Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 13F. Hunt, 1845 |
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Página 51
... feet deep and 40 wide , to the Hudson ; and then , after one more transhipment , he floats it down to its destination , the New York market . All this can be done , and with as much profit to the producer , as to float it down a single ...
... feet deep and 40 wide , to the Hudson ; and then , after one more transhipment , he floats it down to its destination , the New York market . All this can be done , and with as much profit to the producer , as to float it down a single ...
Página 54
... feet , and to deepen it two feet , a plan which , although attended with considerable cost , will add greatly to its value . As mere architectural adornments , some of its locks and aque- ducts are splendid models of this species of ...
... feet , and to deepen it two feet , a plan which , although attended with considerable cost , will add greatly to its value . As mere architectural adornments , some of its locks and aque- ducts are splendid models of this species of ...
Página 55
... feet 140,891,000 241,400 $ 2,395,147 Shingles , ..... ..M . 77,763 12,805 233,289 Timber , .. .... cubic feet 917,295 18,345 159,373 Staves , ..... lbs . 95,356,100 47,678 381,424 Wood , .. ... cords 5,981 16,747 28,410 Ashes ...
... feet 140,891,000 241,400 $ 2,395,147 Shingles , ..... ..M . 77,763 12,805 233,289 Timber , .. .... cubic feet 917,295 18,345 159,373 Staves , ..... lbs . 95,356,100 47,678 381,424 Wood , .. ... cords 5,981 16,747 28,410 Ashes ...
Página 56
... feet of lock- age , and 21 locks , of which 54 feet distributed in seven locks , include the rise from the lake to the summit level , extending from Fort Ann to Fort Ed . ward , and 134 feet distributed in 14 locks , include the descent ...
... feet of lock- age , and 21 locks , of which 54 feet distributed in seven locks , include the rise from the lake to the summit level , extending from Fort Ann to Fort Ed . ward , and 134 feet distributed in 14 locks , include the descent ...
Página 57
... feet , distributed among 18 lift - locks , all descending from Syracuse to Oswego . So far as the canal is wholly an excavated work , the dimensions of its cross - section are the same as those of the Erie canal . There is , also , a ...
... feet , distributed among 18 lift - locks , all descending from Syracuse to Oswego . So far as the canal is wholly an excavated work , the dimensions of its cross - section are the same as those of the Erie canal . There is , also , a ...
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Página 406 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 528 - April, 1790,(i) provides that "If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offence which if committed within the body of a county, would by the laws of the United States be punishable with death...
Página 406 - 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.
Página 80 - An Act to reduce into one the several Acts for establishing and regulating the Post-Office Department, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
Página 174 - The case was tried by a jury who found a verdict in favor of the...
Página 528 - That if any person or persons whatsoever, shall, on the high seas, commit the crime of piracy, as defined by the law of nations...
Página 528 - The register is not a document required by the law of nations, as expressive of a ship's national character.
Página 75 - Be. it enacted by the Señale and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That...
Página 406 - 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.
Página 398 - Christian Retirement ; or, Spiritual Exercises of the Heart. By the author of "Christian Experience, ae Displayed In the Life and Writings of St. Paul.