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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 18 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 8 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 8 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 6 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 6 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 6 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Interesting facts. (search)
1 in 1,299; in Massachusetts, to 1 in 43; in Maine, to 1 in 14. The height above the ocean which gives protection to the life of a European in hot climates, becomes fatal to the negro. M. Boudin refers to the fact that, in the earliest times, despotism made use of exile into countries alien to their nature for the destruction of different people. With this view, after the destruction of Jerusalem, a great number of Jews was sent to Sardinia, on the occasion of whose exile the heathen Tacitus makes a reflection which the Northern Christians have indulged towards their own friends, whom they have sent to invade the South: "Even if they should fall victims to a murderous climate, the loss would not be very great." After the war of the Morea, Mehemet Ali, wishing to get clear of the undisciplined Arnouts, sent them to the shores of the Red Sea, where, in a few years, eighteen thousand men were reduced to four thousand, by the mere influence of the climate. The deaths among the