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When the road is 25 feet wide, the carriages move two a breaft, to (horten the line of march, and be the more ready to repel an attack.
A Treatise on Gun-powder ; A Treatise on Fire-arms ; and A Treatise on the Service of Artillery ... 1789
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Plant the ftandard Mulberries in any dry, flickered, fun nyexpofure, either together, thirty feet diftance, or detached in diffe - rent places; and let them generally take their natural growth, retrenching cafual dead wood? or any very ill growing or low ftraggling branch; but never (horten the fhoots, and they will then bear plen - tiful crops of berries annually.
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And it was in compliance with this new plan of na - vigation, and to (horten the run both backwards and forwards, that the ftaple of this commerce to and from Manila, was removed from Callao on the coaft of Peru, to the port of Acapulco on the coaft of Mexi - co, where it continues fixed to this time.
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