Plays,

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The wars of the gulls; : an historical romance in three chapters; chap. I, Shewing how and why and with whom the gulls went to war: chap. II, Shewing how the gulls make the deep to boil like a pot: chap. III, Shewing how a certain doughty general of the gulls goes forth to play the game of hull-gull in Upper Canada.

Transcribed on front paste-down: W.G. Phelps Oct. 29 1890.

The wars of the gulls; : an historical romance in three chapters

A satire on Brigadier-General William Hull's failed campaign against Upper Canada in 1812 and the reaction from the United States government under President Madison. Full Title: The wars of the gulls; : an historical romance in three chapters; chap. I, Shewing how and why and with whom the gulls went to war: chap. II, Shewing how the gulls make the deep to boil like a pot: chap. III, Shewing how a certain doughty general of the gulls goes forth to play the game of hull-gull in Upper Canada Transcribed on front paste-down: W.G. Phelps Oct. 29 1890. A Federalist satire by J. Bigelow and N. Hale.

Report on the present state of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal : the estimated cost of completing it to Cumberland and the prospects of income to be derived ... /

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Inquiry into the best mode of supplying the city of Boston with water for domestic purposes : in reply to the pamphlets of Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Shattuck and also to some of the representations to the committee of the legislature, on the hearing of the petition of the city /

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Notes made during an excursion to the highlands of New Hampshire and lake Winnipiseogee /

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The American system, or the effects of high duties on imports designed for the encouragement of domestic industry; with remarks on the late annual treasury report.

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Boston miscellany.

Editors: 1842, Nathan Hale. 1843- H.T. Tuckerman.

A communication by the directors to the stockholders of the Boston & Worcester railroad corporation, in relation to the late award of commissioners and the strictures of the president of the Western railroad corporation thereon.

Other issues, with same imprint, have 68, [4] and 72 pages, respectively.

Franks family papers, 1711-1821, [1965-1968].

Contains business correspondence, accounts and documents relating to Jacob Franks of New York, his two sons, Moses and David, a nephew, Isaac, and a John Franks of Halifax, possibly a member of the family.

Collection de titres et généalogies, formée par Charles-François BLONDEAU DE CHARNAGE († 1776). MELANGES. Français 26469 (161)

Montres d'armes et pièces militaires (1686-1690) ; — confirmation de l'hérédité aux notaires et procureurs (1690) ; — création de maréchaussées en Franche-Comté (1692) ; — création d'un président et de six notaires-secrétaires en la Chambre des comptes de Dole (1693) ; — suppression des offices de conseillers lieutenants-généraux de police, excepté à Paris, et création de nouveaux offices de conseillers lieutenants-généraux (1699) ; — création de contrôleurs des deniers patrimoniaux et d'octrois et de substituts des procureurs du roi (1694) ; — arrêt du Conseil d'État prescrivant la confection d'un état du personnel des corporations d'arts et métiers (1673) ; — procureurs du roi et greffiers des villes (1691) ; — officiers municipaux (1693) ; — notaires, procureurs, huissiers et sergents (1701) ; — détenteurs d'héritages (1711) ; — offices municipaux (1737-1738) ; — billets de monnaie (1707) ; — laines de Languedoc, de Provence et du Dauphiné (1742) ; — loterie royale (1755) ; — loterie de l'École militaire (1757) ; — récit de la victoire remportée par la flotte française à Gibraltar (1756) ; — ode sur la paix ; — mausolée de Languet de Gergy, curé de St-Sulpice ; — factum pour Jean Sarrazin contre Nicolas Le Fèvre ; — arrêt sur la péremption (1703) ; — attaque du fort St-Philippe (1756) ; — les cabriolets justifiés ; — plan d'association ; — compliment à F.-M. de Verthamon ; — conjuration à Malte (1749) ; — requête du curé de Fontenoy au roi ; — les Tronchinades ; — lettre d'un Français à un Anglais ; — pamphlet en vers contre le pape ; — Nantes (1705) ; — Constitution Unigenitus (1720-1733) ; — condamnation d'une thèse de Jean-Martin de Prades (1752) ; — arrêt en faveur du curé de St-Nicolas-des-Champs (1754) ; — arrêt contre la Lettre de M. l'évêque de Boulogne à M. le Procureur général (1754) ; — arrêt contre Laugieur de Beaurecueil, curé de Ste-Marguerite, à Paris (1755) ; — chapitre Ste-Croix d'Orléans (1755) ; — suppression de deux chambres des Enquêtes (1757) ; — officiers et affaires du Parlement (1753) ; — arrêt concernant la délivrance des prisonniers d'Orléans à l'avènement des évêques de cette ville (1753) ; — mandements de l'archevêque de Paris, des vicaires-généraux de Bourges et de l'évêque de Troyes (1756-1758) ; — règlement pour la chambre des Vacations, tenue aux Grands-Augustins (1753) ; — St-Sauveur de Lille.

Boston and vicinity, Massachusetts, 1776 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: An accurate map of the country round Boston in New England. It was originally published by Archibald Hamilton in Town and country magazine (London), Jan. 16, 1776. Scale [ca. 1:362,500]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, selected public buildings, town boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes ancillary map: A plan of Boston and Charlestown, from a drawing made in 1771, with index to points of interest. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776 [microform].

"The volumes are arranged chronologically, although originally published in reverse chronological order. Each volume is indexed separately, and a general index is provided both in the bound guide and at the end of the microfilm."--Publisher's note.

Bibliotheca medicinae practicae qua scripta ad partem medicinae practicam facientia a rerum initiis ad a. 1755 recensentur.

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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: Quantifying the epidemiological transition

Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age–sex groups, and countries. The GBD can be used to generate summary measures such as disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) and healthy life expectancy (HALE) that make possible comparative assessments of broad epidemiological patterns across countries and time. These summary measures can also be used to quantify the component of variation in epidemiology that is related to sociodemographic development. Methods We used the published GBD 2013 data for age-specific mortality, years of life lost due to premature mortality (YLLs), and years lived with disability (YLDs) to calculate DALYs and HALE for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2013 for 188 countries. We calculated HALE using the Sullivan method; 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) represent uncertainty in age-specific death rates and YLDs per person for each country, age, sex, and year. We estimated DALYs for 306 causes for each country as the sum of YLLs and YLDs; 95% UIs represent uncertainty in YLL and YLD rates. We quantified patterns of the epidemiological transition with a composite indicator of sociodemographic status, which we constructed from income per person, average years of schooling after age 15 years, and the total fertility rate and mean age of the population. We applied hierarchical regression to DALY rates by cause across countries to decompose variance related to the sociodemographic status variable, country, and time. Findings Worldwide, from 1990 to 2013, life expectancy at birth rose by 6·2 years (95% UI 5·6–6·6), from 65·3 years (65·0–65·6) in 1990 to 71·5 years (71·0–71·9) in 2013, HALE at birth rose by 5·4 years (4·9–5·8), from 56·9 years (54·5–59·1) to 62·3 years (59·7–64·8), total DALYs fell by 3·6% (0·3–7·4), and age-standardised DALY rates per 100 000 people fell by 26·7% (24·6–29·1). For communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional disorders, global DALY numbers, crude rates, and age-standardised rates have all declined between 1990 and 2013, whereas for non–communicable diseases, global DALYs have been increasing, DALY rates have remained nearly constant, and age-standardised DALY rates declined during the same period. From 2005 to 2013, the number of DALYs increased for most specific non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases and neoplasms, in addition to dengue, food-borne trematodes, and leishmaniasis; DALYs decreased for nearly all other causes. By 2013, the five leading causes of DALYs were ischaemic heart disease, lower respiratory infections, cerebrovascular disease, low back and neck pain, and road injuries. Sociodemographic status explained more than 50% of the variance between countries and over time for diarrhoea, lower respiratory infections, and other common infectious diseases; maternal disorders; neonatal disorders; nutritional deficiencies; other communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases; musculoskeletal disorders; and other non-communicable diseases. However, sociodemographic status explained less than 10% of the variance in DALY rates for cardiovascular diseases; chronic respiratory diseases; cirrhosis; diabetes, urogenital, blood, and endocrine diseases; unintentional injuries; and self-harm and interpersonal violence. Predictably, increased sociodemographic status was associated with a shift in burden from YLLs to YLDs, driven by declines in YLLs and increases in YLDs from musculoskeletal disorders, neurological disorders, and mental and substance use disorders. In most country-specific estimates, the increase in life expectancy was greater than that in HALE. Leading causes of DALYs are highly variable across countries. Interpretation Global health is improving. Population growth and ageing have driven up numbers of DALYs, but crude rates have remained relatively constant, showing that progress in health does not mean fewer demands on health systems. The notion of an epidemiological transition—in which increasing sociodemographic status brings structured change in disease burden—is useful, but there is tremendous variation in burden of disease that is not associated with sociodemographic status. This further underscores the need for country-specific assessments of DALYs and HALE to appropriately inform health policy decisions and attendant actions.