The Quarterly Review, Volume 10William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1814 |
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... , a few more loads of oak timber , than they had usually done - perhaps a single year's consumption ! " A 3 Though Though such statements , unsupported by evidence , and in 1813. Papers - On India - built Ships and Naval Timber . 5.
... , a few more loads of oak timber , than they had usually done - perhaps a single year's consumption ! " A 3 Though Though such statements , unsupported by evidence , and in 1813. Papers - On India - built Ships and Naval Timber . 5.
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... perhaps not less so for commercial and internal uses . In 1792 the amount of the private shipping was about 1,300,000 tons ; in 1812 it had amounted to 2,500,000 tons , being in twenty years an increase of 1,200,000 tons . The commis ...
... perhaps not less so for commercial and internal uses . In 1792 the amount of the private shipping was about 1,300,000 tons ; in 1812 it had amounted to 2,500,000 tons , being in twenty years an increase of 1,200,000 tons . The commis ...
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... perhaps the estates of some half a dozen great landholders , such as the Dukes of Devonshire , Norfolk , Portland , Newcastle , & c . it may be doubted whether any thing like a regular plantation of oak timber has taken place for the ...
... perhaps the estates of some half a dozen great landholders , such as the Dukes of Devonshire , Norfolk , Portland , Newcastle , & c . it may be doubted whether any thing like a regular plantation of oak timber has taken place for the ...
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... perhaps , that the Eleventh Report of the Com- missioners of Land Revenues , printed by order of the House of Commons in 1792 , was made sufficiently public , and yet no such beneficial effects resulted from it . Let it however be ...
... perhaps , that the Eleventh Report of the Com- missioners of Land Revenues , printed by order of the House of Commons in 1792 , was made sufficiently public , and yet no such beneficial effects resulted from it . Let it however be ...
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... perhaps one- sixth or one - eighth , has been imported from foreign countries . The largest importation , however , in any one year has not , we be- lieve , exceeded 20,000 loads ; but the quantity of fir timber imported has been from ...
... perhaps one- sixth or one - eighth , has been imported from foreign countries . The largest importation , however , in any one year has not , we be- lieve , exceeded 20,000 loads ; but the quantity of fir timber imported has been from ...
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