LIST^OF LOCALITIES. 



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NEW GRANADA. See Columbia. 



NEW GUINEA. One of the largest of 

 the Pacific islands ; is in Austral- 

 asia, north of Australia, from which 

 it is separated by Torres Straits ; 

 its inhabitants are oriental negroes ; 

 the flora and Lepidopterous fauna 

 are exceedingly rich. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. One of the New 

 England States ; it lays west of 

 Maine, east of Vermont, and north 

 of Massachusetts; in this state are 

 the White Mountains, having a cu- 

 rious Arctic and Alpine fauna. 



NEW HEBRIDES. A group of islands 

 in Australasia ; they are north-east 

 of Australia, north of New Caledo- 

 nia, south-east of New Guinea, and 

 west of the Feejee Islands. 



NEW HOLLAND. Australia. 



NEW IRELAND. An island in Aus- 

 tralasia, north-east of New Guinea. 



NEW JERSEY. Although not gener- 

 ally so considered by Americans, 



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really is one of the United States of 

 N. Am. ; it lies south of New York, 

 east of Pennsylvania, and its eastern 

 shores are on the Atlantic Ocean. 

 In its swamps are good collecting 

 grounds tor the Lepidopterist. 



NEW MEXICO. Territory of the 

 United States of N. Am., lying 

 north of Mexico, east of Arizona, 

 west of Texas, and south of Colo- 

 rado. It is the locality of the 

 splendid Papliio Pi/untnns and P. 

 Daunus, and other fine species. 



NEW ORLEANS. The capital of the 

 State of Louisiana ; it is situated on 

 the left bank of the Mississippi, 

 about a hundred miles from the sea. 



NEW SOUTH WALES. The eastern 

 district of Australia; it lies south 

 of North Australia, east of South 

 Australia, and north of Victoria. 

 Sydney, the capital of Australia, is 

 on its east coast. 



NEW YORK. One of the United 

 States; it lies west of the New 

 England States, south of Canada, 

 and north of Pennsylvania; its 

 principal city of the same name 



on its south-eastern point, is the 

 metropolis of eastern N. America. 

 NEW ZEALAND. A large island, or 

 rather two contiguous, large islands, 

 divided by Cooke's Straits ; the 

 northern part is called New Ulster, 

 and the southern New Minister ; it 

 lies south-east of Australia. One 

 of the principal articles of export is 

 the embalmed heads of the natives; 

 these are splendidly tattooed, and 

 when one chief overcame another 

 in war, the head of the vanquished 

 party was beautifully embalmed, but 

 the demand for the article amon^ 



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civilized collectors became so large 

 that a domestic market was estab- 

 lished, by tattooing the faces of 

 slaves and subjects, then slaughter- 

 ing them and passing their heads off 

 on the unsuspicious customer as 

 those of genuine chiefs. This is, or 

 was, also where those missionaries, 

 who were emulous to obtain the 

 crown of martyrdom, went for that 

 delectable purpose, when the oblig- 

 ing natives speedily fulfilled their 

 pious wishes by butchering and 

 afterwards feasting on them. 



NIAS. An island off the north-west 

 of Sumatra. 



NICARAGUA. One of the states of Cen- 

 tral America ; it has Costa Rica on 

 its south, the Gulf of Mexico on its 

 east, Honduras on its north, and the 

 Pacific Ocean on its south-west. 



NICOBAR, ^ Islands in the 



NICOBAR ISLANDS, ^Indian Ocean, 

 ! NIKOBAR ISLANDS, j north-west of 

 Sumatra, west of Malacca, and south 

 of Andaman Islands. 



NIGER. One of the great rivers of 

 Africa; flows through the eastern 

 part of Upper Guinea, and thence 

 into Soudan. 



NILE. A large river, rising in Cen- 

 tral Africa, where it has the name of 

 the White Nile, running northward, 

 through Nubia and Egypt, and emp- 

 tying into the Mediterranean Sea. 



NlNG-Po. A city in the province of 

 Che-Kiaug, on east coast of China. 



