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... contain anything like one - hundredth part of that quantity , or is worth the expenses of surveying it . Perhaps you may think with me , that it will be proper to make this representation to the President of the United States , and he ...
... contain anything like one - hundredth part of that quantity , or is worth the expenses of surveying it . Perhaps you may think with me , that it will be proper to make this representation to the President of the United States , and he ...
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... contain so many swamps and lakes , but the extreme sterility and barrenness of the soil continues the same . Taking the country altogether so far as has been explored , and to all appearances , together with the information received ...
... contain so many swamps and lakes , but the extreme sterility and barrenness of the soil continues the same . Taking the country altogether so far as has been explored , and to all appearances , together with the information received ...
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... contains the precise elements most essential to the nutriment of the growing grain . It is not strange , therefore , that this infant State should present to her older sisters her agricultural phase ; but none of the north- western ...
... contains the precise elements most essential to the nutriment of the growing grain . It is not strange , therefore , that this infant State should present to her older sisters her agricultural phase ; but none of the north- western ...
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... contain a population of six and a half million souls . This calculation is followed out to exhibit in prospect the probable destiny of one small fraction of our boundless em- pire . The imagination reels to contemplate the mighty fabric ...
... contain a population of six and a half million souls . This calculation is followed out to exhibit in prospect the probable destiny of one small fraction of our boundless em- pire . The imagination reels to contemplate the mighty fabric ...
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... contain pat- terns of muslins . Here is one open to us . It contains three or four hundred pa- ges ; on each page is ... contains 3,500 patterns . A buyer of muslin coming to the house would be asked to step into the whinsey on the first ...
... contain pat- terns of muslins . Here is one open to us . It contains three or four hundred pa- ges ; on each page is ... contains 3,500 patterns . A buyer of muslin coming to the house would be asked to step into the whinsey on the first ...
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Page 364 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Page 410 - States, than are or shall be payable on the like articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country...
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Page 207 - It shall likewise be lawful for the subjects and inhabitants aforesaid, to sail with the ships and merchandises aforementioned, and to trade with the same liberty and security from the places, ports, and havens...
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Page 205 - The two high contracting parties, being likewise desirous of placing the commerce and navigation of their respective countries on the liberal basis of perfect equality and reciprocity, mutually agree that the citizens of each may frequent all the coasts and countries of the other, and reside and trade there...
Page 205 - Granada in its own vessels, may be also imported in vessels of the United States; and that no higher or other duties upon the tonnage of the vessel and her cargo shall be levied or collected, whether the importation be made in vessels of the one country or of the other.
Page 208 - The articles of contraband, before enumerated and classified, which may be found in a vessel bound for an enemy's port, shall be subject to detention and confiscation, leaving free the rest of the cargo and the ship, that the owners may dispose of them as they see proper. No vessel of either of the two nations shall be detained on the high seas on account of having on board articles of contraband, whenever the master, captain or supercargo of said vessel, will deliver up the articles of contraband,...
Page 211 - The present treaty of peace, amity, commerce, and navigation shall be approved and ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof...
Page 209 - Granada, shall be respected and maintained in the full enjoyment of their personal liberty and property, unless their particular conduct shall cause them to forfeit this protection, which, in consideration of humanity, the contracting parties engage to give them.