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The earliest Grecian settlement in Sicily was founded in B.C. 735. The extraordinary fertility of the land soon attracted numerous colonists from various parts of Greece, and there arose on the coasts of Sicily a succession of flourishing cities. Of these, Syracuse and Agrigentum, both Dorian colonies, became the most powerful.
The whole annual consumption of coals by the three different stations was 20,678; the quantity of gas produced 248,000,000 cubic feet: the whole number of lamps lighted by this company 30,735, through 122 miles of mains.
| | | | | |Tonnage Dues,| | | Duties on | Duties on |Duties on | Duties on |Store Rents, | | Years. | Importation.|Exportation.|Re-export-| Slaves. | and other | | | | | ation. | | incidental | | | | | | | Receipts. | | | | | | | | | | Mil. reis.| Mil. reis.|Mil. reis.| Mil. reis.| Mil. reis.| | 1818-19 | 573 876 | ... | .... |137,320 800 | 148,608 661 | | 1823-24 | 3,490 752 | 460 420 | .... |120,843 000 | 133,446 892 | | 1828-29 | 4,700 684 | 800 280 | .... |125,330 000 | 139,981 364 | | 1833-34 | 7,490 000 | 1,590 000 | .... |139,280 000 | 158,978 640 | | 1838-39 | 25,800 590 | 2,720 000 | .... |135,470 320 | 173,710 910 | | 1843-44 | 53,240 000 | 4,320 000 | .... | 72,195 230 | 138,255 230 | | 1844-45 | 99,380 264 | 6,995 095 | .... | 17,676 000 | 134,941 359 | | 1845-46 | 150,233 789 | 9,610 735 | .... | 5,116 500 | 181,423 550 | | 1846-47 | 122,501 186 | 8,605 821 | .... | 549 000 | 114,599 235 | | 1847-48 | 119,246 826 | 9,718 676 | 4097 868 | 1,231 200 | 146,321 476 | | 1848-49 | 131,105 453 | 9,969 960 | 1164 309 | 1,183 500 | 157,152 400 | | | | | | | | | | 717,763 420*| 54,790 987 | |756,195 550 | | | | = L.102,680 | = L.7827 | |= L.108,028 | | * This figure was originally miscalculated as 718,763 420, which probably affected its conversion into Pounds.
Every facility possible was provided for the comfort and recreation of the officers and men engaged in this most rigorous service. During July and August, 1918, 3,444,012 tons of shipping were escorted to and from France by American escort vessels; of the above amount 1,577,735 tons were escorted in and 1,864,677 tons were escorted out of French ports.
April 16, 1860, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress. June 16, 1857, Blackwell Papers, Edna M. Stantial Collection. History of Woman Suffrage, I, p. 717. Ibid., p. 725. Ibid., p. 732. Ibid., p. 735. Harper, Anthony, I, p. 196. Samuel Longfellow whispered to Mrs. Stanton in the midst of the debate, "Nevertheless you are right and the convention will sustain you."
The Confederate losses were: Longstreet, 7,539; Ewell, 5,973; A.P. Hill, 6,735; Cavalry under Stuart, 1,426; in all 21,643. Enemy's loss, 23,049. I herewith give sketches of Colonel Dessausure and Major McLeod, killed in action, and of Doctor Salmond, Brigade Surgeon.
It is estimated that an additional quantity of 174,735,523 acres is still due under grants for like uses.
During the three months' campaign the Allied forces captured over 60,000 German prisoners, of which number the British claimed to have taken 26,735. Besides other war material the Allies recovered from the Somme battle fields 29 heavy guns and howitzers, 92 field guns and howitzers, 103 trench artillery pieces, and 397 machine guns.
The crash came January 16, 1826, and Scott found himself in debt to the amount of about £147,000, or nearly $735,000. Such a vast misfortune, overwhelming a man at the age of fifty-five, might well crush out all life and hope and send him into helpless bankruptcy, with the poor consolation that, though legally responsible, he was not morally bound to pay other people's debts.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT: Treasury Department proper 68,735,451.00 69,865,240.00 70,393,543.75 69,973,434.61 1,658,092.75 1,237,983.61 + 420,109.14 Public buildings and works 11,864,545.60 6,198,365.60 7,101,465.60 5,565,164.00 + 4,763,080.00 + 6,299,381.60 + 1,536,301.60
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