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In a letter to a friend he playfully alludes to the twenty or thirty years of labour yet remaining, and he often half in jest and half in earnest asserted that life in the interior was so healthy that he should probably outlive his fellow-workers at Tientsin and Peking. By the mail that conveyed the letter quoted on page 263 he also wrote to an Edinburgh friend:
Of our western neighbours, Switzerland and Holland come first under consideration, and then Belgium. Switzerland can command, in case of war, a combined army of 263,000 men. The Landwehr consists of 50.000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry, with 36 12-centimetre cannons belonging to foot artillery. It has a total strength of 69,000 men. The Landsturm finally has a strength of 53,000 men.
It protects their persons, by giving their master a right to flog, wound, and beat them when he pleases. See Devereaux's North Carolina Reports, 263. Case of the State vs.
Statement of produce imported into Lower Canada through the Port of Coteau du Lac, to December 30th, 1830, in 584 Durham boats and 731 batteaux; 183,141 Bls. flour; 26,084 Bls. ashes; 14,110 Bls pork; 1,637 Bls. beef; 4,881 bus. corn and rye; 280,322 bus. wheat; 1,875 Bls. corn meal; 245 Bls. and 955 kegs lard; 27 Bls. and 858 kegs butter; 263 Bls. and 29 hds. tallow; 625 Bls. apples; 216 Bls.
This formula, if correct and it is almost strictly so would give the relative weight of boilers per sq. ft. of heating surface, for 105 lb. and 150 lb. total pressure, assuming we wish to increase the efficiency 10 per cent, as follows: Weight at 105 lb. = 105 x 1 / C Weight at 150 lb. = 150 x 1.75 / C = 263 / C Hence the ratio of weight = 263 / 105 = 2.5
The following are the estimated distances, in statute miles, which Mr. Back and I had travelled since our departure from Cumberland: From Cumberland House to Carlton House 263 From Carlton to Isle
The difference between cycling and walking has been stated thus: "When a man walks a mile he takes on an average 2,263 steps, lifting the weight of his body with each step. When he rides a bicycle of the average gear he covers a mile with the equivalent of 627 steps, bears no burden, and covers the same distance in less than one third of the time."
"He was asked how many minutes there are in 48 years, and before the question could be taken down he replied 25,228,800, and immediately afterwards he gave the correct number of seconds. "On being requested to give the factors which would produce the number 247,483, he immediately named 941 and 263, which are the only two numbers from the multiplication of which it would result.
In the hope of drawing the gout, if gout it should be, into my feet, I walked previously to my getting into the coach at Perth, 263 miles, in eight days, with no unpleasant fatigue; and if I could do you any service by coming to town, and there were no coaches, I would undertake to be with you, on foot in seven days. I must have strength somewhere.
The following table gives the official records in the five leading Grange states: ========================================================= | 1900 | 1905 | | Granges | Members | Granges | Members | New York | 550 | 43,000 | 582 | 66,500 Maine | 275 | 29,000 | 387 | 49,000 Michigan | 420 | 25,000 | 731 | 45,000 Pennsylvania | 526 | 20,000 | 560 | 34,000 New Hampshire| 260 | 24,000 | 263 | 28,000
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