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Saturday, 18th. First part ditto weather; remainder Squally, with Thunder and Rain. The observ'd Latitude is 14 Miles to the Northward of the Log. Sailing in Company with the Fleet. Wind South-South-East to East; course North 20 degrees West; distance 86 miles; latitude 3 degrees 0 minutes North, longitude 21 degrees 22 minutes West. Sunday, 19th. Cloudy, unsettled weather, with some rain.
In 1910 the Bison Society raised by subscription a fund of $10,526, and with it purchased 37 very perfect pure-blood bison from the famous Conrad herd at Kalispell, 22 of which were females. One gift bison was added by Mr. and Mrs.
He did not affect to conceal what had taken place, but did not say whether it was in consequence of any request of his, or whether he was glad or sorry, giving it out as an indifferent piece of news; and changed nothing but his language, the audacity of which he diminished as no longer suited to the times. He sold his equipages. M. le Prince de Conti died February 22, aged not quite forty-five.
The transactions of learned societies alone fill a small room; the whole impression of the thirty volumes of printed observations fills a wall of another room, and the unpublished papers of the early directors make of themselves a small manuscript library. "October 22, 1857. We have just returned from our fourth visit to Greenwich, like the others twenty-four hours in length.
The matter was brought up in Congress by a resolution of the House, March 22, 1869, calling for the appointment of a select committee, "to inquire into and report at the next session of Congress the causes of the great reduction of American tonnage engaged in the foreign carrying trade, and the great depression of the navigation interests of the country; and also to report what measures are necessary to increase our ocean tonnage, revive our navigation interests, and regain for our country the position it once had among the nations as a great maritime power."
Whether to preserve the Constitution, or to allow the repeal to be determined on its merits, or for some other reason, the King at last gave in writing his consent to the ministers' measure. On February 22, by a vote of 275 to 167, Mr. Conway was given leave to bring in the bill for a total repeal of the Stamp Act.
I recollect I had on that day my blue coat and brass buttons, nankeen trousers, a white sprig waist-coat, and one of Dando's silk hats, that had just come in in the year '22, and looked a great deal more glossy than the best beaver.
AIT: sc. esse; the omission with aio is rare, though common with dico, appello etc.; see n. on 22. COMICOS: not 'comic' in our sense, but = in comoediis, 'represented in comedy'. So Rosc. CREDULOS: in almost every Latin comedy there is some old man who is cheated by a cunning slave. Off. 3, 36 error hominum non proborum. ISTA: implying contempt.
The baggage was therefore taken off and carried down to the bottom, where the tents were pitched at eleven A.M., the wheels being left where the cart broke down, as sound as at first. The latitude observed here was 75° 12' 50", the longitude, by chronometer, 111° 50' 05", and the variation of the magnetic needle 125° 12' 22" easterly.
Objection was made by the Prosecution, and a vote taken, and the interrogatory was rejected 22 to 26 every nay vote being a Republican, every one of whom at the close of the trial, voting to convict and remove Mr. Johnson from office, after having refused to hear this very important testimony in his behalf. This testimony was objected to, and a vote taken, which was 19 to 30.
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