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She was the richest prize made during the war, the net proceeds of her cargo amounting to 519,705 pounds, 10 shillings. The admiral received 64,000 pounds; the captain of the Active, 65,000 pounds; three commissioned officers of that ship, 13,800 pounds each; eight warrant officers, 4000 pounds each; twenty petty officers, 1800 pounds each; and each seaman and marine, 485 pounds.
Mitford, vol. i. p. 485. AEschines is speaking of Xerxes, but Mitford is probably right in considering it as the style of the Persian kings in their proclamations. In one of the inscriptions at Persepolis, Darius terms himself "Darius the great king, king of kings, the king of the many peopled countries, the supporter also of this great world."
The fellow is interesting, because in him can be seen the genesis of a considerable element of the houseboat fraternity. I wonder how long it will be before his partner has him broken in as a river-pirate of the first water. The distance from Point Pleasant to Richmond is 485 miles. In 1785, Virginia incorporated the James River Company, of which Washington was the first president.
In the year 485 before Christ, Xerxes, king of Persia, sent his nephew Sataspis to discover India; who sailed from the Mediterranean through the Straits of Hercules, and passed the promontory of Africa, which we now call the Cape of Good Hope; but, wearying of the length of the voyage, he returned back again, as Bartholomew Diaz did in our days . In 443 A. C. Hamilco and Hanno, two Carthaginian commanders who governed that part of Spain now called Andalusia, sailed from thence with two squadrons.
"In 1833, eleven steamboats were employed on the lakes, which carried in that year 61,485 passengers, and only two trips were made to Chicago. Time of the round trip, twenty-five days. "In 1834, eighteen boats were upon the lakes, and three trips were made to Chicago. The lake-business now increased so much, that in 1839 a regular line of eight boats was formed to run from Buffalo to Chicago.
The cylinders are cast in one piece 2 ft. 1 in. apart, but in order to get them so close together the valves are placed below the cylinders, the leading axle coming between the piston and slide valve. The boiler is of iron, 10 ft. 2 in. long, and 4 ft. 6 in. diameter; and the heating surface is, in the tubes, 1,373 square feet; fire-box, 112 square feet; total, 1,485 square feet.
"I sat there for twenty minutes, discussing the weather, the Derby winner, and all the other favorite English subjects before the boy came back. "'Yes, sir, the boy reported, 'Crecy & Brown have a telephone, sir. Their number is 485 Gerard, sir. "The clerk got me the number this time, and I did fairly well. Then I sat down. "'Did you want to call another number? he asked me.
I shall therefore confine myself to a bare mention of the best of their performances, at present exhibited in the CENTRAL MUSEUM. N deg. 485. Francis, dying, receives the sacrament. Christ taken down from the cross, a celebrated picture from the cathedral of Antwerp. Nicholas Rochox, a burgomaster of the city of Antwerp, and a friend of RUBENS. The Crucifixion of St. Peter. St.
For whereas that was a voice given from off the mercy-seat, within the vail, and this, upon the decay of that oracle, came as it were in its place, it might not unfitly or improperly be called a daughter, or successor of that voice. Lightfoot, vol. i. pp. 485, 486. The walls and turrets of an extensive city.
In 1881 the maximum power seems to have been in the Inflexible, namely, 8,485 indicated horse-power. It is thus evident that there are vessels at work to-day having about three times the maximum power of any before 1881. General Conclusions.
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