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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... Committee , as well as to many other gentlemen , I owe the acknow- ledgment of valuable information . R. ARTHUR ARNOLD . MANCHESTER : July 1864 . THE HISTORY OF THE COTTON FAMINE . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY viii PREFACE .
... Committee , as well as to many other gentlemen , I owe the acknow- ledgment of valuable information . R. ARTHUR ARNOLD . MANCHESTER : July 1864 . THE HISTORY OF THE COTTON FAMINE . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY viii PREFACE .
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... Manchester is 120 feet above the sea - level ; Bolton is 200 feet higher than the Cotton Metropolis , and superior elevation generally ensures increased rainfall . London is 50 feet above the level of the sea , and endures an average ...
... Manchester is 120 feet above the sea - level ; Bolton is 200 feet higher than the Cotton Metropolis , and superior elevation generally ensures increased rainfall . London is 50 feet above the level of the sea , and endures an average ...
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... the patrician purlieus of Knowsley , it runs across the Manchester and Liverpool Railway , and WITY The From returns again towards St. Helens . Leigh is its B 2 COTTON FAMINE . 3 their pebbly beds, when the mill-wheel was ...
... the patrician purlieus of Knowsley , it runs across the Manchester and Liverpool Railway , and WITY The From returns again towards St. Helens . Leigh is its B 2 COTTON FAMINE . 3 their pebbly beds, when the mill-wheel was ...
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... Manchester - are on the sandstone . The Mersey winds its way through this formation from Stock- port to its mouth . The immemorial elms of Knowsley and Rufford Parks attack it with their roots . Cuerden Hall enjoys an equally good ...
... Manchester - are on the sandstone . The Mersey winds its way through this formation from Stock- port to its mouth . The immemorial elms of Knowsley and Rufford Parks attack it with their roots . Cuerden Hall enjoys an equally good ...
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... Manchester rose from 94,876 to 460,018 . The population of Burnley had grown from 4,000 to nearly 30,000 in the same interval ; and all the cotton towns would show a somewhat similar rate of extension . Taking the whole county , the ...
... Manchester rose from 94,876 to 460,018 . The population of Burnley had grown from 4,000 to nearly 30,000 in the same interval ; and all the cotton towns would show a somewhat similar rate of extension . Taking the whole county , the ...
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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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