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Raw hides; 148 hds. and 361 kegs tobacco; 1,021 casks and 3 hds. whiskey and spirits; 2,636 hogs. Quantity of merchandise brought to Upper Canada in the same year, 8,244 tons. The total number of miles of canal in the Province is 136.

Eight million seventy thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and forty-six cents was appropriated by the act of March 31, 1898, to cover deficiencies in army pensions, and repayments in the sum of $12,020.33, making a total of $148,082,892.79 available for the payment of pensions during the fiscal year 1898.

These things, for example, that you say about Canada and the colonies, yes, here it is, page 148, 'In the event of war the loosely-joined British Empire will break into pieces, and the colonies will consult their own interests, excellently funny, and this again, 'Canada will not permanently retain any trace of the English spirit, and this too, 'the Colonies can be completely ignored so far as the European theatre of war is concerned, and here again, 'Egypt and South Africa will at once revolt and break away from the empire, really, General, your ideas of the British Colonies are superbly funny.

Works, x. 37. Ibid. viii. 113, 217. Works, x. 45. Ibid. x. 51, 78, 83. Works, x. 35, 77. Several editions appeared from 1725 to 1761. See Works, vi. 465, for a recollection of similar experiences. Ibid. viii. 148 n.; x. 183. Though lost to the bar, he had really found himself. He had taken the line prescribed by his idiosyncrasy.

I took the trouble to pace out about every kill, and find that antelope in the plains averaged 245 yards; with a maximum of 638 yards, while antelope in covered country averaged 148 yards, with a maximum of 311. It is always interesting to play the other fellow's game his way, and then, in light of experience, to see wherein our way and his way modify each other.

Having received their orders, Vasco de la Gama and the other captains took their leave of the king at Monte mayor, and departed for Lisbon, where he embarked his company of 148 persons, at Belem, on Saturday the 8th of July 1497.

Injunctions ... of ... Bishop of Durham, 18, 84, 99; Visitations of Canterbury, in Arch. Cant., XXVI; Hale, Precedents, 1475-1640, 147, etc. Arch. Cant., XXVI, passim; Hale, op. cit., 147, 148, 163, 185; Mrs. See Hale, op. cit., 148, 157. Hale, op. cit., 148; Depositions ... from the Court of Durham, 99; Arch. Cant., XXVI, 21. Hale, op. cit., 148, 185. Ibid., 157.

They soon, however, procured a quantity of muscles, with which they sat down very contentedly at a fire. My barometrical admeasurement gave the cataract an elevation of 680 feet above the level of the sea; and my observations placed it in east longitude 148 degrees 3 minutes and in latitude 31 degrees 50 minutes south.

This darkness is of course the inner cave, the entrance to which, though it seems so small from above, is 78 feet broad. The glacière itself may be said to commence as soon as this entrance, or perpendicular portal, is passed, and thus includes 60 feet of the long slope of ice, from the foot of which to the farther end of the cave is 145 feet, the greatest breadth of the cave being 148 feet.

"On the 27th of July, 1791." "In what latitude and longitude does it lie?" "In 42 degrees 15 minutes south by observation, and in 148 1/2 east by reckoning" "Is it on the mainland or is it an island?" "It is an island, distant from the mainland about eight miles." "Did you anchor?" "Yes; and found good anchorage in a bay open about six points."