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Canals were cut across its east bank , the lozenge - shaped islands dotting its breadth of fourteen miles were green with rice , and huts spread along the banks . The jungle fringes on the east side soon gave on to what appeared to be ...
Canals were cut across its east bank , the lozenge - shaped islands dotting its breadth of fourteen miles were green with rice , and huts spread along the banks . The jungle fringes on the east side soon gave on to what appeared to be ...
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Then , as now , the land was over four feet below sea - level at high tide , and the canals were essential for drainage and water control . Four years after the town was planned it was still no more than two rows of houses , each a mile ...
Then , as now , the land was over four feet below sea - level at high tide , and the canals were essential for drainage and water control . Four years after the town was planned it was still no more than two rows of houses , each a mile ...
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The necessity there for drainage and irrigation canals may perhaps have appealed to the sentiment of the Dutch , who could turn the wastes of the estuary into a landscape reminiscent of their home - country . The migration had a great ...
The necessity there for drainage and irrigation canals may perhaps have appealed to the sentiment of the Dutch , who could turn the wastes of the estuary into a landscape reminiscent of their home - country . The migration had a great ...
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Trade and population increased , Stabroek was improved , libraries were opened , roads and bridges and canals built , while the coastal reclamation begun by the Dutch was continued .
Trade and population increased , Stabroek was improved , libraries were opened , roads and bridges and canals built , while the coastal reclamation begun by the Dutch was continued .
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Narrow drainage canals run along each side of the road and constantly one sees Indian women and their children fishing with seine - nets or picking the muddy bottom of the canals for the shrimps which are a delicacy of the daily curry .
Narrow drainage canals run along each side of the road and constantly one sees Indian women and their children fishing with seine - nets or picking the muddy bottom of the canals for the shrimps which are a delicacy of the daily curry .
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African agricultural allowed Amerindians appear become believe Berbice British Guiana brought building built called canals cause cent coast Colony coloured Commission Company Constitution Demerara difficult District drainage Dutch East Indian economic elected English Essequibo estates fact factory fall Federation fields forest Georgetown give given Government Governor ground Guianese hand important increase Indian industry interests Interior labour land leaves less live look Mackenzie manager matter means ment miles move Negro never officer once Party plantations political population possible prepared problems produced Report result rice river road Rupununi schemes schools seems slaves Street sugar survey taken tion told town trees turned various village West workers
Bibliografski podaci
| Naslov | British Guiana: The Land of Six Peoples Opseg 4 iz Corona library |
| Autor | Michael Swan |
| Izdanje | 2, ilustrirano |
| Izdavač | H.M. Stationery Office, 1957 |
| Izvornik iz | Kalifornijsko sveučilište |
| Digitalizirano | 10 pro 2019 |
| Duljina | Broj stranica: 235 |
| Izvezi navode | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |