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Lead and various kinds of wood and stone, together with 608 jars of Lebanon wine, 2080 jars of oil, and 690 jars of balsam, were also received from Southern Syria, and posting-houses were established along the roads of the land of Zahi. A fleet of Phoenician merchant vessels was next sent to Egypt laden with logs of wood from the forests of Palestine and the Lebanon for the buildings of the king.
Grotius wrote a letter of compliment on it to the Marshal, and desired him to come and lodge with him, if he purposed to pass through Paris in his way to Sweden. Ep. 1259. p. 371. Ep. 1263. p. 573. 1276. p. 578. Ep. 1414. p. 645. Ep. 1512. p. 685. 1517. p. 687. 1523. p. 690 & 1532. p. 693 Ep. 1565. p. 708.
Thence he set out in the summer of 690 for Syria, to regulate its affairs. State of Syria It is difficult to present a clear view of the state of disorganization which then prevailed in the Syrian provinces.
The prize proved to be the ship Golden Rocket, from the Yankee State of Maine a fine ship of 690 tons burthen, only three years old, and worth from 30,000 to 40,000 dollars.
The anchorages which lie in the western part of Franklin Channel are not so sheltered as those between Barren and Clarke Islands. The latter has two rounded summits, the highest 690 feet, resembling a saddle, either from west or east. The rugged peaks of Strzelecki, reaching an elevation of 2,550 feet, rise immediately over the northern point of the west entrance of Franklin Channel.
To these must be added several other sums, which, as they arose out of the late war, ought perhaps to be considered as deductions from the expenses of it. The principal are, The produce of French prizes.............. £690,449: 18: 9 Composition for French prisoners......... 670,000: 0: 0 What has been received from the sale of the ceded islands......................... 95,500: 0: 0
I sat down for a time, and went to him again. I repeated my offer to procure the $690, and he again said I could not. He called his wife out of the room to the porch, and said to her, 'Don't you think Moses has taken to getting drunk? She asked me if it was so; I denied it, when she inquired what was the matter.
The court of Ctesiphon would thus have had reason enough for going to war with Rome; it seemed the prelude to its doing so, when in 690 it declared war on Armenia on account of the question of the frontier. But Phraates had not the courage to come to an open rupture with the Romans at a time when the dreaded general with his strong army was on the borders of the Parthian empire.
Jefferson's Works, vi. 368. 4 Am. Arch. i. 350. Campbell, Hist. Va. 573. 4 Am. Arch. i. 350, 351. The narrative of these events as given by Wirt and by Campbell has several errors. Campbell, Hist. Va. 573. Mason to Martin Cockburn, Va. Hist. Reg. iii. 27-29. The full text of this letter of instructions is given in 4 Am. Arch. i. 689, 690.
The foreign policy of this first period of the T'ang, lasting until about 690, was mainly concerned with the Turks and Turkestan. There were still two Turkish realms in the Far East, both of considerable strength but in keen rivalry with each other.
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