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... important are the General Hospital ( founded 1766 , rebuilt on new site 1894-97 , cost over $ 1,000,000 ) ; the Queen's Hospital ; Free Hospital for Sick Children ; Women's Hospital ; Ear and Throat Hospital ; Ortho- pædic and Spinal ...
... important are the General Hospital ( founded 1766 , rebuilt on new site 1894-97 , cost over $ 1,000,000 ) ; the Queen's Hospital ; Free Hospital for Sick Children ; Women's Hospital ; Ear and Throat Hospital ; Ortho- pædic and Spinal ...
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... importance of the question and the uncertainty of the proof have occasioned a great variety of opinions among medical ... important works have been translated into English by C. E. Sa- chaw , among these being Chronology of An- cient ...
... importance of the question and the uncertainty of the proof have occasioned a great variety of opinions among medical ... important works have been translated into English by C. E. Sa- chaw , among these being Chronology of An- cient ...
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... important mineral is iron , which is found of excellent quality throughout the province and is extensively worked . Lead , copper and zinc also occur . The inhabitants of Biscay , who are called Basques , are brave , active and in ...
... important mineral is iron , which is found of excellent quality throughout the province and is extensively worked . Lead , copper and zinc also occur . The inhabitants of Biscay , who are called Basques , are brave , active and in ...
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... importance and became a metropolitan see . Its bishops made claim to be the first see in the Christian world after ... important . The Reformation lessened the number of bishops , and though in some of the Protestant countries of the ...
... importance and became a metropolitan see . Its bishops made claim to be the first see in the Christian world after ... important . The Reformation lessened the number of bishops , and though in some of the Protestant countries of the ...
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... important branch of industry , in which many persons are employed . Watches are also made , as well as orchestrions ... importance in the produc- tion of precious metals . The length of the Black Hills is about 100 miles and the greatest ...
... important branch of industry , in which many persons are employed . Watches are also made , as well as orchestrions ... importance in the produc- tion of precious metals . The length of the Black Hills is about 100 miles and the greatest ...
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Page 329 - Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Page 329 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix, from its mouth^ in the Bay of Fundy to its source; and from its source directly North to the aforesaid Highlands, which divide the Rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the River St. Lawrence...
Page 97 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 358 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 333 - Republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of its deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river...
Page 330 - River, to a point in the middle of that river, about one mile above St. George's or Sugar Island, so as to appropriate and assign the said island to the United States; thence, adopting the line traced on the maps by the Commissioners, thro
Page 328 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control...
Page 329 - Comprehending all Islands within Twenty Leagues of any Part of the Shores of the United States, and lying between Lines to be drawn due East from the Points where the aforesaid Boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one Part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such Islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the Limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.
Page 329 - Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river, to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 331 - Equator, to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river, and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic Ocean : — East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St.