Ancient customs and Samoan islands split in 1800 accord
Fragmentary OCR traces describe old feudal duties in England with a bribe of a wild boar and rent in kind, alongside a December 2 1800 treaty reallocating the Samoan Islands between the United States and Germany with Britain retiring. The text hints at civil strife blamed on German intrigues and aggression.
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Meee
Chichester
Bryanstum
Reet
Bradley
Grimeby
London On
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Great Brittany
Figures of Speech Play With Words in Old Journal
An elderly woman glosses a zoo visit as enjoying a trip to the Theological Gardens. A servant explains her master’s illness with a remark about a consola tion and something eternal. A lady recalls Italy and sees people in carriages of monkeys with tonsils on their heads.
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Teschbing
Italy
Monke
Good Rules for Life's Conduct
Those that are perfect men do not easily give credit to everything one tells them, for they know that human frailty is prone to evil, and very subject to fail inwards. It is great wisdom not to be rash in thy proceedings, not to stand stiffly in thine own concerts, as also not to believe everything which thou hearst, nor presently to relate again to others what thou hast heard or dost believe.
Submarine coal mines and distant sea deposits
Submarine coal deposits are few and lightly worked. Tunnels at Whitehaven extend about four miles under the Irish Sea, with mining also near Bolness by the Firth of Forth and at Monkwearmouth in Durham. The rest discusses daily virtue and the small gold within everyday life, and notes performing monkeys often die from fright during training.
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British Sea
Whitehaven
Irish Sea
Bolness
Firth of Forth
Monkwearmonths
Durham
Ife
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