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35. oldal - with only a quarter of a pound of powder, was fired off. The ball went through a two-inch board at fixty paces from the mouth of the cannon ; and the piece of ice artillery, -with its carriage, remained uninjured by the explofion. The illumination of the ice palace at night had an aftonifhingly grand effect.
297. oldal - naked about thefe old walls; others eating and drinking with noify feftivity; many more running in frifky gambols about the wood, and followed by young men, playing all forts of tricks, and talking all manner of ribaldry. Hitherto it has not been poffible to put down this ftrange licentious meeting ; in the mean time all the
vii. oldal - their temperature, and to examine into the nature of their foil, their productions, their wealth, as well as the manners and characters of the feveral people by whom they are inhabited. A country of fuch a prodigious extent as the ruffian empire,
433. oldal - intended by nature as the foundation of the military grandeur of the ruffian empire. It appears from the above table that upwards of twenty-three boys were born to twenty girls; while, on the other hand, the deceafe of the male fex exceeded that of the female but by a trifle ; a hundred and four
345. oldal - beyond Perfia and India as far as the Eafternocean, however differing from each other in regard to their origin, language, manners, religion, and cuftoms. Now, that we are better acquainted with thefe nations, we know that the Tartars in reality
296. oldal - Every year, nine days before the feaft of St. George, or, as they call him, St. Yurgen, in the night, great multitudes of boors, of both fexes, and of all ages, from all the adjacent parts, aflemble here, fometimes to the amount of
23. oldal - the letter Afia, where the winter is fcarcely " fenfible, where the primrofes and fpring-faffron *' bloom in February and often in January, and " where the oak frequently retains its foliage the " whole winter through, are, in regard to botany *
35. oldal - two feet in length, fixteen in breadth, and twenty in height. The walls were three feet thick. In the feveral apartments were tables, chairs, beds, and all kinds of
vii. oldal - number of tribes and nations by which it is inhabited, the great diverfity of climates under which they live, or the almoft infinite variety of. natural curiofities with which it abounds. But the greater part of this country is
x. oldal - nothing that might fhed any light on the knowledge of the globe. One part of this fociety was to navigate the northern feas, while the others were to repair by land to Kamtfhatka over Siberia. Thefe latter were to