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The Guernsey in the action lost nine killed and many wounded, besides the captain, who three days afterwards expired. A still more successful action was fought between the 40-gun ship Adventure, Captain William Booth, and an Algerine ship of war called the Golden Horse, of 46 guns, commanded by Morat Rais, a notorious Dutch renegado, who had a crew of 508 Moors and 90 Christian slaves.
We have to express our acknowledgments to Dr. Birch for permission to make use of this valuable collection. PERROT, GUILLAUME ET DELBET, Exploration archéologique de la Galatie, vol. ii. pl. 32. Exploration archéologique, vol. ii. pl. 11. LAYARD, Discoveries, p. 508. PLACE, Ninive, vol. ii. pp. 68-70.
He alone oversteps those limits, and presents us with geographical notices and narratives of events profoundly interesting to the historian. During this period of comparative peace, which may have extended from about B.C. 516 to B.C. 508 or 507, the general tranquillity was interrupted by at least one important expedition.
With your permission, lieutenant, where are we now?" "Sir, at this moment we have 3,508 fathoms of line out, and the ball which draws the sounding lead has not yet touched the bottom; for if so, it would have come up of itself." "Brook's apparatus is very ingenious," said Captain Blomsberry; "it gives us very exact soundings."
Has been a Spiritualist for nine or ten years, but has always been possessed of unusual powers. As a child saw visions, etc. Declares that she is most successful as a Slate Writer. Secretary. Wednesday, March 19th, 1884. The Commission met at 508 S. 16th Street, at 8 P.M. Present: Dr. Leidy, Professor Koenig, Mr. Furness, Mr. Fullerton and Mr. Hazard. The Medium was Mrs. S.E. Patterson. Mr.
You see, then, it is so clear a point in this person's opinion that the ready road to popularity here is to trample under foot the interests of religion, the rights of the church, and the prerogatives of the crown." Coll. i. 12. Perry, Hist. Coll. 316, 317. Hening, Statutes at Large, vi. 88, 89. Ibid. vi. 568, 569. Perry, Hist. Coll. i. 508, 509. Hening, Statutes at Large, vii. 240, 241.
In this connection it is interesting to note that broadside weights have tripled in the short space of twenty years; that the total weight of steel thrown by a single broadside of the Pennsylvania to-day is 17,508 pounds, while the total weight thrown from the broadside of the Oregon of Spanish-American War fame was 5,600 pounds.
The first and last of these temperatures were respectively 42.3 degrees and 46.4 degrees lower than Calcutta, which, with the proper deduction for latitude, allows 508 and 460 feet as equivalent to 1 degree Fahr.
For expenditures on account of the District of Columbia 3,543,912.03 For interest on the public debt 82,508,741.18 For premium on bonds purchased 1,061,248.78 Total ordinary expenditures 260,712,887.59 Leaving a surplus revenue of $100,069,404.98, which was applied as follows: To the redemption of Bonds for the sinking fund $74,371,200.00
Clausius put it in a negative form, as thus: No engine can of itself, without the aid of external agency, transfer heat from a body at low temperature to a body at a high temperature. Cf. Ganot's Physics, 17th English edition, § 508. In the minds of many persons, however, grave doubts persisted. Solution appeared to be an essentially irreversible phenomenon.
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