A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. Translated from the French of the Abbé Raynal, by J. Justamond, ...T. Cadell, 1777 |
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... thought of paying another vifit to the river Oronooko . Having been difappointed in their fearch after mines , they confidered it of fo little importance , that they never formed more than one fmall fettle- ment upon it . This is ...
... thought of paying another vifit to the river Oronooko . Having been difappointed in their fearch after mines , they confidered it of fo little importance , that they never formed more than one fmall fettle- ment upon it . This is ...
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... thoughts of labour . Since the year 1727 , there hath been no more cocoa to be found on the ifland ; which , from that time , hath had no cor- refpondence with the mother country . THE fame negligence had before ruined Mar- garetta ...
... thoughts of labour . Since the year 1727 , there hath been no more cocoa to be found on the ifland ; which , from that time , hath had no cor- refpondence with the mother country . THE fame negligence had before ruined Mar- garetta ...
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... thought of getting flaves from Africa ; but , befides that these were found unfit for the la- bours they were destined to , the multitude of mines , which then began to be wrought on the continent , made thofe of St. Domingo no longer 7 ...
... thought of getting flaves from Africa ; but , befides that these were found unfit for the la- bours they were destined to , the multitude of mines , which then began to be wrought on the continent , made thofe of St. Domingo no longer 7 ...
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... thought of fettling to the eastward , which they had long entirely neglected . THE project of cultivation , which accidentally found its way into the council at Madrid , might be carried into execution in the plain of Vega- Real , which ...
... thought of fettling to the eastward , which they had long entirely neglected . THE project of cultivation , which accidentally found its way into the council at Madrid , might be carried into execution in the plain of Vega- Real , which ...
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... thought of feizing upon a barren fpot , where they could find only a few cattle , fome manioc , fome vegetables proper to feed flaves , and not one article for commerce . ST . Euftatia is of very little more confequence . This ifland ...
... thought of feizing upon a barren fpot , where they could find only a few cattle , fome manioc , fome vegetables proper to feed flaves , and not one article for commerce . ST . Euftatia is of very little more confequence . This ifland ...
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Page 63 - This machine is provided with four pieces of tin fixed upon an axle, which is turned by a (lave with confiderable force ; and the wind that is made by the motion of thefe plates clears the coffee of all the pellicles that are mixed with it. It is afterwards put upon a table, where the broken berries, and any filth that may remain among them, are feparated by negroes, after which the coffee is fit for fale.
Page 30 - The incredible fruitfulnefs of its new lands, if properly managed, would enable it to furpafs every other nation, however they may have got the ftart of it; their labour of more than half a century, fpent in bringing their works to perfection, would end in this, that a rival, by taking up their method, would outftrip them, and in lefs than twenty years engrofs the whole of their profits.
Page 32 - IF any thing could fupply the want of an open trade, and atone for the grievances occafioned by this monopoly at Cuba, it would be the advantage...
Page 22 - ... clothes of their neighbours the French in return for their cattle, and the money fent to them for the maintenance of two hundred foldiers, the prieib, and the government.
Page 497 - Rivieres at oa- the diftance of twenty-five leagues from the capital and higher up, became a fecond mart. In procefs of time all the fur trade centered in Montreal. The fkins were brought thither on canoes made of the bark of trees in the month of June. The number of Indians who reforted to that place increafed, as the fame of the French fpread further. The account of the reception they had met with, the fight of the things they had received in exchange for their goods, every thing contributed to...
Page 18 - ... with the inhabitants of the country, whom they obliged to dig it out of the bowels of the earth ; and the fource of it was entirely dried up, when the neighbouring iflands no longer fupplied the lofs of thofe wretched victims to the avarice of the conqueror.
Page 339 - ... was fuffered to grow more than four feet high, the crop would not be the greater, nor the fruit fo eafily gathered. The fame method is purfued for three years ; for fo long the fhrub may continue, if it cannot conveniently be renewed oftener with the profpeft of an advantage that will compenfate the trouble.
Page 32 - Spanifli veflels that fail to the new world ; this practice commenced almoft with the colony itfelf. Ponce de Leon having made an attempt upon Florida in 1512, became acquainted with the new canal of Bahama; it was immediately...
Page 154 - The woods with which it is covered, continually attract the clouds, which occasion noxious damps, and contribute to make it horrid and inaccessible, while the two others are in most parts cultivated. From these mountains, but chiefly from the first, issue many springs that water the island.
Page 182 - ... falubrious water. Such is that part of the ifland properly called Guadalupe. That which is commonly called Grand Terre, has not been fo much favoured by nature. It is, indeed, lefs rugged ; but it wants fprings and rivers. The foil is not fo fertile, or the climate fo wholefome or fo pleafant. No European...