The Future Wealth of America: Being a Glance at the Resources of the United States and the Commercial and Agricultural Advantages of Cultivating Tea, Coffee, and Indigo, the Date, Mango, Jack, Leechee, Guava, and Orange Trees, Etc. With a Review of the China Trade |
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Page 185 - It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.
Page 111 - Americans was answered by cutting up and sifting other green tea through sieves of a certain size ; and, as the company's inspectors detected the imposture, it formed no portion of their London importations. But the abuse became still worse of late, for the coarsest black tea leaves have been cut up, and then coloured with a preparation resembling the hue of green teas.
Page 111 - Bohea," being a mixture of refuse Congou with a coarse tea called Woping, the growth of the province. The better kind of Bohea comes from the district of that name in Fokien, and, having been of late esteemed equally with the lower Congou teas, has been packed in the same square chests, while the old Bohea package is of an oblong shape.
Page 174 - That the government of British India should be the prime abettors of this abominable traffic is one of the great wonders of the nineteenth century.
Page 205 - ... a pound required an increased payment by this country of £4,000,000 sterling. In this year the increase in price has caused many spinners and manufacturers of coarse yarns and heavy goods, either to stop their mills or to work short time, and of course to throw many of their workmen out of full and regular employment. It has been well ascertained that, " with high prices of the raw material, the present enormous production of cotton manufactures will not, and cannot, be taken off by the markets...
Page 39 - ... in most cases the agents of others, whose orders they must comply with." "The merchants here, therefore, are guided in their purchases by the orders received from their constituents at home, and the execution of these orders is always limited to time ;" they are, therefore, "wholly dependent on the cotton to be found at Bombay, whatever be its quality.
Page 232 - This will be the right of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and will make them his horsemen, and his running footmen to run before his chariots; and he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots.
Page 165 - Hatching eggs by artificial heat is well known, and extensively practised in China; as is, also, the hatching of fish. The sale of spawn for this purpose forms an important branch of trade in China. The fishermen collect, with care, on the margin and surface of water all the gelatinous matters that contain spawn of fish, which is then placed in an egg-shell, which has been fresh emptied, through a small hole, which is then stopped, and the shell is placed under a setting fowl. In a few days, the...
Page 232 - Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants. Moreover...
Page 173 - Those who begin its use at twenty, may expect to die at thirty years of age ; the countenance becomes pallid,, the eyes assume a wild brightness, the memory fails, the gait totters, mental exertion and moral courage sink, and a frightful marasmus or atrophy reduces the victim to a ghastly spectacle, who has ceased to live before he has ceased to exist.