British Guiana: The Land of Six PeoplesH.M. Stationery Office, 1957 - Broj stranica: 235 |
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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 ...
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... 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 75
... canals . All the larger plan- tations have some 250 miles of irrigation and transport canals and about eighty miles of drainage trenches - so that a large percentage of estate land cannot be used agriculturally . The cost of maintaining ...
... canals . All the larger plan- tations have some 250 miles of irrigation and transport canals and about eighty miles of drainage trenches - so that a large percentage of estate land cannot be used agriculturally . The cost of maintaining ...
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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 difficulties District Dutch East Indians economic elected English Essequibo estates fact factory fall Federation feet fields forest Georgetown give given Government Governor Guianese hand important increase Indian industry interests Interior labour land leaves less live look manager matter means ment miles move natural Negroes never officer once Party plantations political population possible prepared problems produced Report result rice river road Rupununi schemes schools seems slaves sugar survey taken tion told town trees turned various village West whole workers