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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... measures , and all the carboniferous group of strata were deposited , is indeed a task impossible to man . The foot - prints on the sand- rocks , the leaf - prints in the coal - beds , hidden from all touch of life since the foundation ...
... measures , and all the carboniferous group of strata were deposited , is indeed a task impossible to man . The foot - prints on the sand- rocks , the leaf - prints in the coal - beds , hidden from all touch of life since the foundation ...
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... measures ; and perhaps , from her less grimy throne on the new red sandstone , ' proud Preston ' has had some reason to call her sister towns black . coal - field of Lancashire is of very irregular form . Its northern boundary extends ...
... measures ; and perhaps , from her less grimy throne on the new red sandstone , ' proud Preston ' has had some reason to call her sister towns black . coal - field of Lancashire is of very irregular form . Its northern boundary extends ...
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... measures rose to their present elevation . The merest school - boy in geology cannot doubt this , if , following the line of contact , he observes how the strata . of the sandstone - evidently originally laid in horizontal planes by ...
... measures rose to their present elevation . The merest school - boy in geology cannot doubt this , if , following the line of contact , he observes how the strata . of the sandstone - evidently originally laid in horizontal planes by ...
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... measures which occupy the middle of the county rested upon them , and the sandstone upon the coal . It was a fortunate move for Lancashire when they were lifted for her enrichment and service . The geographical advantages possessed by ...
... measures which occupy the middle of the county rested upon them , and the sandstone upon the coal . It was a fortunate move for Lancashire when they were lifted for her enrichment and service . The geographical advantages possessed by ...
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... measures which struck at the root of the ignorance and misery of the manufacturing districts . By the benevolent provisions of the Factory Laws , it is enacted that ten hours shall be the limit of labour in a factory ; that no child ...
... measures which struck at the root of the ignorance and misery of the manufacturing districts . By the benevolent provisions of the Factory Laws , it is enacted that ten hours shall be the limit of labour in a factory ; that no child ...
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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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