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Starting from Cape York, in the extreme north, and following down the eastern coast, the edge of the tableland is formed of ranges, often of considerable height, the gullies and spurs of which are mostly clothed with scrub and jungle of tropical growth and luxuriance; amongst the peaks of this range there are Distant Peak, 3,573 feet; Pieter Botte Mountain, 3,311 feet; Grey Peak, 3,357 feet; and the Bellender Kerr Hills, 5,433 feet high.
Seedlings, also, are destroyed in vast numbers by various enemies; for instance, on a piece of ground three feet long and two wide, dug and cleared, and where there could be no choking from other plants, I marked all the seedlings of our native weeds as they came up, and out of 357 no less than 295 were destroyed, chiefly by slugs and insects.
Three steamships struck mines and foundered in the same month, having a tonnage of 3,357. Two persons died in the trio of accidents. The Amiral Charner, an old but serviceable French armored cruiser of 4,680 tons, was torpedoed in the Mediterranean near Syria on February 8, 1916. She went down within a few minutes, although about a hundred men managed to reach the lifeboats and rafts.
Seedlings, also, are destroyed in vast numbers by various enemies; for instance, on a piece of ground three feet long and two wide, dug and cleared, and where there could be no choking from other plants, I marked all the seedlings of our native weeds as they came up, and out of the 357 no less than 295 were destroyed, chiefly by slugs and insects.
But by the progress of the king's arms, the defeat of Sir William Waller, the taking of Bristol, the siege of Gloucester, a cry for peace was renewed, and with more violence than ever. * Rush. vol. vi. p. 325. Clarendon, vol. ii. p. 255. Whitlocke, p. 66. Rush. vol. vi. p. 330. Clarendon, vol. iii p. 253, 254, etc. * Rush. vol. vi. p. 357. Whitlocke, p. 67. v Rush. vol. vi. p. 290.
State and national banks to the number of 7,357 have qualified as depositories for these funds. Such deposits are secured by bonds aggregating $54,000,000. Of this amount, $37,000,000 represent municipal bonds. In several messages I have favored and recommended the adoption of a system of parcel post.
Summer route, Liverpool to Yokohama 10,071 Winter route, " " 10,618 Liverpool to New York 3,046 New York to Chicago, via N.Y.C. and M.C. Railways 961 Chicago to San Francisco 2,357 San Francisco to Yokohama 4,526 San Francisco to Hongkong 6,128 Liverpool to Yokohama 10,890 "For distance to Hongkong, add 1,602 miles to the distance to Yokohama. Distances by sea, geographical miles.
To these annual contributions we must add the numerous loans raised by the Government on the security of the provinces. The interest on these loans weighed heavily on the budget. It was £141,300 in 1552, £424,765 in 1555, and rose to £1,357,287 in 1556.
See ante, iii. 357, and post, Johnson's Tour into Wales, Aug. 1, 1774. 'There where no statesman buys, no bishop sells; A virtuous palace where no monarch dwells. An Epitaph. Hamilton's Poems, ed. 1760, p. 260. See ante, iii. 150. The stanza from which he took this line is,
It became necessary for the Bishop to put down the devotion by special edicts, while the Medici endeavored to distract the minds of the people by tournaments and public shows. See Prato and Burigozzo, Arch. Stor. vol. iii. pp. 357, 431. It is here worth noticing that Siena, the city of civil discord, was also the city of frenetic piety.
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