A handbook to the industries of the British Isles and the United StatesD. Rogue, 1882 - 220 pages |
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George Phillips Bevan. Butler & Tanner , The Selwood Printing Works , Frome , and London . PREFACE . A STRONG feeling has been growing up of.
George Phillips Bevan. Butler & Tanner , The Selwood Printing Works , Frome , and London . PREFACE . A STRONG feeling has been growing up of.
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George Phillips Bevan. PREFACE . A STRONG feeling has been growing up of late as to the advisability of cultivating some acquaintance with the industrial condition of the countries of the world , a knowledge of which is clearly of very ...
George Phillips Bevan. PREFACE . A STRONG feeling has been growing up of late as to the advisability of cultivating some acquaintance with the industrial condition of the countries of the world , a knowledge of which is clearly of very ...
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... grow cotton in this country , and are , therefore , obliged to buy it from other parts of the world , which we do in enormous quantities , spending from fifty to sixty million of pounds sterling every year on raw cotton . Our chief ...
... grow cotton in this country , and are , therefore , obliged to buy it from other parts of the world , which we do in enormous quantities , spending from fifty to sixty million of pounds sterling every year on raw cotton . Our chief ...
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... grow our own cotton , we can grow our own wool , although so vast a quantity is used , and so many different kinds , that we have not sufficient sheep to supply us ; we are therefore obliged to import large quantities , principally from ...
... grow our own cotton , we can grow our own wool , although so vast a quantity is used , and so many different kinds , that we have not sufficient sheep to supply us ; we are therefore obliged to import large quantities , principally from ...
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... grown in England , though there is a small district near Patring- ton , in the East Riding of Yorkshire , where it is cultivated ; but it is the staple crop in Ulster , and the farmers of the North of Ireland would come off badly , if ...
... grown in England , though there is a small district near Patring- ton , in the East Riding of Yorkshire , where it is cultivated ; but it is the staple crop in Ulster , and the farmers of the North of Ireland would come off badly , if ...
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acres agricultural machinery America Average of farms basin Birmingham boot and shoe Britain British carried centre chief cloth coal and iron coast collieries copper Cornwall cotton spinning cotton trade Crown 8vo DAVID BOGUE Demy 8vo districts England enormous exports extent Fcap fisheries fishing flax flour mills Forest of Dean glass gold granite growing hematite hosiery Illustrated important industry Ireland iron foundries iron trade jute Lake Lancashire lead Lincolnshire linen Liverpool London lumber trade machine shops maize manufacture Martin's Place million Mississippi Missouri Mountains mouth neighbourhood North oats Ohio Pennsylvania pottery principal produce quantities quarrying railway River salt saw mills Scotland Second Edition ship building shipping port shire shoe trade silk silver smelting South Wales square miles Staffordshire steamers steel Stoke-upon-Trent sugar textiles tobacco tons towns traffic Valley vast Vols weaving West wheat Woodcuts wool woollen factories woollen mills woollen trade Worcestershire yield York Yorkshire zinc
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