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Now-a-days the poorest artisan can, and does, afford to travel, and the number of journeys performed each year on all our British railways is equal to more than the entire population of Europe! which, in Stewart's "Modern Geography," is set down at 285 millions.
Oxford, part of November and December. Ante, ii. 268. Ante, ii. 285, and post, v. 427. Oxford, March; a short visit. Piozzi Letters, i. 212. Oxford, Lichfield, Ashbourn, from end of May till some time in August. Ante, ii. 381, and Piozzi Letters, i. 223-301. Brighton; apparently a brief visit in September. Croker's Boswell, p. 459. Ante, ii. 384, 401. Oxford, Lichfield, Ashbourn, March 19-29.
Before this wall was built, travellers sometimes fell down the precipices. See post, p. 453. 'Johnson said that one of the castles in Wales would contain all the castles that he had seen in Scotland. Ante, ii. 285. This gentleman was a lieutenant in the Navy. Lady Catharine Percival, daughter of the second Earl of Egmont: this was, it appears, the lady of whom Mrs.
As is fitting for its county town, the first entry in the Devonshire Domesday deals with Exeter, in which city, it is recorded, the king had 285 houses rendering customary dues. The generally debased character of the coinage of the time led to various expedients being adopted by the Exchequer for securing approximately accurate payment of a specified sum of money.
On this deal Vanderbilt reaped a nice little fortune but evidently not enough to enable him to carry through the ambitious plans which were in the back of his head, for in 1864 we find him manipulating another corner and this time running the price of the stock up to 285.
+285+. Trees have been widely credited with the power of bestowing blessings of all sorts. But, like animals, they rarely receive formal worship; the reason for this is similar to that suggested above in the case of animals. The coalescence, spoken of above, of tree ceremonies with cults of fully developed gods is not uncommon, and trees figure largely in mythical divine histories.
See above, pp. 146, 170, 172, 202, 252, 282, 285. Above, pp. 107, 116, 118 sq., 159.
Words spoken at the reception of the American Society of Naturalists by the President and Fellows of Harvard College at Cambridge, December 30, 1896. Printed in Science, N. S. V. 285.
It should be stated that the pump was purchased under a guarantee to deliver 6000 gallons per minute under a head of 50 feet, with an impeller velocity of 285 revolutions per minute.
His next was to encounter Carinus in battle, who was slain, A.D. 285, and Diocletian—perhaps the greatest emperor after Augustus—reigned alone.
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