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+ + | NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS SINCE 1829. | | + + + + + | | |'29 to '33|'34 to '38|'39 to '43|'44 to '45| Total. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |England. | 43,386 | 28,624 | 30,318 | 16,531 | 119,354 | |Ireland. | 102,264 | 54,898 | 74,981 | 24,201 | 256,344 | |Scotland. | 20,143 | 10,998 | 16,289 | 4,408 | 51,838 | |British American| | | | | | | Prov. &c. | 1,904 | 1,831 | 1,777 | 377 | 5,589 | | | + + + + | | | 167,697 | 96,351 | 123,860 | 45,517 | 433,425 | + + + + + + +
From thence we put out with the winde at West, and the 18 of December, God be praised, we ankered at Limehouse in the Thames, where we discharged 589 sacks of Pepper, 150 Elephants teeth, and 32 barrels of oile of Palme trees.
The entire carrying capacity of ships annually arriving at Quebec did not exceed 12,000 tons, and only a few of these ships went on to Montreal. In 1813, the year of James McGill's death, only nine vessels entered Montreal from the sea, and their total capacity was but 1,589 tons.
Several forces came into operation at this time, and population increased rapidly, to 572,363 in 1817, and to 704,465 in 1827. In 1841, it was a little more than a million. But the increase in colored population, by the importation of African slaves, outstripped the increase by the whites. In 1841, the population was divided into 418,291 whites and 589,333 colored.
The episcopal see was erected in 338. The names of the first bishops have long been forgotten, the first mentioned being one Laquinto, who signed the third Toledo Council in 589. Two centuries later the Moors raised Al-Kárica to one of their capitals; in 854 Zeth, an ambitious Saracen warrior, freed it from the yoke of Cordoba, and reigned in the city as an independent sovereign.
When the Emperor Maurice was assassinated with his family in the year 602, Callinicus was, as we have seen, exarch in Ravenna, but with the usurpation of Phocas that Smaragdus who had already been exarch and had been recalled, perhaps for his too great violence, in 589, was again appointed. He seems to have ruled from 602 to 611.
In Alabama and Florida, the running expenses of the state government increased two hundred percent, in Louisiana five hundred percent, and in Arkansas fifteen hundred percent all this in addition to bond issues. In South Carolina the one item of public printing, which from 1790 to 1868 cost $609,000, amounted in the years 1868-1876 to $1,326,589.
A president of an English Court of Sessions also complained that tea was driving out beer, and indirectly injuring the farmer, in whose cottage, he omitted to say, the tea canister had begun to occupy a place of honor, despite the lessened demand for his malt. The selling price immediately dropped, and British consumption in 1846 rose to 2,358,589 lbs.
Cunning Isaac! here we have his military arithmetic: "Upon the 1st of January in this year, their army numbered 88,000 rank and file. They had abroad, exclusive of India, 44,589.
Come and see for yourselves, was his constant cry." Harveian Oration, Dr. J.F. Payne, 1896. Opera, tom. x. p. 462. De Vita Propria, ch. xxviii. p. 73. Ibid., ch. xxiii. p. 64. De Utilitate, p. 309. He also writes at length in the Proxenata on Domestic Economy. Opera, tom. i. p. 377. De Vita Propria, ch. xxxvii. p. 118. De Varietate, p. 589. De Varietate, p. 589. Ibid., p. 640.
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