The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volume 30Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1861 - Naval art and science |
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... period of the conquest . It comprises two distinct cities - the imperial one , which has a circumference of two miles and a half and a magnificent palace ; and the other , which surrounds the former , and is seven miles and a half round ...
... period of the conquest . It comprises two distinct cities - the imperial one , which has a circumference of two miles and a half and a magnificent palace ; and the other , which surrounds the former , and is seven miles and a half round ...
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... period , amounted to about £ 1,200 per annum . The sums expended on new works for the improvement of the har- bour , from 1854 to 1860 , were , -for enlarging and deepening the pent , £ 27,000 ; cranes , posts , & c . , £ 2,700 ; works ...
... period , amounted to about £ 1,200 per annum . The sums expended on new works for the improvement of the har- bour , from 1854 to 1860 , were , -for enlarging and deepening the pent , £ 27,000 ; cranes , posts , & c . , £ 2,700 ; works ...
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... periods for entrance and exit , -and that when the tide is suitable early morning - before the sea breeze sets in , and when calms or light winds off the land prevail - may often be pre- ferred . When intending to return to the ship at ...
... periods for entrance and exit , -and that when the tide is suitable early morning - before the sea breeze sets in , and when calms or light winds off the land prevail - may often be pre- ferred . When intending to return to the ship at ...
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... period of my confinement , and on the 29th all excepting the men in chains were liberated . About the middle of that day , while I was lying down , one of the men who watched me , putting his mouth close to my ear , whispered , " Pa ...
... period of my confinement , and on the 29th all excepting the men in chains were liberated . About the middle of that day , while I was lying down , one of the men who watched me , putting his mouth close to my ear , whispered , " Pa ...
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... periods ; and That certain atmospheric phenomena occur also at stated periods . The first is an accepted fact . The second I have to demonstrate ; and if in so doing I prove from a cloud of testimonies that these periods are identical ...
... periods ; and That certain atmospheric phenomena occur also at stated periods . The first is an accepted fact . The second I have to demonstrate ; and if in so doing I prove from a cloud of testimonies that these periods are identical ...
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Page 279 - Union ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country...
Page 279 - Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
Page 279 - States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth,...
Page 535 - I first entered this city the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and with the exception of very imperfect lathes tml a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen. Now everything is done by machine tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand could never accomplish.
Page 64 - Americans may freely buy from Japanese and sell to them any articles that either may have for sale, without the intervention of any Japanese officers in such purchase or sale, or in making or receiving payment for the same ; and all classes of Japanese may purchase, sell, keep, or use any articles sold to them by the Americans.
Page 521 - But the real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new inventions and riches.
Page 657 - ... carries with it all the sods that have been chucked in, and scatters them, scalded , and half-digested, at your feet. So irritated has the poor thing's stomach become by the discipline it has undergone, that even long after all foreign matter has been thrown off it goes on retching and sputtering, until at last nature is exhausted, when, sobbing and sighing to itself, it sinks back into the bottom of its den.
Page 279 - Deeming that the present condition of public affairs presents an extraordinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, convene both houses of Congress.
Page 279 - Whereas an insurrection against the government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas...
Page 656 - As he has no basin to protect him from these liberties, you can approach to the very edge of the pipe, about five feet in diameter, and look down at the boiling water which is perpetually seething at the bottom. In a few minutes the dose of turf you have just administered begins to disagree with him ; he works himself up into an awful passion — tormented by the qualms of incipient sickness, he groans and hisses, and boils up, and spits at you with malicious vehemence, until at last, with a roar...