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If beardless, yea; if in sable silvered, and I think this cannot be a very young hand, why, then ... we will suspend our opinion. Faithfully yours, O. W. HOLMES. I find several amusing personal letters of this period which are characteristic enough to be preserved. Among them is the following: 21 CHARLES STREET, July 6, 8:33 A. M. Barometer at 30-1/10.
At a depth of 30-1/2 feet, among the yellow ashes of a house destroyed by fire, I found silver-ware ornaments and also a very pretty gold ear-ring, which has three lows of stars on both sides; then two bunches of earrings of various forms, most of which are of silver and terminate in five leaves.
In the 'fifties Yankee Jim and its tributary mines had a population of 3000, while to-day it is entirely deserted. Todd's Valley, which was also a flourishing camp has suffered the same fate. Auburn to Colfax 16 Miles, Colfax to Emigrant Gap, 30-1/2 Miles. Then ten miles further one is in the heart of the most extensive hydraulic mining operations of California.
The scout scribe walked toward the slate. Instantly Bobbie and his lapse were forgotten. Every eye in the room watched while the scribe rubbed out and wrote. Soon he stepped away from the slate. There was the new standing: PATROL POINTS Eagle 28-1/2 Fox 30 Wolf 30-1/2 The Wolves were still in the lead, but Don did not feel the least like cheering.
At 54 minutes past 4 in the morning both vessels left the Nore, and at 30-1/2 minutes past 2 the Rattler stopped her engines in Yarmouth Roads, where in 20-1/2 minutes afterward she was joined by the Alecto. The mean speed achieved by the Rattler during this trial was 9.2 knots per hour; the mean speed of the Alecto was 8.8 knots per hour. The slip of the screw was 10.2 per cent.
Ibid., II, p. 64. He was a well-known wool merchant of York, at different times member of the town council of twelve, sheriff and mayor, who died in 1435. I and II, passim. Cely Papers, pp. 30-1. Ibid., p. 64. See his will in Test.
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