A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, 2 tomasClarendon Press, 1905 |
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America Antigua Assembly Bahamas Barbadians Barbados Belize Bermudas Bermudian Britain British colony British Guiana British Honduras buccaneers Caicos Caribs Carlisle century chap coast cocoa colonists Columbus continent Council Crown cultivation district Dominica Dutch early east East Falkland eastern side Edition England English Essequibo European export Falkland French given Governor grant Grenada Guadeloupe Harbour Hispaniola hurricane Imperial industry inhabitants Jamaica King Kitts labour land Leeward Islands Lord Willoughby Lucia mainland Maroons Martinique Montserrat Mosquito mountains natives negroes Nevis northern Orinoco parish peace plantations population Port Port of Spain possession revenue river Royal sent settled settlement settlers ships shores slavery slaves southern Spain Spaniards Spanish square miles sugar tion Tobago took town trade treaty Trinidad Turks Vincent Virgin Islands voyage West Indian West Indian colonies West Indian islands West Indies western Windward Islands
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239 psl. - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
14 psl. - 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.
11 psl. - The Governor and Company of the City of London for the Plantation of the Somers Islands...
331 psl. - The wild rocks raised their lofty summits till they were lost in the clouds, and the valleys lay covered with everlasting snow. Not a tree was to be seen, nor a shrub even big enough to make a toothpick.
21 psl. - A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be Erected in the Summer Islands, Otherwise Called the Isles of Bermuda . . . London, 1724 ' Fothergill, John] . Considerations Relative to the North American Colonies.
176 psl. - ... 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.
62 psl. - ... 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.
308 psl. - Assiento,] as likewise without prejudice to any liberty or power, which the subjects of Great Britain enjoyed before, either through right, sufferance, or indulgence.
269 psl. - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.