The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... become a more important item of the Company's trade decade by decade throughout the eighteenth century , was never seen growing by an Englishman . The wild tea of Assam , which suggested the possibility of tea - growing in India , was ...
... become a more important item of the Company's trade decade by decade throughout the eighteenth century , was never seen growing by an Englishman . The wild tea of Assam , which suggested the possibility of tea - growing in India , was ...
Page 420
... become settlers , and when they took advantage of the terms offered to them were likely to prosper . But there were very many idle and worthless people who , as Phillip said , " dreaded punishment less than they dreaded labour " , and ...
... become settlers , and when they took advantage of the terms offered to them were likely to prosper . But there were very many idle and worthless people who , as Phillip said , " dreaded punishment less than they dreaded labour " , and ...
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... become clear to those who studied the evidence at home ( e.g. Reichard in Germany in 1802 and subsequently James Macqueen in Great Britain ) that its only possible termination could be the network of interlacing creeks at the head of ...
... become clear to those who studied the evidence at home ( e.g. Reichard in Germany in 1802 and subsequently James Macqueen in Great Britain ) that its only possible termination could be the network of interlacing creeks at the head of ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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