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XIII.

From this point of view Pierre d'Ailly, together with

that it would be compelled to withdraw at the end of the year

of which the following are the chief --tropacocaine, stovaine,

Sheep, horses and pigs are also raised in large numbers.

He was successful in restoring the authority of Maximilian

of any crime unless by statute as in New York (Penal Code,

9 Etat des negociations actueelles, &c., mem. prepared by

province of Tenasserim. The district is subject to very heavy

and value of excitation due to this being controlled by

Few Englishmen have exercised so formative and controlling an

(5), between which and the south transept is a small

marked by the diverticulum caecum vitelli, the primitive

traversed by blood-vessels which run from a simple tubular

of the military schools, but he took little personal interest

these energetic and skilful farmers spread rapidly, and

the barony to the bishop of Durham, who in 1309 sold it to

present. The muscular coat consists of unstriped fibres

the case of Sallust's palace, which was situated close to

probable that very little improvement had taken place, either

well amongst the crops of the decade, but the yield of turnips

were shorn twice annually (a practice common to several Asiatic

expedition to Senegal, which from the unhealthiness of its

(1891). The South was represented by Mary Noailles Murfree

done more completely by tillage. It is therefore necessary not

with machines which like balloons are lighter than the air,

NEP. Nepos, Neptunus.

area 9219 sq. m. Alemtejo is traversed by several mountain

air. The practical drawbacks to employing air as the working

ALBEDO (from Lat. albus, white), ``whiteness,''


finest in eastern Sicily, but rapidly suffering destruction

AITON (1766-1849), who succeeded him at Kew and was commissioned

Alban hills, about 13 m. S.E. of Rome, 3115 ft. above

Cheshire acre (10,240 sq. yds) are examples of local values.

for the place where assemblies were held, and thus from its

cerebral eye there is a small orifice placed to the left of

composition. Tin amalgam is used for ``silvering'' mirrors,

first produced is heated with a solution of mercuric chloride.

ACHAEAN LEAGUE, a confederation of the ancient towns of

reserves it, they are not subject to a lien for the chartered

Boeotia in March. They then divided the wives and possessions

ADAM, WILLIAM (1751--1839), British lawyer and politician,

the strip leased to Germany, which was subsequently ceded

afterwards. A fall in rents was the necessary sequel of

indulgences he was hampered by his cardinals; and reducing

cultivated but now overgrown with trees or shrubs.

chronic gastritis, in which the continued irritation has led

evaporation of the solution and the addition of ether, amygdalin

One other event must be recorded as happening before the

and had not been, perhaps never would be, translated into

Calatrava, and became a member of the king's council while

Palestine. It was re-taken by Saladin in 1187, besieged

is to a large degree the market and trading-place of the

hypochlorite, which by the action of water splits up into

lay in the valley of the Vulturnus, and its walls (4th

dormitory (Z). The dormitory, as a rule, was placed on the

exerted a most beneficial influence upon the border counties.

war may have been due partly to AEthelfrith's persecution of

quicklime, when the characteristic smell of ammonia will be


with magnesium alkyl iodides (in absolute ether solution) to

Breasted, says that investigation has not as yet furnished

Gomal route is of immense importance, both as a commercial

village. In the later Hebrew writings the name sometimes

of their predecessor. In a longer novel, El Escandalo

application of science, that distinguish the husbandry of

the peculiarities of the Indian form of it to develop before

shall not be liable for any loss caused by the negligence

Crimes and Misdemeanours (3 vols., 1896); Archbold's

a protectorate unless circumstances compelled him to take that

Jurjura. Rhaetic beds (Infra Lias), consisting of dolomites

arise by the repeated divisions of the cells in parallel

The apparently hopeless outlook for corn-growing compelled

1622. Albuquerque's great career had a painful and ignominious

silently but most eloquently expressed in a steady migration

tillage of the soil proved illusory. The clay soils of

the valleys of the Vosges. The territory has always been

point than that of any other mixture; it is called the eutectic

wrongly attributed to him at a much later date, probably

confines has not been determined. To the east it reached

given between A.D. 240 and 245. See NEO-PLATONISM, ORIGEN.

unnecessary cruelty. He held open courts for the receipt

Improvement Society are conducted on much the same lines as

metaphysician. Exclusive of his controversial writings,

UPper Greensand in the Cenomanian. The English practice

husbande maye keoe twyse so many catell as he did before.

Windelband, &c., and Bibliography of CHURCH HISTORY, &c.

to attempt what was too much for any one man to accomplish.

the Bonn Corpus Scriptorum Byz. Hist., by B. G. Niebuhr

quarrelsome; like the Telamonian Ajax, he was the enemy of


The main divisions of the book are plain, viz. chaps. i.-ii.,

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