This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 Excerpt: ...of domestic convulsions, the soil, it is difficult to suppress a homage of as well as of foreign warfare, and perhaps, respect for the talents and prescience of the 3 negotiators on the one side, in obtaining the near the shores, myriads are visible, and the recognition of such a right or liberty, or of strand is at ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 Excerpt: ...of domestic convulsions, the soil, it is difficult to suppress a homage of as well as of foreign warfare, and perhaps, respect for the talents and prescience of the 3 negotiators on the one side, in obtaining the near the shores, myriads are visible, and the recognition of such a right or liberty, or of strand is at times almost literally paved with surprise at the heedlessness or obtuseness of them. those on the other in acceding to it except All this was gradually making itself under the pressure of some necessity. known to the enterprise and vigilence of the This liberty is, in fact, looking to it in its New-England fishermen; and for a few na, ked state, and such in time of general seasons prior to the year 1808, the resort peace it would shortly have proved itself to to this employment had become an object be, granting to a young and increasing, a of attsntion from the Thames, at New-Lonpowerful and rival nation, the ability to don, to the Schoodic; and boats and vessels moor within a cable's length of the shore, a of a small as well as of a large size, were cordon of foreign vessels around the sea-flocking to it from all the intermediate ports board of the British provinces, of engrossing of the United States. In the fishing season, the better part of nllthe wealth they possessed, at the best places for catching the cod, the and setting at defiance the revenue laws, both New-England fishermen, lam told, on a of the mother country and the colonies. For Sunday, swarmed like flies upon the shores; that vastly the larger part of the fisheries, and that, in some of these years, it probably as well as the more valuable of the supplies would not be an oyer estimate, to rate the of these provinces, would have found their vessels employed in this fisliery, -belon...
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Add this copy of Letter to John P. Van Ness, Esq....... to cart. $34.69, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Nabu Press.
