Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Հատոր 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - 1687 էջ |
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... Population , the State of Agriculture and Manufac- turing and Commercial In- dustry , the Canals projected between the South Sea and Atlantic Ocean , the Crown Revenues , the Quantity of the precious Metals which have flowed from Mexico ...
... Population , the State of Agriculture and Manufac- turing and Commercial In- dustry , the Canals projected between the South Sea and Atlantic Ocean , the Crown Revenues , the Quantity of the precious Metals which have flowed from Mexico ...
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... population of this kingdom is not altogether in the proportion of one to two to the population of the other continental colonies , its national wealth is to that of the other colonies nearly in the proportion of two to three . The ...
... population of this kingdom is not altogether in the proportion of one to two to the population of the other continental colonies , its national wealth is to that of the other colonies nearly in the proportion of two to three . The ...
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Alexander von Humboldt. cas , in 1801 , the specie which circulates among a population of between seven and eight hun- dred thousand inhabitants was calculated at three millions of piastres * ; but then what a difference between an ...
Alexander von Humboldt. cas , in 1801 , the specie which circulates among a population of between seven and eight hun- dred thousand inhabitants was calculated at three millions of piastres * ; but then what a difference between an ...
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... population of five or six millions of inhabitants , who from an unfavourable balance of trade should experience an annual diminu- tion of their capital of more than fourteen mil- lions of piastres , would be very critical , if ever they ...
... population of five or six millions of inhabitants , who from an unfavourable balance of trade should experience an annual diminu- tion of their capital of more than fourteen mil- lions of piastres , would be very critical , if ever they ...
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... population in this table are founded. Importation from Europe Value of Political and Asia in - agricultu- cluding con ... Population , 1,800,000 . In 1778 on an exact enume- ration there was found 747,641 in the audience of Santa Fe and ...
... population in this table are founded. Importation from Europe Value of Political and Asia in - agricultu- cluding con ... Population , 1,800,000 . In 1778 on an exact enume- ration there was found 747,641 in the audience of Santa Fe and ...
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Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: With Physical Sections ..., Հատոր 4 Alexander von Humboldt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1822 |
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain ...: With Physical ..., Հատոր 4 Alexander von Humboldt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1811 |
Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Հատոր 4 Alexander von Humboldt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1811 |
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Էջ 41 - ... Depreciation of Silver, that the purchase of bills of the Secretary of State for India in this country does pro tanto diminish the remittances of silver to the East.
Էջ 199 - under the torrid zone, the smallest marshes are the most dangerous, being surrounded, as at Vera Cruz and Carthagena, with an arid and sandy soil, which raises the temperature of the ambient air...
Էջ 21 - Huasacualco, to its mouth in the gulph of Mexico. It was then very reasonably observed that this road which had been frequented in the beginning of the conquest, might still become very useful for the opening a direct communication between the two seas. The viceroy Don Antonio Bucareli gave orders to two able engineers, Don Augustin Cramer and Don Miguel del Corral, to examine, with • the greatest minuteness, the country...
Էջ 23 - This canal which would unite the Rio de Chimalapa with the Rio del Passo (or'Malpasso) would only be six leagues in length ; the boats would ascend the Rio Chimalapa, which affords a very easy navigation from Tehuantepec to the village of San Miguel ; and from thence they would pass by the canal projected in the time of Count Revillagigedo to the Rio del Passo.
Էջ 116 - But by allowing a free course to the national industry, by encouraging agriculture and manufactures, the importation will diminish of itself, and it will then be easy for the Mexicans to pay the value of foreign commodities with the productions of their own soil. The free cultivation of the vine and the olive on the tableland of New Spain ; the free distillation of spirits from...
Էջ 23 - Chimalapa, the mountains form rather a group than an uninterrupted chain and "that there exists a transversal valley, in " which a canal of communication might be
Էջ 282 - ... this important truth, that the prosperity of the whites is intimately connected with that of the copper coloured race, and that there can be no durable prosperity for the two Americas till this unfortunate race, humiliated but not degraded by long oppression, shall participate in all the advantages resulting from the progress of civilization and the improvement of social order ! NOTES AND SUPPLEMENT.
Էջ 22 - Tehuantepec ; and that on ascending it beyond the cataract, even as far as the old desembarcadero de Malpasso, they were still more than 26 leagues distant from the shores of the South Sea. They observed that a chain of mountains of very inconsiderable height, divides the waters between the gulf of Mexico, and the gulf of Tehuantepec. This small cordillera stretches from east to west, from the Cerros de los Mixes, formerly inhabited by a wild and warlike. tribe* towards the elevated table land of...