History of the West Indies, Volum 1Whittaker & Company, 1844 |
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Pàgina iii
... TOBAGO , GRENADA , THE BAHAMAS , AND THE VIRGIN ISLES . BY R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN , F.S.S. MAICAE DOMINUS LA F.D. GULIELMUS QUAM IALANTION VOL . I. LONDON : WHITTAKER & Co. AVE MARIA LANE . MDCCCXXXVI . HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ...
... TOBAGO , GRENADA , THE BAHAMAS , AND THE VIRGIN ISLES . BY R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN , F.S.S. MAICAE DOMINUS LA F.D. GULIELMUS QUAM IALANTION VOL . I. LONDON : WHITTAKER & Co. AVE MARIA LANE . MDCCCXXXVI . HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ...
Pàgina vii
... TOBAGO . Its Locality General History - Physical Aspect Geology - Climate - Animal and Vegetable King- Population - Commerce Revenue and Expenditure - Government , & c . doms --- - BOOK V. GRENADA AND THE GRENADINES . CHAPTER I ...
... TOBAGO . Its Locality General History - Physical Aspect Geology - Climate - Animal and Vegetable King- Population - Commerce Revenue and Expenditure - Government , & c . doms --- - BOOK V. GRENADA AND THE GRENADINES . CHAPTER I ...
Pàgina 185
Robert Montgomery Martin. THE CUMANA AND CARIBBEAN MOUNTAINS . 185 in Trinidad , Tobago , and Cumana , offers a strong geological contrast to the Antilles or Caribbean Mountains . Gypsum and limestone are rare in Trinidad . One quarry of ...
Robert Montgomery Martin. THE CUMANA AND CARIBBEAN MOUNTAINS . 185 in Trinidad , Tobago , and Cumana , offers a strong geological contrast to the Antilles or Caribbean Mountains . Gypsum and limestone are rare in Trinidad . One quarry of ...
Pàgina 196
... Tobago . The hygrometer varies much in different seasons ; during the rainy season it is usually between 85 and 90 ; in the spring between 36 and 38 in the day , PURE AND WHOLESOME ATMOSPHERE . 197 and about 50 at 196 TRINIDAD .
... Tobago . The hygrometer varies much in different seasons ; during the rainy season it is usually between 85 and 90 ; in the spring between 36 and 38 in the day , PURE AND WHOLESOME ATMOSPHERE . 197 and about 50 at 196 TRINIDAD .
Pàgina 204
... Tobago . The paca , or lapo , of Trinidad , is a singular animal ; it is rather larger than a hare , is extremely handsome , cleanly , and easily domesticated ; from birth to four or six months , the hair , naturally of a deep red , is ...
... Tobago . The paca , or lapo , of Trinidad , is a singular animal ; it is rather larger than a hare , is extremely handsome , cleanly , and easily domesticated ; from birth to four or six months , the hair , naturally of a deep red , is ...
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abundance acres African annually Aricagua Assembly Bahamas Balize Barbadoes Bay of Honduras beautiful Boca Britain British Colonies cent Chaguanas Chaguaramas climate coast cocoa coffee colonists coloured Columbus cotton Council Courland Court crown cultivated Cumana currency Diego Martin duties east England English exported feet Females fish Foreign formed French gallons Gold Governor Grenada Gulf of Paria harbour hills Hispaniola Honduras House Indians inhabitants island isles Jago Jamaica Kingston lake land leagues Lieutenant-Governor mahogany Males Mayaro ment miles militia Molasses mountains Naparima native negroes parish pitch plantations population Port of Spain Port Royal possession produce quantity regiment revenue ridge river rocks season settlement ships shore side Silver situate slave-trade slaves soil Spaniards Spanish species sterling sugar tion Tobago Tons Tortola Total town trade trees Trinidad vegetable vessels West Indies wood
Passatges populars
Pàgina xxxi - Nort'i moved in the House of Commons for leave to bring in a bill "for the better regulating the government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Pàgina xxi - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Pàgina xxiii - Whereto thus Adam, fatherly displeased : — " O execrable son, so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given ! He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation: but man over men 69 He made not lord — such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Pàgina 104 - Assembly is 1000/. per annum. The Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, may, from time to time, as occasion requires, summon the General Assembly together, and may, of his own authority, adjourn, prorogue, and dissolve it.
Pàgina 45 - O'er gorgeous flower and mighty tree On the soft and shadowy sea ! Beautiful islands ! brief the time I dwelt beneath your awful clime ; Yet oft I see in noonday dream Your glorious stars with lunar beam ; And oft before my sight arise Your sky-like seas, your sea-like skies, Your green...
Pàgina xxvii - It is the sense of this meeting, that the importing of Negroes from their native country and relations by Friends, is not a commendable nor allowed practice, and is therefore censured by this meeting.
Pàgina 105 - Minerva, holding a trident In one hand, and in the other a mirror, reflecting the rays of the benign influence of Heaven on the produce of the Island; behind her the British Lion, supporting her shield, a conch shell at her feet, and at a distance a ship under sail Legend, Has fovet, hns cural, servatque, Britannia Mater.
Pàgina 108 - Monday in March, the first Monday in July, and the first Monday in November.
Pàgina 106 - Oconto, on the first Monday in February, the first Monday in June, and the first Monday in...
Pàgina 34 - Crown, and it was laid down that ' all such laws and statutes of England, as have been at any time esteemed, Introduced, used, accepted or received as laws in this island, shall and are hereby declared to be and continue laws of this His Majesty's island of Jamaica for ever V Deputies of Ireland at the time.