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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... period . I could not procure certain information , as to the actual produce of the English islands , which has prodi- giously increased . The island of Cuba export- ed in 1803 , from the port of the Havannah , 158,000 caxas , and from ...
... period . I could not procure certain information , as to the actual produce of the English islands , which has prodi- giously increased . The island of Cuba export- ed in 1803 , from the port of the Havannah , 158,000 caxas , and from ...
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... plant is in flower in the months of February and March . The harvest is bad , if at this period the north winds are frequent and ac- humidity is too equally hurtful However , no companied with 30 [ BOOK IV . POLITICAL ESSAY ON THE.
... plant is in flower in the months of February and March . The harvest is bad , if at this period the north winds are frequent and ac- humidity is too equally hurtful However , no companied with 30 [ BOOK IV . POLITICAL ESSAY ON THE.
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... period of the harvest , and the care employed in drying the bark . The commerce of both the vanilla and quinquina is in the hands of a few persons called habilitadores , because they advance money to the cosecheros , i . e . to the ...
... period of the harvest , and the care employed in drying the bark . The commerce of both the vanilla and quinquina is in the hands of a few persons called habilitadores , because they advance money to the cosecheros , i . e . to the ...
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... period , the cock , a native of the East Indies , and common to the Sandwich Islands , was totally unknown in America . This fact , important in its connection with the migration of the Malay tribes , has been contested in Spain since ...
... period , the cock , a native of the East Indies , and common to the Sandwich Islands , was totally unknown in America . This fact , important in its connection with the migration of the Malay tribes , has been contested in Spain since ...
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... period , all the chickens perished immediately after hatching . At pre- sent , the different varieties of hens , especially those of Mosambique , of which the flesh is black , have become common in both hemi- spheres , wherever the ...
... period , all the chickens perished immediately after hatching . At pre- sent , the different varieties of hens , especially those of Mosambique , of which the flesh is black , have become common in both hemi- spheres , wherever 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...