The West India Manual: Containing General Information Respecting the British and Foreign Colonies with the Routes of the Steam Packets, &cG. Mann, 1842 - 157 oldal |
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143. oldal - Declared Value of British and Irish Produce and Manufactures Exported from the United Kingdom to the United States of America, in each year, from 1805 to 1811, and from 1814 to 1836.
85. oldal - ... to only $65,274. A royal decree then appeared which exempted the trade between Spain and the Spanish colonies and Porto Rico from all duties for 15 years ; and the island was then also permitted to trade, under reasonable duties, with other countries. In consequence of these measures, but partly, also, of a considerable immigration of rich Spanish colonists from S. America, Porto Rico has latterly made a most extraordinary progress. Great improvements have been effected in the police and internal...
95. oldal - Cuba and elsewhere the line of demarcation is not very clearly defined. The warmest months are July and August, when the mean temperature is from 82° to 84° of Fahrenheit's thermometer. December and January are the coldest months, when the mean temperature is nearly 10° Fah.
51. oldal - Capisterre, the more elevated part, consists of a succession of abrupt mountains of the most picturesque and fantastic shapes, covered to the summit with forest trees and dense underwood, and intersected by numerous ravines, which, being too narrow to admit of free ventilation, are at all times replete with moisture, and choked up with decayed vegetation in every stage of decomposition. The climate is principally characterised by...
95. oldal - ... about half a century ago. His descriptions, however, so far as they extend, may be relied on, for the physical aspects and character of the island, as they are for the most part unchangeable. It is to be regretted that there are so few scientific men among our travelers. A cordillera extends from one end of the island to the other, dividing it into two unequal sections ; the northern being, for the most part, the narrower. The mountainous portion of the surface of the island is to the other portions,...
103. oldal - The turf-clad hills on the N. side of the island are chiefly composed of a chalky marl ; elsewhere the soil is frequently of a deep chocolate colour, or a warm yellow or hazel. The latter, called the Jamaica brick mould, retains a good deal of moisture, and is among the best adapted for the sugar-cane throughout the \V.
100. oldal - Havana, and was not allowed to carry on any direct intercourse with foreign countries; but this impolitic restriction being...
15. oldal - The Company do not hold themselves liable for any damage or loss of baggage, nor for delays arising from accident, or from extraordinary or unavoidable circumstances; or from circumstances connected with the employment of the vessels in Her Majesty's Mail Service.
129. oldal - The government is vested in a governor, assisted by a privy council of seven members and the colonial council, elected by the people, for five years.
32. oldal - To that prodigious chain of islands which extend in a curve from the Florida shore on the northern peninsula to the gulph of Venezuela in the southern, is given the denomination of West Indies, from the name of India originally assigned to them by Columbus. This illustrious navigator planned his expedition, not, as Raynal and others have supposed, under the idea of introducing a new world to the knowledge of the...