A terrific storm of shot, shell, and grape assailed the garita, where Captain Dunn had planted an 8-pounder.

In fact the observations of 1842 were sent to press on Mar. 1st, 1843.About this year the Annual Dinner at the Visitation began to be more important, principally under the management of Capt. W.H. Smyth, R.N.In November I was enquiring about an 8-inch object-glass.

"In April I received authority to purchase of Simms an 8-inch object-glass for the new Transit Circle for £300.

= 2362.5 feet or very nearly 2400 ft. and if I inch of belt would transmit 3 H. P. running this speed, a 6 inch belt would transmit 18 H.P., a 7 inch belt, 21 H.P., an 8 inch belt 24 H.P., and so on.

My experience has has led me to the conclusion that pumping water with a wind mill is not a fair test of the power that it is capable of developing, for the following reasons: A pumping wind mill is ordinarily attached to a pump of suitable size to allow the mill to run at a mean speed in an 8 to 10 mile wind.

"Dass wir kaum 6 Stunden gefahren sind"even supposing there is no misprint of a 6 for an 8 or 9, which is quite possiblewill not, I apprehend, bear the meaning he collects from the words, viz.

We have known for a long time that the artillery materiel devoted to the defense of the German coasts consists of a long, stationary 5¾ inch gun; of long 7¾ inch hooped steel guns, closed by a cylindrico-prismatic wedge; of an 8 inch mortar; and of guns of 11¾ and 15 inch caliber.

It contains 2,300 four ounce sand shots and an 8 lb. bursting charge.

Such a casting, if free from other impurities, would have a strength of between 30 and 40 tons, and on an 8 inch specimen would give an elongation of 20 per cent.

In this case plant six roots in an 8-in.

pot, or three may be placed in an 8-in.

[Footnote 3: For example, increase less than 25 per cent per hour in changing from a 10 hour to an 8 hour day.]