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The corn cost 27 cents a bushel and the oats 22, delivered at Exeter, the 10,000 bushels amounting to $2450, to be charged to the farm account. I was now prepared to face the food problem, for I had more than 17,000 bushels of grain to supplement the amount the farm would produce, and to tide me along until cheap grain should come again, or until my land should produce enough for my needs.
At about ten o'clock the 24th Royal Welsh Fusiliers of the 231st Brigade captured Kh. ed Dreihemeh on the old Roman road a mile east of Tireh, and at eleven o'clock advanced to the assault of hill 2450, a little farther eastward. They gained the crest, but the enemy had a big force in the neighbourhood and counter-attacked, forcing the Welshmen to withdraw some distance down the western slope.
We sat all day on the safer side of the crest, watching a stubbornly contested battle being fought on Hill 2450, which was taken and lost more than once, and in getting shelled continually by field guns.
Alps of Switzerland : 2450 : 1150 : 1 : 2.1. Pyrenees : 1787 : 1150 : 1 : 1.5. Littoral Chain of Venezuela : 1350 : 750 : 1 : 1.8. Group of the Mountains of the Parime : 1300 : 500 : 1 : 2.6. Group of the Mountains of Brazil : 900 : 500 : 1 : 2.3. Its height is computed at 2500 toises, and yet at some seasons it is entirely free from snow.
"I think the folks nowdays are about run out. They are goin' too fast. When I was comin' up, I had to have some manners. My mother didn't low me to 'spute nobody." Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Peggy Sloan 2450 Howard Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: About 80, or more Occupation: Farming "I was born in Arkansas in Tulip, in Dallas County I think it is, isn't it?
"The Dyaks of Sarebus and Sakarran were under the influence of two Arab seriffs, who employed them on piratical excursions, and shared in equal parts the plunder obtained. I had once the opportunity of counting ninety-eight boats about to start on a cruise; and reckoning the crew of each boat at the moderate average of twenty-five men, it gives a body of 2450 men on a piratical excursion.
So far as can be ascertained, 8000 officers and men were killed or wounded. Longstreet 1850 A.P. Hill 2450 Jackson........ 8700 Jackson's losses were distributed as follows: Jackson's own Division 600 Ewell 650 Whiting 1020 D.H. Hill 1430 The regimental losses, in several instances, were exceptionally severe.
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