In addition to the alcabala, there were transit duties through the country, under which, it has been alleged, that European articles were sometimes taxed thirty times before they reached their consumer.
Not so with the opposition now when the course of his transit was reversed, and the same event occurred to themselves.
He died suddenly, at the early age of fifty-two, and without the sufferings and premonitions which usually accompany the mortal transit from time to eternity.
Second, the Transit Railroad Company, to build from Winona by way of St. Peter to the Big Sioux River north of 45 degrees north latitude.
Filene of Boston in trying to have a successful department store found the women behind his counters got very tired standing in the street cars night and morning on the way home and took up with a will getting new rapid transit for Boston.
I couldn't help thinking what it would mean if we had an equally well-organized arrangement for rapid transit of boxes--boxes people have got out of or got into, as we have for conveying other boxes people are mixed up with.
He found he could not get rapid transit for Boston without helping to get a new government and that he could not get a new government without helping to get a new Boston.
In estimating the expenditure of the office the department at Washington debits itself with the sums paid for the ocean transit of its mails, amounting to something over one hundred and fifty thousand pounds.
The distances of the city are very great, the means of transit through the city very limited, the dirt of the city ways unrivaled in depth and tenacity, and yet there is but one post-office.
This supply of meat materially contributed towards the provisioning of the party for the transit of the unknown land that lay between us and Mrera, in Rusawa, Kawendi.
Everything auguring well for our prospects, we encamped to enjoy the good cheer, for which our troubles and privations, during the transit of the Ukawendi forests and jungles, had well prepared us.
Should it fail of success in its errand of rapidtransit to Ujiji and back, it must simply happen from an accident which could not be controlled.
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
The banks were brimful, and broad nullahs were full of water, and the fields were inundated, and still the rain came surging down in a shower, that warned us of what we might expect during our transit of the sea-coast region.
Soon after arriving I had to bury myself under blankets, plagued with the same intermittent fever which first attacked me during the transit of Marenga Mkali.
The territory lying between the Rovuma River and this Wahiyou village was an uninhabited wilderness, during the transit of which Livingstone and his expedition suffered considerably from hunger and desertion of men.
With this I close the chapter of incidents experienced during our transit across the maritime region.
After we had built our camp, the kirangozi was furnished with some cloths to purchase food from the village for the transit of a wilderness in front of us, which was said to extend nine marches, or 135 miles.
At Mrera, Central Ukonongo, we halted a day to grind grain, and to prepare the provision we should need during the transitof the wilderness between Mrera and Manyara.
In the meantime the people had cut, sliced, and dried this bounteous store of meat for our transit through the long wilderness before us.
We had our flocks of milch-goats and provision of fat sheep for the jungle of Ukawendi, the transit of which I was about to attempt.
Of course, for many a long year afterwards there were not wanting numbers of bigoted men of the old school who cried down the new-fangled system, and would hear of no means of transit but the stage-coach and the canal-boat.
The effect of these two canals was quickly perceptible in the increased activity of commerce on Lake Erie, and the Erie Canal has rendered this lake the great line of transit from New York to the Western States.
You may note so much in the rapid transit of the train, which ten minutes after its departure from Penrith station is fairly at the feet of the mountains.
Monsieur Chartrey, the superintendent of the transit department of the canal, was very polite to them, and explained everything to them in English.
About the beginning of the sixteenth century, Albuquerque the "Terrible" revived the scheme of turning the Nile into the Red Sea, with the hope of destroying the transit trade through Egypt by way of Kesseir.
I retain your little etching of Brigham Young as a bit of real likeness; I have often thought of your transit through Chicago since poor Chicago itself vanished out of the world on wings of fire.
I would make the railways, the carriage of letters, and the transit of goods as free as the roads and bridges.
The cost of actual working is comparatively inconsiderable, while the benefits of free transit are incalculable.
She makes the transit easily in three hours and a half; and returns in the afternoon, after an absence of scarcely more than eight hours.
World Standard Time, Professor Boyle observed a dark body in transit across the moon.
With a transit he took the bearing of the path and laid it out on a large scale map.
Here occurred an accident to the transit instrument, which fortunately was easily remedied.
Accidental errors of eyesight and perception are nearly eliminated by taking the star's transit over several lines instead of one and using the mean.
Suppose two stations A and B connected by wire, and provided with clocks, chronographs and transit instruments.
Davis in '83 was found, his transit pier, which was still standing was repaired, and instruments mounted.
In the particular case of observing the transit of a star, most people will record it on a chronograph from one to three tenths of a second after it happens.
In digging for a foundation for the transit pier, several mummies of the ancient Peruvians were unearthed at a depth of a foot.
These corrections all being found and applied to the observation of each star, the result is the correct time of transit as shown by the chronometer, and the difference between that time and the true time, is the error of the chronometer.
The weight of all transit instruments causes a flexure of the horizontal axis and this effect is at its maximum in those of the prismatic pattern.
The transit instrument is furnished with an eye-piece containing a number of parallel lines usually made of spider silk.
This is an instrument in which an artificial star is made to record its own transit over the wires of a reticle, while the observer records the same with a chronograph key.
The difference of the clock time of transit and the real time as already known, would be the clock error and no further trouble would be required.
The observer at A the eastern station, selects a star from his list and sets his transitinstrument upon it.
Everything being ready, the routine of the work was as follows:--The transit being carefully leveled was placed in the meridian by observation of zenith and circumpolar stars.
Fortunately the precaution had been taken to bring along a couple of spare instruments, borrowed from the Transit of Venus Commission for use in case of such an accident.
From August 10 to 23 all British forces were busy covering the transit of the first troops sent to the Continent.
In consequence, he was detailed to undertake expeditions for observing the transit of Venus and for discovering the southern continent which was supposed to exist in the neighborhood of the Antarctic circle.
We rather would watch a good bowler Than Bears, be they little or Polar; And bar, though of masculine genus, Wise talk on the Transit of Venus.
But to-morrow we'll bring out Professor Gray's transit and show you the way it's done.
The transit was then placed exactly over the stake C and, peeping again, Bill found the angle from the base line to the stake B and the line to stake A to be 78 degrees.
We can bring the transitout this afternoon for taking the levels.
The rail road train made the transit from Springfield to Hartford, 26 miles, in 33 minutes.
A transitof the moon over the planet mars observed by Aristotle.
He accompanied empress Catherine's famous expedition to Siberia, for the observation of the transit of Venus, &c.
An affray occurred at Panama between the passengers of the American transit company and the natives, in which 30 passengers were killed and 20 wounded.
He seems to have been the first to observe the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, from which he deduced many useful observations, though not aware of the full importance of that phenomenon.
He was consulted as to the best spot for the observation of the transit of Venus, and he selected an island which he had discovered, and which was named by him after George III.
England and France had just sent expeditions to observe the transit of Venus.
Illustration: Tree, from beneath which Cook observed the transit of Venus.
Solander, and myself, observed the entire transit of Venus with the greatest ease.
It was, however, necessary to make a stay of five or six days in this district, to observe the transit of Mercury.
Tree, from beneath which Cook observed the transit of Venus .
Four others proceeded to a favourable distance from the fort, where Cook himself proposed to await the transit of the planet.
For, although the observation of the transit of Venus was the principal object of the voyage, it was by no means the only one.
On the 9th of November, Cook and Green landed to observe the transit of Mercury.
The Mexican interiortransit duties should also be abolished, and also their internal Government duty on coin and bullion.
The transit of the Channel forty-five years ago was, however, very different from that at present, and it was already the evening of the following day when he reached Dublin.
He walked lame, and in the shuddering look he gave around in the short transit from the carriage to the house-door, showed that such prospects, however grand and picturesque, had few charms for him.
