British Guiana: The Land of Six PeoplesH.M. Stationery Office, 1957 - Broj stranica: 235 |
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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 ...
Stranica 14
... canals in the manner of their home - country . 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 ...
... canals in the manner of their home - country . 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 ...
Stranica 34
... 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 effect on the economic formation of the Colony ...
... 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 effect on the economic formation of the Colony ...
Stranica 40
... canals built , while the coastal reclama- tion begun by the Dutch was continued . Where the Dutch had plodded along the British drove hard . But , it seemed , no stability could be allowed to Guiana . At the Peace of Amiens in 1802 she ...
... canals built , while the coastal reclama- tion begun by the Dutch was continued . Where the Dutch had plodded along the British drove hard . But , it seemed , no stability could be allowed to Guiana . At the Peace of Amiens in 1802 she ...
Stranica 61
... 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 . Sometimes two ...
... 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 . Sometimes two ...
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