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... trade of the colonists appears to have been among themselves ; this was the coasting trade , which will be con- sidered in detail in the following section . Next in impor- tance came the trade with the West Indies , British and for ...
... trade of the colonists appears to have been among themselves ; this was the coasting trade , which will be con- sidered in detail in the following section . Next in impor- tance came the trade with the West Indies , British and for ...
Page 65
... coasting trade . To the people who settled along the Atlantic coast the sea offered for much of the colo- nial period the only and for all of the period the best and cheapest means of intercolonial trade . Taking an illustra- tion from ...
... coasting trade . To the people who settled along the Atlantic coast the sea offered for much of the colo- nial period the only and for all of the period the best and cheapest means of intercolonial trade . Taking an illustra- tion from ...
Page 66
... Coasting trade was very active in the northern colonies ; in many of them it made up , as the figures show , half or more of the total movement of vessels . Large seaports like Boston and New York concentrated in themselves most of the ...
... Coasting trade was very active in the northern colonies ; in many of them it made up , as the figures show , half or more of the total movement of vessels . Large seaports like Boston and New York concentrated in themselves most of the ...
Page 67
... coasting trade . The figures of tonnage give an exaggerated idea of the im- portance of the coastwise trade . A ton of firewood , car- ried twenty miles through Long Island Sound to be burnt in the fireplace of a resident of New York ...
... coasting trade . The figures of tonnage give an exaggerated idea of the im- portance of the coastwise trade . A ton of firewood , car- ried twenty miles through Long Island Sound to be burnt in the fireplace of a resident of New York ...
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... coasting and West India trades , and that these were the only branches in which the other northern colonies were strong . The European trade of Massachusetts was equalled by that of Pennsylvania or South Carolina and was surpassed by ...
... coasting and West India trades , and that these were the only branches in which the other northern colonies were strong . The European trade of Massachusetts was equalled by that of Pennsylvania or South Carolina and was surpassed by ...
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Page 177 - In one way or another we are more or less subservient to the North every day of our lives. In infancy we are swaddled in Northern muslin; in childhood we are humored with Northern gewgaws; in youth we are instructed out of Northern books; at the age of maturity we sow our "wild oats...
Page 177 - ... the interests of those around us, in giving aid and succor to every department of Northern power; in the decline of life we remedy our eye-sight with Northern spectacles, and support our infirmities with Northern canes; in old age we are drugged with Northern physic; and, finally, when we die, our inanimate bodies, shrouded in Northern cambric, are stretched upon the bier, borne to the grave in a Northern carriage, entombed with a Northern spade, and memorized with a Northern slab!
Page 162 - Without firing a gun, without drawing a sword, should they make war on us we could bring the whole world to our feet.
Page 162 - What would happen if no cotton was furnished for three years ? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but this is certain : England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King.
Page 83 - All the world will allow the flourishing state of her marine and commerce, and the decisive influence of her councils and negotiations, to be owing to her new connections with the United States." f Vergennes, * Diplomatic Correspondence, v., 88, 89, 92. f Diplomatic Correspondence, v., 221. in the name of the king of France, required Franklin to trans•mit this correspondence to congress.* On the twenty-sixth, and before Adams knew of the appeal, he gave free course to his impulses, and wrote...
Page 64 - JL Ringwalt, Development of transportation Systems in the United States (Philadelphia, 1888), 5-15 for the early systems of water transportation.
Page 12 - We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
Page 102 - Not a solitary traveller finds his way along that avenue; it is principally indicated by the broken remnants of buggies, wagons, and gun carriages, scattered remains of flour barrels, and the mouldering skeletons of horses and oxen, remaining as they were left just visible above the surface of the mud and wet which destroyed them.
Page 304 - ... the territory south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi...
Page 117 - Among these are corn brooms, cabinet furniture, cider, plows, apples, cordage, etc. They remain in one place until all is sold out, if the demand be brisk; if not, they move farther down. After all is sold out they dispose of their boat, and return with the crews by the steamers to their homes.