Facts and Figures Relating to Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Showing what to Expect and how to Get ThereLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 - 171 páginas |
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... labour lost . From abundant material I have endeavoured to select facts suffi- cient to support the opinions expressed , the whole being so roughly put together as to constitute a mere temporary literary structure , which I hope at ...
... labour lost . From abundant material I have endeavoured to select facts suffi- cient to support the opinions expressed , the whole being so roughly put together as to constitute a mere temporary literary structure , which I hope at ...
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... labour is too dear to make them so , and capital better expended on a steam engine . Which- ever way the tide might rush , a turbine fixed in one of these gorges would work uniformly . Having water communication still in view , and re ...
... labour is too dear to make them so , and capital better expended on a steam engine . Which- ever way the tide might rush , a turbine fixed in one of these gorges would work uniformly . Having water communication still in view , and re ...
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... labour is greatly increased . Sometimes , with the tracking line passed across his shoulders , the miner drags his boat or canoe against a swift current , often wading up to his waist in water . At other times we meet him toiling up ...
... labour is greatly increased . Sometimes , with the tracking line passed across his shoulders , the miner drags his boat or canoe against a swift current , often wading up to his waist in water . At other times we meet him toiling up ...
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... Labour on the coast is too dear to make the working of any seam profitable , which does not exceed consider- ably eighteen inches . When I last visited the former workings of the Hudson's Bay Company there , the place was so overgrown ...
... Labour on the coast is too dear to make the working of any seam profitable , which does not exceed consider- ably eighteen inches . When I last visited the former workings of the Hudson's Bay Company there , the place was so overgrown ...
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... labour of different kinds in San Francisco and California , regulates equally the labour markets of Oregon , Washington , and the British possessions ; a high rate of wages is the principal in- ducement to the largest and most useful ...
... labour of different kinds in San Francisco and California , regulates equally the labour markets of Oregon , Washington , and the British possessions ; a high rate of wages is the principal in- ducement to the largest and most useful ...
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Facts and Figures Relating to Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Showing ... Joseph Despard Pemberton Visualização integral - 1860 |
Facts and Figures Relating to Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Showing ... Joseph Despard Pemberton Visualização integral - 1860 |
Facts and Figures Relating to Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Showing ... Joseph Despard Pemberton Visualização integral - 1860 |
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