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THE BRITISH CAPTURE OF MANILA IN 1762

... many advantages which an earlier decision for war would have brought. Nevertheless, success attended British arms both the Caribbean Sea and in the Philippines. The British Squadron which was ordered to seize the capital of tho Philippines numbered thirteen ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1898
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1315 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Literature, Science, & Art

... 20 degrees warmer. This is caused by the warm surface watar being incessantly blown before both the trade winds into the Caribbean Sea, and from thorc circling round as the well-known Gulf Stream—the cold water from the South Pole coming north and taking ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 1873
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1295 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE CRUISE OF A BOTTLE

... influences which bore the Dunmore's waif, and hence the former, traversing the equatorial current and passing through the Caribbean Sea into the Gulf of Mexico, making a total circuit of 5500 miles, travelled at about the sime mean rate—eight miles a day ...

Published: Thursday 24 June 1880
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1393 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ALARMING FENIAN PREPARATIONS AMERICA. New York, April 18. Afternoon.— The Fenian* continue gather. They are ..

... Although many vessels were lying in close proximity to the European the time of the disaster, none of them, excepting the Caribbean, the same line, sustained any serious damage. The most awful part of the catastrophe was the dreadful loss of life and suffering ...

Published: Tuesday 01 May 1866
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1396 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Valfitilti

... the South Atlastki Jersey. Owe has lea found after 16 years, after 14, and a third after 10 years. One was Shrews iota the Caribbean Sea, and after ire days was pitied up 210 miles distant. A bottle was throws is at Mitiring's Strait., and 200 days afterwards ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1865
Newspaper: Alloa Journal
County: Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1489 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCIENTIFIC NOTES

... locality immediately the north of the island of Porto Kico,where*27.366ft. has been me?sured, and another of 23,248 ft. In the Caribbean Sea, lso, off the western extremity Jamaica, the lead has gone down 20, 240 ft. reacli the bottom. From these particular ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1895
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1612 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

... Stafford. Islands. —An official notice from the Veoeanelan Consul announces that the guano islands of that republic in the Caribbean Sea are transferred an American association, called the Philadelphia Guano Company, and warns all vessels from going there ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1856
Newspaper: Alloa Advertiser
County: Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1627 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DISPUTE IN THE LANCASHIRE COTTON TRADE. OYER 50,000 OPERATIVES IDLE. One of the greatest strikes of recent ..

... Homeless —Hews has reached Baltimore that disastrous hurricane visited the islands cf Old Providence and St Andrew’s, in the Caribbean Sea, on October 9. Houses were blown down, nod whole cocoa-nut plantations devastated. One hundred thousand persona were ...

Published: Wednesday 09 November 1892
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1714 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SCIENTIFIC NOTES

... locality immediately the north of the island Porto Idro,where 27.366 ft. has been measured, ?nd another of 23,248 ft. In the Caribbean Sea, lso, off tho western extremity of Jamaica, lead has gone down 20, 240 ft. to reach tho bottom. From these particular ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1895
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1589 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PRESIDENT LINCOLN ON THE NEGRO QUESTION

... with your native land, particuT su^tea physical condition. The from th* iave view to ° reat highway () coaQ . c tlautic or Caribbean Sea to the Pacific for a col* P ai ticular place has all the advantages the fir t°- sides there are harbours, among ...

Published: Thursday 04 September 1862
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1715 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SALE OF

... days’ sail” from the present scene of hostilities. The particular place in view was to great highway from the Atlantic or Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean ; and h/»d all the advantages for a colony. ...

Published: Thursday 04 September 1862
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1677 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE REV. H. GRATTAN GUINNESS

... about the one thing needful. He left this land, and wandered over the shores of Mexico, the West Indies, Texas, through the Caribbean Seas, &c., and having been absent for some time, he at length returned home. During the voyage, the ship was nearly being ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1857
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2098 | Page: 3 | Tags: none