. History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress . that the present Ministry have such despotic influ-ence in Parliament as to carry measures that must bring immediate dis-tress on this country, and consequently so on our mother country. Thesituation we are in with Mr. Colden is deplorable, but cant last really suffers disreputation in such hands. 1 Gulian C. Verplanck, writing of Cadwallader Coiden, says : For the great variety andextent of his learning, his unwearied research, his talents, and the jmhlie sphere which hefilled, he may justly be placed in high r
. History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress . that the present Ministry have such despotic influ-ence in Parliament as to carry measures that must bring immediate dis-tress on this country, and consequently so on our mother country. Thesituation we are in with Mr. Colden is deplorable, but cant last really suffers disreputation in such hands. 1 Gulian C. Verplanck, writing of Cadwallader Coiden, says : For the great variety andextent of his learning, his unwearied research, his talents, and the jmhlie sphere which hefilled, he may justly be placed in high rank among the distinguished men of his the products of his industry were : Observations on the Trade of New York ; An Ac-count of the Climate of New York ; Memorial concerning the Fur-Trade of New York in1724 ; History of the Five Nations ; State of the Lands in the Province of New York ;Reports on the Soil, Climate, etc., of New York ; A Botanical Description of AmericanPlants ; Observations on Fevers ; Observations on Throat Distempers ; Reports on. Portrait of Cadwallader Colden. THE RIGHT OF APPEALS. 713 Golden wrote to the Lords of the faithfuhiess with which he had inves-tigated the illicit trade of New York. He said, since so many of hisMajestys ships had been cruising on the coast, the trade in teas and gun-powder from Holland and Hamburg had been effectually suppressed; itwas suspected, however, that tea in small quantities was imported fromthe Dutch West India Islands, the vessels running into creeks and har-bors, not navigable for ships of war, all along the New Jersey shore be-tween Sandy Hook and Delaware Bay, and northward, on the Sound,where there were many such harbors. He suggested that if ships werekept continually cruising above and below Sandy Hook it woidd bedifficult even for small vessels coming from sea to escape them.^ He re-ported the New York Custom-House officers as very diligent. He saidthe merchants complained bitterly that the same vigi
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