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It is clearly shown in our figure Sir Henry LAYARD leaves us in no doubt on this score: "The Birs-Nimroud rises to a height of 198 feet, and has on its summit a compact mass of brickwork thirty-seven feet high by twenty-eight broad, the whole being thus 235 feet in perpendicular height," Discoveries, p. 495.

The receipts into the Treasury from the first of January to the 30th of September last have amounted to $16,219,197.70, which, with the balance of $1,198,461.21 in the Treasury on the former day, make the aggregate sum of $17,417,658.91.

Almost all of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics. It is a mountainous island, and contains forty seven navigable streams. The roads are merely paths beaten down by cattle. Exports in 1887 were valued at $10,181,291; imports, $10,198,006. Gold, copper, salt, coal and iron abound.

William Wise, Mayor of Waterford, to Cromwell, July 12, 1534: State Papers, Vol. II. p. 198. On the 21st of July, O'Brien of Thomond wrote the following characteristic letter to Charles: Corny O'Brien, Prince of Ireland, to the Emperor Charles V. "July 21, 1534. "To the most sacred and most invincible Cæsar, Charles Emperor of the Romans, Most Catholic King of Spain, health with all submission.

Halsey W. Wilson, a trained worker, to assist the State organization. In January, 1919, Dr. Shaw attended a conference at Orlando and $1,000 were raised; later at a conference in Tampa, $198 and at one in Miami and West Palm Beach $260. Miss Elizabeth Skinner was appointed State organizer and the National Association sent one of its most capable organizers, Mrs. Maria McMahon.

These figures are from census reports, and represent an advance of 198 per cent in the industry over its condition as represented at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. There is scarcely another such record of increase in the whole range of industries of the United States.

T. W. Rolleston, Parallel Paths. Phys. ii. 8, 198 16-34. Pp. 28-9. Phys. ii, c. De Part. An., Bk. i, c. 5. Phys. ii. I, init. De Anima, init. Meteor, iv. 1. 378. See Zeller's Aristotle, vol. i, fin. Polit. 1253 a; Eth. 1162 a. Gen. An. ii. 3. 737.

Today the $198 de luxe special 4-room outfit would feel naked and ashamed without its '1 Pedestal' and '1 Piece of Statuary. Yet what on earth does a happy couple, bravely starting life with twenty dollars, want of a pedestal and a piece of statuary? And I notice also that the outfit 'a complete home, says the description makes no provision for a kitchen; but perhaps they are no longer de luxe.

"Vanguard, at sea, 22d June 1798. Clarke and M'Arthur's Life of Nelson, vol. ii. p. 100. That is, counting from May 19, when Bonaparte left Toulon, to June 7, when Troubridge's squadron joined, and pursuit began. Nelson to Lord Howe. G. Lathom Browne's Life of Nelson, p. 198.

The elevation at Tallac is 6225 feet; at Echo, 7500 feet; Strawberry, 5700 feet; Kyburgs, 4000 feet; Riverton, 3300 feet; Pacific House, 3400 feet; Sportsman's Hall, 3600 feet; Camino, 3000 feet; Smith's Flat, 2250 feet; Placerville, 1830 feet; El Dorado, 1610 feet; Folsom, 198 feet, and Sacramento, 32 feet. A well equipped auto stage is run daily between Tallac House and Placerville.