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... POPULATION FROM 1790 TO 1880 375 From Francis A. Walker and Henry Gannett's Re- port on the Progress of the Nation , Tenth Census . THE FACTORY SYSTEM 400 • From Carroll D. Wright's Report on the Factory System of the United States ...
... POPULATION FROM 1790 TO 1880 375 From Francis A. Walker and Henry Gannett's Re- port on the Progress of the Nation , Tenth Census . THE FACTORY SYSTEM 400 • From Carroll D. Wright's Report on the Factory System of the United States ...
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... population . The cheapness and plenty of good land encour- age improvement , and enable the proprietor to pay those high wages . In those wages consists almost the whole price . of the land ; and though they are high , considered as the ...
... population . The cheapness and plenty of good land encour- age improvement , and enable the proprietor to pay those high wages . In those wages consists almost the whole price . of the land ; and though they are high , considered as the ...
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... population and improvement of this colony increased very fast . Even the oppression of the exclusive company , to which it was for some time subjected , with all the other colonies of France , though it no doubt retarded , had not been ...
... population and improvement of this colony increased very fast . Even the oppression of the exclusive company , to which it was for some time subjected , with all the other colonies of France , though it no doubt retarded , had not been ...
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... population . In a country quite covered with wood , where timber conse- quently is of little or no value , the expense of clearing the ground is the principal obstacle to improvement . By allow- COLONIAL POLICY OF EUROPE . 15.
... population . In a country quite covered with wood , where timber conse- quently is of little or no value , the expense of clearing the ground is the principal obstacle to improvement . By allow- COLONIAL POLICY OF EUROPE . 15.
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... population . The textile industries of this country could not indeed have acquired the importance which they have since obtained , if the inventions of Hargreaves , Arkwright , Crompton , and Cartwright had not been supplemented by the ...
... population . The textile industries of this country could not indeed have acquired the importance which they have since obtained , if the inventions of Hargreaves , Arkwright , Crompton , and Cartwright had not been supplemented by the ...
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