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'A comet of this kind, says Pingré, 'was that of the year 814, presaging the death of Charlemagne. So Guillemin quotes Pingré; but he should rather have said, such was the comet whose arrival was announced by Charlemagne's death and in no other way, for it was not seen by mortal man.
The articles of importation from the United States were principally timber, staves for sugar-casks, flour and other provisions, and furniture. The financial history of Puerto Rico commences about the middle of the eighteenth century. In 1758 the revenues amounted to 6,858 pesos. In 1765, to 10,814, and in 1778 to 47,500.
The quantity of potatoes in each of the four Provinces, and their probable value were: Ulster, 352.665 acres, valued at £4,457,562 Munster, 460,630 " " 6,030,739 10s. Leinster, 217,854 " " 2,814,150 Connaught, 206,292 " " 2,645,468 1,237,441 £15,947,919 10s. Letters on the state of Ireland, by the Earl of Rosse: London, 1847. Halliday Pamphlets, vol. 1993.
In 814, Charlemagne had made territorial security an accomplished fact; but the personal power he had exercised disappeared with him.
The area held by Europeans was 49,862 acres, and some increase has no doubt since been made to this. The native plantations amounted to 27,180 in number in 1890-91, with an area of 96,814 acres, but many of these so-called plantations only consist of small patches of coffee. The total area of European and native holdings in 1890-91 was 146,676 acres.
Next in importance was the New England fishery, employing six hundred vessels, and the commerce with the West Indies, which arose out of that industry. Other staple exports were whale products, bread-stuffs, naval stores, masts, and pig-iron. The total value of exports in 1750 is estimated at 814,000 pounds.
Anderson. He knew that there was nothing more to be got out of Corydon, the informer that he had told everything he knew in his information, but on pressure there was found to be a little left in the sponge. They refreshed his memory a little, and he comes to think that he saw Costello at a meeting in 814 Broadway I think he gives it.
The resistance due to gravity was 9,814 lbs., and supposing the other resistance to traction to amount to no more than 7 lbs. per tun, the total resistance would be 13,412 lbs., corresponding to a mean effective cylinder pressure of 117 lbs. per square inch, and to a co-efficient of adhesion of almost exactly one third.
The London Metropolitan Police District covers 690 square miles, extending 12 to 15 miles in every direction from Charing Cross, and contained in 1881 a population of 4,764,312; but what is generally known as London covers 122 square miles, containing, in 1881, 528,794 houses, and a population of 3,814,574, averaging 7.21 persons per house, 49 per acre, and 31,267 per square mile.
He was never to see his father again. Charlemagne, after his son's departure, went out hunting, according to his custom, in the forest of Ardenne, and continued during the whole autumn his usual mode of life. "But in January, 814, he was taken ill," says Eginhard, "of a violent fever, which kept him to his bed.
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