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FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

... Eagle was on the Demerara route. A gale from the S.W., accompanied with thunder, lightning, and heavy rain, passed over the Caribbean Sea on the 12th and 13th July. Its force appears to have been chiefly spent on the northern islands, particularly Dominica ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1850
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2940 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FACTS AND FANCIES

... the golden streams of the Appalachian mountains, from the bowels of the Cordilleras, across the Isthmos of Darien and the Caribbean sea. In the far east—from the Yellow Sea and the sacred Ganges, along the coast of farthest Ind,” the land of pearl and gold ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1851
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2076 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Lrrerary introd lecture to the forthcoming session will be delivered by Dr. Cowan, on Tuesday next, the subject ..

... of the globe, t their labours are y concentrated, on Negro and Hindoo races the human famil Among in the islands of the Caribbean seas, in the Trinidad, Haiti, and Jamaica, on the continent of India ia; on the Western coast of Africa, in Canada and in ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1851
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1433 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

UNITED STATES

... been received at Baltimore stating that the Dominican government bad taken forcible possession of the guano islands in the Caribbean Sea belonging to America. ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1861
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 533 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Literature, Science, and Art

... Indian Ocean, the spotted corals are plainly visible under twentyfive fathoms of water. The crystalline clearness of the Caribbean sea excited the admiration of Columbus, who, in the pursuit of discoveries, ever retained an open eye for the beauties of ...

Published: Saturday 22 March 1862
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5364 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The Prince of Wales lias become Commodore of the Canoe first steamer built in Japan was completed Tatapaini in ..

... in the rough a price equal to about twenty times its weight in gold. It appears from the West Indian papers received the Caribbean, which arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, that on the 27th ult. public proclamation was made banishing Geffrard, the late ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1867
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7259 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HAYTI

... HAYTI. Liverpool, April 17.-The West India and Pacific steamer Caribbean arrived in the Mersey last night, with five days later news from Hayti. On the 27th ult. a public proclamation was made banishing the late President Geffrard and his family from ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1867
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BELGIUM

... pay visit to Passenhofen, the summer residence of the Bavarian Court, on the 17th instant. HAYTI. Liverpool, Aug. 12.—The Caribbean, from the West Indies, arrived here to-day. Her dates from Port-au- Prince are to the 24th of July, at which period the firing ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1868
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 762 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FIRE DEPARTMENT

... is formed for the purpose of cohstructing a line of railway, about 62 miles in length, Jrom the port of Tncacas. in the Caribbean Sea. to the celebrated copper mines of Aroa, reputed to be the eitensiTe and the richest in the world. The mineral wealth ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1873
Newspaper: Berkshire Chronicle
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1657 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POPULAR SCIENCE LECTURES AT READING

... Stream, without which we should have a very much colder temperature. The Gulf Stream, which brings equatorial water from the Caribbean Sea through the Florida Channel, dies out entirely, he was convinced, in mid-Atlantic, and had not force enough to reach ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1883
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3424 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CONDENSED INTELLIGENCE

... rescued ; but Mr. Lockhead was drowned. A disastrous hurricane visited the islands of Old Providence and St. Andrew's, in the Caribbean Sea, on October 9th. Houses were blown down, and 100,000 persons were rendered homeless, but no lives were lost. Intelligence ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1892
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1792 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CONDENSED INTELLIGENCE

... The famous American warship Kearsage, which 1864 sank the Confederate cruiser Alabama off Cherbourg, has been wrecked the Caribbean Sea. The officers and crew were saved. Some hundreds of tons of chalk fell from the cliffs between Dover and South Foreland ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1894
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1817 | Page: 8 | Tags: none