...tract between the Rhine and the Moselle, but the clearances referred to are believed to have been made at the close of the last and at the commencement of the present century, and even granting that they were as extensive as they are supposed to have been, they would not affect...

...than in this country. The oratory, sometimes denunciatory, sometimes sympathetic, common in England at the close of the last and at the commencement of the present century, was the answering echo to the combined appeals and defiance addressed by the Republican Prometheus...

...point is placed beyond dispute. Then, not one half as much was known of the islands of the Pacific, at the close of the last, and at the commencement of the present century, as is known to-day. In such a dearth of precise information, it may very well have happened that many...

...the intimate connection between Olney and the great Missionary movement that stirred the whole nation at the close of the last and at the commencement of the present century has hitherto been completely ignored. How many are aware that Sutcliff, one of the committee of five...

...quesL 2 tion, is perhaps the best in the world. The theory that wood subject to the action of tides in salt water may become the origin of disease, is,...yellow fever has existed to any dangerous degree in New- York, and neither of them proved very fatal, though it is certain that the »rrangements of the...

...point is placed beyond dispute. Then, not one half as much was known of the islands of the Pacific, at the close of the last, and at the commencement of the present century, as is known today. In such a dearth of precise information, it mav very well have happened that many...