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account, which in Corea is seriously believed, the highest peak of this mountain reaches the moderate elevation of forty-four miles. It is famous as the birthplace...

is nearly twenty. The rock over which it pours is a perpendicular wall of trachytic lava. The place from which travellers view the fall is some two hundred...

direction, and is approximately parallel to the great Barizan chain in which it is found, is no less than six geographical miles. These two craters, I believe...

Indeed, it is the only thing there is to break the dull monotony of a residence in this enervating climate, unless, as happened this month, there is an earthquake...

and letting it lie over beyond two years, loses the surplus. No pepper-planter to be taken as a debtor mengiring, under penalty of forty dollars. A planter...

only two thousand three hundred and twenty-one English feet. Its spreading base is considerably less than two miles square. In size, therefore, it is insignificant...

boat, though the sea was calm for two or three days at a time. April 18th.—At 2 P. M. we entered Bencoolen Bay. It is an open roadstead, and the swell...

a limit does the Strait of Sunda form to the faunæ of these two islands, although it is only fifteen miles wide in some places, and islands are nearly...

regulation Yankee pattern, it is yet small, and, though seating three persons besides the driver, can crowd in five when comfort is not the object in view...

FIVE The story of 1794 is but the consequence of what we have just read. It was the little belt or patch upon the Belgian frontier which was still in the...

of money was not to be thought of. To pay forty dollars for forty-eight hours, and three hundred and forty-two geographical miles of nausea in a state-room...

force is brought against it. No much larger force is brought than is necessary: to act in such a fashion would be in military art what paying two or three...

kindly borrowed for me a “bendy,” that is, a small, heavy, two-wheeled chaise. He gave me an order allowing me to use two horses if I pleased; and, by the time...

vegetation. When it has grown to the height of from five to eight inches, or generally at the end of forty days from the time of sowing, it is taken up in...

Tourcoing is a long day’s march: it took the Duke of York four days; and, take the march altogether, nine days were spent in covering less than forty miles...

ashes thrown out at this time, that it is estimated that on the island of Lombok, about ninety miles distant, forty-four thousand persons perished in the...

Here a farewell ban- quet is given me. Fourteen tables are set. Two hours of fun and cozy comfort pass. The hotel is warm. It seems madness to go out in...

great central lake of Biwa, or Omi, forty miles from whose northern point is the harbor and sea-port of Tsuruga, makes it 708-782. Their reigns were prosperous...

be thought wise for its training. The mother nurses it till it is two years of age, and carries it continually about with her attached to her back for...

empire of Japan, conceives of it as a long, narrow, insular strij^ of land, stretching from north to south. Seeing that Yezo is in such high, and Kiushiu...