Schweinfurth believed the Welle Makua flowed north to Lake Chad on the edge of the Sahara; seventeen years later, after six or seven explorers had tried to solve the problem, the river was found to be the upper part of the Mobangi tributary of the Congo, larger than any rivers of Europe, excepting the Volga and Danube.

It has been found that the most of South Africa stands so high above the sea that the influences of a temperate climate are projected far towards the Equator; so that many white men, women, and children are living and thriving on farms in Mashonaland, seven degrees of latitude nearer the equator than the south end of Florida.

Arab slave-dealers no longer raid the Congo plains and forests for slaves, killing seven persons for every one they lead into captivity.

It is a column of basalt seven feet high and about two feet wide at the base, from which it narrows slightly, until near the top it is reduced by three steps.

Not a line was defaced; at the British Museum it can be seen to-day as perfect as when engraved twenty-seven centuries ago.

We cannot go back so far in the history of BabyloniaProfessor Hilprecht dares to carry us seven thousand years before Christthat we do not find its kings fighting against Elam.

I'm only thirty-seven.

"You have a young girl living with you, about seven or eight years old, have you not?" inquired the artist.

" "Well," said the baker, thoughtfully, "I should say this little girl was seven or eight years old.

It is now about seven years since my husband and myself were employed to carry off a childa female child of a year oldnamed Ida.

"Seven years since.

" Mr. John Somerville opened the door, and for the first time in seven years his glance fell upon the child whom for so long a time he had defrauded of a mother's care and tenderness.

"Seven years," she answered.

For seven years I have led a sad and solitary lifeseven years that might have been gladdened and cheered by my darling's presence!"

If you restore me my child now, will not even that be a poor atonement for the wrong you did me seven years since"she spoke rapidly now"for the grief, and loneliness, and sorrow which your wickedness and cruelty have wrought?" "I do not understand you," he said, faltering.

This is an elegant little collection of seven songs, a trio, duet, and glee, set to music, or "as they are appointed to be said or sung."

"Sir," said Barton, who had served me for seven years without having once been found fault with, "I see you think me unworthy your confidence; you could not have known this, if you had not watched, and followed, and overheard me and my sweetheart; my character will get me through the world without being looked after.

An annual Board of Visitors is appointed, seven being appointed by the President of the United States, two by the President of the Senate, and three by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

It was not of a very exalted nature, and caused more strain upon the back than the intellect, but seven years of roughing it had left him singularly free from caste prejudices, a freedom which he soon discovered was not shared by his old acquaintances at Sunwich.

He had not been in such comfortable quarters since he left home seven years before.

"I was on'y seven when 'e started," said Mrs. Silk, sharply.

"Oh, seven," he remarked.

He would eat seven or eight peaches before breakfast, and declared that he had only once in his life had as much wall-fruit as he wished.

The houses were not much altered, but the signboards had got new names and figures; and as for the faces, they were to him even as those in Crete to the Cretan, after he awoke from a sleep of forty-seven yearsa similitude only true in this change, for Epimenidas was still as young when he awoke as when he went to sleep, but William Halket was old among the young and the grown, who were unknown to him, as he was indeed strange to them.

It would never have done, anyway, to send the probes out in a tight bunch as the seven NME freighters; deployment must be simultaneously effected from several sites, and this is the command I just gave Captain Marks-Owens.