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Manila, fituate m latitude fourteen degrees thirty-fix minutes eight feconds, north longitude eaft of Paris, one hundred and eighteen degrees thirty-one minutes fifteen feconds, is a city built on the banks of the river Bahia.
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Four cubical feet of water flowed into the veflTel Y in 41 feconds.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts .. 1797
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T.e glafs tube QRT. fig. 6, in this new fituation was fo difpofed that its lower extremity was immerfed as before in the coloured liquid of the veflcl T. WUen the efflux was permitted, the expenditure of four cubic feet was made in 34 feconds; and the coloured liquid rofe in the tube RT.to the height of near 20 inches.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts .. 1797
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The time allowed him to perform it in, was three hours, which he performed in two hours, fifty-five minutes, and thirtem feconds.
Sporting Magazine 1796
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In the encounter, on the 27th df July, 1778, off Br eft, he was ftationed as one of the feconds to fir Hugh Pal - lifer, who commanded the rear divifion, and though very diftinguifhedly engaged, had only two - men killed and eighteen woundea.
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W95 captain of the Edinburgh of feventyguns, one of the fl? et fent under fir Charles vVager to the Baltic, and was ftationed as one of the feconds to fir George Walton, rear-admiral of the blue, and fecond in «ominand of the Britifli divifion.
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When it proceeded, in 1782, under the orders of lord Howe to Gibraltar, captain Dalrymple was ftationed in the line as one of the feconds to vice-admiral Milbank, who com - manded the firft divifion of the rear fquadron* He ap - pears to have been very materially concerned in the ftioirt* encotintcr with the combined fleets of France alid Spain having had twenty men killed and wounded*
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Digitized by Google MO tlVES AND CHARACTERS OF meafts - relieving the earl Cornwallis, at York Town, fce* was ftationed in the line as. one of the feconds to the commander-in-chief; but as we have already had
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In the encounter off Grenada, on the 6th of July foU lowing, with the French fleet, commanded by the coimt D'Eftaing, the Sultan was flationed in the line as one of the feconds to the commander-in-chief, and was very warmly engaged, having been one of the ftiips which began the adiion under a prefs of fail, and of courfe fuf - fcred very feverely, having had fixteen men killed, and thirty-nine wounded.
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In 1666 he was appointed, by prince Rupert and the duke of Albe - maile, captain of the Advice of forty-eight guns, and ferved in the adion of the a5th of July, which was fo deciflve on the part of the Engliih, as one of the feconds to ftr Edward Spragge.
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