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Univ. Press, 1905), agrees.

There is scarcely anything

L. Postern gate.

8 years 1860-1867 . . . . . . . . 28 7/8

old Indian camps, mounds and earthworks along the northern

system, which made it impossible for the individual to adopt

the Tarentines, suspecting him of the design of founding

and the Aeolic and Dorian ``colonizations''; and when once more

crisis by his refusal to surrender the two royal castles of

architects and sculptors in the first half of the 14th

other antiquities have been discovered in the neighbourhood.

here, and large quantities of hemp are shipped from here to

injurious to health has been added to the food or drug because

of abbots. This innovation was not introduced without a

ceremony of kissing the sovereign's hand, and some other acts

are also a gateway tower, and portions of the chapter-house

way off Finisterre on the 8th of January, defeated a smaller

Beroea), situated on a plateau in the valley of the

Statues.---In Union Terrace Gardens stands a colossal statue

AGINCOURT (AZINCOURT), a village of northern France in

especially upon the border line, does not always correspond

British possessions acquired long before the opening of the

ADAMNAN, or ADOMNAN (c. 624-704), Irish saint and

the galleries of a clerestory, sometimes even the aisle itself of a

century, found 20 Buddhist temples with 3000 monks at

of its foundation by the Lombard League has been disproved

purified by crystallization, but retain whatever impurity

See J. ter Gouw, Geschiedeniss van Amsterdam (3 vols.,

management that the rent-roll rose from L. 11,000 to L. 50,000 a


flanked by the great plateau of Mongolia, the transition

looked after in New South Wales, by an under-secretary

the site now occupied by the Junior United Service Club, the

India (for the campaigns in the N.E. see F. von Schwarz,

hohere Heitung im Kriege, and Kritische Betrachtunger

actions. Obliged, however, to flee to Pella in Macedonia, he

carried is enormous; from Ruwenzori alone the detritus is very

studies undisturbed. His Grammar ofthe Norwegian Dialects

over the high altar and the altar of the Blessed Sacrament.

initials ``C,'' ``W,'' and ``E'' show to which group each peak

time. His aim, in suiting the text to the views of his day,

varying from 4000 ft. to 5500 ft. above the sea, more rarely

Dissertation on the Fables of Aesop; Du Meril, Poesies

as there is the rudiment of ideal significance in colour, not

continuous with the wall of the yolk-sac, and this part of the

which Etruscan, Umbrian and Oscan descended as one group,

Albi (Albiga) was, in the Gallo-Roman period, capital of

passing into e (eh), though in present-day pronunciation

of the East, was born at Bagdad in 1162. An interesting

department was transferred from the clerk of the privy council

published the letters connected with the controversy. His

10th and 11th centuries Norse sea-rovers, starting from

ABULPARAJ [Abu-l-Faraj,Ah ibn ul-Husain ul-Isbahani]

of dishonourable acts in private life (e.g. bigamy) or of

shows that there are at least three distinct modes of this

T.C.D. Trinity College, Dublin.

quantities. In the Dutch mode of manufacture of cocoa-powders

metaphysical or abstract; in the third it is positive or


in the field of history, where indeed the writers rivalled

computed at 5487 sq. m. Pop. (1895) 113,165; (1902, official

connecting together a pair of rings CC. The rings and the

South America was done by the engineer A. Wertheman. He fitted

basilica. Adrian restored the ancient aqueducts of Rome,

ALEXANDER II. (1198-1249), king of Scotland, son of William

was liable to be quickly disproved by the appearance of new

of the Pontifex Maximus, the annual edicts of the praetor,

on which we have indicated a doubt, viz. as to the situation

salts with acids; now, however, it is usual to restrict

residence was reduced to five years. When the interests

Instead of making df vanish, a certain value can be assigned

Mauretania. A network of military routes, constructed and

K. Wood-house.

ALLON, HENRY (1818-1892), English Nonconformist divine,

Australia.

thin layers of great extent. Coarser accumulations gather

parodies and satirical poems, of which the best examples

careful finish, and for close study of nature. The most

chain. Thence to the St Gotthard the divide runs north-east,

separate khanates fell back under the independent rule of

Boston, his mother a pleasing English actress and his father

Britain, another system has been generally preferred, namely,

designed to prevent the whole of the best land falling to one

she was sold to the comte de Ferriol, the French ambassador at

and An-at by the scribe of Assur-nasir-pal (879 B.C.),

movements, known to Greek tradition as the Ionian Migration

carcases hung up for exhibition, with details of live and dead


them from power and put an end to the pension. Indeed Addison

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