the Southern Colonies . The vessels were often sold in foreign ports after ...
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... Indians , was , unitedly , about one - half the popu- lation of the Colony . From that date to the Revolution ... India trade was immense . In 1739 upward of one hundred sail of vessels were owned there . Its importations of molasses ...
... Indians , was , unitedly , about one - half the popu- lation of the Colony . From that date to the Revolution ... India trade was immense . In 1739 upward of one hundred sail of vessels were owned there . Its importations of molasses ...
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... India trade . Most of these were freighted with lumber and fish , live stock & c .; and having proceeded to the islands , the cargoes were exchanged for sugars , which were taken to England in the same ships , and there sold for ...
... India trade . Most of these were freighted with lumber and fish , live stock & c .; and having proceeded to the islands , the cargoes were exchanged for sugars , which were taken to England in the same ships , and there sold for ...
Términos y frases comunes
afterward American arts Assembly bar iron bar-iron Beer bloomery Boston branches brick Britain British built bushels Carolina cent century Cloth Colonies commenced Company Congress Connecticut copper cotton Court Creek Delaware duty early East Jersey employed encouragement England English enterprise erected established exported facture flax foreign forge furnace furnished Governor granted Hampshire hematite hemp Hist hundred imported improvements increased Indian industry invented Iron Iron-works Island Jersey John labor land Leather linen London machine machinery manu manufacture Maryland Massachusetts mentioned merchants metal miles mill nails North Oliver Evans paper patent Pennsylvania Philadelphia port pounds principal printed printer probably production profitable proprietor Province quantity Revolution Rhode Island river Salt Saw-mills sent settlement settlers shillings Ship-building ships shoes Silk slitting mill South Carolina spinning steel street supply tanners Thomas thousand timber tion tons town trade twenty vessels Virginia West William Wine wool woolen York
Pasajes populares
Página 162 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 19 - As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides.
Página 610 - State, with the fishing of all sorts of fish, whales, sturgeons, and all other royal fishes in the seas, bays, inlets and rivers within the premises ; and the fish therein taken, together with the royalty of the sea upon the...
Página 149 - For some time past, the old world has been fed from the new. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.
Página 166 - None of these was published oftener than twice a week. None exceeded in size a single small leaf. The quantity of matter which one of them contained in a year was not more than is often found in two numbers of the Times.
Página 409 - Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts...
Página 82 - ... or a barrel of corn to any place in Europe out of the king's dominions. If this were for his majesty's service or the good of his subjects, we should not repine, whatever our sufferings are for it; but on my soul, it is the contrary for both.
Página 245 - For," as the Forefathers sang, we can make liquor to sweeten our lips Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut-tree chips. Finally, as for salt, that grossest of groceries, to obtain this might be a fit occasion for a visit to the seashore, or, if I did without it altogether, I should probably drink the less water. I do not learn that the Indians ever troubled themselves to go after it.
Página 183 - It was carried through the press as privately as possible, and had the London imprint of the copy from which it was reprinted, viz : " London : Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty...
Página 216 - No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life, as that dedicated to domestic architecture. The fashions of dress and of amusements are generally capricious and irreducible to rule ; but every change in the dwellings of mankind, from the rudest wooden cabin to the stately mansion, has been dictated by some principle of convenience, neatness, comfort or magnificence.