Author : W. Torrens McCullagh
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666779137
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (791 download)
Book Synopsis The Industrial History of Free Nations, Considered in Relation to Their Domestic Institutions and External Policy, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) by : W. Torrens McCullagh
Download or read book The Industrial History of Free Nations, Considered in Relation to Their Domestic Institutions and External Policy, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by W. Torrens McCullagh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Industrial History of Free Nations, Considered in Relation to Their Domestic Institutions and External Policy, Vol. 2 of 2 Freo, -but what beside? If analytical con-mm jecture may be relied on, the entire region that in after-times was destined to become the term firmw aims of arts and industry, was then but one vast half submerged and sterile swamp. The Romans had seen the inhabitants use clods of dried clay for fuel; at the present day the piles of Amsterdam rest on peat; and the evidences of its once universal prevalence, as well as the causes of its formation at the diffusive exits of the Mass and Rhine, are sufficiently obvious. Niebuhr characteristically notes, when trying to peer through the mist of Frisian antiquities, that in the ancient dialect there is no word signifying marsh or bog, as if, no other kind of soil being known, there was no need of any such distinctive term. Some tracts - those, in all probability, which the ocean most frequently over flowed - were called brackish or saAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
