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Jamaica (1834)
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Steel engraved 1834 map of Jamaica from the Montgomery Martin's History of the British Colonies Vol. 2 West Indies Counties appearing on the map: Cornwall, Middlesex, and Surrey. Parishes appearing in Cornwall: Hanover, Westmorland, and St. Elizabeth. Cities appearing in Cornwall: Hanover: Lucea, Montego Bay, and Trelawney (?). Westmorland: Savannah la Mer (Savanna-la-Mar), Queen's Town (?), and Blewfields (Bluefields). St. Elizabeth: Accompong Town (Accompong) and Lacovia. Parishes appearing in Middlesex:Trelawney, Manchester, St. Ann, Clarendon, Vere, St. Dorothy, St. John, and St. Catherine. Trelawney: Martha Brea (Martha Brae), Falmouth, and Rio Bueno. Manchester: No Cities. St. Ann: St. Ann's Bay. Clarendon: The Cross (Palmers Cross) and Chapleton (Chapelton). Vere: The Alley (?). St. Dorothy: Old Harbour (?). St. John: No Cities. St. Catherine: Spanish Town. Parishes in Surrey: St. Mary, St. George, Portland, St. Thomas in the East, St. David, and Kingston. St. Mary: Ora Cabessa R & B (Oracabessa) and Scots Hall Town (?). St. George: Anotta Bay (Annotto Bay). Portland: Port Antonio and Moore Town. St. Thomas in the East: Bath, Port Morant, and Morant Bay. St. David: No Cities Kingston: Stony Hill, Halfway Tree (Part of Kingston, Half Way Tree Road), Kingston, and Greenwich (Greewich Town is now part of Kingston). Written on the lower left corner of the map is the following information about the island: Length: 160 miles Breadth: 45 to 50 miles Division-3 Counties-21 Parishes Seat of Govt. Spanish Town Annual Revenue ₤300,000 Do. Maritime Commerce Value: ₤6,000,000 Highest Land: 8,000 Feet Discd. by Columbus: A.D. 1494 Colonized by Spain: A.D. 1509 Captured by England: A.D. 1655 Population: Whites 35,000, Coloured: 450,000 Mapmakers: John Walker, Alexander Walker and Charles Walker, known collectively as J & C Walker (active 1820-95), were engravers, draughtsmen and publishers working through the 19th century.
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Private school enrollments: A review of selected data
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1985
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This paper provides a brief overview of selected data on the following aspects of private elementary and secondary school enrollment: numbers of students, enrollment of minority (blacks and Spanish origin) students, enrollment in religiously affiliated private schools, and enrollment of students from families with different levels of annual income. Where appropriate, comparisons are made to enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools.
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The cumulative educational debt of postsecondary students: Amounts and measures of manageability
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1984
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Concerns about the increasing levels of debt incurred by postsecondary education students have been expressed with growing frequency in the past several years, particularly with regard to the borrowing by graduate and professional level students. This paper reviews and assesses what has recently been reported on the levels of debt being accumulated by postsecondary students, what various analyses have concluded is the threshold for manageable debt, and what the results are when educational debt manageability thresholds are applied to current levels of student debt. The general findings of the paper are that: (1) the data on student borrowing are very limited; (2) the largest amounts of money are being borrowed by professional level students, particularly those in medicine and law; (3) it is not clear how burdensome these levels of debt are; and (4) the manageable debt burden thresholds have a number of serious problems and, at best, provide only crude measures of the extent to which students incur unmanageable levels of debt.
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