Were not her seaports the busy mart of the Eastern shore?
He had drawn some useful charts of seaports and islands he knew about, their products and climates, and really his descriptions were as good as a geography.
Most of the towns are seaports, and seaports are not favourable to improvement.
The principal seaports are Almeria, the capital, pop.
At the principal seaports the inland systems are connected with submarine cables which place Africa in telegraphic communication with the rest of the world.
Bonga, the commercial centre of Kaffa, and Jiren, capital of the neighbouring province of Jimma, are frequented by traders from all the surrounding provinces, and also by foreign merchants from the seaports on the Gulf of Aden.
Tlemcen, across the Tell to the Tunisian frontier, whence it is continued to the city of Tunis; while traverse railways connect the seaports with the trunk line and with towns to the south, the Philippeville line being continued to Biskra.
The native trade routes led generally from the centres of greatest population or production to the seaports by the nearest route, but to this rule there was a striking exception.
Good roads for foot traffic have been made from the seaportsto the trading stations on Lakes Nyasa, Tanganyika and Victoria.
The difficulties arising to Prussia from this source were experienced in a still greater degree by the seaports of Bremen and Hamburg, which were severely hampered by the particularism displayed by Hanover.
They built ships in the seaports where lumber was cheap, and sold them abroad.
The increase of business, trade, and commerce, and the arrival of thousands of immigrants each year, led to a rapid growth of population in the seaports and chief cities of the interior.
The East India Company now quickly selected agents in the chief seaports of the colonies, and sent shiploads of tea consigned to them for sale.
Falmouth itself is a quaint one-street town of no great antiquity as seaports go in the west country; but it is still sufficiently old-fashioned to have about it a certain charm distinctly pleasing in this modern and materialistic age.
Much has been done to add to the town’s natural attractions of a fine climate and beautiful scenery, and in future years the place may hope to become one of the most popular of seaports in the West Country.
Possibly they were made ready to do so when the shadow of Napoleonic invasion rested so heavily on the towns and seaports of our southern coasts.
The railroad from Catalina northward goes through the center of the nitrate country and has several branches running down to the seaports such as that from Toco to Tocopilla.
That which is needed for local consumption is ground into flour in theseaports which have mills; much of it is shipped back over the same road that it went out on to be distributed over the sections where the grain was grown.
Greenock, with a population of about fifty thousand, is one of the finest seaportsin Scotland, having also a large business in iron ship-building.
To-day this continent is bordered by thriftyseaports connected by railroads, coasting-steamers, turnpikes, and electric telegraphs.
Should Bonaparte terminate successfully the present war, Naples and Venice will increase the number of our seaports and resources on the borders of the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas.
In his paper of The Seaports of India and Ceylon (Jour.
We meet further the names of Wen-chou and Kuang-chou as seaports for foreign trade in the Mongol time.
In the following year he was elected a member of the French Academy of Arts, and was commissioned by the Government to paint his celebrated pictures, now in the Louvre, of the seaports of France.
For the rest, Ruskin notices the tameness of Claude's waves and a certain conventionality in his treatment of ships and seaports generally.
The smallest of the three Seaports in the National Gallery is valuable and right in tone when we are close to it, but ten yards off it is all brick-dust, offensively and evidently false in its whole hue.
It is certain that the merchants acted as missionaries in the seaports and places of commerce, the soldiers on the frontiers and in the capital, the slaves in the city homes,[4] in the rural districts and in public affairs.
It was written in 1815 while he was on his way back to England, and is so plentifully illustrated with field maps as to add interest to one's visit to Batavia and Buitenzorg and the seaports of Samarang and Sourabaya.
They need not have looked for the facts where they were to be found, in the seaports and villages and fever camps.
A thick jungle stretches for miles on either side of the trocha, and the only way of reaching it from the outer world is through the seaportsat either end.
If the Moors, who had seaports on the Atlantic, were not put down and the strait opened, it would be of no great use to clear the inland sea of pirates.
He had been told to look about in the seaports and select a vessel, and he had selected several; but his letters all seemed to be pigeon-holed when they got to Paris.
These he destroyed, or sometimes when he saw his chance sent into seaports on the Continent.
And while the bigger boroughs were thus enjoying their harvest of blessing and fat things, the small seaports and market towns also gathered in their share of the general good fortune by which all England was enriched.
Even in the seaports the very name of government was hated, and in the interior the people withdrew themselves as much as possible from contact or participation with it.
Within a few months the Dutch were expelled from the interior and shut themselves up in the fortified seaports waiting for re-enforcements.
Even Spanish authority never extended over the southern islands and the garrisons maintained at the seaports were constantly in fear of massacre.
There are two great seaports near the equator which every traveler visits, viz.
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