Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 13F. Hunt, 1845 |
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Página 38
... half cents per bushel , delivered alongside of vessels , where crews measure it at the time of loading . Foreign vessels arriving at Cadiz , in ballast , and taking salt , are exempt from tonnage duty of five cents per ton , which those ...
... half cents per bushel , delivered alongside of vessels , where crews measure it at the time of loading . Foreign vessels arriving at Cadiz , in ballast , and taking salt , are exempt from tonnage duty of five cents per ton , which those ...
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... half of which is scarce- ly less fertile than the valley of the Nile , which , though only a narrow strip of 12 miles broad and a length of 2,000 miles , it is said to have contained no less than 20,000 cities . What , then , is to ...
... half of which is scarce- ly less fertile than the valley of the Nile , which , though only a narrow strip of 12 miles broad and a length of 2,000 miles , it is said to have contained no less than 20,000 cities . What , then , is to ...
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... half its length , however , being in the Oswego river , converted into canal , or slack - water , by means of eight dams and a tow - path on the river bank . The total quantity of lockage is 123 feet , distributed among 18 lift - locks ...
... half its length , however , being in the Oswego river , converted into canal , or slack - water , by means of eight dams and a tow - path on the river bank . The total quantity of lockage is 123 feet , distributed among 18 lift - locks ...
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... half of which consists of canal proper , and the other half of slack water navigation in the river . The whole descent from Geneva to Montezuma is 74 feet , divided among 12 locks . The canal was com- menced in 1827 , and finished in ...
... half of which consists of canal proper , and the other half of slack water navigation in the river . The whole descent from Geneva to Montezuma is 74 feet , divided among 12 locks . The canal was com- menced in 1827 , and finished in ...
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... half . This , of itself , is a great boon , especially to the poorer class of people , who have been , to a great extent , deprived of the privilege of corresponding with their absent friends in consequence of the high rates of postage ...
... half . This , of itself , is a great boon , especially to the poorer class of people , who have been , to a great extent , deprived of the privilege of corresponding with their absent friends in consequence of the high rates of postage ...
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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.