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Cautionary day and night signals are displayed at the principal ports and harbors when dangerous winds or storms are anticipated. In one year 762 of these warning signals were displayed, and 561 were verified by storms of destructive winds which otherwise would not have been foreseen.
Harwood, was every morning placed in a small blue and white china saucer which had belonged to his wife, and which he familiarly called 'Tetty. See the inscription on the saucer in the Lichfield Museum. See this subject discussed in a subsequent page, under May 3, 1779. On Feb. 17, Lord North 'made his Conciliatory Propositions. Parl. Hist. xix. 762. See ante, ii 111. See ante, ii. 312.
A few of the marble columns bear Arabic or Cufic inscriptions, in which I read the dates 863 and 762. A column on the east side exhibits a very ancient Cufic inscription, somewhat defaced, which I could neither read nor copy.
The long arcade with brick pillars runs along the margin of the river, suggestive of some ancient Babylonian city from this distance, and is but a sorry enough place in reality. Very little of the Baghdad as we know it to-day is old. By tradition it was founded in 762 A.D., and became the renowned capital of the Arab empire.
ENGLAND. ================================================================== Army Army Militia Yeomanry Volunteers Reserve ================================================================== Class: Engineers Officers 423 Men 4,762 Cavalry Officers 559 Men 11,840 11,441 Royal Horse Artillery Officers 108 Men 2,426 Royal Artillery Officers 690 Men 18,351 Infantry Officers 2,862 Men 80,324
To this is to be added 33,762 cast now in the new States of Kansas and Nevada, which States did not vote in 1860, thus swelling the aggregate to 4,015,773 and the net increase during the three years and a half of war to 145,551. A table is appended showing particulars.
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So restrictive was the electoral law that only 53,000 men were qualified to vote in the entire island, although its population was 1,762,000. In the municipal district of Guines, with a population of 12,500 Cubans and 500 Spaniards, the electoral census included 400 Spaniards and thirty-two Cubans. This is one among many similar instances.
There has been paid thereon $11,762,543.12, which has been covered into the Treasury, and the remainder, payable within ten years, with interest at the rate Of 3 per cent per annum, payable semiannually, is secured by the deposit of an equal amount of first-mortgage bonds of the Pacific Railway companies.
The raising of the tariff anew in that year increased the plantations to 762 in 1845 and they reached their maximum number of 1,536 in 1849, when more than half of their mills were driven by steam and their slaves numbered probably somewhat more than a hundred thousand of all ages.
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