British Guiana: The Land of Six PeoplesH.M. Stationery Office, 1957 - Broj stranica: 235 |
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... miles down the coast to Rosignol , on the Berbice river , diagonally opposite the second — and only other — town of the Colony , New Amsterdam . The history of the British Guiana Railway is , like the history of most activities in the ...
... miles down the coast to Rosignol , on the Berbice river , diagonally opposite the second — and only other — town of the Colony , New Amsterdam . The history of the British Guiana Railway is , like the history of most activities in the ...
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... miles cost £ 127,000 , at which point the contract of the engineer in charge of the project was terminated ' for reasons of economy ' . This engineer was no ordinary man ; his name was Frederick Catherwood . I first read of Catherwood ...
... miles cost £ 127,000 , at which point the contract of the engineer in charge of the project was terminated ' for reasons of economy ' . This engineer was no ordinary man ; his name was Frederick Catherwood . I first read of Catherwood ...
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... miles , where the flooding of the river forced him to turn back . He found samples of ore and became convinced of the mineral richness of the land . Had he stayed longer and been prepared to face hunger and adversity he would have been ...
... miles , where the flooding of the river forced him to turn back . He found samples of ore and became convinced of the mineral richness of the land . Had he stayed longer and been prepared to face hunger and adversity he would have been ...
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... miles downstream a few years before , and now the fort and surrounding Spanish territory barred the way to the mine . Sir Thomas Roe knew that San Thomé had been removed and had reported the matter to Lord Cecil in 1611 , so that it is ...
... miles downstream a few years before , and now the fort and surrounding Spanish territory barred the way to the mine . Sir Thomas Roe knew that San Thomé had been removed and had reported the matter to Lord Cecil in 1611 , so that it is ...
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... miles to the west , where they founded the town of Nieuw Middleburg , which by 1662 was a flourishing settlement trading in sugar . Its prosperity was short - lived ; a force sent from Barbados by Lord Willoughby wiped out the town and ...
... miles to the west , where they founded the town of Nieuw Middleburg , which by 1662 was a flourishing settlement trading in sugar . Its prosperity was short - lived ; a force sent from Barbados by Lord Willoughby wiped out the town and ...
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