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THE ISLAND Oh MALTA

... irhaurs and the Castle off St El- mo ; it is the residence of the Grand Master off ihe ?? of lalti, was built in i£C6, and named after the then Grand Master. John de ia Valctte. il con- tares a great nnmber of convents, hurl, for monks and iiu.-s a iriiu ...

CELTIC LITERATURE AND TRADITION

... Not a place is named after them. All the old traditions are either Scandi- navian or Fenian; and these come in contact with each other. In one place the grave of a Scandi- navian is shown, in another that of -a Fenian. Places are named after'Fionf, Ulaoilte ...

FINE ARTS

... fame of Washington Irving there can be no doubt; indeed we go the length of proclaiming it his master- piece. The book is named after an infant colony established beyond the rocky mountains, by a party of adventurers who penetrated to the shores of the Pacific ...

LITERATURE

... inches high; her- she is also fitted with two side lever engines of the collective heir power of 120 horses. The vessels are named after two of the ling rivers in the colony whereon they are intended to ply. They ate. are both schooner-rigged. Captain M'Kellar ...

PARISIAN FASHIONS

... appears, from the Mechanics'- Magazine of this week, that the two steam carriages of Messrs Braithwaite and. Ericsson (named, after their Maje- sties, the William the Fouirth and the Adelaide), about which there was so much talk a few moniths ago, are ...

Literary Notices

... was the :Veverish dream of hi* life, and the lack of which t his death-bed was worse than all his rain. * The Luggie is named after a small stream that flows past the home of our poet's youth, alid vwhich seemedl to him to be broader and deeper and grander ...

Literary Notices

... . Dedicated :, to- ?? of the 'fleet, - By- U'sdda' .. Baka ?? Edinbprngh. :: .P.at'ersorn and Sons. , THE quadilles,- named after five of the prija- cipal vessels of the fleet tliat.v-isit-ed-otr horbe- last summer-namely, the ToyalIAlbert, the Conqueror ...

Literary Notices

... there is a tradition that she accompanied her husband to Scotland- Arthuf's Seat, in the neighbourhoed of this city, being named after him-and was taken prisoner in one of Aibs battles with the Seots and Picts. A deep recess on the side of Blaryhill, in the ...

Literature

... wide field of use- fulness which is contemplated. The present fleet of boats amount to forty-two, most of which have been named after munificent individuals who have contributed towards the cause. Cost in building, . L.324 4 6 Instalmentspaidbythefishermen ...

LITERATURE

... the baths of Carac~fl and of DI ocletian, 2ea the Pantheon, the, theatre of Pompey;- but almost ~every '1 T] ruin has had name after name applied to it to suchb an ex- ho et tent that the traveller might be said almost to hayii his Wynd choice. Some of ...

CLIPPINGS FROM THE MAGAZINES

... c., on the seventeenth of July eighteen hundred and fifty-four. What it-was in sub- stance, though still retaining the name, -after that. period I have no authority nor desire to state. f The lotiosi was not a very important, or much demanded division ...

[ill] Notices

... ehange of name, as rell as in catses of a grant of arms, whore'a change of name is rendered necessary. 'By reputean bange of name, after thelapse of time, and in a strange community, may be rendered effec- tual lbut there is this disadvantage attending it, ...