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But this list, long though it be, does not measure the number and amount of such interesting offerings. It contains only about one-third part of the whole number and value of such remittances that have crossed the Atlantic to Ireland during the 349 days of 1846.
The last and most formidable problem Philip had yet to solve, the destruction of Olynthus, the centre of a great confederation of thirty-two towns. Military work against it was begun in 349 and led at once to an appeal to Athens for assistance. The pacifists and traitors were busy intriguing for Philip; Demosthenes delivered three speeches for Olynthus. The First Olynthiac sounds the right note.
But Bessel's observations, between 1837 and 1840, of 61 Cygni, a star with the large proper motion of over 5", established its annual parallax to be 0".3483; and this was confirmed by Peters, who found the value 0".349. Later determinations for alpha2 Centauri, by Gill, make its parallax 0".75 This is the nearest known fixed star; and its light takes 4 1/3 years to reach us.
Randall, Life of Jefferson, i. 363, 413; and Hist. Mag. i. 52. Burk, Hist. Va. iv. Pref. Rem. vi. See Jefferson's explicit endorsement of Girardin's book in his own Writings, i. 50. Burk, Hist. Va. 189, 190. Wirt, Life of Henry, 204-205. Elliot's Debates, iii. 160. Cited by William Wirt Henry, Hist. Mag. for 1873, 349. Jour. Va. House of Del. 106-108. Jour. Va.
The length of the foreign mail routes is estimated at 18,349 miles and the annual transportation thereon at 615,206 miles. The annual cost of this service is $1,472,187, of which $448,937 are paid by the Post-Office Department and $1,023,250 are paid through the Navy Department.
It gives me pleasure to report a decided improvement in the financial condition of the Post-Office Department as compared with several preceding years. The receipts for the fiscal year 1861 amounted to $8,349,296.40, which embraced the revenue from all the States of the Union for three quarters of that year.
By Charles Lanman. Published for the Author by J.B. Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia. 8vo. $2.00. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, adapted to North America, etc., etc. By the late A.J. Downing. With a Supplement, by Henry Winthrop Sargent. New York. A.O. Moore & Co. 8vo. pp. 576. $2.75. By James Redpath. New York. A.D. Burdick. 12mo. pp. 349. $1.00.
The day after the publication of the above General Orders General Worth forwarded to army headquarters a communication in which he said: "I learn with much astonishment that the prevailing opinion in this army points the imputation of 'scandalous' contained in the third, and the invocation of the 'indignation of the great number' in the fourth paragraph of Orders No. 349, printed and issued yesterday, to myself as one of the officers alluded to.
"Reliquiae Antiquse," Wright and Halliwell, i. 195; Quarterly Review, 1863, cxiv. 241. Coles, "The Art of Simpling," 1656. Anne Pratt's "Flowering Plants of Great Britain," iv. 9. Black's "Folk-medicine," p. 201. Folkard's "Plant-Lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 248. Fraser's Magazine, 1870, p. 591. "Plant-Lore Legends and Lyrics," p. 349. Black's "Folk-medicine," p. 185.
San Cristobal de Paso Alto commands the large ravine called by the Guanches 'Tahoide' or 'Tejode, which is now defended by San Miguel. 'Light troops were detached to annoy the invader, and they soon occupied the passes with praiseworthy celerity and boldness. He commanded the French brig Mutine , of 349 tons, with a crew of 135.
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