The fleeces of the ewes average eight pounds, and sell for two dollars each.

On this account I found I could not average more than ten miles per day on the lakes, little more than half of what could be done on the river.

A hundred or more, averaging at least a hundred feet in height, stood motionless in the full cut of the strong trade- wind.

We learn from exchanges that in Missouri, where the wages of working-people average five dollars per diem, that the Legislature have decreed a Mining Bureau, and a Geological Survey of the Statethe remuneration of the assistant geologists to be at the rate of $1.50 per diem.

800,000 5,600,000 Live Cod, averaging 10 lbs.

In one of these was a number of beautiful speckled trout, averaging maybe a quarter of a pound each in weight.

Just after a moderate meal it averages about twelve inches in length and four in diameter, with a capacity of about four pints.

Production in recent years has averaged about 2,500,000 tons.

The families of the country average five persons in number.

These engines are extremely simple, but well proportioned, and are a very handsome type, and their average consumption of coal, working trains averaging ten coaches, is about 24.87 lb.

each 2,470,000 4,940,000 Plaice, averaging 1 lb.

The Britannica, Edinburgh, Metropolitana, English, Penny, London, Oxford, and that of Kees, are most elaborate works, extending respectively to about a score of heavy volumes, averaging eight or nine hundred pages each.

Edmund Spenser averages about fifty words to each of his prose sentences; Richard Hooker, about forty-one.

The same soil which ordinarily produced ten cart-loads of yams to the acrethe present season barely averaged one load to ten acres!

Tahiti has an unexcelled climate for the tropics, the temperature for the year averaging seventy-seven degrees and varying from sixty-nine to eighty-four degrees.

His wages averaged only about seven shillings a week; and there were five of them in the family to live on what they could earn.

On these I put a second distinct mark, and again returned them to the river, and on the next ensuing summer (1836) I recaptured a portion of them, about one in twenty, averaging a weight of four pounds.

The break at noon in the great manufactories, as well as in the family workshop, is long, averaging one hour and a half, and reaching often to two hours.

The 1611 version of the first four chapters of the Gospel of John averages 96 per cent of Anglo-Saxon words, and Shakespeare 89 per cent, while Gibbon's average of 70 per cent is the lowest of any great writer.

I saw many tracts of wheat, from half a mile to a mile in extent, which would average forty bushels to the acre.

The total area cultivated with poppies will average 575,000 acres.

Five Roman armies, averaging 30,000 men apiece, he trapped and slaughtered.

The auxiliaries average not less than 80 members each; making an aggregate of 112,480.

For the last four days I had scarcely stirred outside the shed, and I don't suppose I had averaged more than three hours' sleep a night the whole time.

The piece of river connecting Tagish and Marsh Lakes is about five miles long, and averages 150 to 200 yards in width, and, as already mentioned, is deep, except for a short distance at the head.