Sketches, Historical and Topographical, of the Floridas: More Particularly of East FloridaC.S. Van Winkle, 1821 - 226 էջ |
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... latitude with Point Petre , at sunrise , from 71 lowest average , to 82 , and from 80 at sunrise to 93 highest . Some have calculated that the mercury ranges between 84 and 88 degrees in the shade , where a free ventilation exists , and ...
... latitude with Point Petre , at sunrise , from 71 lowest average , to 82 , and from 80 at sunrise to 93 highest . Some have calculated that the mercury ranges between 84 and 88 degrees in the shade , where a free ventilation exists , and ...
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... latitude of 27 ; per- haps out of Lake Mayaco , which , I have reason to believe , really exists , and is the head of the river St. Lucia , as I was told by a credible Spanish hunter , who had been carried there by the way of this last ...
... latitude of 27 ; per- haps out of Lake Mayaco , which , I have reason to believe , really exists , and is the head of the river St. Lucia , as I was told by a credible Spanish hunter , who had been carried there by the way of this last ...
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... latitude 27 20 , where there is a mouth , or outlet into the ocean . This mouth can seldom be entered by any vessel that draws above six feet wa- ter . Before it , in the sea , are two bars : the inner one has about ten feet water in ...
... latitude 27 20 , where there is a mouth , or outlet into the ocean . This mouth can seldom be entered by any vessel that draws above six feet wa- ter . Before it , in the sea , are two bars : the inner one has about ten feet water in ...
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... latitude 26 55 , where there is another mouth , or inlet , called Hobé , by the Spaniards ; and by the English , Jupiter , or Grenville . This island is thirty - nine statute miles long . Twen- ty - four miles from its north end , are ...
... latitude 26 55 , where there is another mouth , or inlet , called Hobé , by the Spaniards ; and by the English , Jupiter , or Grenville . This island is thirty - nine statute miles long . Twen- ty - four miles from its north end , are ...
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... latitude 25 35 ; one of these is not always open ; the last is in the north end of the first island , whose south end De Brahm has thought proper to call Cape Florida , although it is by no means a cape , or head land . West from this ...
... latitude 25 35 ; one of these is not always open ; the last is in the north end of the first island , whose south end De Brahm has thought proper to call Cape Florida , although it is by no means a cape , or head land . West from this ...
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Sketches, Historical and Topographical, of the Floridas: More Particularly ... James Grant Forbes Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1821 |
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Sketches, Historical and Topographical, of the Floridas: More Particularly ... James Grant Forbes Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1821 |
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Էջ ii - WINILE, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: " Sketches, Historical and Topographical, of the Floridas ; more particularly of East Florida. By James Grant Forbes." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the...
Էջ 206 - River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London and 23 from Washington; then, crossing the said Red River, and running thence, by a line due north, to the river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude 42 north; and thence, bv that parallel of latitude, to the South Sea.
Էջ 207 - But, if the source of the Arkansas river shall be found to fall north or south of latitude 42, then the line shall run from the said source due south or north, as the case may be, till it meets the said parallel of latitude 42, and thence, along the said parallel, to the South Sea...
Էջ 183 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Էջ 205 - ... the most excellent Lord Don Luis De Onis, Gonzales, Lopez y Vara, lord of the town of Rayaces, perpetual regidor of the corporation of the city of Salamanca, knight grand cross of the royal American order of Isabella the Catholic, decorated with the lys of La Vendee, knight pensioner of the royal and distinguished Spanish order of Charles the Third, member of the supreme assembly of the said royal order, of the council of his catholic majesty, his secretary, with exercise of decrees, and his...
Էջ 211 - ... all claims for damages or injuries which they, themselves, as well as their respective citizens and subjects may have suffered, until the time of signing this Treaty. The renunciation of the United States will extend to all the injuries mentioned in the Convention of the llth of August 1802.
Էջ 183 - France, provided that the navigation of the river Mississippi shall be equally free, as well to the subjects of Great Britain as to those of France, in its whole breadth and length, from its source to the sea, and expressly that part which is between the said island of New Orleans and the right bank of that river, as well as the passage both in and out of its mouth...
Էջ 208 - Majesty, and renounce forever all their rights, claims and pretensions to the territories lying west and south of the above-described line ; and, in like manner, His Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States all his rights, claims and pretensions to any territories east and north of the said line; and for himself, his heirs, and successors, renounces all claim to the said territories forever.
Էջ 213 - Finally, to all the claims of subjects of his Catholic Majesty upon the government of the United States, in which the interposition of his Catholic Majesty's government has been solicited, before the date of this Treaty, and since the date of the Convention •of i tea, or which may have been made to the Department of Foreign Affairs of his Majesty, or to his Minister in the United States.
Էջ 214 - ... undertake to make satisfaction for the same, to an amount not exceeding three and one quarter millions of dollars.