De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, Etc: Devoted to Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Volume 1James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell J. D. B. DeBow., 1847 - Industries |
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... nearly two years . Its success ha been signal throughout the whole SOUTHERN AND WESTERN COUNTRY , and it subscription list steadily and rapidly increased there and in other sections of th Union . In this brief period it has gained a ...
... nearly two years . Its success ha been signal throughout the whole SOUTHERN AND WESTERN COUNTRY , and it subscription list steadily and rapidly increased there and in other sections of th Union . In this brief period it has gained a ...
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... nearly six hundred delegates assembled at the appointed time , from sixteen states and territories , with much of the talent in the country , and with a statesman to preside over the whole , who , whatever his individual views , must be ...
... nearly six hundred delegates assembled at the appointed time , from sixteen states and territories , with much of the talent in the country , and with a statesman to preside over the whole , who , whatever his individual views , must be ...
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... nearly so , 400 do . To Sandwich Islands from Mazatlan , Leaving unfinished , To China from Mazatlan , " If extended to Texas , and through to the rich intendencies of Tamaulipas , Coahuila , and Durango , striking the Gulf of ...
... nearly so , 400 do . To Sandwich Islands from Mazatlan , Leaving unfinished , To China from Mazatlan , " If extended to Texas , and through to the rich intendencies of Tamaulipas , Coahuila , and Durango , striking the Gulf of ...
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... nearly completed , extending to Chattanooga , on the Tennessee river , in the State of Tennessee . There remains of this road about fifty miles of work , the grading and masonry of which are completed , and the whole under contract ...
... nearly completed , extending to Chattanooga , on the Tennessee river , in the State of Tennessee . There remains of this road about fifty miles of work , the grading and masonry of which are completed , and the whole under contract ...
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... nearly one half e pronounced arable and capable of profitable cultivation , while e portion of the balance , however sterile in its external appear- has concealed other and not less valuable elements of mineral 1 not yet developed . The ...
... nearly one half e pronounced arable and capable of profitable cultivation , while e portion of the balance , however sterile in its external appear- has concealed other and not less valuable elements of mineral 1 not yet developed . The ...
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Page 102 - 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.
Page 102 - 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 331 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 99 - Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations. It softens and polishes the manners of men. It unites them by one of the strongest of all ties, the desire of supplying their mutual wants.
Page 95 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Page 102 - 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.
Page 354 - An university .shall be established in the city of New Orleans. It shall be composed of four faculties, to wit : one of law, one of medicine, one of the natural sciences, and one of letters. ART. 138. It shall be called the " University of Louisiana," and the Medical College of Louisiana, as at present organized, shall constitute the faculty of medicine.
Page 95 - O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
Page 415 - Any privileges which may exempt it from the burdens common to individuals do not flow necessarily from the charter, but must be expressed in it, or they do not exist.
Page 364 - Mobile, and every thing which he possesses, or ought to possess, on the left side of the River Mississippi, except the town of New Orleans and the island in which it is situated...