The Quarterly Review, Volume 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1815 |
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Page 146
... Island of St. Helena ; writ- ten during a Residence of five Years . By Major - General Alex- ander Beatson , late Governor , & c . 4to . London . 1816. pp . 330 . THE island of St. Helena had long been considered as a na- tural ...
... Island of St. Helena ; writ- ten during a Residence of five Years . By Major - General Alex- ander Beatson , late Governor , & c . 4to . London . 1816. pp . 330 . THE island of St. Helena had long been considered as a na- tural ...
Page 147
... island is capable of great im- provement , and , if wisely improved , of affording a rich and inex- haustible depôt of fresh provisions and vegetables to the trade of the southern and eastern world . Hitherto its supplies have been ...
... island is capable of great im- provement , and , if wisely improved , of affording a rich and inex- haustible depôt of fresh provisions and vegetables to the trade of the southern and eastern world . Hitherto its supplies have been ...
Page 148
... island was discovered , General Beatson has the honour of being its Triptolemus , and of first introducing the plough ; and that , of two thousand acres fit for the purpose in the island , only eighty - eight are under cultivation . - p ...
... island was discovered , General Beatson has the honour of being its Triptolemus , and of first introducing the plough ; and that , of two thousand acres fit for the purpose in the island , only eighty - eight are under cultivation . - p ...
Contents
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
The Character of Moses established for Veracity as a Historian | 96 |
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