to the geology and mineralogy of Russia.

Residing for some

canyons, and their upper courses are characterized by glacial

merchants. Since 1888, when Altona joined the imperial

and epistles to the reader, and title-pages. These epistles

Dewevre, ``Les Caoutchoucs africains,'' Ann. Soc. Sci.

mensonges insipides.'' The Ana, indeed, from the popularity

hardly be measured by marches and victories. The disgraced

like those of the rest of the Basque provinces, entirely kept

ALKMAAR, a town in the province of North Holland, kingdom of

latter's frescoes in the hall of the hotel de ville at

on the 4th of February 1805. He was educated at Manchester

shadow of the hills as men,'' and as they drew nearer Zebul's

Helena. There has also been very little naturalization of

Hyginus (Fab. 107) makes Apollo assume the form of Paris.

occupied by an Indian population, and no doubt embracing a

occur; Descartes lived in Holland, Scarron was paralytic,

from the introduction of Christianity. The example had been

whole system of the Apennines and their culminating point,

referred by Herodotus to the interval between the sending

albino or coloured, that their offspring may never contain

to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter mentioned;

invade Syria, he entrusted `Amr with a high command. `Amr soon

Christiania University in 1821. His first notable work was a

country as much as possible rather than in the town. Though

and each man looks on himself as the equal of any Afghan.

inscriptions and authentic statements. Though the office

soil an equivalent for the properties taken from it in the

range themselves under four primary and four supplementary

occupy chiefly the more mountainous parts of the Tell, but

letter of the English alphabet. The writer is indebted to

terminated this campaign, the battle of the Frigidus, was fought

that he was styled in the treaty ``His Majesty''; but, in the

Gardiner says of them, ``Little as it was intended at the

place. There was no separate lord high admiral for Ireland.

as he calls them, which are objectifications of the will

and hats, and the distillation of olive-oil. Trade is in

France, but turned his arms against Thuringia, which he

Italian merchants of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries;

royal declaration, was to cultivate and improve the national

exceeds 100 fathoms in depth. From a point between Curzola

monks, who placed a malignant inscription over his grave.

long), which contains the greatest body of water after the

any later time if he is proved to have contributed to the

Godavari and its tributaries the Prawara and the Mula; on the

exposed for sale, tested weights and measures, collected

career. In that work he found himself; sentiment and

X. of Sweden for the moment swept the Polish state out of

1890 onwards by the international commissions which traced

parties to the declaration, ``inspired by their feeling of

under pressure, but it was soon found that there were

generally held that he taught Bonaventura, Duns Scotus and

the other side, for the satisfaction of an ever-increasing

region is broad and convex, so that the body presents the

See T. Fuller, Worthies of England (ii. 343); J. P. Collior,

ALEXIS, WILLIBALD, the pseudonym of GEORG WILHELM HEINRICH

charge. He then settled in Spain where he was held in much

was followed, in 1158, by a pilgrimage to the Holy Land,

the first explorer interested in archaeology was Victor

dhoolies. Thus the ambulance organization in India is

means certain for all cases, though the incidence of the chief

were largely exceeded, and after revising the results they

efforts have, in some cases, been very successful; for example,

also been discovered on the upper Ythan and Deveron, but

Aberdeen, extending from the city suburbs to the southern

metals, state that the first to speak of the science of the

novel of the third part of Bandello and partly on Prevost's

American Philosophical Society is national in scope and is

monarchy, which lasted till its overthrow by Shah Jahan in

largely endowed by the emperor himself (see Monumentum

was completed by a cast-iron body formed around the segments or

members formed a nucleus of eight, and it was not till 1639

Vienna. Again becoming in that year grand vizier, an office

ALDERNEY (Fr. Aurigny), one of the Channel Islands, the

from the shores of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

S.E. from this at Pescara and running via Sulmona (whence

family. This measure was not conceived in the spirit of

Of the Indian and Indian half-breed population there were in

and shrubs chiefly of temperate climates, and include many

of hearing and sight have been well brought out

that either the smoke or some vapour emitted from the fire

Italian despots, Amari was appointed professor of Arabic at

one syllable to another. In prehistoric times the stress

is to withdraw from it first the land least suited to its

ALEXANDRIA, a town of Rumania, situated among the rich

war in South Africa were reported on as heavy, uncomfortable,

in the fused state, since the chloride begins to volatilize

region, and of securing for herself undisputed possession of