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Of Donaldson's conduct in these hours of terrible tremity, a passenger wrote:
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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The narrow and dangerous part of the Gulf is about two hundred miles in length, and fifty in breadth, bordered on one side by the coast of Florida, and on the other, first by Cuba, and then by the Bahama Islands, of which the Manilla reef forms the ex - tremity, which reef also terminates the Gulf.
Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845
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Its s ex - tremity, called Portland Point, is in lon.
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Ha. s'over, New, a large ifltnd in the S Pacific Ocean, oppofite the Nw ex - tremity of New Ireland.
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The ifthmus, joining it to the continent on the N, lies between the gulfs of Olutorfk and Penihink; and its ex - tremity to the s is Cape Lopatka.
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In it ia apriacefy tremity of the Wenner lake« 15 miles E. abbey, with a revenue of above SO,0CG of Uddcvalla.
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The marks to know St. Jean de Luz are a high tower, situated on the ex - tremity of the eastern point of the bay, and on which a fire is lighted; and on the western side, above Socoa, is a house placed, which is a signal for that bay.
Le petit Neptune français; or, French coasting pilot, for the coast of Flanders, Channel, Bay of ... Neptune 1793
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My wife is brought to bed of a Daugh - ter between 9. and 10. of the Clock in the morn, Mr. Torrey prayd with Mother and me in the Kitchen of the new house for that mercy; Mother desiring Him, saying that my wife was in great and more than ordinary Ex - tremity, so that she was not able to endure the Chamber:
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These new Plantations were reduced to great ex - tremity the first winter, by reason of the early setting in of the hard weather, which detained their provisions (that came by sea) at the river's mouth, near sixty miles oflf froiy them, (the stream being frozen up all the way be - tween them,) so as the several companies were dispersed;
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Mean while the king repaired to Go - theborg, arrived at the gates fo unexpeftedly, and at fo late an hour, that he had the great-* eft difficulty in gaining admiflion; and the Danifh herald, who the next morning fum - moned the town to furrender, was furprifcd on being introduced to the king, and in - formed by his majefty, that the citizens would defend their ramparts to the laft ex - tremity.
Travels Into Poland: Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. Interspersed with ... 1791
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