 | Charles Sumner - Alaska - 1867 - 116 pages
...adds in remarkable words, "therefore, the discovery of this part of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." These words stimulated the cpmmer* cial enterprise of that day. Other witnesses followed. Meares, describing... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Alaska - 1867 - 48 pages
...adds in remarkable words, "therefore, the discovery of this part of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." These words stimulated the commercial enterprise of that day. Other witnesses followed. Meares, describing... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 556 pages
...of; and therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where во valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." The Sea-Otter haunts sea-washed rocks, lives mostly in the water, and approximates to the seals more... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 448 pages
...words, " Therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." 2 This account stimulated the commercial enterprise of that day. Other witnesses followed. Meares,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 448 pages
...words, " Therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference."2 This account stimulated the commercial enterprise of that day. Other witnesses followed.... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - Northwest Coast of North America - 1886 - 782 pages
...and, therefore, the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable ail article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference.... There is not the least doubt, that a very beneficial fur trade might be carried on with the inhabitants... | |
 | United States - 1895 - 542 pages
...adds in remarkable words, "therefore, the discovery of this part of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." These words stimulated the commercial enterprise of that day. Other witnesses followed. Meares, describing... | |
 | Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration - Bering Sea controversy - 1895 - 518 pages
...adds in remarkable words, "therefore, the discovery of this part of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." These words stimulated the commercial enterprise of that day. Other witnesses followed. Meares, describing... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 454 pages
...words, " Therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference."2 This account stimulated the commercial enterprise of that day. Other witnesses followed.... | |
 | Robert Glass Cleland - Literary Criticism - 1922 - 544 pages
...of and, therefore, the discovery of this part of the Continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." The sailors bought the skins from the Indians for a few trinkets of insignificant value, and used them... | |
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The fur of these animals, as mentioned in the Russian accounts, is certainly softer and finer than that of any others we know of; and therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may... 
