letters, accusing him, as a foreigner, of being intent upon

us to form a fair idea of the character of his poems. A

and joins the Tarim. It belongs to the series of oases

name, two violent works for the purpose of inciting the Catholics

Alpwirtschaft (Bern, 1897--1898); the Schweiz-Alpstatistik

The electrical conductivity of a metal is often very much

some of the most fanatical of the Durani Afghan people on the

confidence, but scarcely had he crossed the Indus when the

water, with only a small part of its head above the surface,

a being equal in brightness and in capacities to the

in the Edinburgh Review for February 1843, contains the

centre of the high table, and was served on silver plate, and

modern representative of Geez is the Tigrina of Tigre and

and with internal turbulence. At last, however, the fate

more detached from Egypt; and, losing much of its commerce

exploration and development of Africa upon an international

than one plane, even in the vegetative parts. The discovery

the insurgents in February 1900, an ancient stone church of

(Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklo padie) notes that Hades and

cotton-seed products; sugar and molasses, artificial ice,

is the pious foundation (so Pischel, no doubt rightly, Zeitsch.

model. The general assembly, convoked every autumn at Thermon

is ornamented with human-headed animals in relief. This,

of quartermaster-general to Lord Raglan, in which capacity

the wedding feast. Bid-ales, once very common throughout

matters; he also did a good deal of lecturing on historical

ft.), Maranay near Scutari, and the Bastrik range to the

History was represented in this period with a distinction

often by more direct and elegant processes than his own.

2 At St Michael the mean annual temperature is about 26 deg. ,

settlement. He had already married a Japanese woman, by

that being acted on by objects at a distance they admit of

on the 16th of May 1490, he was intended for the church, and

Lucasian professor of mathematics in succession to Thomas

alone calls them Sicarii. With these instances in mind, it

have the effect of a warranty. Similar stringent conditions

town to the northward; uniting with the Saracen right wing,

In the United States the organization of professional

liturgische Gewandung, p. 359, &c. (Freiburg im Breisgau,

day. Moreover, the church decreed severe chastisement

with meeting-rooms and a valuable library and collection

Deists. His history forms the subject of a tale and of

There are a Roman Catholic and two Protestant churches, several

Abbey. Ecclesiastically the place was dependent on

probably, Hamitic, blood enters into the composition of the

quite flavourless material---for one which owes its value more to

and thereby having its temperature restored and its pressure

diphtheria. Three more of her children, as well as her

dignified language. He died at Vienna on the 1st of December

AFZELIUS, ADAM (1750-1837), Swedish botanist, was born at

Out Other

power and importance attributed to him in Vedic mythology.

age fourteen for either sex, subject to the consent of the

Brice's day (December 2) of ``all the Danish men who were

there are 70,000 acres in the vilayet of Scutari alone, are

discovery is concerned with equations, which he showed to be

a centre of mining and smelting works, his object being partly

queen, the court and an immense number of spectators. The

is higher and more complex than in Canada. About 100 m.

the holder of a heritable right, labouring under any defect in

regulations, but may be summed up as consisting of seeing that

this among the Alexandrians. In literature their activities

was at once raised, and a ``treaty'' made with the local

and converting the caustic soda as it issues on the other

(3991), which occupies the site of the Roman Milliana,

The history of rhe symbols f and ch is altogether unknown.

into the corresponding movements, which may be merely imagined

position which X retains in the Latin (and also in the

are held by some to be of Triassic age and by others to be

disguise. In due course Alexander was born, and Philip's

(1878-1880) on behalf of the British African Exploration

1878) that affords the most intimate view of the culture and

of Alfred are the so-called Life by Asser (best edition

1 We owe our knowledge of the geology of Afghanistan almost

same rivers. Some portions of these plains are fruitful,

at the age of seven, and afterwards studied in the United

utilized in sending up balloons to test their accuracy. The

ABD-AR-RAHMAN, the name borne by five princes of the Omayyad dynasty,

chlorine. These ``Deacon chambers'' occupied a large space,

colonists, and in 1714 the first English church was erected.

all his later life; they were marked, also, by events, such

for the needs of Abyssinia, but there is little surplus water

the time of Queen Victoria is to be found in an act of 1540,

and by placing the propeller at the centre of resistance.

towards Harrison's landing on the James river. It was some

Africa, with the possible exception of Algiers. (F. R. C.)

an executive department from 1889. It was first established as