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In our own day, after having excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the Bievre from the Boulevard de l'Hopital, as far as the Seine; after having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in extent, which crouched near the Barriere des Martyrs, after having, let us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barriere Blanche to the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a depth of eleven metres; after having a thing heretofore unseen made a subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died.
Valued at 600,000 francs. The farm of Blanche-Couronne, 300 hectares, valued at 500,000 francs. The farm of La Rozeraie, 250 hectares, valued at 400,000 francs. The woods and forests of La Mionne, containing 450 hectares, valued at 550,000 francs. And these four amounts, added together at the foot of the bill, gave the respectable sum of 2,050,000 francs.
The stations successively occupied were situated near watercourses or copious springs, and, where possible, on isolated escarped plateaux surrounded by ravines. Hastedon, about a mile and a quarter from Namur, is one of the best examples we can quote. The camp, first made out in 1865, formed a long square, covering some thirteen hectares, or about thirty-two acres.
When the Caliph Omar conquered Irak from the Persians in the middle of the seventh century A.D., and took an inventory of what he had acquired, he found that there were 5,000,000 hectares of land under cultivation, and that the poll-tax was paid by 550,000 householders, which implies a total population, in town and country, of more than 5,000,000 souls, where a bare million and a half maintains itself to-day in city alleys and nomads' tents.
This Souleiade, situated outside the town gates on a plateau dominating the plain, was part of a large estate whose once vast grounds were reduced to less than two hectares in consequence of successive sales, without counting that the construction of the railroad had taken away the last arable fields.
He managed the seven hundred hectares of Piove, near Padua, Madame Steno's favorite estate.
By joining the departments together in combinations which suit his purpose, he has contrived to produce three tables, which he presents as decisive proofs of his theory. The first is as follows: "The legitimate births are, in those departments where there are to each inhabitant Hectares Departments To every 1000 marriages
I had learned by experience that the precise acreage of these highland farms is seldom to be arrived at, the size of a holding in the Lozere and the Cantal often being computed by the heads of stock kept. He informed me that he owned four hundred hectares, that is to say, nearly a thousand acres, a considerable portion of which consisted of rocky waste or scant pasturage.
"Terra Vergine Commune of Ruscino owners Alba from 1620 family of good report regular taxpayers sixty hectares land productive; value just so humph, humph, humph!" Then he laid down the documents and looked at Don Silverio from over his spectacles. "I conclude, most reverend, that you come empowered by this young man to treat with us?"
In the twenty-two counties of England in which there is from one to two hectares to each inhabitant, or from 129 to 259 on the square mile, beginning, therefore, with Huntingdonshire, and ending with Worcestershire, the whole number of marriages during ten years will be found to amount to 379,624, and the whole number of the births during the same term to 1,545,549 or 407 1/10 births to 100 marriages!
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