 | 1865 - 838 pages
...time to provide an abundant harvest. "On the conclusion of the peace of 1763," writes General Roy, "it came for the first time under the consideration...general survey of the whole island at the public cost : " and the direction of this great undertaking was to have been intrusted to that officer. But for... | |
 | Thomas Pilkington White - 1886 - 224 pages
...time to provide an abundant harvest. " On the conclusion of the peace of 1763," writes General Roy, " it came for the first time under the consideration...general survey of the whole island, at the public cost ; " and the direction of this great undertaking was to have been intrusted to that officer. But, for... | |
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on the conclusion of the peace of 1763 it came for the first time under the consideration of Government to make a general survey of the whole island at public cost... 