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having 200 pounds, or 9200 sovereigns in his sack. 

 Placed in a line of sovereigns, each touching the 

 other, and averaging three-fourths of an inch in 

 diameter, they would reach 484,330 miles, or twenty 

 times around the globe at the equator. It would 

 require 313 men to count it in a year, each counting 

 at sixty sovereigns a second, working ten hours a day, 

 and 300 days in a year. The wages of laborers 

 in Great Britain, including old and young, women 

 and children, will not average over 10s. a week. 

 Then, at this rate of wages, it would take 13,011,621 

 laborers ten years to earn what Great Britain 

 expended in the litigation of the battle-field from 1688 

 to 1815. It would require 520 ships to convey that 

 amount in silver, each freighted with 1000 tons 

 of that precious metal. Surely, war is the consum- 

 mation of all human follies, waste and profligacy. 



" Here are a few of the reminiscences of war 

 entirely shorn of poetry. They are bloody witnesses, 

 and let them testify. In the periodical butcheries in 

 the human family, the following hecatombs have been 

 offered up to that god of battles which Christians and 

 Pagans have worshipped with the same devotion : — 



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