Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign CountriesUnited States. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics, United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce(1854-1903) U.S. Government Printing Office, 1869 |
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Report Upon the Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries United States Department of State Visualizzazione completa - 1886 |
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American amount Amoy average bags bales Ballast barrels bbls bushels cargo carpets casks cloth coal coffee colonies commerce considerable Consul consular cotton crop December 31 demand description and value district Dundee duty employed ended December 31 ended June 30 ended March 31 ended September 30 ended this day engines exports extent factory favor feet flax florins flour foreign France fustic Galashiels gallons gold Hamburg Hawick hides hundred imports increase iron June 30 jute kilograms linen machine machinery manufacture March 31 merchants Messrs mills months picul piece port Porto Rico produce Prussia Prussian quantity quarter ended December quarter ended June quarter ended March quarter ended September quintal railway rubles Scotland shillings ships showing the description silk Spanish spinning Statement showing steamers sugar thalers thousand tobacco tonnage tons Total for quarter trade tweed United vessels wine wool woolen yards yarn Zollverein
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Pagina 146 - Such a new power of locomotion cannot be introduced without working a vast change in the state of society. With so great a facility and celerity of communication, the provincial towns of an empire would become so many suburbs of the metropolis — or rather the effect would be similar to that of collecting the whole inhabitants into one city. Commodities, inventions, discoveries, opinions, would circulate with a rapidity hitherto unknown, and, above all, the intercourse of man with man, nation with...
Pagina 146 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense.
Pagina 616 - Emperor further engages, that when British Merchandise shall have once paid at any of the said Ports the regulated Customs and Dues agreeable to the Tariff, to be hereafter fixed, such Merchandise may be conveyed by Chinese Merchants, to any Province or City in the interior of the Empire of China on paying a further amount as Transit Duties which shall not exceed per cent, on the tariff value of such goods.
Pagina 105 - Whereas," says the preamble of the older act— that of 1775— "by the statute law of Scotland, as explained by the judges of the courts of law there, many colliers, and coal-bearers, and salters, are in a state of slavery or bondage, bound to the collieries or salt-works where they work for life, transferable with the collieries and salt-works ; and whereas the emancipating,
Pagina 135 - As to the project, however, which was announced in the.- newspapers of making the voyage directly from New York to Liverpool, it was, he had no hesitation in saying, perfectly chimerical, and they might as well talk of making a voyage from New York or Liverpool to the moon.
Pagina 311 - I stood, as it were, transfixed, riveted to the place, struck with amazement and wonder at the sight, and for a few minutes was unable to use the hammer. Thousands of persons might here find ample room to work on this extensive field without interfering with one another.
Pagina 187 - ... them beggars. Had Mr. Lee made a machine that would have made silk stockings, I should, I think, have been somewhat justified in granting him a patent for that monopoly, which would have affected only a small number of my subjects, but to enjoy the exclusive privilege of making stockings for the whole of my subjects is too important to be granted to any individual.
Pagina 183 - One of the company observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands never could be found to weave it.
Pagina 132 - The use of this vessel was abandoned, not from any fault in her construction or working, but because the Directors of the Forth and Clyde Canal feared that she would damage its banks. Yet the man in all Britain who possessed at that time the greatest practical experience of the working of canals (the Duke of Bridgewater), was not deterred by any such apprehension from ordering, in 1802, eight similar vessels from Symington to be used on his canal.