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At the distance of 1,364 miles from its mouth this river attains an average depth of fifteen feet; and it is navigated by vessels of 300 tons burden for a course of nearly 500 miles.
It was now claimed that Morgan had already surrendered, namely, to a militia officer, and had been by him paroled. This "officer" turned out to be "Captain" James Burbick, of the home guard. Rue held Morgan, with 364 officers and men and 400 horses, till General Shackelford came up, who held them as prisoners of war. He had taken two or three of their men prisoners, and was using them as guides.
The Austro-Hungarian General Staff on the same day reported: "The total booty for June of the troops fighting under Austro-Hungarian command in the northeast is 521 officers, 194,000 men, 93 cannon, 364 machine guns, 78 ammunition wagons, 100 field railway carriages, etc."
See Conquest of Canada: Victory of Wolfe at Quebec, page 229. See Usurpation of Catharine II in Russia, page 250. See First Partition of Poland, page 313. See Intellectual Revolt of Germany, page 347. See Pestalozzi's Method of Education, page 364. See Conspiracy of Pontiac, page 267. See American Colonies Oppose the Stamp Act, page 289. See Boston Tea Party, page 333.
All these different small collections together represented the Royal library in the early part of the sixteenth century. Henry VIII. had the greater number of the books removed to Greenwich, where there were already some printed volumes and a few manuscripts. Alban's several choice historical and theological works from the pen of Matthew Paris. * Edward's Memoirs of Libraries, i., 364 et seq.
Also, Hossein was always willing to lend any young patrician money with which to pay his losses, at the modest rate of seven ducats to be paid every week for the use of each hundred; which one of the youths, who had a turn for arithmetic, had discovered to be only about 364 per cent yearly, whereas Casadio, the Hebrew, had a method of his own by which he managed to get about 580.
But the scene was changed under the two brothers Valentinian and Valens, who were advanced to the government of the Empire in the year 364. Valentinian adhered to the decisions at Nice, and therefore in the West the Arian sect, a few churches excepted, was wholly extirpated. Valens, on the contrary, took sides with the Arians, and hence in the eastern provinces many calamities befell the orthodox.
Returning for a moment to the outward world, we find that on the death of Jovian, in 364, Valentinian, the new Emperor, continued the system of toleration adopted by his predecessor. On his death, in 375, Gratian, the successor to the imperial throne, so far improved on the example of the two former potentates as to range himself boldly on the side of the partisans of the new faith.
There are several other works of Bourrit on the Glaciers and Mountains of Savoy: the latest and most complete is the following: 364. Descriptions des Cols ou Passages des Alpes. Geneva, 1803. 2 vols. 8vo. Voyage dans les Alpes, précédé d'un Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des Environs de Geneva. Par Saussure. Geneva, 1787 1796. 8 vols. 8vo.
We know at least that at Coquimbo, where five escarpments occur in a height of 364 feet, the successive elevations, if they have been sudden, cannot have been very great.
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