Over-sea Britain: A Descriptive Record of the Geography, the Historical, Ethnological, and Political Development, and the Economic Resources of the EmpireJ. Murray, 1907 - 324 pages |
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Page 276 - ... the Islands of the Bermudas, as every man knoweth that hath heard or read of them, were never inhabited by any Christian or heathen people, but ever esteemed and reputed a most prodigious and enchanted place, affording nothing but gusts, storms, and foul weather...
Page 33 - England, it was not until the latter half of the nineteenth century that the double standard was abolished.
Page 69 - This cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 18 of June.
Page 120 - The new provincial governments are to be of a composite character, and to contain both an official and a non-official, or popular element. On the official side they will be modelled on the existing governments of the Presidencies, which have " council governments ". Under this system the government is carried on by a governor assisted by an executive council, and official acts are performed in the name of the " Governor-in-Council ". On the popular side the new governments will consist of the governor...
Page 136 - Door, typical of the style in vogue in the latter part of the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth centuries.
Page 115 - After the war of the Spanish Succession, the Treaty of Utrecht, in 1713, transferred the asiento to a British company.
Page 103 - ... passes by it. The origin of the falls was ascribed by Livingstone to a volcanic rift, and this view has been universally accepted. But another view has been recently mooted regarding their physical history which ascribes the origin of the chasm and canyon to erosive action." The Victoria Falls are about twice as broad and two and a half times as high as Niagara. They are over a mile wide and about 400 feet high— higher than the top of St. Paul's Cathedral. The Zambezi at about half a mile above...
Page 179 - Gambia was administered by a governor assisted by an Executive Council and a Legislative Council.
Page 122 - Protectorate has an area of about 30,000 square miles, and a population of about 1,000,000.
Page 201 - The war did much to solidify the various racial elements of British North America during its formative stage. Frenchmen, Englishmen, Scotsmen from the Lowlands and Highlands, Irishmen and Americans, united to support the British connection. The character of the people, especially in Upper Canada, was strengthened from a national point of view by the severe strain to which it was subjected.