ABERCROMBY, DAVID, a 17th-century Scottish physician who

for ferocity, craft and treachery, but Colonel Sir Robert

of the tragic fragments by Ribbeck (1897), of the others

disorders natural to a frontier province. This state of things

who after his death became independent --may be regarded as

We pass next to the Paul of Acts. Paul insists that he

year it commenced operations with three small steamers, the

tradition at this time, particularly as Luke was not prominent

Diatomaceae have long been recognized as plants. Together

from eight millions to seventeen millions of dollars, and similar

population is small, the prefect is replaced by a high military

regarded as the highest type of a powerful monarch, and in

proposed that the title of the academy should be ``King James,

He hastened to employ Germans for the reorganization of his

wrongly attributed to him at a much later date, probably

severe defeat on that general at Chickasaw Bayou near Vicksburg

``Long Peter'' on account of his height, Dutch historical

Throughout the Teutonic region of the Alps the word Alp

recent times this power has altogether ceased, although a

traversed by low ranges or isolated groups of hills, which

necessarily imply that the science or art was unknown. It was

Ova-Herero of German South-West Africa, whose purely pastoral

19th century; cordite, the particular form adopted by the

published in 1562, enjoyed such lasting repute that in 1723

was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in

of both sexes, and a model agricultural farm: The public

kept in the Episcopal Seminary at Nola. Of Etruscan origin

of Moab are not in themselves proof for the Phoenician forms

solutions, if the absorption of the solvent is negligible, the

has been already mentioned, was provided for in the charter of

sometimes amounted to more than half of the total cost of the

weight of an animal by the sounder method of obtaining the

porphyritic, poikilitic, vesicular, &c.) gradually fade away,

off of exports is due to the decreased demand for China

come to lose whatever had been its distinctive character. The

in many cases encouraged by the importer, for it lessens his

of atmosphere or environment led (though this is disputed

gentleman of the old school. He was without question a

resort to the terrace system of cultivation with remarkable

rebuilt, on the original lines, in 983, by the emperor Otto

any clerk or registrar; then more particularly the secretary

the James moved towards Richmond on the same day on which the

learning but impotent for literature. The intellectual life

Leiden. These works exhibit great originality and mark an

m. The eastern portion of the district is generally flat,

and a good conversational knowledge of English, French and

do not make purchases of stores, that work resting with the

exquisite beauty. The academy of the arts, which had been

succeed. It has been recommended by C. Darwin, and at

that a spendthrift life-owner shall not be able to scatter

these energetic and skilful farmers spread rapidly, and

Shibar, a pass which is considerably lower than the Irak and

the Negroids, with whom they appear to have intermingled to

dragged on for six years longer and was then concluded by a

as was done by Titus at the inauguration of the Colosseum.

traces back the hostility of the two states to a dispute

be brought under the conception of the ideal grandeur and

was educated at the City of London school and at St John's

and subject to sudden swellings and overflowings, which cause

while Italy also conceived it necessary to become an African

and chief town of the amt (county) of its name, on the south

an end in 1852, and the existing statutes did not permit

N. lat. 37 deg. 1', E. long. 35 deg. 18', on the right bank of

In the formation of an ordinary agate, it is probable that

system, in material of index m, is diminished by m-2

Wheat bran 585 90 20 27 426 22

characteristics are the great differences of summer and winter

with alcohol as a food in desperate febrile cases, and to

Library, vol. vii.). On the other hand, it has been stated

meantime the Spaniards had formed the siege of Gibraltar.

sit before it--one of those obstinate sieges which mark the

and perseverance in classical studies, notwithstanding many

and his prophecy of the disastrous battle of Plataea. But

action. The inspired prophet, Calchas, has demanded the sacrifice

over six 8-yearly periods from 1852 to 1899, and afford evidence

of the 3rd century, was probably born in Libya, and may have

instructions from the crown, the vice-admiral of the possessions

Phrynichus, Pratinas and the 6th century pioneers of drama.

which, leaving Paris at eleven o'clock on the 21st of November,

for Acts, its existence in Marcion's day (120-140) is now

Migash. The latter became the teacher of Maimonides, and

a full and accurate knowledge of the principles of the

and in the epic of Gilgamesh we find Etana in the nether

court. Yet it was just this final concession, the chief and

offered their clothes, or, if these had been lost, a lock of

N.B. North Britain (i.e. Scotland).

sorghum, of maize, Phaseolus Mungo, tobacco, beet,