The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States, Volumen 1office of De Bow's review, 1852 |
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... Trade of South - Prices , Stock , Supply , Demand , Foreign Competition , Consumption , Home and Foreign Statistics , & c . , 1852 . 101 104 105 105 109 114 128 134 137 139 COTTON Statistics .. COTTON Crop of U. S. , 1851.
... Trade of South - Prices , Stock , Supply , Demand , Foreign Competition , Consumption , Home and Foreign Statistics , & c . , 1852 . 101 104 105 105 109 114 128 134 137 139 COTTON Statistics .. COTTON Crop of U. S. , 1851.
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... Consumption of Cotton 219 " L Mills of New - England .. 220 Manufacture - Improvements in Machinery , & c . 220 66 Manufacture - How far carried COTTON - Relation between Price and Manufacture COTTON - Present and Future Prospects of ...
... Consumption of Cotton 219 " L Mills of New - England .. 220 Manufacture - Improvements in Machinery , & c . 220 66 Manufacture - How far carried COTTON - Relation between Price and Manufacture COTTON - Present and Future Prospects of ...
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... consumed in great quantities . A common fault everywhere , and one that ought to be remedied , is bad cooking . Of the food , thus ill - prepared , too much is eaten , and too has- tily , to the great detriment of health . Of liquids ...
... consumed in great quantities . A common fault everywhere , and one that ought to be remedied , is bad cooking . Of the food , thus ill - prepared , too much is eaten , and too has- tily , to the great detriment of health . Of liquids ...
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... consumption . The remainder of the Preliminary View is devoted to a consideration of the clothing , lodgings , bathing , habitations , and shade trees , the occupations , pursuits , exercise , re- creations and amusements of the ...
... consumption . The remainder of the Preliminary View is devoted to a consideration of the clothing , lodgings , bathing , habitations , and shade trees , the occupations , pursuits , exercise , re- creations and amusements of the ...
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... consumption of the most limits , and not find more than one farin - house previous year . for every three miles . " The number of vessels that sailed from the port of Montreal in 1847 , were , for Great Britain , 154 ; Ireland , 13 ...
... consumption of the most limits , and not find more than one farin - house previous year . for every three miles . " The number of vessels that sailed from the port of Montreal in 1847 , were , for Great Britain , 154 ; Ireland , 13 ...
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Página 306 - Neither the perseverance of Holland nor the activity of France nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 306 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 306 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 255 - To erect a bank, and to regulate commerce, are very different acts. He who erects a bank, creates a subject of commerce in its bills ; so does he who makes a bushel of. wheat, or digs a dollar out of the mines ; yet neither of these persons regulates commerce thereby.
Página 425 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Página 415 - His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear...
Página 302 - O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
Página 29 - Within this vast region we behold the most sublime and interesting objects of creation ; the loftiest mountains, the most majestic rivers in the world ; the richest mines of the precious metals, and the choicest productions of the earth. We behold there a spectacle still more interesting and sublime — the glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and to be free.
Página 281 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land...
Página 29 - ... lying on the east side of the Andes. Stepping over the Brazils, we arrive at the united provinces of La Plata, and crossing the Andes, we find Chili on their west side, and, further north, the vice-royalty of Lima, or Peru. Each of these several parts is sufficient in itself, in point of limits, to constitute a powerful state; and, in point of population, that which has the smallest, contains enough to make it respectable. Throughout all the extent of that great portion of the world, which I...