Knowledge is PowerBell and Daldy, 1866 - 426 pages |
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... their entire numbers did not equal the population of a mode- rately sized English county . It may be fairly said that each carry . Indian required a thousand acres for his maintenance 20 CHAP . III . American Indians .
... their entire numbers did not equal the population of a mode- rately sized English county . It may be fairly said that each carry . Indian required a thousand acres for his maintenance 20 CHAP . III . American Indians .
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Charles Knight. carry . Indian required a thousand acres for his maintenance . The supplies of food were so scanty - a scantiness which would at once have ceased to exist had there been any cultivation —that if a large number of these ...
Charles Knight. carry . Indian required a thousand acres for his maintenance . The supplies of food were so scanty - a scantiness which would at once have ceased to exist had there been any cultivation —that if a large number of these ...
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... thousand mink and marten- skins will no longer be sent from those shores to London in one year ; but Liverpool may send to those shores woven cottons and worsteds , pottery and tools , in exchange for products whose cultivation will ...
... thousand mink and marten- skins will no longer be sent from those shores to London in one year ; but Liverpool may send to those shores woven cottons and worsteds , pottery and tools , in exchange for products whose cultivation will ...
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... thousands who exist upon the precarious supplies of the unappropriated productions of nature in the savage life . Although an exchange must always be made - although in very few cases " the fowl and the brute " offer themselves to the ...
... thousands who exist upon the precarious supplies of the unappropriated productions of nature in the savage life . Although an exchange must always be made - although in very few cases " the fowl and the brute " offer themselves to the ...
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... thousand pounds . The large capital thus deposited in both species of savings banks , and which goes on fructifying as it has fructified in producing many millions of interest , was an accumulation , penny by penny , shilling by ...
... thousand pounds . The large capital thus deposited in both species of savings banks , and which goes on fructifying as it has fructified in producing many millions of interest , was an accumulation , penny by penny , shilling by ...
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