The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Volum 3James Humphreys, 1806 |
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Pàgina 14
... ground in the smaller Antilles . Their ships commonly touched at those islands in- deed , for wood and water , and they left swine in the view of supplying with fresh provisions such of their countrymen as might call there in future ...
... ground in the smaller Antilles . Their ships commonly touched at those islands in- deed , for wood and water , and they left swine in the view of supplying with fresh provisions such of their countrymen as might call there in future ...
Pàgina 20
... ground , and require from fifteen to seventeen months to bring them to maturity . The first yearly returns from their roots are called first ratoons ; the second year's growth , second ra- toons ; and so on , according to their age . In ...
... ground , and require from fifteen to seventeen months to bring them to maturity . The first yearly returns from their roots are called first ratoons ; the second year's growth , second ra- toons ; and so on , according to their age . In ...
Pàgina 24
... ground for sugar , ( each cutting containing five or six gems ) , two of them are sufficient for a cane hole of the dimensions described . * These being placed longi- It is reckoned a tolerable day's work for forty negroes to hole an ...
... ground for sugar , ( each cutting containing five or six gems ) , two of them are sufficient for a cane hole of the dimensions described . * These being placed longi- It is reckoned a tolerable day's work for forty negroes to hole an ...
Pàgina 25
... ground , they are , or ought to be , care- fully cleared of weeds , and furnished with an ad- dition of mould from the banks . This is usually performed by the hand . At the end of four or five months the banks are wholly levelled , and ...
... ground , they are , or ought to be , care- fully cleared of weeds , and furnished with an ad- dition of mould from the banks . This is usually performed by the hand . At the end of four or five months the banks are wholly levelled , and ...
Pàgina 27
... ground with knives , and level the bank ; spreading the remainder of the mould over the roots ; which soon afterwards send out a num- ber of vigorous and luxuriant shoots all of an equal growth . It is alleged , that by this means the ...
... ground with knives , and level the bank ; spreading the remainder of the mould over the roots ; which soon afterwards send out a num- ber of vigorous and luxuriant shoots all of an equal growth . It is alleged , that by this means the ...
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acre advantage America annual assembly Barbadoes boiling bounty Britain British plantations British sugar British sugar islands British West Indies cacao cane cent CHIG cistern clove tree coffee colonies colonists colour commerce commodities commonly cotton council court of chancery cultivation degree Dominica duties England English equal export feet fermentation foreign freight gallons governor growth hogsheads hogsheads of sugar hole hundred imported inches indigo inhabitants Ireland Jamaica labour land liquor manufacture mellasses monopoly mother-country mould muscovado sugar nation navigation necessary negroes Nova Scotia observed parliament piemento plant plantations planters ports pounds pounds sterling pounds weight produce profits purchase quantity reason refined sugar RSITY UNIV scum seeds ships soil staple sterling sufficient sugar islands supply supposed tion tish trade UNIV RSITY UNIVE UNIV vessels West Indian whole Windward Islands
Passatges populars
Pàgina 293 - Continuance of this article, the United States will prohibit and restrain the carrying any Molasses, Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa or Cotton in American vessels, either from His Majesty's Islands or from the United States, to any part of the World, except the United States, reasonable Sea Stores excepted.
Pàgina 263 - United States should be established on the most enlarged principles of reciprocal benefit to both countries...
Pàgina 292 - Article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America...
Pàgina 292 - His Majesty consents that it shall and may be lawful, during the time hereinafter limited, for the citizens of the United States to carry to any of His Majesty's islands and ports in the West Indies from the United States, in their own vessels, not being above the burthen of...
Pàgina 215 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Pàgina 263 - United States of America upon a permanent foundation can be concluded: Now, for the purpose of making a temporary regulation of the commerce and intercourse between Great Britain and the said United States of America, and in order to evince...
Pàgina 200 - 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.
Pàgina 146 - This tree is purely a child of nature, and seems to mock all the labours of man, in his endeavours to extend or improve its growth : not one attempt in fifty to propagate the young plants, or to raise them from the seeds, in parts of the country where it is not found growing spontaneously, having succeeded. The usual method of forming a new piemento plantation.
Pàgina 334 - To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.
Pàgina 329 - Britain among the rest) was commercial monopoly. The word monopoly in this case admitted a very extensive interpretation. It comprehended the monopoly of supply, the monopoly of colonial produce, and the monopoly of manufacture. By the first, the colonists were prohibited from resorting to foreign markets for the supply of their wants ; by the second, they were compelled to bring their chief staple commodities to the...