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The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Ho for Hyde Park! (search)
commerce? "Who can deny that British agriculture, on an equal extent and quality of soil, gives a greater return for the labors of the husbandman than lands the most furrowed by the plow or favored by the sun? "Who can deny that the British isles--two miserable little spots when looked at on the map of the world — have for centuries taken their place among the greatest empires, and obtained an illustrious place in the history of the earth?" You might as well deny the existence ofser provinces of North America; in Oceanic, the whole of New Holland and New Zealand; Norfolk island and New Caledonia. These united territories contain a hundred and fifty millions of inhabitants, including the twenty-eight millions of the British isles. As to its commercial marine, two facts are sufficient to make its immensity known. It has nearly thirty thousand vessels, including those propelled by steam, besides eight thousand in the colonies; and in a single year it exports more than