Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: With Physical Sections and Maps Founded on Astronomical Observations and Trigonometrical and Barometrical Measurements, Հատոր 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 |
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... hand the environs of Celaya , Salvatierra , Irapuato and Santiago , are beyond 1800 metres of absolute elevation . I have been assured that the sugar - cane plantations of Rio Verde , situated to the north of Guanaxuato under 22 ° 30 ...
... hand the environs of Celaya , Salvatierra , Irapuato and Santiago , are beyond 1800 metres of absolute elevation . I have been assured that the sugar - cane plantations of Rio Verde , situated to the north of Guanaxuato under 22 ° 30 ...
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... hands . It is easy to foresee that the small West India Islands , notwithstand- ing their favourable position for trade , will not be long able to sustain a competition with the continental colonies , if the latter continue to give ...
... hands . It is easy to foresee that the small West India Islands , notwithstand- ing their favourable position for trade , will not be long able to sustain a competition with the continental colonies , if the latter continue to give ...
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... hands of merchants who have retired from com- In order fully to feel the importance of this advantage , we must recollect that in merce . the island of Cuba , the establishment of a great CHAP . X. ] KINGDOM OF NEW SPAIN .
... hands of merchants who have retired from com- In order fully to feel the importance of this advantage , we must recollect that in merce . the island of Cuba , the establishment of a great CHAP . X. ] KINGDOM OF NEW SPAIN .
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... hands , while in the West India islands ( in the island of Cuba for example ) to produce 250,000 kilogrammes of raw sugar , requires 200 negroes , whose pur- chase amounts to more than 300,000 francs . † In the same island the ...
... hands , while in the West India islands ( in the island of Cuba for example ) to produce 250,000 kilogrammes of raw sugar , requires 200 negroes , whose pur- chase amounts to more than 300,000 francs . † In the same island the ...
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... quantity of cotton ; but the coast is almost uninhabited , and the want of hands occasions a dearth of provisions , unfavourable to every agricultural establishment . New Spain supplies Europe 18 [ BOOK IV . POLITICAL ESSAY ON THE.
... quantity of cotton ; but the coast is almost uninhabited , and the want of hands occasions a dearth of provisions , unfavourable to every agricultural establishment . New Spain supplies Europe 18 [ BOOK IV . POLITICAL ESSAY ON THE.
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Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain, Հատոր 3 Alexander von Humboldt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1811 |
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Հատոր 3 Alexander von Humboldt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1811 |
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Հատոր 3 Alexander von Humboldt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1811 |
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abundance according amalgamation America amounted arrobas avoird baritels Batopilas beds cachalot Catorce century Cerro Choco cinnabar coast cochineal commerce contains copper Cordilleras Cortez Cruz cultivation depth district of mines estimated Europe expence exportation feet francs Freiberg gold and silver Guadalaxara Gualgayoc Guanaxuato Huancavelica Indians inhabitants intendancy iron kilogrammes kingdom leagues livres tournois manufacture marcs of gold marcs of silver mass mercury metres Mexican millions of livres millions of piastres minerals Mineria mines of Mexico Misantla mountains muriate of silver muriate of soda native silver nopals Oaxaca ounces Pachuca Peru plata porphyry Potosi pounds precious metals province Puebla pyrites quantity of silver quintals Real del Monte rich rock San Luis Potosi Santa silver extracted smelting Sombrerete Spain Spanish Colonies species Sterling sugar table land Tasco Tenochtitlan tion total produce town Trans troy Valenciana vanilla veins Vera Cruz veta wealth wrought yield Zacatecas
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Էջ 442 - Such principles as prescribe the rooting up the vine and the olive, are not calculated to favour manufactures. A colony has for ages, been only considered as useful to the parent state, in so far as it supplied a great number of raw materials, and consumed a number of the commodities carried there by the ships of the mother country. It was easy for different commercial...
Էջ 103 - Señor, que tiene cuidado, y siempre lo ha tenido, de proveer en la mayor prisa, que topé entre los naturales de una provincia que se dice Tachco, ciertas piecezuelas de ello, a manera de moneda muy delgada, y procediendo por mi pesquisa, hallé que en la dicha provincia, y aun en otras, se trataba por moneda...
Էջ 140 - The muriate of silver, which is so seldom found in the veins of Europe, is very abundant in the mines of Catorce, Fresnillo, and the Cerro San Pedro, near the town of San Luis Potosi. That of Fresnillo is frequently of an olive green,, which passes into leek-green.
Էջ 36 - The exportation of these horses to Natchez and New Orleans, becomes every year of greater importance. Many Mexican families possess in their Hatos de ganado, from thirty to forty thousand head of horses and oxen. The mules would be still more numerous, if so many of them did not perish on the highways from the excessive fatigues of journeys of several months.
Էջ 97 - I was presented with gold plate and jewels of such precious workmanship, that unwilling to allow them to be melted, I set apart more than a hundred thousand ducats worth of them to be presented to your imperial highness. These objects were of the greatest beauty, and I doubt if any other prince of earth ever possessed any thing similar to them.
Էջ 79 - How could they be found in a country, where according to the ideas of the common people, all that is necessary to happiness, is bananas, salted flesh, a hammock, and a guitar? The hope of gain is too weak a stimulus, under a zone, where beneficent nature provides to man a thousand means of procuring an easy and peaceful existence without quitting his country, and without struggling with the monsters of the ocean. For a long time, the Spanish government has looked with an evil eye on the cachalot...
Էջ 464 - Indiat, fol. 112. [BOOK v. all casts, whites, mestizoes and Indians are employed. The academy of fine arts, and the schools for drawing in Mexico and Xalapa have very much contributed to diffuse a taste for beautiful antique forms. Services of plate to the value of a hundred and fifty, or two hundred thousand francs, have been lately manufactured at Mexico, which for elegance and fine workmanship may rival the finest work of the kind ever executed in the most civilized parts of Europe.
Էջ 330 - Immense wealth has been found even at the surface both in the mountain of Gualgayoc, which rises like a fortified castle in the midst of the plain, and at Fuentestiana, at Cormolache, and at la Pampa de Navar. In this last, plain for an extent of more than half a square league wherever the turf has been removed, sulphuretted silver has been extracted and filaments of native silver adhere to the roots of the gramina.
Էջ 232 - The labour of a miner is entirely free throughout the whole kingdom of New Spain; and no Indian or Mestizo can be forced to dedicate themselves to the working of mines. It is absolutely false, though the assertion has been repeated in works of the greatest estimation, that the court of Madrid sends out galley slaves to America, to work in the gold and silver mines.
Էջ 124 - The vein of Guanaxuato alone, yields more than a fourth part of the whole silver of Mexico and a sixth part of the produce of all America. In the general view already presented by us, the principal mines are confounded with those from which a very small quantity of metal is extracted. The disproportion between the two classes is so great that more than...