The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies: Containing an Entire Translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo...with Large Additions and Compilations from Modern Voyages and Travels, and from Original and Authentic Information, Volume 2J. Carpenter, 1812 |
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... port of Los Arboletes , and the mountain of Aguila . DAMARISCOTE , a small river of the pro- vince of Sagadahock , which rises from a lake , runs s . and enters the sea between the bays of Broad and of Sagadahock . DAMAS , River of the ...
... port of Los Arboletes , and the mountain of Aguila . DAMARISCOTE , a small river of the pro- vince of Sagadahock , which rises from a lake , runs s . and enters the sea between the bays of Broad and of Sagadahock . DAMAS , River of the ...
Pagina 10
... port of Wilmington , where a number of square - rigged vessels are owned , for the year 1786 , in the article of flour , was 20,783 barrels superfine , 457 do . common , 256 do . middling , and 346 do . ship stuff . The manufacture of ...
... port of Wilmington , where a number of square - rigged vessels are owned , for the year 1786 , in the article of flour , was 20,783 barrels superfine , 457 do . common , 256 do . middling , and 346 do . ship stuff . The manufacture of ...
Pagina 12
... port offered a greater convenience for the French established here to unlade their merchandise than to carry it on in small craft as far as the Mobile . In a short time it became well peopled ; and a few years after the French built a ...
... port offered a greater convenience for the French established here to unlade their merchandise than to carry it on in small craft as far as the Mobile . In a short time it became well peopled ; and a few years after the French built a ...
Pagina 25
... Port au Prince , St. Mark , Le Petite Goave , and Jeremie ; the n . Cape François , Fort Dauphin , and Port de Paix ; and those in the s . Les Cayes , St. Louis , and Jacmel . Before the late revolution there were in these rishes about ...
... Port au Prince , St. Mark , Le Petite Goave , and Jeremie ; the n . Cape François , Fort Dauphin , and Port de Paix ; and those in the s . Les Cayes , St. Louis , and Jacmel . Before the late revolution there were in these rishes about ...
Pagina 27
... Port au Prince , the capital of the island , and claimed the execution of the concordat . At three different times did the whites assent to the requisition , and as often broke their engagement . Gratified with the predilection for ...
... Port au Prince , the capital of the island , and claimed the execution of the concordat . At three different times did the whites assent to the requisition , and as often broke their engagement . Gratified with the predilection for ...
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Pagina 110 - 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 he after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Pagina 507 - He hath bestowed upon me for the service of His Church and people here : the prosperity whereof, and His gracious acceptance, shall be an abundant recompense to me. I conclude with this one request (which in justice may not be denied me), that as it stands upon record, that upon the discharge of my office I was called to account, so this my declaration may be recorded also, lest hereafter, when I shall be forgotten, some blemish may lie upon my posterity, when there shall be nothing to clear it.
Pagina 543 - The government was utterly unprepared for the return of the forces. They seem to have presumed, not only upon success, but upon the enemy's treasure to bear the charge of the expedition. The soldiers were upon the point of mutiny for want of their wages. It was utterly impracticable to raise in a few days such a sum as would be necessary.
Pagina 513 - Endicot, one of the assistants, to do it. It was carried for the removal. The more immediate occasion of the court's resentment against Boston was a petition signed by a great number of the principal inhabitants of that town, together with some belonging to other towns, judging and condemning the court for their proceedings against Mr. Wheelwright. At this session, Mr. Vane, the governor, could not prevent a censure upon one Stephen Greensmith, for saying that all the ministers except Mr. Cotton,...
Pagina 505 - ... he would have them severely punished, who did abuse his governor and the plantation; that the defendants were dismissed with a favorable order for their encouragement, being assured from some of the council, that his majesty did not intend to impose the ceremonies of the church of England upon us; for that it was considered, that it was the freedom from such things that made people come over to us...
Pagina 525 - Two of the ministers were present, and with much moderation and tenderness endeavored to convince her of her errors ; to which she returned the grossest railings, reproaching them as hirelings, deceivers of the people, Baal's priests, the seed of the serpent, of the brood of Ishmael, and the like.
Pagina 525 - ... and any quaker after the first conviction if a man, was to lose one ear, and the second time the other, a woman, each time to be severely whipped, and the third time man or woman to have their tongues bored through with a red hot iron, and every quaker, who should become such in the colony, were subjected to the like punishments.
Pagina 506 - Court, and that such persons as shall be hereafter so deputed by the freemen of the several plantations to deal in their behalf in the public affairs of the Commonwealth, shall have the full power and voices of all the said freemen, derived to them for the making and establishing of laws, granting of lands, &c., and to deal in all other affairs of the Commonwealth wherein the freemen have to do, the matter of election of magistrates and other officers only excepted, wherein every freeman is to give...
Pagina 511 - Court several elections as a representative for Boston, until he was excused at the desire of the church. So much respect seems to have increased her natural vanity. Countenanced and encouraged by Mr. Vane and Mr. Cotton, she advanced doctrines and opinions which involved the colony in disputes and contentions ; and, being improved to civil as well as religious purposes, had like to have produced ruin both to church and state.
Pagina 17 - ... which dies a black color, like the gall of an oak, — and hence its name. Near the middle of the Swamp, the trees grow much closer, both the cypress and cedar; and being always green and loaded with large tops, are much exposed to the wind, and easily blown down, in this boggy place, where the soil is too soft to afford sufficient hold to the roots. From these causes, the passage is nearly always obstructed by trees, which...