Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - 415 páginas |
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... labour in the several counties of the province , xi Page 102 CHAPTER V. FROM ST JOHN IN NEW BRUNSWICK TO SYRACUSE IN WESTERN NEW YORK . Steamboat from St John to Portland , in Maine . - Railway to Newhaven , in Connecticut . - Alleged ...
... labour in the several counties of the province , xi Page 102 CHAPTER V. FROM ST JOHN IN NEW BRUNSWICK TO SYRACUSE IN WESTERN NEW YORK . Steamboat from St John to Portland , in Maine . - Railway to Newhaven , in Connecticut . - Alleged ...
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... labour . Average produce of the Genesee country . - New York does not produce wheat enough for its own consumption . - North - east America not a danger- ous competitor in the English wheat market . - Duty upon Canadian wheat ...
... labour . Average produce of the Genesee country . - New York does not produce wheat enough for its own consumption . - North - east America not a danger- ous competitor in the English wheat market . - Duty upon Canadian wheat ...
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... labour and hard toil expended upon it by drudging serfs in former ages . The northern end of Lough Corrib , in Ireland , would probably still bear a comparison with many of these difficult places in North America . The huge walls of ...
... labour and hard toil expended upon it by drudging serfs in former ages . The northern end of Lough Corrib , in Ireland , would probably still bear a comparison with many of these difficult places in North America . The huge walls of ...
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... We are compelled , therefore , to conclude , either that the land in general is not grateful for the labour expended upon * Industrial Economy of Nova Scotia , p . 23. + Ibid . , p . 24 . INNER HARBOUR OF HALIFAX . 15 it , or that.
... We are compelled , therefore , to conclude , either that the land in general is not grateful for the labour expended upon * Industrial Economy of Nova Scotia , p . 23. + Ibid . , p . 24 . INNER HARBOUR OF HALIFAX . 15 it , or that.
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... labour is not turned to the best account , and the capabilities of their soil not fully brought out . From my brief stay in the province , and the peculiar aridity of the season , I had not an opportunity of deter- mining these points ...
... labour is not turned to the best account , and the capabilities of their soil not fully brought out . From my brief stay in the province , and the peculiar aridity of the season , I had not an opportunity of deter- mining these points ...
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