which enabled the grain, fruit and wine of the Guadiana

and around it the present town of St Albans gradually grew

bank. It is a station on the Nagpur branch of the Great

(1580-1652). The charge was brought up again at the national

caustic soda, to which it lends itself more easily than the

on the Forth & Clyde railway from Balloch to Stirling (North

researches. By her recommendation the most intelligent

library, and owns and operates its electric-lighting plant and

Alexander of Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 7, 1886

defects. The African rivers, with the exception of the middle

in by one or two closely attached friends. Our aesthetic

bearing white hairs, the other parts remaining apparently

carolathine, samoite and schrotterite (opal-allophane).

river may be penetrated as far up as its middle course, where

proceeding simultaneously all over Africa. It will therefore

promotion. The Navy Department is located at Washington,

the subdeacons and before the other minor officials (see

thought, and combined in varying proportions the elements of

Deo gratias, the opportunity for the exercise of hospitality

by the caliph Othman. The Egyptians, by whom `Amr was greatly

telegraphs and agriculture. Algeria has had a budget distinct

officials of the various states and of the courts of justice.''

ACAMTHOCEPHALA, a compact group of cylindrical, parasitic

Girl (1870), Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag (6 vols., 1871-1879),

girdle of snow and glaciers on the mountain barriers a few

into the normal paths of modern development. The sign was

small class of mixtures, there is no further fall in temperature

and to the preparation of his numerous works on classical

to provide pensions for necessitous members of the Academy

in the mosque which covers the site of the temple.

was succeeded by another group of regular principalities,

it may consist of isolated cells, but more commonly the cells

writers. It included the Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Norridgewock,

see how he, a man destitute alike of wealth, of social or

in 1242, it was raised to the rank of a royal free city.

Bavaria. He had been made a lieutenant field-marshal in the

series (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston) and the English Men

Suppl. Despatches; Castlereagh, Correspondence, &c.

in the service of the empire might turn his armed force and

manufacture sugar from this body. Picric acid can also be

that it must be a diligence commensurate with the emergency or

AGRA, an ancient city of India, which gives its name to

sent an envoy to Kabul empowered to make a treaty with the

before the author of Leucippe. The fragment was first

facile rejection of the historical evidences for Christianity.

The suspicion that a distinction of sex accompanied this

in the transfer of patronage. Under the previously existing

into a familiar measure which was supposed to represent the

of Taghlib in Mesopotamia, and was, like his fellow-tribesmen,

manifesting his antagonism to the prevailing Puritanism.

by violent steam explosions. The sanidinites of the Eifel

of the congregation of the Disciplina Regolare, and auditor

St Mark at Venice. He died on the 20th of October 1439.

Streitotrichosis. For a further account of these parasites

and Menshikov drew off his forces southwards. He had lost

In the Lebanon both the Christian clans and the Druses are

situated between the homesteads and the true alps; these

schools. Adana, which retains its ancient name, rose to

on the subject by Professor W. W. Skeat, prefixed to vol.

composition, the fuze could be made to burn approximately

converted into a Mahommedan mosque, is situated on the lower

was granted to Edward, earl of Hertford, afterwards duke

manuscripts were translated (a work commenced by the Caliph

the middle Niger, and, notwithstanding the existence of prior

from the 15th to the 19th century. One of the principal

rest, has the habit of swaying its head sideways in a peculiar

limb. North of the Senegal for over 1000 m. of coast the

with it at a red heat. Acted upon by water it is at once

snow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,037

here a sharp alternation of generations, both generations

far off, are the extensive remains of an unknown city, the

removed to Mombasa. Dr E. Ruppell, the German naturalist,

and linen fabrics, girdles and lace, paper, hats, leather,

dactylic Alcaics, there is another, simply styled Alcaic,

di Scienze Storiche (Rome, 1904), v. 673 seq. (T. As.)

war, while the duchess was actively engaged in organizing

Sallh records (12th century) that the patriarch used always to

monsoon. Indigenous mammals are poor in species as well as

1795, he established a print-shop and drawing-school in the

government; it then turns to the north-east, cuts its way