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Oderic here means pelicans, called alca-trarzi by the Spaniards. Hakluyt. Called in p. 404. Carchan. Of the City of Fuko, or Foquien. Continuing my journey still farther to the east, I came to the city of Foquien, which is thirty miles in circuit. The poultry here are very large, and as white as snow, but have wool like sheep instead of feathers.

Local Civil Charges other than Constabulary . . . . . . . . . 2,510,000 5. Collection of Revenue: Imperial Taxes . . . . . . £170,000 Local Taxes . . . . . . . . 60,000 Non-Tax Revenue . . . . . . 604,000 834,000 6. Balance or Surplus . . . . . . . . . . . . 404,000 £8,350,000

The latter school, however, took its rise in Sicily, and its most distinguished authors were Antiph'anes, probably of Athens, born in 404, and Alex'is of Thu'rii, born about 394. The New Comedy arose after Athens had fallen under Macedonian supremacy, and as many as sixty-four poets belong to this period, the later of whom composed their plays in Alexandria, in the time of Alexander's successors.

The dwelling of Ea. See Meissner, Alexander and Gilgamos, p. 17. I.e., still smaller. See above, p. 458. See p. 460. See p. 511. Harper, ib.. p. 404, note. See Harper, ib.. pp. 406, 407. See above, p. 469. Harper, pp. 392-394. I.e., one cannot escape from Shamash, since he traverses all space. A personification of the storm. See below, pp. 537 seq.

Infantry ....................... 22,437 Artillery ...................... 1,404 Cavalry ........................ 624 Aggregate ............. 24,465 Guns, 96 Army of the Ohio, Major-General SCHOFIELD. Infantry ....................... 11,183 Artillery....................... 679 Cavalry......................... 1,697 Aggregate .............. 13,559 Guns, 28. Grand aggregate, 98,797 men and 254 guns

The gross naval expenditure of Germany is put at $114,306,575, which includes $489,235 for air-ships and experiments therewith, the number of men 66,783. France proposes to spend, plus an addition due to operations in Morocco, $90,000,000, number of men 58,404; and Japan $44,309,145, number of men 49,389.

Its revenues for the year ending the 30th June last were $3,398,455.19, showing an increase of revenue over that of the preceding year of $404,878.53, or more than 13%. The expenditures for the same year were $2,755,623.76, exhibiting a surplus of $642,831.43.

I laughed so much that I tore the canary-coloured string as I was gumming it on to the bonnet, to think how I could tell her now that cowslips are Queen's flowers, the common ones as well as the Hose-in-Hose. Then I looked out the Honeysuckle, it was page 404, and there were no pictures.

The letters of Sir Samuel Hood have not come under the author's eye. Rodney's Life, vol. ii. p. 248. There were only twenty-five in all. Guérin, vol. v. p. 511. Rodney's Life, vol. ii. p. 246. Annual Register, 1783, p. 151. Annual Register, 1783, p. 157; Life of Admiral Keppel, vol. ii. p. 403. Naval Chronicle, vol. xxv. p. 404.

[The explanation of the solar spots above suggested, which was originally propounded in opposition to that of M. Faye, was eventually adopted by him in place of his own. In the Comptes Rendus for 1867, Vol. LXIV., p. 404, he refers to the article in the Reader, partly reproduced above, and speaks of me as having been replied to in a previous note. Again in the Comptes Rendus for 1872, Vol. LXXV., p. 1664, he recognizes the inadequacy of his hypothesis, saying: "Il est certain que l'objection de M. Spencer, reproduit et développée par M. Kirchoff, est fondée jusqu'