1
Spain and Portugal were manufacturing countries before they had any considerable colonies.
2
In Seattle, Butte, Chicago, and Indianapolis they form considerable colonies.
3
No doubt there were already considerable colonies of foreign merchants in Canton and other coastal towns, trading in Indian and Middle East goods.
4
As merchants and colonists, the Greeks were, in Gaul, the successors of the Phoenicians, and Marseilles was one of their first and most considerable colonies.
5
Pine-trees grew thickly all over, but here and there were patches of silver birch, scrub oak, and considerable colonies of wild raspberry and gooseberry bushes.