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The area of these several territories contains 1,193,061 square miles, or 763,559,040 acres; while the area of the remaining twenty-nine States, and the territory not yet organized into States east of the Rocky Mountains, contains 2,059,513 square miles, or 1,318,126,058 acres.
In this table is not included the territory in the North-west of America containing about 513,250 English square miles which was annexed to Russia in 1799 and ceded to the United States in 1867. When once Russia has annexed she does not readily relax her grasp. She has, however, since the death of Peter the Great, on four occasions ceded territory which had come into her possession.
Mallet, that he might better provide for the defence of the citadel of York, set fire to some houses which lay contiguous; but this expedient proved the immediate cause of his destruction. Gemet. p. 290. Order. Vital. p. 513. Vital. p. 512. Chron. de Mailr. p. 116. Hoveden, p. 450. M. Paris, p. 5. Sim. Vital. p. 513.
Laing's preface to the sixth volume of Knox's Works, p. lxii. Works, vi. 534. Ibid. iv. 220. Ibid. iii. 380. Ibid. iv. 220. Works, iii. 380. Ibid. iv. 238. Works, iv. 240. Works, vi. 513, 514. Works, vi. 11. Works, vi. 21, 101, 108, 130. Ibid. vi. 83. Ibid. vi. 129. Ibid. vi. 532. Works, i. 246.
We should bear in mind that horns are always transmitted through the female, and that she has a latent capacity for their development, as we see in old or diseased females. Isidore Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 'Essais de Zoolog. Generale, 1841, p. 513. Other masculine characters, besides the horns, are sometimes similarly transferred to the female; thus Mr. On the Cervulus, Dr.
It presents with clearness the fiscal operations of the Government, and I avail myself of it to obtain some facts for use here. The aggregate receipts from all sources for the year were $387,050,058.84, derived as follows: From customs $223, 832, 741.69 From internal revenue 130,881,513.92 From miscellaneous sources 32,335,803.23
The earlier constitution was throughout based on it; even the reform of 513 had merely restricted the privileges of the men of wealth. But since that year there had occurred an immense financial revolution, which might well justify a raising of the electoral census.
When the Romans thus saw their hated and still dreaded foe involved in a greater danger than any ever brought on that foe by the Roman wars, they began more and more to regret the conclusion of the peace of 513 which, if it was not in reality precipitate, now at least appeared so to all and to forget how exhausted at that time their own state had been and how powerful had then been the standing of their Carthaginian rival.
The national tonnage engaged between the West Indies and the mother country had grown from 80,482 to 133,736; 60 per cent. More encouraging still, from the ideal point of view of a restored system of mutual support, embracing both sides of the Atlantic, the tonnage employed between Canada and the West Indies had risen from 996 only in 1774, to 14,513 in 1789.
In the north the republic, in revenge for ancient and recent wrongs, had already in 471 annihilated the Celtic Senones; in the south, through the great war from 490 to 513, it had dislodged the Phoenicians from the island of Sicily.