Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 294William Blackwood, 1963 |
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Pagina 324
... packet service was not financially successful for many years ; until 1702 it showed a steady annual loss of anything from three to seven thousand pounds . This de- pressing state of affairs , however , did not seem to worry the ...
... packet service was not financially successful for many years ; until 1702 it showed a steady annual loss of anything from three to seven thousand pounds . This de- pressing state of affairs , however , did not seem to worry the ...
Pagina 326
... packet service over- reached themselves , as was described to an interested and , I am sorry to say , amused House of Commons in 1781. A seaman one fine day called at the General Post Office with a piti- ful tale of his sufferings in ...
... packet service over- reached themselves , as was described to an interested and , I am sorry to say , amused House of Commons in 1781. A seaman one fine day called at the General Post Office with a piti- ful tale of his sufferings in ...
Pagina 332
... packets no more . Perhaps some foggy night one may see a quiet ghost slide slowly past St Anthony's lighthouse as the horn booms its warning to the shipping in the Channel . It may well be a tired old packet returning to the scene of ...
... packets no more . Perhaps some foggy night one may see a quiet ghost slide slowly past St Anthony's lighthouse as the horn booms its warning to the shipping in the Channel . It may well be a tired old packet returning to the scene of ...
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OLD MACDONALDS FARM BY JAMES HUNTER CAPIE | 192 |
PERSIAN DAYS BY J R H TWEED | 288 |
A JOURNEY TO THE GRAN SASSO BY LESLIE GARDINER | 384 |
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