The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of the Public Works ActSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1865 - Всего страниц: 350 |
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... Lancashire would never have existed . These streams owe their perennial supplies to the geological features , and the geographical position of the district . The elevation of most of the towns in this part of the kingdom is very ...
... Lancashire would never have existed . These streams owe their perennial supplies to the geological features , and the geographical position of the district . The elevation of most of the towns in this part of the kingdom is very ...
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... Lancashire with an inexhaustible supply of food for this untiring helper . The superiority of steam over water power consists in the greater force , speed , and regularity of movement , —in the security which it affords against the ...
... Lancashire with an inexhaustible supply of food for this untiring helper . The superiority of steam over water power consists in the greater force , speed , and regularity of movement , —in the security which it affords against the ...
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... Lancashire owe to Nature ! Had the upheaval of her surface continued during its submer- sion , the coal - fields might have shared the same fate as the red sandstone which once covered it ; the hills between Lancashire and Yorkshire ...
... Lancashire owe to Nature ! Had the upheaval of her surface continued during its submer- sion , the coal - fields might have shared the same fate as the red sandstone which once covered it ; the hills between Lancashire and Yorkshire ...
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... Lancashire when they were lifted for her enrichment and service . The geographical advantages possessed by this manu- facturing district may be included in one word - Liverpool . Yet it must not be supposed that Liverpool made the ...
... Lancashire when they were lifted for her enrichment and service . The geographical advantages possessed by this manu- facturing district may be included in one word - Liverpool . Yet it must not be supposed that Liverpool made the ...
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... Lancashire is entitled to this distinction , and that here the Ancient- Britons would feel most at ease , were they to revisit their old home . But how would they be astonished , if , with their woad - dyed faces and rude implements ...
... Lancashire is entitled to this distinction , and that here the Ancient- Britons would feel most at ease , were they to revisit their old home . But how would they be astonished , if , with their woad - dyed faces and rude implements ...
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American amount Ashton Ashton-under-Lyne assistance authority bales Blackburn boards of guardians capital cent Central Executive Committee Central Relief Committee charitable clothing condition considerable cotton districts Cotton Famine cotton manufacture cotton supply cotton trade demand difficulty distress duty emigration employment England English equal estimated expenditure extent fact factory facturers Farnall Glossop Government hands Haslingden honour improvement increase India interest labour Lancashire land large number less Liverpool loans Lord Lord Derby machinery Manchester Mansion House Committee manufac manufacturing districts ment mills months Oldham operatives outdoor outdoor relief parish persons Poor Law Board poor-rates population possessed post 8vo pound Preston production profits rate of relief rate-in-aid rateable value ratepayers raw material Ready received relief funds Rochdale shillings spindles Staleybridge Stockport subscriptions suffering sufficient Surat tion towns township unemployed Union Relief Aid Villiers wages week Wigan yarn
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