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I take it that Chang Taoling's activities round about this year 165 represent an impulse of the national soul to awakenment under the influence of the recurrence of the Eastern Han Day half-cycle. What kind of reality Chang Taoling represents, one cannot say: whether a true teacher in his degree, sent by the Lodge, around whom legends have gathered; or a mere dabbler in alchemy and magic.

Curiosity induced me to go on board the largest steamboat in the world, lying at this place. She is called the United States, and is owned by a company of gentlemen. I have taken down her dimensions: Length of keel, 165 feet 8 inches; depth of hold, 11 feet 3 inches; breadth of beam and girder, 56 feet; length on deck, 176 feet 8 inches; breadth of beam without girder, 37 feet.

Totals 2,186 550,943 378,347 £165,463 14 0 Sea-sticks 378,347 Bounty, at a medium, for each barrel of sea-sticks, £ 0 8 But a barrel of sea-sticks being only reckoned two thirds of a barrel fully packed, one third to be deducted, which ¹/³deducted 126,115 brings the bounty to £ 0 12 Barrels fully packed 252,231

I had even then a more moderate opinion of my abilities than your candour would allow me, and have always acknowledged that gentleman's picture of me was fair. He adds that he left the stage on account of Garrick's unkindness, 'who, he says, 'at rehearsals took all imaginable pains to make me unhappy. Garrick Corres. i. 165.

In that case I shall go on without them; but they have deceived me, by borrowing 165 lbs. of beads which they cannot repay; this puts me to much inconvenience. The Asua river is still impassable, according to native reports; this will, prevent a general advance south.

She was of 1600 tons burden, and measuring from the beak-head to the stern, on which was erected a large lantern, she was 165 feet in length. Her greatest beam was 46 feet 10 inches. On leaving Cochin China she had drawn 31 feet of water, but on her arrival at Dartmouth she drew only 26. She had seven decks one main or sleeping, three close decks, one forecastle, and a spar deck of two floors.

Surely this juggling and false play little became an honest man called to such honour, or a nobleman put in such trust." Campion, p. 165. State Papers, Vol. II. pp. 146, 147. Norfolk to Wolsey: Ibid. p. 135. State Papers, Vol. II. p. 146. It had been partially subdued by Lord James Butler. Irish statute, 28 Henry VIII. cap. 1. O'Brien of Thomond to Henry VIII.: State Papers, Vol.

They live along the headwaters of the Tagum river and are, he believes, a mixture of Ata and Mandaya. The writer believes that the Libabaoan are probably the same as the Divavaoan who are classed as a branch of the Mandaya. See p. 165.

Their satisfaction was not damped, even when he declared his purpose of resuming all those exorbitant grants, which he had been necessitated to make before his departure for the Holy Land. Ann. Waverl. p. 165.

Then they played both sides of the market in stocks and got badly bitten as bears in the temporary bull market in the autumn of 1906, selling Union Pacific at 165, which afterward went to 190, Northern Pacific at 185, which went to 200, etc., etc. Then they shifted their position, became bulls and went long of stock just at the beginning of the present slump.