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The fastest time ever made by a steam locomotive of which there is any record, was the run of five miles from Fleming to Jacksonville, Florida, in two and a half minutes by a Plant system locomotive in March, 1901. This was at the rate of 120 miles an hour. As for steamships, the record of 30.53 miles per hour is held by the Mauretania.
At any rate, Carthage founded stable colonies at Melilla, Larache, Salé and Casablanca. Tingitanian Mauretania was one of the numerous African granaries of Rome. She also supplied the Imperial armies with their famous African cavalry, and among minor articles of exportation were guinea-hens, snails, honey, euphorbia, wild beasts, horses and pearls.
Provoked by this reception Sulla, fearless and skilful as he was, rapidly made himself master of the profession of arms, and in his daring expedition to Mauretania first displayed that peculiar combination of audacity and cunning with reference to which his contemporaries said of him that he was half lion half fox, and that the fox in him was more dangerous than the lion.
The only letter of the alphabet he did not have after his name was "I," and that was because he did not happen to have been born in Indiana. Had that accident happened to him, even the Indiana Society would have given him a place at the speaker's table. He was the skipper of our fleet, had an extra master's certificate entitling him to command even the Mauretania.
Do you want the baseball scores, Mr. Blithers?" "Not unless they come in cipher," said Mr. Blithers acidly. "Some of 'em do. Six to nothing in favor of the Giants, two to nothing Here we are at last. I've picked up the Mauretania again. She's relaying." Mr. Blithers sat down on the steps and looked at his watch. It would be five o'clock in Paris.
I remember crossing in the Mauretania once, and saying to the Captain Richards did you know him? 'Now tell me what perils you really dread most for your ship, Captain Richards? expecting him to say icebergs, or derelicts, or fog, or something of that sort. Not a bit of it. I've always remembered his answer. 'Sedgius aquatici, he said, which I take to be a kind of duck-weed." Mr.
"'Inquiries at the different hotels," read Kinney impressively, "'failed to establish the whereabouts of his lordship and Lady Moya, and it is believed they at once left by train for Newport." With awe Kinney pointed at the red funnels of the Mauretania. "There is the boat that brought them to America," he said.
The splendid Mauretania not only took us safely over, but gave me also that gift which I firmly believe God designed for me a real partner to share in my joys and sorrows, to encourage and support in trouble and failures, to inspire and advise in a thousand ways, and in addition to bring into my distant field of work a personal comrade with the culture, wisdom, and enthusiasm of the American life and the training of one of the very best of its Universities.
And after this the Moors won many victories over the Vandals and gained possession of the land now called Mauretania, extending from Gadira as far as the boundaries of Caesarea, as well as the most of Libya which remained. Such, then, is the story of the settlement of the Moors in Libya.
As Curio had already proposed, the kingdom of Massinissa was broken up. The most eastern portion or region of Sitifis was united with the kingdom of Bocchus king of East Mauretania, and the faithful king Bogud of Tingis was rewarded with considerable gifts. The Victory of Monarchy
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