Cuba and Her People of To-dayI.C. Page, 1911 - 329 páginas |
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... extensive plains of Camaguey . The central mountainous region of Cuba is situated in the Province of Santa Clara . This system consists of four groups having a gen- eral direction toward north and south and at M. R. P. F. ани 148 To nic ...
... extensive plains of Camaguey . The central mountainous region of Cuba is situated in the Province of Santa Clara . This system consists of four groups having a gen- eral direction toward north and south and at M. R. P. F. ани 148 To nic ...
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... extensive cluster of rounded hills , dominated by Potrerillo , nearly three thousand feet high , and interspersed with the most beau- tiful and fertile valleys . The Cordillera de los Organos , or Organ Mountains , run almost along the ...
... extensive cluster of rounded hills , dominated by Potrerillo , nearly three thousand feet high , and interspersed with the most beau- tiful and fertile valleys . The Cordillera de los Organos , or Organ Mountains , run almost along the ...
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... extensively in a later portion of the book . Vegetation is superlatively abundant in Cuba . The flora includes three thousand three hundred and fifty native plants , not to mention the considerable number that have been natu- ralized ...
... extensively in a later portion of the book . Vegetation is superlatively abundant in Cuba . The flora includes three thousand three hundred and fifty native plants , not to mention the considerable number that have been natu- ralized ...
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... extensively in Cuba , generally entertain the opinion that the proportion of pure whites in population is considerably less than seventy per cent . The unqualified terms of condemnation in which most of our writers refer to the Spanish ...
... extensively in Cuba , generally entertain the opinion that the proportion of pure whites in population is considerably less than seventy per cent . The unqualified terms of condemnation in which most of our writers refer to the Spanish ...
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... extensive reformative measures were vigor- ously applied to the affairs of the Island . The most thorough sanitation was planned and , to a great extent , carried out ; a public school system was instituted ; many miles of highway were ...
... extensive reformative measures were vigor- ously applied to the affairs of the Island . The most thorough sanitation was planned and , to a great extent , carried out ; a public school system was instituted ; many miles of highway were ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acres agricultural American Bayamo Camaguey cane Cape San Antonio capital cent century chief Cienfuegos City coast colonies commercial companies Congress considerable convention cost coun crop Cuba's Cuban cultivation Customs Tariff districts dollars effect exports extensive fact factory farming favor force foreign former fruit Fuerza government of Cuba greater guajiro Habana harbors hundred imported increase independence insurgents iron Isle of Pines JIGUANI labor land leaf less Maceo manufacture Manzanillo Matanzas ment miles mill mineral mines mountainous native negro Nipe Bay occupied Office period Pinar del Rio plant plantations planter political population ports pounds present President profit proportion railroad railway rates of duty Republic of Cuba result Santa Clara Santiago de Cuba shipped soil or industry Spain Spaniards Spanish STREET sugar supply tain thousand tion To-day tobacco trade treaty United Vuelta Abajo Washington
Pasajes populares
Página 305 - VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States. "VIII. That by way of further assurance, the government of Cuba will embody the foregoing provisions in a permanent treaty with the United States.
Página 304 - That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Página 309 - And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two governments were exchanged in the City of Washington, on the...
Página 303 - States to carry these resolutions into effect,' the President is hereby authorized to leave the government and control of the island of Cuba to its people so soon as a government shall have been established in said island under a constitution, which, either as a part thereof or in an ordinance appended thereto, shall define the future relations of the United States with Cuba substantially as follows: "1.
Página 285 - During the term of this convention, all articles of -merchandise being the product of the soil or industry of the United States which are now imported into the Republic of Cuba free of duty, and all articles of merchandise being the product of the soil or industry of the Republic of Cuba which are now imported into the United States free of duty, shall continue to be so admitted by the respective countries free of duty.
Página 295 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the President of the United States...
Página 307 - III. That the Government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and...
Página 292 - Cuba to the United States, it is understood and agreed that any tax or charge that may be imposed by the national or local authorities of either of the two countries upon the articles of merchandise embraced in the provisions of this convention, subsequent to importation and prior to their entering into consumption in the respective countries, shall be imposed and collected without discrimination upon lik« articles whensoever imported.
Página 302 - States, and, being in the English and Spanish languages, is word for word as follows...
Página 296 - December, in the year nineteen hundred and two, he is hereby authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that he has received such evidence, and thereupon on the tenth day after exchange of ratifications...