A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Its Connection with Agriculture and Manufactures: and an Account of the Public Debt, Revenues, and Expenditures of the United States. With a Brief Review of the Trade, Agriculture, and Manufactures of the Colonies, Previous to Their Independence. Accompanied with Tables, Illustrative of the Principles and Objects of the Work |
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... whole , in a con- densed form , should be presented to the public . Influenced , in no small degree , by their wishes and opinions , we consented to the undertaking . The original plan was en- larged , by adding a brief review of the ...
... whole , in a con- densed form , should be presented to the public . Influenced , in no small degree , by their wishes and opinions , we consented to the undertaking . The original plan was en- larged , by adding a brief review of the ...
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... whole white population of the North American Colo- nies , now the United States , was estimated at 1,046,000 . ber in each Colony , was estimated as follows , viz , The num- New - Hampshire Massachusetts Bay Rhode Island ? 30,000 ...
... whole white population of the North American Colo- nies , now the United States , was estimated at 1,046,000 . ber in each Colony , was estimated as follows , viz , The num- New - Hampshire Massachusetts Bay Rhode Island ? 30,000 ...
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... whole trade of the Co- lonies . They must , however , be resorted to , as the best source of information . We have before stated , that for some years previous to the American revolution , the trade of the Colonies was limited to Great ...
... whole trade of the Co- lonies . They must , however , be resorted to , as the best source of information . We have before stated , that for some years previous to the American revolution , the trade of the Colonies was limited to Great ...
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... whole Colonies , the all the Colonies , who have since withdrawn their allegiance from Great - Bri- It is to be remembered , that in the accouut I have given of the trade of under the real amount . to errors which I saw , but had no ...
... whole Colonies , the all the Colonies , who have since withdrawn their allegiance from Great - Bri- It is to be remembered , that in the accouut I have given of the trade of under the real amount . to errors which I saw , but had no ...
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... whole expense of the war , was more than one hundred and thirty - five miliions of dollars . * About one half of this * The whole expense of the revolutionary war cannot be ascertained , expense was paid by taxes , levied and collected ...
... whole expense of the war , was more than one hundred and thirty - five miliions of dollars . * About one half of this * The whole expense of the revolutionary war cannot be ascertained , expense was paid by taxes , levied and collected ...
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1st of January ad valorem American Colonies annual barrels bounties Bremen British West-Indies bushels cocoa coffee commerce Commissioners Congress Connecticut cotton custom-house books Delaware Denmark and Norway Dolls domestic produce Drawbacks duties ad valorem East-Indies estimated Europe exports and imports fish fishery flour follows foreign produce France French West-Indies gallons Georgia Great-Britain hemp hundred I.-CONTINUED imported from Great-Britain increase Indiana Territory indigo lands loan Madeira Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Territory millions of dollars molasses New-Hampshire New-Jersey New-York official value paid payment Pennsylvania pimento ports Portugal pounds principal produce and manufacture public debt quantity reimbursement revenue Rhode-Island Russia salt shipped sinking fund six per cent South-Carolina Spain Spanish West-Indies spermaceti spirits sugar Sweden Swedish West-Indies TABLE teas Territory thousand Three per cent tobacco tonnage tons Total trade Treasury United value of exports Value-dolls Vermont West-India Islands whale whale oil wheat Whither exported wines
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Page 34 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 44 - TRANSACTIONS of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, with the Premiums offered in the year 1783.
Page 34 - Island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 28 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Page 39 - 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.
Page 40 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. 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.
Page 169 - European nations, and they shall pay no higher or other duties or charges on the importation or exportation of the cargoes of the said vessels, than shall be payable on the same articles when Imported or exported in the vessels of the most favoured European nations.
Page 34 - And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 40 - 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 Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Page 9 - Colonies in America, and to prevent the Erection of any Mill or other Engine for slitting or rolling of Iron, or any plating Forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel in any of the said Colonies...