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north and west of the Val Bregaglia and of the Engadine).

extent. It is on record that as early as 1764 he had 100 acres

ALEMAN, MATEO (1547-1609?), Spanish novelist and man of

Helminthora.) In such cases as Lemanea, the terminal

of the higher region of Africa is formed by the Abyssinian

the apex of a triangle of which the quays form the base.

montagnes (1856); L'homme a l'oreille cassee (1862);

(Cambridge, 1896); and Man, Past and Present (Cambridge,

period of repose before reversing. He claimed that the

side. In the centre of this court is a domed porch of the

the other, project into the cavity and correspond to the

the indices. The unknown he terms arithmos, the number,

(the platforms of the Orleans or the Northern railway) under

area should be made the future base of operations. Largely

Pergamenian foundation on the great Graeco-Roman highway from

the Bonn Corpus Scriptoruin Hist. Byz., by I. Bekker

mentioned as late as the 5th century. The present city was

cannot be strictly maintained. The term ``man,'' for example,

of Lake Van, he was met by Alp Arslan; and the sultan having

a4 the centre of the great S-shaped bend of the Nile, and

large, and during the greater part of his life was very meagre,

short intervals a series of romances, each dealing with

unsuccessful. The soil of Alderney is light, fertile and

resemble the albumins, being split up by acids or ferments

Certainly the largest factor in the better state of things has

peoples, and present several remarkable physical characters

in it. Generally, colts are sold and worked too young.


therefore known as the cessio in jure. Adrogation could

circumstances, and Adams's memoir was printed as an appendix

an altitude of 6250 ft. The slopes of the constituent chains

to his policy and diplomacy by his daughter, by the Latin

in the Guards in 1731. He served in Germany and the Low

must have come from the Malay Peninsula or the adjacent

adaptation; for in all cases life consists in a continuous

which the sultan of Zanzibar claimed to exercise suzerainty,

urged afresh by Harnack, Lukas der Arzt (Leipzig, 1906;

education and examiner in constitutional law and history

is here referring to the Christian philosopher. After long

this date Adelaide ceased to concern herself with worldly

province of Alessandria; from the town of that name it is 21

vesiculosus, Ascophyllum nodosum, Fucus serratus, Laminaria

excommunicated a second time. After seven years of exclusion,

prices of produce holding out a great inducement to improve

with naturalization; but these are both very different

considered to be of Oolitic age) of an inshore character are met

Garioch. The fraternal peace was soon disturbed. Failing

and that of the lower Himalayas. Each may be placed at a point

the mind which contemplates them'' (Essays, xxii.).

rules, which are founded upon the well-established customs

heterogeneous mixture of Bantu with a tinge of Arab blood.

Hochmeisters in Preussen, Albrecht von Brandenburg (Leipzig,

in 1887 W. M. F. Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style

evaporated in the crucibles of alchemy, and the consummation

overwhelmed. Colonel Breyman, marching to his relief, was

bridge. It is doubtful, however, if Alcantara marks the


of the Southern Nigeria protectorate. It contains luxuriant

fashioned into carved blocks of hard, tenacious stone by

now Quincy, Massachusetts, and was named after John Quincy

1891 and was buried at Quidenham, Norfolk. He wrote an account

rapidly. Small dealers in both countries have complained

using liquid or gaseous fuel, grist mills for use on a

contrast to the long stretch just described. From the St

compel local authorities to get samples analysed, but that it

of sodium bicarbonate and the mother-liquor. The former

a very considerable proportion of so-called brandies was not

Jungfraujoch (Wengern Alp to the Eggishorn), snow. . . . . . . . . . . . 11,385

AFFIRMATION (from Lat. affirmare, to assert), the declaration

It was, however, not till late that they attempted to found

name Almack is an anagram. In 1764 he founded a gentlemen's

higher members of the series are liquids of low boiling point

known as ``carpet-baggers,'' was formed, which co-operated

largely composed of compilations from Greek sources, while

small bust of Vitellins, and a torso of Agrippina, of most

(1888; 2nd ed., 1904), of the Poems (1897) of Thomas Hood,

Park (24 acres), the latter belonging to the Northern Indiana

as against the master or person who has himself signed the

influence should have permeated any distance from the east

(1863). He was also the author of a Life of Field-Marshal the

blacks. Progress has been slow but steady. According to

published, and mentions two books by him On Witnesses.

after the first explorer's death (see TROAD). But by

having a lower atomic weight than potassium, reduced a larger

of water as is afforded by the rainfall. Of this nature are


has been brought to a great pitch of perfection, with the

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