On the Atlantic seaboard Spanish outposts were advanced from the West Indies into what are now Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and, momentarily, into Virginia.
In contrast with the French traders and with the English of the Atlantic seaboard colonies, the Hudson's Bay Company did not penetrate the interior, but depended upon the natives to bring their peltry to the posts on the Bay.
Although the New York delegates had not voted for the Declaration, on July 9 the New York provincial congress approved it, completing the long chain of states which stretched along the Atlantic seaboard from Nova Scotia to East Florida.
The Algonquin tribes north of the Ohio had been friendly with the French, and after the French and Indian War they favored the French traders rather than those from the seaboard colonies.
The attachment of the Ohio country to Quebec, however, checked the natural spread of settlement from the seaboard colonies, and the act, on the other hand, prevented the assimilation of the French people by the English in Canada.
Trade in Pawnee and Spanish horses extended to the English seaboard colonies, Governor Patrick Henry being among the purchasers of thoroughbred Spanish stock.
The fur business in the Atlantic seaboard colonies had steadily declined, and the government wished to build it up.
The American Revolution destroyed the western fur trade of the seaboard colonies and threw the commerce of the entire Northwest into the hands of the Quebec and Montreal traders.
All down the ages the dwellers along Italy's eastern seaboard have been terrorized by naval raids from across the Adriatic.
The feeling of loyalty was less shaken there than in the more northern provinces, and it seemed desirable that the efforts of England should not be confined to one little spot along the whole of the enormousseaboard of America.
But we may be sure that Champlain at the time he left Port Royal had made up his mind that the Spaniards, the English, and the Dutch were not to parcel out the seaboard of North America to the exclusion of the French.
The topography of the seaboard and its natural history, the habits of the Indians and his adventures with them, were all new subjects at the time, and he treats them so that they keep their freshness.
Most of the members resided in Paris, though the seaboard and the eastern provinces were also represented.
The fate of Acadia shows how much less vulnerable to English attack were Quebec, Three Rivers, and Montreal than the seaboard settlements of Port Royal, Grand Pré, and Louisbourg.
A very slight degree of elevation above the seaboard plains produces a remarkable difference in the climate, not so much in its mere temperature as in its influence on health.
Almost every available acre was brought under cotton culture as the small farmers were driven steadily from the seaboard into the uplands or to the Northwest.
He also had before him the history of the English colonies, which told him of the two centuries required to settle the seaboard region.
Moreover it helped to expand far into the Mississippi Valley the industrial area once confined to the Northern seaboard states and to transform the region of the Great Lakes into an industrial empire.
In the meantime, the cotton states on the seaboard had forgotten about the havoc wrought during the Napoleonic wars when their produce rotted because there were no ships to carry it to Europe.
The merchants of the seaboard cities took the lead in making a dignified but unmistakable protest, agreeing not to import British goods while the hated law stood upon the books.
Like the seaboard colonists before them, they too cherished the spirit of independence and power.
The seaboard was quickly occupied by large planters and their slaves engaged in the cultivation of tobacco and rice.
It was they who gave the East no rest until their vision was seen by the leaders on the seaboard who directed the course of national policy.
This unusual transaction, so favorable to the West, aroused the ire of the seaboard Federalists.
Coming late upon the scene, they found much of the land immediately upon the seaboard already taken up.
His community was therefore more self-sufficient than the seaboard line of great plantations.
The English law did not actually recognize their right to live in any of the dominions, but owing to the easy-going habits of the Americans they were allowed to filter into the seaboard towns.
As George Rogers Clark and Daniel Boone had stirred the snug Americans of the seaboard to seek their fortunes beyond the Appalachians, so now Kit Carson, James Bowie, Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, and John C.
Unable to export their cotton, planters on the seaboard burned it in what were called "fires of patriotism.
Nor on the seaboard does a single habitation denote the presence of man, for we are passing one of those stretches of desert of which this coast is largely composed.
Some of these are sources, others the actual constituents, of sea power; which indeed may be said in a seaboard nation to be the invariable accompaniment, if it be not the chief source, of its strength.
The seaboard of a country is one of its frontiers; and the easier the access offered by the frontier to the region beyond, in this case the sea, the greater will be the tendency of a people toward intercourse with the rest of the world by it.
There is possible help in handling the peak load by improving the waterways from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic seaboard by way of the St. Lawrence River, so as to pass full seagoing cargoes.
But the spirit of rebellion had spread from the plantations along the James down to the seaboard settlements, and only a hundred soldiers, and not all of them very loyal to the governor, answered his summons.
Many travellers know nothing of the country but the seaboard forest.
The belt of seaboard was too narrow and too hot to be the cradle of a nation.
The dry season there is a long one, and the Borburema does little to feed the small seaboard rivers which flow fan-wise into the Atlantic; for the plateau in that region slopes gently to the sea.
The forests are concentrated upon two regions: the basin of the Amazon and a long strip of seaboard along the Atlantic coast between Espiritu Santo and Rio Grande.
They form, between the seaboardcities and the agricultural regions of the plateau, an uninhabited frontier, a sumptuous but deceptive frontage.
In some of our mountainous and barren places, and in our seaboard villages, we still test each other in much the same way the Icelanders tested the head of Egil.
There is one seaboard district known as Roughley, where the men are never known to shave or trim their wild red beards, and where there is a fight ever on foot.
Along the Southern seaboard the course of the war was even more disastrous to the Americans.
The proper maintenance of the blockade made it necessary that the seaboard should be in the hands of the Federals.
Her crew was purely American, not a foreigner among them; but all trained seamen from the seaboard villages and towns of New England,--the homes at that time of probably the hardiest seafaring population in the world.
The people ofseaboard cities imagined every moment the irresistible iron ship steaming into their harbors, and mowing down their buildings with her terrible shells.
Babbington-Cole left the City of Chicago and, again on terra firma, made his way up from the seaboard to London, where at Morley's Hotel he and his father had arranged to meet.
Yes; and you will be surprised to learn he takes the rail for the seaboard to-night.
This north-eastern Atlantic seaboard with its chain of twelve million city dwellers, was no Holland to drown itself under its own sea in order to destroy its foe.
For almost a month the seaboard from the end of Maine to New Jersey remained sealed.
During those six months, while the country poured forth its money prodigally to make up in wasteful speed what it had neglected during long years, the invader could sit in the conquered seaboard cities and suck them dry.
Six Months of Bleeding “Six months with the North Atlantic Seaboard amputated,” said the President, “means six months of bleeding to death.
The following year Albert Fink succeeded in organising the great trunk lines connecting the North Atlantic seaboard and the States north of the Ohio River.
I've sailed around a good many coasts in my time; but I think you will find scenery more charming on the seaboard of some parts of South America than in any other country in the world.
I remember as if it were this moment a plague of locusts that fell upon a beautiful and fertile patch of country on theseaboard of South Africa.
Meanwhile it was observed that slave labor was driving out of the South the white man of small means, and antagonism between the men of the "up-country" and the seaboardcapitalists was brewing.
Quebec is one of the greatest lumber and timber markets in America, supplying all the seaboard cities of the United States.
Baltimore oysters are renowned as being among the best the Atlantic seaboard produces, and no one should think of visiting the city without testing them.
As a seaboard city, Charleston is most favorably situated.
Her water communication is established with all the great Northern and Southern seaboard cities.
Any account of the great railroads joining the Inland Empire to the River and thence to the seaboard would be incomplete without reference to the pioneer of them all, the "Strap-iron" narrow-gauge from Walla Walla to Wallula.
Moreover, even for our Atlantic seaboard and for Europe, there will be large amounts of products, for the transit of which time will be a great object.
In the fiords of Norway the herring fisheries are the principal means of existence for the seaboard population.
The coasts of British North America, as well as many portions of the seaboard of the United States, abound in mail-clad inhabitants of many kinds.
They are eaten very freely in most parts of the seaboard of the United States, and the present writer has eaten them constantly, boiled, stewed with tomatoes, &c.
