 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1818 - 574 pages
...geographic or 5,323 statuii- mito. Tliis,' he commues, ' is a greater extent than the whole civilized part of Asia, from Turkey to the eastern extremity...trade from Europe thither, though the scraps from thus table would be sulficient to maintain the power (luminimi ami sovereignty of Britain, bj employing... | |
 | 1818 - 586 pages
...geographic or 6,323 statute miles. This,' he continues, < is a greater extent than the whole civilized part of Asia, from Turkey to the eastern extremity...at present no trade from Europe thither, though the (crops from this table would be sufficient to maintain the power, dominion and sovereignly of Britain,... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 574 pages
...statute roiK-s. This,' he continues, ' is a greater extent than the whole civilized part of A -i,!, from Turkey to the eastern extremity of China. There...dominion and sovereignty of Britain, by employing all its manufactures and ships.' the ground either on the shore or on banks. It is on these banks, and in the... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 572 pages
...geographic or 5,323 statute miles. This,' he continues, ' is a greater extent than the whole civilized part of Asia, from Turkey to the eastern extremity...though the scraps from this table would be sufficient t» maintain the power dominion and sovereignty of Britain, by employing all its manufactures and ships.'... | |
 | J. C. Beaglehole - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 828 pages
...— a continent that in the latitude of 40° stretched over 4596 geographic, or 5323 statute miles, 'a greater extent than the whole civilised part of...dominion, and sovereignty of Britain, by employing all its manufactures and ships.'1 Magnificent vision! Dalrymple's proofs are both 'philosophical' and historical,... | |
 | Alan Gurney - History - 2007 - 338 pages
...without a doubt there must live in this great southern continent at least fifty million inhabitants, and "the scraps from this table would be sufficient to...Britain by employing all its manufacturers and ships." The reason that no one has discovered this continent and all its glories is due to the pusillanimous... | |
 | Glyndwr Williams - History - 1999 - 364 pages
...might be more than 50 million, its size greater than that of Asia, and 'scraps' from its trade enough 'to maintain the power, dominion, and sovereignty of Britain by employing all its manufactures and ships'. 28 There is no reference in Cook's instructions to the supposed sighting of... | |
 | Peter James Marshall, Alaine Low - Business & Economics - 2001 - 668 pages
...might be 50 million or more, its si2e greater than that of Asia, and 'scraps' from its trade enough 'to maintain the power, dominion, and sovereignty of BRITAIN by employing all its manufactures and ships'." This was an alluring if distant prospect, but to insist that 'Upon that area... | |
 | Richard Drayton, Richard Harry Drayton - Science - 2000 - 388 pages
...secret instructions to find the rumoured southern continent, which Alexander Dalrymple hoped might 'maintain the power, dominion, and sovereignty of BRITAIN by employing all its manufactures and ships'. But while this thirst for commercial advantage was not new, it was joined... | |
 | Martin Dugard - History - 2001 - 306 pages
...theorist Alexander Dalrymple had written, sure that the Great Southern Continent was bigger than all Asia, "would be sufficient to maintain the power, dominion,...Britain by employing all its manufacturers and ships." Kings of many nations, and the men they sent to explore for this lost continent, believed so much in... | |
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This is a greater extent than the whole civilized part of Asia, from Turkey to the eastern extremity of China. There is at present no trade from Europe thither, though the scraps from this table would be sufficient to maintain the power, dominion, and... 
