of Great Britain the decennial averages recorded in Table

ABSCISSA (from the Lat. abscissus, cut off), in the

priests, and any other citizens of the league who chanced

after the fact is not noticed by the law of Scotland unless

Frances Catherine. Both sons became distinguished officers.

(and indeed of Godfrey himself, who had promised to cede

solution in vacuo. Sodium aluminate is obtained in the

one may instance the careful determination of the aesthetically

Mearns after they had robbed St Machar's of its bells and

``Mayflower'' company. He is remembered chiefly because of

the Amur mountains and flows N.E. across the high plateau,

the creation of a forestry department in 1877, a bureau of

and Lombards, and was occupied by the Saracens in 731. Aix,

cities, was of a democratic cast. The chief legislative

province there are no mural remains, but the pottery, with

but in vol. ii., in title-page and preface alike, he is no

popular, but when the advantages of aluminium itself became

powers and place him among the most eminent theologians.

witchcraft, sickness, accidents, &c. Amulets have been of many

natural tact and a sound judgment ripened by the trials of

monks. Still farther to the east, divided from the monastic

dip (e.g. Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh), and may contain

Except in northern Africa, the Tertiary formations only

refits. In this department the programme for work in the dockyards

and liquor licence fees were partly turned over to the public

128. For agates in general see Max Bauer's Precious Stones,

of neutrality hampered these commerce-destroyers as much as

to his own country in the utmost anguish and despondency of

ACCIUS, LUCIUS, Roman tragic poet, the son of a freedman,

pope had usurped the nomination of all abbots, and the king in

Thabor (10,440 ft.), which forms the apex of a salient angle

life that deserve mention are connected with his Sicilian

leaves. In Iridaea the thallus is an entire lamina; in

June the duke of Gandia, lately created duke of Benevento,

hardy and fierce; the lynx, wolf, wild dog and jackal are also

incendiarism. In 1902 alone, according to the British consular

3577. Aigues-Mortes occupies an isolated position in the

almost ineradicable when they have become old and possessed

see T. Ashby, in Papers of the British School at Rome, i.

In 1264 he was sent to England to mediate between Henry III.

underlying the phenomenon of the universe stands to us in the

of the state are drained to the S.W. In the Appalachian Valley

deficiencies of the Greek symbolism were partially remedied;

conquest. The Irak of Persia was overcome by Khalid in a single

choice but to cast in its lot with the victors. Montrose,

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that one finds the same ideas forcibly expressed--special

and Reports of the Alabama Geological Survey (published at

a great Arab immigration, resulting in a large absorption of

The question of the transparency of the celestial spaces presents

differ widely from those of our own age and type of culture.

few cells which disengage themselves from the ambient jelly,

and acetic acid. With ammonia it reacts to form di- and

position was too strong to be attacked, but it bore fruit

traveller who descends from the Quito tableland. The Coca

not only a divine, president of Harvard College and a prolific

at non-perforate region, cut and turned back so as to expose

(9) Minerals.---In the south and south-west provinces

food or drink of the immortals. A. W. Verrall, however,

represented outside Europe. Wherever the alphabet may have

however, has been found in Persian inscriptions, and has been

There are two varieties of absinthe, the French and the Swiss,

character and social eccentricities, its good-humoured satires

Vliores at Avlona, who are stated to own over 150 sq. m. of

A.A. Aes alienum, Ante audita, Apud agrum, Aurum argentum.

the well-known water-chambers. The psalterium is sharply

1881, 1890, 1892); also 10th, 11th, 12th Reports Peabody

Adrar or Adgar is also the name sometimes given to the chief

algae. Reproduction is chiefly effected by the vegetative

founded by Sir Walter Manny A.D. 1371, the name of which

grant of about 700,000 fr. It has also large vested funds in

Ethnology upon the structure, contents and distribution of

supremacy was owned by the large island of Nias, and by the

of France on a highly centralized system of administration;

to restore order in the province of Khorasan, which was

passed into the Punjab (at Ohind, 16 m. above Attock, according

Dramatic poetry appears to have flourished to some

and in the 4th century the Lacedaemonians for having occupied

ALEXANDER VIII. (Pietro Ottoboni), pope from 1689 to 1691,

of St Andrews, was born at Perth. He studied philosophy, and

dioxide. By dry distillation it gives ammonium cyanide.

1891-1895 448,139 407,260 967 10,436,549

used, had felt themselves justified in supplying impure

the llama wool affording the finest staple on the whole