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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... water , and gather it into manageable streams . With what patient devotion these streams have given themselves to the prosperity of Lancashire ! Merrily they rippled over their pebbly beds , when the mill - wheel was HISTORY OF THE.
... water , and gather it into manageable streams . With what patient devotion these streams have given themselves to the prosperity of Lancashire ! Merrily they rippled over their pebbly beds , when the mill - wheel was HISTORY OF THE.
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... mill - wheel was theirs , and theirs only . They threw themselves , or were led into reservoirs , and have continued to supply the district with pure water , so soft , that as compared with that of London , it is estimated to require ...
... mill - wheel was theirs , and theirs only . They threw themselves , or were led into reservoirs , and have continued to supply the district with pure water , so soft , that as compared with that of London , it is estimated to require ...
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... mill- stone grit , which passes into upper limestone shale about Clitheroe . Of these formations , those in the north and east of the county - the limestones and millstones - are the oldest ; that is to say , in the original ...
... mill- stone grit , which passes into upper limestone shale about Clitheroe . Of these formations , those in the north and east of the county - the limestones and millstones - are the oldest ; that is to say , in the original ...
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... mills of Manchester . What encouragement there is for commercial ambition in the fact that cotton , which has received within our own time at least kingly attributes , was then chiefly imported for the manufacture of candle wicks ...
... mills of Manchester . What encouragement there is for commercial ambition in the fact that cotton , which has received within our own time at least kingly attributes , was then chiefly imported for the manufacture of candle wicks ...
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... mill and on every exchange throughout the dis- trict , is simply an Anglicism of the Indian word for cotton . Far to the south of Bombay , near the western coast of India , lies the town of Calicut , to which belongs the honour of ...
... mill and on every exchange throughout the dis- trict , is simply an Anglicism of the Indian word for cotton . Far to the south of Bombay , near the western coast of India , lies the town of Calicut , to which belongs the honour of ...
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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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