A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Its Connection with Agriculture and Manufactures: and an Account of the Public Debt, Revenues, and Expenditures of the United States. With a Brief Review of the Trade, Agriculture, and Manufactures of the Colonies, Previous to Their Independence. Accompanied with Tables, Illustrative of the Principles and Objects of the WorkC. Hosmer, 1816 - 407 էջ |
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... French , the Portuguese , the Dutch , and the Danes and Swedes , at different periods , in conse- quence of prior discoveries or settlements , had claims , more or less ex- tensive , to different parts of the western Continent . The ...
... French , the Portuguese , the Dutch , and the Danes and Swedes , at different periods , in conse- quence of prior discoveries or settlements , had claims , more or less ex- tensive , to different parts of the western Continent . The ...
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... French and Spaniards , in return for rum , molasses , wines , and silks , which they truck there by con- nivance . Great quantities of hats are made in New - England , of which the company of hatters in London have complained to us ...
... French and Spaniards , in return for rum , molasses , wines , and silks , which they truck there by con- nivance . Great quantities of hats are made in New - England , of which the company of hatters in London have complained to us ...
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... French war of 1755 , was occasioned , in a great measure , by a contest for boundaries and limits in North America , between the English and French . In all the former wars between these powers , the Colonists had been warmly engaged ...
... French war of 1755 , was occasioned , in a great measure , by a contest for boundaries and limits in North America , between the English and French . In all the former wars between these powers , the Colonists had been warmly engaged ...
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... French Canadian settlements . The French were making such en- croachments on the western and northern frontiers , as , if acquiesced in , would leave them but a small strip of territory along the Atlantic . They now , more than ever ...
... French Canadian settlements . The French were making such en- croachments on the western and northern frontiers , as , if acquiesced in , would leave them but a small strip of territory along the Atlantic . They now , more than ever ...
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... French afterwards claimed the ex- clusive right to it , in consequence of their possessing the adjacent coasts . While we were Colonies , we had the right of fishing there , as being a part of the British empire ; and by the 3d article ...
... French afterwards claimed the ex- clusive right to it , in consequence of their possessing the adjacent coasts . While we were Colonies , we had the right of fishing there , as being a part of the British empire ; and by the 3d article ...
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A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Its ... Timothy Pitkin Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1817 |
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1st of January ad valorem American Colonies annual barrels bounties Bremen British West-Indies bushels cocoa coffee commerce Commissioners Congress Connecticut cotton custom-house books Delaware Denmark and Norway Dolls domestic produce Drawbacks duties ad valorem East-Indies estimated Europe exports and imports fish fishery flour follows foreign produce France French West-Indies gallons Georgia Great-Britain hemp hundred I.-CONTINUED imported from Great-Britain increase Indiana Territory indigo lands loan Madeira Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Territory millions of dollars molasses New-Hampshire New-Jersey New-York official value paid payment Pennsylvania pimento ports Portugal pounds principal produce and manufacture public debt quantity reimbursement revenue Rhode-Island Russia salt shipped sinking fund six per cent South-Carolina Spain Spanish West-Indies spermaceti spirits sugar Sweden Swedish West-Indies TABLE teas Territory thousand Three per cent tobacco tonnage tons Total trade Treasury United value of exports Value-dolls Vermont West-India Islands whale whale oil wheat Whither exported wines
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Էջ 34 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Էջ 44 - TRANSACTIONS of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, with the Premiums offered in the year 1783.
Էջ 34 - Island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Էջ 28 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Էջ 39 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Էջ 40 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Էջ 169 - European nations, and they shall pay no higher or other duties or charges on the importation or exportation of the cargoes of the said vessels, than shall be payable on the same articles when Imported or exported in the vessels of the most favoured European nations.
Էջ 34 - And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Էջ 40 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Էջ 9 - Colonies in America, and to prevent the Erection of any Mill or other Engine for slitting or rolling of Iron, or any plating Forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel in any of the said Colonies...