[SEAL.] Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of July, A.D. 1821, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-sixth.

THE LOG OF A FORTY-NINER; journal of a voyage from Newburyport to San Francisco on the Brig.

He was much the more prolific of the two and wrote alone some forty plays.

Between the perukeoften forty guineas' worththe tie-wig, the scratch, and the man who went content with a little powder, the intervals were measurable.

] Much saddened by the loss of their companions, the Spaniards followed the same coast in a north-westerly direction and, after proceeding some forty leagues, they arrived at a sea whose waters are sufficiently fresh to admit of their replenishing their supply of drinking water.

The forty maintainers of the Floral Games of Clémence Isaure at Toulouse awarded him the title of Maître ès Jeux-Floraux.

"We have in our outfit at Guantanamo forty countermining mines, which I will bring here with as little delay as possible, and if we can succeed in freeing the entrance of mines by their use I will enter the harbor.

In the latter thirties he suffered often from headaches and afflictions of the eyes; in the middle of the forties paralysis of the spinal cord began to manifest itself; and for the last ten years of his life he was a hopelessly stricken invalid, finally doomed for five years to that "mattress grave" which his fortitude no less than his woeful humor has pathetically glorified.

She wrote to a friend: "I prepared mince for forty pies, doing every part myself, even to meat-chopping; picked over lots of apples, stewed a quantity, chopped some more, and made apple pudding; all of which kept me on my feet till almost two o'clock, having to come into the parlor every now and then to receive guests."

Some of the forty recruits, who were in front of the party, had climbed over it; and these afterwards affirmed, that, had the others followed then, the barricade had been gained; but the older soldiers had degenerated, possessed little of these men's zeal or spirit, hesitated, and, their colonel falling, gave back.

I dare say you have heard a young lady of more than forty sing, and you have seen her eyes fill with tears at the pathos of a very commonplace verse.

Other accidents might occur, but the next squall, or the next forty squalls, would not carry one of those reef-knots away.

There are, I assure you, to my positive knowledge forty-threeand in one island in the South Seas, forty-fourdifferent methods of doing murder, any one of which would be entirely beyond the scope of the introspective agencies at the ordinary disposal of society.

Andy bought land at twenty-five and fifty cents an acre, and sold the timber off of it at the rate of one thousand dollars for each forty acres.

Forget me and the peace I have wrought your Cuntry; Bury my memory, raze out my name, My forty yeares endeavoures write in dust That your great Prince may blow 'em into nothing; And on my Monument (you most forgetfull)

One of them, however, named Fox, managed to elude this espionage for some time, and it was the Government geologistnow Sir James Hectorwho, while on a scientific journey, discovered him and some forty companions quietly working in a lonely valley.

A New York agent, with the characteristic enterprise of New York agents, had tracked Diaz even into the forest and offered him two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for forty concerts on the condition that he played at no concert before he played in New York.