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The Confederate characterization of it as a "cheese-box on a raft" is still the best description of its appearance. Its lower hull, 122 feet long and 34 wide, was protected by a raft-like overhanging upper hull, 172 feet long and 41 wide. Midway upon her low deck, which rose only a foot above the water, stood a revolving turret 21 feet in diameter and nine in height.
The result of the plébiscite was decisive enough, 72,453 votes being cast in favour of the latest constitution, and 92,423 against it. Nothing daunted by this rebuff, and, adopting a device which the First Consul had invented for the benefit of Dutch liberty, the Bernese leaders declared that the 167,172 adult voters who had not voted at all must reckon as approving the new order of things.
Johnson, said Parr, 'was an admirable scholar.... The classical scholar was forgotten in the great original contributor to the literature of his country. Ib. i. 164. 'Upon his correct and profound knowledge of the Latin language, he wrote, 'I have always spoken with unusual zeal and unusual confidence. Johnson's Parr, iv. 679. Mrs. Ante, iii. 172.
A smaller increase than this would not be sufficient; for we should require 20,000 men at Delhi, 20,000 in Lahore, and 60,000 in Cabul. I speak of enrolled, not effectives but with these augmentations the Regular Army would only be 148,000 N.I. 24,000 King's. 172,000 20,000 Native Cavalry. 6,000 King's. 198,000
The outside tracks were blocked directly on these girders, and the central track was supported by blocking up the transverse girders on I-beams placed between the girders "B"; and no blocking was placed between the girders "B" and the longitudinal girders carrying the central track. The weight on each column was assumed to be 172,000 lb. Supports for Surface Railway Structure.
Forty-four persons were murdered, 369 dwellings consumed, 261 pillaged, and 172,000 head of live-stock carried off into Kafirland and irretrievably lost; and what aggravated the wickedness of the invasion was the fact that during a great part of the year the Governor had been engaged in special negotiations for a new and to the Kafirs most advantageous system of relations, with which all the chiefs except one had expressed themselves satisfied.
Thus anonymous libels should no longer be suffered to appear, and bad books generally should bring down punishment on their authors. The cahiers of the clergy, more, perhaps, than any others, insist on the importance of education; and the ecclesiastics generally wish to control it themselves. C., Labourt, iii. A. P., 424, Section 27. Ornans, A. P., iii. 172, Section 4.
The little bird, too, is very unwilling to let himself be seen, because he is afraid it will cost him his life if he is caught. No one, however, was so happy as the lark at not having to obey the little King. As soon as the sun appears, she ascends high in the air and cries, "Ah, how beautiful that is! beautiful that is! beautiful, beautiful! ah, how beautiful that is!" 172 The Sole
Antonio; thence into Icollo i Bengo, which contains a population of 6530 blacks, 172 mulattoes, and 11 whites, and is so named from having been the residence of a former native king. The proportion of slaves is only 3.38 per cent. of the inhabitants.
The grave defect was that this prosperity was built on the false foundation of slavery. In 1754 the population numbered 14,000 whites, 4000 free mulattoes and 172,000 negroes. The Spanish colony on the other hand sank lower than ever.
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