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Title: The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-Maritime Journal. Vol. V, May - August, 1841 [bound with] Vol. VI, September - December 1841
Description: London, Fisher Son, & Co. 1841, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 2 volumes bound in one. iv, 512; iv, 512 pages, occasional text illustrations. Old book plate on front endpaper. Contents: Value of the British colonies in North America; South Australian land sales, and available territory; Banking in India; Western Australia; on the varieties of the human race - the Ethiopian variety; Journey to Guatemala; commercial injustice towards India; Australasian islands (Tikopia, Vanikoro, voyage and loss of the la Perouse expedition, New Hebrides, Santa Cruz, San Cristoval, Choiseul, Bellona, Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Admiralty islands, Papua, New Guionea, Borneo, etc.); Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope; Van Diemen's land; The China expedition; colonial statistics; origin and progress of the monies in England; the natives of India - the Parsees; fraudulent ship insurances; slave colonies in France; trade and finances of Brazil; destruction of the timber trade of the British North American colonies; the sugar duties; California and Oregon; Honourable east India Company's surveys; Jamaica and its prospects; Madagascar; present state of New South Wales; natural history of British Guiana; Aborigines of Australia - Swan River; Codugu, or Coorg; America - historical, statistics and descriptive; Repeal of the union between the island of Cape Breton and Nova Scotia; the Rajah of Sattarah; Pudor; British taxes and custom duties; Washington and Baltimore delineated; some of the wants of Canada; description iof Guatemala; Brazilian statistics; protection to British Industry; subsidiary states of British India; The West India bar; parrallels between Columbus and Cook; Philadelphia delineated; cultivation of sugar in British India; Boston; reflections on Australia; French West Indies - Martinique; progressive prosperity of New South Wales; Kattywar Province - British India; Niagara and Buffalo; Sierra Leone and the liberated Africans; Pisgae Specual; land tax in India; sugar, slavery and the slave trade; civilization of the Aborigines of Western Australia; implocy of the Afghanistan war, Providence and Plymouth - United States, and other articles. Very Good.

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