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You will remember that an express train would take 171 years to reach us from the sun; and even a cannon-ball would take from ten to thirteen years to come that distance. Well, these tiny waves take only seven minutes and a half to come the whole 91 millions of miles. The waves which are hitting your eye at this moment are caused by a movement which began at the sun only 7 1/2 minutes ago.
The following table indicates the nature of the resources of opposing nations and the character of their Colonial sources of support: Wealth/Population/Total Army/Navy/Population of Colonies Great Britain $80,000,000,000/45,000,000/800,000/681/368,000,000 France 65,000,000,000/39,000,000/2,100,000/382/41,000,000 Russia 40,000,000,000/171,000,000/8,000,000/249/5,000,000 Germany 60,000,000,000/65,000,000/5,000,000/354/12,000,000 Austria 25,000,000,000/49,000,000/2,200,000/155/15,000,000
Great Britain, with Australia and Canada, gives for the expenses of her share of the display $250,000 in gold; France, $120,000; Germany, $171,000; Austria, $75,000; Italy, $38,000 from the government direct, and the same sum from the Chamber of Commerce, which is better, as indicating enlightenment and energy among her business-men; Spain, amid all her distractions, $150,000; Japan, an unknown quantity in the calculations of 1851, no less than $600,000; Sweden, $125,000; Norway, $44,000; Ecuador, $10,000; the Argentine Confederation, $60,000; and many others make ample provision not yet brought to figures, among them Egypt, China, Brazil, Chili, Venezuela, and that strange political cousin of ours at the antipodes, begotten and sturdily nurtured by the Knickerbockers, the Orange Free State.
Samuel Gason, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxiv. p. 171. Rev. William Ridley, "Report on Australian Languages and Traditions," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, ii. p. 268. J.C. Muirhead. The Wakelbura are in Central Queensland. Compare Captain W.E. Armit, quoted in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, ix. pp. 459 sq.
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This shows the total of rank and file to have been 6,214, which the addition of officers, sergeants, and drummers raises to about seven thousand, besides 171 artillerymen. The Heights of Abraham The writer, M. de Foligny, was a naval officer who during the siege commanded one of the principal batteries of the town.
Thrale's, about this time, at which she met Johnson, Boswell, and Dudley Long. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 14. See ante, ii.171, post, two paragraphs before April 10, 1783, and May 15, 1784. Johnson wrote on May i, 1780: 'There was the Bishop of St. Asaph who comes to every place. Piozzi Letters, ii. 111. Hannah More, in 1782, describes an assembly at this Bishop's.
Art. of 1559 in Cardwell, Doc. Ann., i, 211. Hale, Crim. Barnes' Eccles. Also Hale, ubi supra, 146, 159, etc. Presentments for not receiving are numerous in the act-books. A few references are, Dean of York's Visit., 219 ff. E.g., at Goathland 20 persons are presented by name. See also Hale, Crim. Prec., 163, 171, 176, etc., and the other act-books heretofore cited. Ann., i, 336.
Thirty-five are universities and colleges open to both sexes, with 701 professors and instructors, 9,088 students, and endowment and property to the amount of $19,171,045. Thirty-two are colleges exclusively for women, with 388 professors and instructors, 3,675 students, and endowment and property, $4,121,906.
It was extracted by Hakluyt from the 96th, 97th, and 99th chapters of the first book of Linschotens Voyages in English, beginning at p. 171.
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