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... River .... Notice to Mariners .. Steam Navigation ... French Steam Navigation .. Light - house at the Peninsula of Jutland Lake Navigation ..... Canadian Navigation ... .. .342 343 .344 .345 .346 .346 .434 .431 .435 .517 ..518 ...
... River .... Notice to Mariners .. Steam Navigation ... French Steam Navigation .. Light - house at the Peninsula of Jutland Lake Navigation ..... Canadian Navigation ... .. .342 343 .344 .345 .346 .346 .434 .431 .435 .517 ..518 ...
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... rivers of a thousand leagues , its deep indentures of bays , and its vast inland seas , for the use of steam - propelled vessels . One example more of improvement due to the genius of commerce will terminate this branch of our inquiry ...
... rivers of a thousand leagues , its deep indentures of bays , and its vast inland seas , for the use of steam - propelled vessels . One example more of improvement due to the genius of commerce will terminate this branch of our inquiry ...
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... river , signally distinguished himself . He served throughout the war , rising to the rank of Major General ; and when it was over , he returned to his commercial pursuits , and be- came the first President of the Bank of New York ...
... river , signally distinguished himself . He served throughout the war , rising to the rank of Major General ; and when it was over , he returned to his commercial pursuits , and be- came the first President of the Bank of New York ...
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... river's motion , unless their attention is engaged by some attractive object on the banks . The list of writers who have devoted their leisure and their talents to this important subject is sufficiently remarkable to arrest notice , for ...
... river's motion , unless their attention is engaged by some attractive object on the banks . The list of writers who have devoted their leisure and their talents to this important subject is sufficiently remarkable to arrest notice , for ...
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... rivers . All her upper tim- bers and most of the upper futtocks are mulberry , principally white ; and although more than thirty years have elapsed since her launch , yet no sign of decay has ever appeared in the mulberry Culture and ...
... rivers . All her upper tim- bers and most of the upper futtocks are mulberry , principally white ; and although more than thirty years have elapsed since her launch , yet no sign of decay has ever appeared in the mulberry Culture and ...
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Página 13 - Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. 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 13 - 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' 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. Falkland...
Página 93 - When in the progress of society, land of the second degree of fertility is taken into cultivation, rent immediately commences on that of the first quality, and the amount of that rent will depend on the difference in the quality of these two portions of land.
Página 522 - In case of the death of the wife, before the decease of her husband, the amount of the insurance may be made payable after her death to her children for their use, and to their guardian, if under age.
Página 172 - Esq., was called to the chair. The Minutes of the last annual meeting were read and approved. The...
Página 13 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the Whale Fishery.
Página 243 - are not insurances of the specific things mentioned to be insured, nor do such insurances attach on the realty, or in any manner go with the same as incident thereto by any conveyance or assignment, but they are only special agreements with the persons insuring against such loss or damage as they may sustain.
Página 246 - ... during the latter part of the last century and the beginning of the present.
Página 212 - This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 93 - If all land had the same properties, if it were unlimited in quantity, and uniform in quality, no charge could be made for its use, unless where it possessed peculiar advantages of situation. It is only, then, because land is not unlimited in quantity and uniform in quality, and because in the progress of population, land of an inferior quality, or less advantageously situated, is called into cultivation, that rent is ever paid for the use of it.