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MISCELLANEOUS

... vessels, and a ship canal carried from the lake to the Pacific Ocean (acdietanco of bi leagues,) so as to connect it with the Caribbean Sea. The canal, for a corr tati distance, should be counducted by a tunnel, through a hill elevated 487 English feet above ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1840
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 825 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ENGLAND AND AMERICA

... question, and expressed our firm conviction that no absurd misunder- standing about a [few mud banks and rocky islets in the Caribbean Sea, and on the desert shores of the Mosquito territory, would be admitted as sufficient reason for war between England and ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1858
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1107 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FACE TO FACE

... the following winter. In the spring I visited Havana and afterwards cruised about for a few weeks among the islands of tbe Caribbean Sea. I met with few adventures worth recounting. I returned to New Orleans and thence started homeward. I discovered that ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1887
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1092 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ABROGATION OF THE CLAYTON-BULWER TREATY

... and longitude 83° 5' and 80' 15' W. It is bounded on the west by the States of Nicar- agua ; on the north and east by the Caribbean Sea (the Bays of Honduras and Mosquito ; and on the south by the river San Juan. A glance at the map will at once inform ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1858
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1747 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

STRAY NOTES

... effigy, whether backed out rudely in wood, or chiselled divinely rn marble, or moulded massively in bronze-whether grim as a Caribbean idol or transcendaut as the Zeus of Phidias. The ancients sculptured their gods; we turn into metal and marble our memories ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1868
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2414 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EVERY-DAY GOSSIP ABOUT ANYTHING AND ANYBODY ANYWHERE

... for mobbery and ruffianism. Win- dow smashing, thieving, incendiarism, and wanton out- rage may do in the islands of the Caribbean Sea, but we| can't put up with such things in Lancashire; and the, mildest of plug-drawers would now be trounced if he l ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2482 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

TABLE TALK

... Coleridge's six month's in tho West Indies, is an amusing story connected with the first appearance of a steam-boat il the Caribbean waters. Mr. 11. Woodward was taking a cruise round Trinidad, of which he was governor, when a little schooner privateer belonging ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1846
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2770 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

STRAY NOTES

... table lands of the Mexican ksth. mus, the Andes, and the countries bordering on them, and those which are adjaceiit to the Caribbean Sea. A severe shock was experienced in this district in 1858 and 1864, and only a few months ago, it will be remcewbered ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1868
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3135 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL VOTES

... threw banjos and other things ur into the body of the hall. If this sort of thin' ill had occurred in Madagascar or the Caribbean of Isles, how we should have elevated our eyebrows n- at the wickedness of the savages ~May-be, there is some particular ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1877
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3545 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... system'for a few generations, andeI have not the least hesitation in asying, that the native Ameticans, ay, or even the Caribbeans, would be disgraced by a comparison with the worlkingelasses in cotton mills in this cofintry. For the degeneration produced ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1836
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5236 | Page: 2 | Tags: News