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his successors had become kings of Anshan, i.e.

a part of

has, however, recently canvassed the conclusions of both

plaster in 1738, and carved in marble in 1763 as his ``reception

Thomas Aquinas, but a comparison of dates makes it clear

and the suppression of theatrical performances within the

they were originally both administered and regarded as

Mirdites and the devastation of their territory. In 1880

Amazon at a point about 60 m. west of the mouth of the

iron. The needle is balanced so that gravity compels it to

had sought to include a part at least of Florida in that

A.H. 1304; legal bibliography under MAHOMMEDAN LAW) (D. B. MA.)

with most minute and ample instructions to investigate the

treasure. Hyrieus thereupon set a trap in which Agamedes

Byways (1861), and A Summer Tour in the Grisons (1862); H.

himself up, or is put up, for the sake of promoting debate,

or set at an angle (a proceeding which is paralleled by the

lower animals have been occasionally detected. The movement

Monasticism in the West owes its extension and development

of America (1492) was followed by a great development of

of the 2nd. But its value lies mainly in the light cast on

photographischen Objectivs, the abscissae are focal lengths, and the

(Paris, 1897); A. J. de Araujo, Colonies portuguaises d'Afrique

in the 4th century we find reference to stone altars in the

The plant genus Amarantus (natural order Amarantaceae)

But the greatest development of the railway systems was in

leaving his wife, his other daughters and his Empire to the

museum, the most notable being a great basalt bull, probably

it is equally certain that we not infrequently speak of the

stocks of said corporation." Many have since attributed this

Total British Africa . . . . . . . 2,101,411


etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in

Joshua L. Martin . . . . . 1845-1847 "

act of parliament, many successful efforts have been made by

The Aleutian Islands (q.v.), like the Alexander Archipelago, are

to the series Helobieae, and represented in Britain by the water

of influence on that coast; but it was to the north of that

who had been captured by the Spaniards, died a prisoner at

ALIWAL NORTH, a town of South Africa, on the south bank

more or less opposed to those of all others, is explained away

people. Cotton is indigenous and is grown for export.

The usual coal deposits of Alberta are of bituminous or

academy has inscribed on its lists the names of Champollion,

he was rather Provencal than Spanish, a favourer of the

miscellaneous articles being also included. In tropical

once exceedingly flexible and yet capable of being constructed

Maffei, Verona Illustrata, vol. ii. (1826), are worthy of

the tin covering of the plate, dissolving it and becoming

institution, which he was enabled to effect through the

and the gazelle. The country generally is of sandstone or

the Mesozoic rocks of southern Germany resisted the folding,

ALABAMA, a southern state of the American Union, situated

only was borrowed by the other languages. Etruscan, like

Market'' and other productions. In 1834 he visited Spain and

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

ground. Between the Mississippi and the mountains the whole

red-hot tube, it undergoes decomposition with production of


intercourse with other states without British consent. In 1857

from some of the more important discussions in consequence,

some other ship without unreasonable delay, the owner of the

and work of Castlereagh than the Liberal writers by whom for

George Jeffreys (q.v.) and Francis Wythens, who presented

abbot. He introduced the Benedictine rule, and secured the

centimetre, JI1 is absorbed in the second, and so on. We have then

ranges. It then turns W. and reaches the Mediterranean at the

novelist, also a foreign resident, Francis Marion Crawford

narrow, a connected sense being thus much easier to observe

devotee, and it was completed in fourteen years by voluntary

is quickened by the atmospheric pressure, and goes on very

vinifera (bamboo-palm), not found, generally speaking, in

very precious, and was brought from Ophir (probably some part of

1894. To complete the work of delimitation the British and

from the cavity of the pharynx into that of the atrium, and

for a referendum. The county was organized in 1853.

Mahommedans, under the renowned general Mahommed Gran (or

of SS. Peter and Paul, her favourite foundation, at Salz in

clumsiness, and the use of primitive forms of coin soon

Australian timber-trees; and A. excelsa, common in India.

of Africa are generally obstructed either by bars at their

Olympias, an Epirote princess. His father was pre-eminent

defensive. At the time they occupied only the three towns

The most important group of buildings is naturally that devoted

Arakan, and the history of that country centres in it. In

As secretary of state, Adams played the leading part in

grant degrees to men and women. In 1906 it had a library

and inhospitable shore,'' once described by Sallust, have,

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