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Any caliber that will achieve complete penetration through the vital area of a game animal is capable. (after all, a low velocity arrow with 150 fpe will completely penetrate animals)
Petzal: .270 vs. 2009
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Any caliber that will achieve complete penetration through the vital area of a game animal is capable. (after all, a low velocity arrow with 150 fpe will completely penetrate animals)
Petzal: .270 vs. 2009
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In the genus fdncus, in that approximative genus which I have termed fcincoidus, in the tupinambo, and the gecko kind, Paramatta afforded me many remarkable fpe - cies.
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Enemy*s Property not prote6ted under it - 347 — — to import a Cargo in One Veffel, good for the Impor - tation of the fame Cargo in Two Veffels, and from a different Port; it being fhewn that there was an im - poffibility of making the Shipment at the Port fpe - ciiied in the Licence ---- 349
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty; commencing with the judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Easter term 1808 [-1812] Edwards, Thomas, 1775?-1845, reporter 1812
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And by the faid ftatute it is prohibited, that no man fhal procure in the faid Court for other, but only a fewe, that are fpe - cially admitted therto, and that within a precife and incom - petent nombre.
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A certiin & fpe - ciall place for the horfe-falre.
The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Containing the Exposition of Many ... 1797
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This i -; done by difcovering the fpecific gravity of the mixture by means of the hydrometer, and then deducing the proportion from a comparifon of this with the fpe - cific gravities of the ingredients.
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But it will become much denfer, and will even attain the fpe - cific gravity 1,240 by boiling, then holding about 36S ounces in the cubic foot of hot brine.
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There is yet another method of examining the fpe - cific gravities of fluids, firft propofed by Dr Wilfon, late profeffor of aftronomy in the univerlity of Glafgow.
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The mod prominent objetlion is not to the fpe - cies of punifhment; but to the enormous expcnce at - tending it; which could not pofTibly have been fore - fcen at the time, otherwife it would probably have never been adopted. t The
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and ... Patrick Colquhoun 1797
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