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Shat-el-Hodna and a number of others.

South of the Jebel

over the Predil Pass (3813 ft.) or the Pontebba or Saifnitz

Zeno. The victory of Cotyaeum in 493 ``broke the back'' of

an industry with a prospect of commercial success, even when

after his defeat at Poltava (1709). Forced against his

made the infamous boast that during the course of six years,

``dug-outs'' or canoes, or actually wading in the water.

satire, Thomas Murner, to inflict such telling blows. Several

since its work began. About a year after its foundation

Georce Eastriota (see SCANDERBEG), who fought thirteen

tin-reactions in abundance from every grain of tinned

Peru was found to be unwieldy. New Granada (which included

to collect troops and put Rome in a state of defence, but his

with Massawa, Harrar and Jibuti. There is also a telephonic

into mountain solitudes or lonely deserts. The deserts

and losing the tea so counterfeited, adulterated, altered,

Nile valley and Roman Africa is concerned; elsewhere no records

only, not conquest, and the attacks were repeated in 981,

sheriff's court; while over that limit the sheriff's court

Nyasaland Protectorate . . . . . . . . . 43,608

used in the mixture to act as a flux, and this remaining

courageous resistance to the royal will, e.g. when he

act regulating the vice-admiralty courts was passed, there

spent amid a succession of palace conspiracies, repressed with

cannot undo the past.'' It was the occupation of Moscow and

rule. In response to the request of the archbishop, the

graphite by a metallic conductor in the form of flakes.

albumoses. They give the biuret and xanthoproteic reactions,


2 An archbishop or bishop, in writing his signature, substitutes

expedition. After his father's death he instituted splendid

refuge, but they had a prevailing leaning to the church of

mitigate the destructive effects of heavy rains. In valleys

of the time of King Juba II.; of P. Gavault at Tigzirt

but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his

name was Samson, was born in Reading on the 19th of June 1858,

with Louise Felicite de Brehan, daughter of the comte de

exceedingly suggestive and terse in its style, reminding of

authoritatively. The keeping of them was continued by

egg is gametophyte. And since this rule has been found to

inert and compatible with the entire absence of the sensuous

found their religion at a low ebb, the regular clergy apathetic

m. from its mouth in the English Channel, and 28 m. N,W. of

Fohr. The larger part of Amrum consists of a treeless

for hundreds of miles north-westward. The Rocky Mountains,

Sennar, during which he determined the course of the Blue

the highest crest of the Greater Tauern Alps. (a) The latter

and vegetables are produced in sufficient quantity for the

pyrites, so that the recovery is a paying process, in spite of

edited the Edinburgh Weekly Journal, and for twenty-eight

to make provision for the effect of changes in atmospheric

in August Cornwallis retired to Yorktown to rest and await

later. The neighbourhood abounds in ironworks, collieries,

an area of about 386 sq. m., and is of very irregular figure,

Aelana. It continued to be the seat of great commercial

History.---The region now known as Alaska was first explored

On the 27th of December 1521 three ``prophets'' appeared in


musical term for that part of a vocal or instrumental

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

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