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C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War 14 0 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 14 0 Browse Search
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1865., [Electronic resource], An Interesting Incident of the battle of Franklin. (search)
ggars and vagabonds in France. In a recent work, Hugo says there are thirteen hundred thousand peasants' cottages that have but three openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand that have two--the door and one window — and, finally, three hundred and forty-six thousand cabins with only one opening — the door. And this in consequence of what is called the excise upon doors and windows. In these poor families, among the aged women and little children dwelling in these huts, how abundant is fever and disease! In Lere, in Var, and in the Upper and Lower Alps, the peasants have not even wheelbarrows; they carry the manure on their backs; they have no candles, but burn pine knots and bits of rope, soaked in pitch. And the same is the case all through the upper part of Dauphine. They make bread once in six months, and bake it with the refuse of the fields. In the winter it becomes so hard that they cut it up with an exe, and soak it for twenty four hours before they can eat i