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... of laziness and timidity, and of the desire quieta non movere, they made no attempt seriously to enforce either the new or the old restrictions, and in these circumstances smuggling trade between the New England colonies and the French West Indies, in defiance of the Navigation Act and its companions, grew to such dimensions that any serious interference with it would be felt as a real grievance. The Whigs and their friends later took credit for their neglect. George Grenville, they ...

— The Expansion of Europe - The Culmination of Modern History • Ramsay Muir

... of the United States Geological Survey, who visited the French West Indies on a tour ...

— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum

... same first fiscal year under the new Government, dutiable goods to the amount of nearly seventy-four million dollars came into the various ports of the United States. Brown sugar from the French West Indies led the list, molasses from the same source ranking second. Tarred cordage from England came next, with coffee from the French West Indies, dried fish from Canada, distilled spirits from the British West Indies, in order. This revival of trade ...

— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

Words linked to "French West Indies" : Martinique, the Indies, region, West Indies, Guadeloupe