The thousand odd officers and men on parade nearly threw a canary fit.

In the book of Pſalms there are many things ſaid of David, which ſeem capable of a much auguſter ſenſe than can be pretended to be anſwered by any thing that befel himſelf.

The Chinsha was a formidable obstacle, falling from a height above sea level of some 8,200 feet at Paan or Batang on the Szechuan-Tibet border to less than 900 feet at Yipin, where it enters the Red Basin to become the Yangtze. From beginning to end, from the headwater in Chinghai to Yipin, the Chinsha River falls by an average of about eighteen feet per mile.

The Inventory of the Estate of Daniel Malthie Late of Branford, Dec'd, taken and apprised by Samuel Harrington and Samuel Stent, February ye 4th, 1731-2: […] one brass Kittle, £3; one brass Kittle, £7 . . 10 0 0 one box Iron and Heeters, 7s; one Crevet, 1s 0 8 0 one brass candlestick, 4s; one Iron candle-stick, 2s […]