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No Latin colony had been planted later than the year 181, no Roman colony later than 157, and the senate showed no inclination to renew schemes for the further assignment of territory amongst the people. There were many reasons for this indifference to colonial enterprise.

Gardiner. Croker's Boswell, p.739. See ante, iii.157, note 3. Dr. Burney had just lost Mr. Crisp. Dr. Burney's Memoirs, ii.323, 352. For Mr. Crisp, see Macaulay's Review of Mme. D'Arblay's Diary. Essays, ed. 1874, iv.104. He wrote of her to Mrs. Montagu: 'Her curiosity was universal, her knowledge was very extensive, and she sustained forty years of misery with steady fortitude.

This, however, was later on. On the morning after his arrival all was expectation, for it was known that the bombardment was about to recommence. At half-past two o'clock the roar of 157 guns and mortars in the British batteries, and over 800 in those of the French, broke the silence, answered a minute or two later by that of the Russian guns along their whole line of batteries.

Lockhart's translation. London, 1844. Vol. i. p. 157. "We buried our dead in one of the subterranean dwellings." Diaz, vol. i. p. 152. Letters, p. 61. Bernal Diaz, vol. i. p. 179. Vol. i. p. 144. Collección de Léyes, 1853, p. 184. Lord Kingsborough, vol. vi. p. 265. A Year in Spain, by an American. Bernal Diaz, vol. i. p. 207. Acapulco. The Advantages of a Western Voyage to India.

A better proof of the progress the country is making cannot be shown than by comparing the revenues of 1877-78 185,552 dols. and 197,855 dols. respectively with that of 1871, which was only 157,501 dols., thus showing an increase of about £40,000 in seven years. On the 11th of June, 1868, at Burrator, in Devonshire, Sir James Brooke breathed his last, leaving Sarawak to his nephew, Mr.

It is high time we had a little more law in San Francisco." That was another of his problems, Hyde reflected irritably. "Sydney Ducks." There would be many more no doubt, for San Francisco was growing. It had 500 citizens, irrespective of the New York volunteers; 157 buildings. He would need helpers in the task of city-governing.

This latter group constitutes the larger part of the Carboniferous Mollusca, 157 species being known in Great Britain alone, and it will be found to increase in importance in the fauna of the primary rocks the lower we descend in the series. Terebratula hastata, Sowerby, with radiating bands of colour. Mountain Limestone. Aviculopecten sublobatus, Phill. Mountain Limestone.

Douglas received 1,375,157 popular votes, and twelve electoral votes. Breckinridge received 847,953 popular votes, and seventy-two electoral votes. Bell received 590,631 popular votes, and thirty-nine electoral votes. Lincoln carried all the free states, excepting that in New Jersey the electoral vote was divided, he receiving four out of seven.

One of the later-discovered records was a letter, tear-stained, faded, beautifully written in old French, from Demoiselle Angele Claude Aubert to Michel de la Foret at Anvers in March of the year 157.

Gino Capponi, in his Storia della Repubblica di Firenze, vol. i. p. 157, refuses however to reject the legend. See Capponi, vol. i. pp. 59, 78, for a description of the gay and courteous living of the Florentines upon the end of the thirteenth century. See the Descrizione della Peste di Firenze.