 | William Neilson Hancock - Agriculture - 1850 - 218 pages
...p. 93. London, containing above a million of inhabitants. Let him imagine himself a head commissary, entrusted with the office of furnishing to this enormous...host their daily rations. Any considerable failure iu the supply, even for a single day, might produce the most frightful distress; since the spot on... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 pages
...a million (this was without the suburbs) of inhabitants. Let him imagine himself a head commissary, entrusted with the office of furnishing to this enormous...frightful distress, since the spot on which they are cantonned produces absolutely nothing." After further remarks on deficiency, redundancy, and distribution,... | |
 | George Dodd - Food supply - 1856 - 568 pages
...metropolis, containing above a million of inhabitants.* Let him imagine himself a head commissary, entrusted with the office of furnishing to this enormous...frightful distress, since the spot on which they are cantonned produces absolutely nothing. Some, indeed, of the articles consumed admit of being reserved... | |
 | 1856 - 522 pages
...without the suburbs) of inhabitants. Let him imagine himself a head commissary, entrusted with i !n, office of furnishing to this enormous host their daily...frightful distress, since the spot on which they are cantonned produces absolutely nothing." After further remarks on deficiency, redundancy, and distribution,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Business & Economics - 1856 - 588 pages
...containing about two millions of inhabitants. Let him imagine himself a head commissary, intrusted with the office of furnishing to this enormous host their daily rations. A failure in the supply even for a single day might produce the most frightful distress. Some, indeed,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 586 pages
...containing about two millions of inhabitants. Let him imagine himself a head commissary, intrusted with the office of furnishing to this enormous host their daily rations. A failure in the supply even for a single day might produce the most frightful distress. Some, indeed,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 576 pages
...containing about two millions of inhabitants. Let him imagine himself a head commissary, intrusted with the office of furnishing to this enormous host their daily rations. A failure in the supply even for a single day might produce the most frightful distress. Some, indeed,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1870 - 512 pages
...containing about two millions of inhabitants. Let him imagine himself a head commissary, intrusted with the office of furnishing to this enormous host their daily rations. A failure in the supply even for a single day might produce the most frightful^ distress. Some, indeed,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Business & Economics - 1870 - 586 pages
...containing about two millions of inhabitants. Let him imagine himself a head commissary, intrusted with the office of furnishing to this enormous host their daily rations. A failure in the supply even for a single day might produce the most frightful distress. Some, indeed,... | |
 | Edward Walford - London (England) - 1879 - 334 pages
...extrametropolitan — "Let any one propose to himself the problem of supplying with daily provision of all kinds such a city as our metropolis, containing...including most articles of animal food, and many of vegetables, are of the most perishable nature. As a deficient supply of these, even for a few days,... | |
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For instance, let any one propose to himself the problem of supplying with daily provisions of all kinds such a city as our metropolis, containing above a million of inhabitants. Let him imagine himself a head-commissary, entrusted with the office of... 
