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This was in the latitude of 6 degrees and 42 minutes. The 27 we thought that we had gone at the least 2 leagues and a halfe euery watch, and it fell out that we sailed but one league euery watch for the space of 24 houres, by meanes of a great billow and current that came still out of the South.
On the next day he took his seat on the bench, opened court in the forenoon, but in the afternoon, after recess, was seized with a severe chill and had to adjourn the court. The best medical aid was called in, and for three days with apparent success, but the fever then assumed a more dangerous type, and he gradually yielded to it, dying on the sixth day, viz., June 24, 1829.
It felt very comfortable to have her there, speed twenty-three knots and four twelve-inch guns. Along in the afternoon two whales spouting water came along and had a look at the fleet. They kept with us for some time but presently got tired. At noon on the 5th, we were in Lat. 46° 17', Long. 35° 03', having sailed 213 miles in the 24 hours.
The country examined during this expedition lies between Cape Cuvier and Swan River, having for its longitudinal limits the parallel of 24 degrees and that of 32 degrees south latitude, and the expedition combined two objects: the examination and nautical survey of such parts of the coast lying between these limits as were imperfectly known, and the exploration of such parts of the continent as might on examination appear worthy of particular notice.
2: Isaiah v:18, 19 "Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: that say ... let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it." 3: Isaiah v:24 "Because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel."
'My dearest Father, Mr. Matthias Day, February 24. 'I ought not to shrink back now. The thought has become familiar to me, and I have the greatest confidence in the judgment of the Bishop of New Zealand; and I need not say how your words and letters and prayers too are helping me now.
Look here, this is what is written on the tablet of the statue by the lower gate. It has figures in it. Perhaps it is the answer to the sum." She held out to him a big white magnolia leaf. And she had scratched on it with the pin of her pearl brooch, and it had turned brown where she had scratched it, as magnolia leaves will do. Nigel read: AFTER NINE DAYS T ii. 24. D ii. 27 Ans.
+ + + + + + + | Month | Days | Days of | Effective | Infantry | Transport | | | | Bad Light | Days | Seen | Vehicles | + + + + + + + |June | 21 | 8 | 13 | 2,100 | 83 | | | | | | | | |July | 31 | 7 | 24 | 5,400 | 413 | | | | | | | | |August | 20 | 4 | 16 | 4,650 | 205 | + + + + + + + |Total | 72 | 19 | 53 | 12,150 | 791 | + + + + + + + Our two best days occurred on August 6 and 12.
The other instance is that of the American clipper, Witch of the Wave, a fine vessel of 1400 tons burden, which left Canton on 5th January, and arrived in the Downs on 4th April, a period of 90 days. Her greatest speed is said to have been 338 nautical miles equivalent to about 389 English miles in 24 hours.
Samuel Argall, it seems, was attracted to the area west of Jamestown and established his people here. He and his associates had been assigned 2,400 acres for the transportation of 24 persons by Charter of March 30, 1617 issued just before he left England. This was one of the first such grants.
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