INDEX 



*,* The Figures in the columns indicate the pages of the Text in which the particular term or subject U explained. 



AARGAU, canton of Switzerland, 213. 



Abattis, in military works, 203. 



Abbasides, 116. 



Abbotsford, 256. 



Abercromby, Sir Ralph, 165. 



Aberdeen, its granite trade, &c. 255. 



Aberfeldy, falls of Moness, 248. 



Abhidharma, the, 429. 



Aboukir, 165. 



Abury, stone circle of, 230, 735. 



Abyss.inia, climate, divisions, war with England, 

 religion, 295. 



Abyssinia, war with England and, 174. 



Abyssinian Church, the, 415. 



Accent, in musical notation, 695. 



Acclimatisation, in Anthropology, 15. 



Achaean League, 38. 



Achaeans, 86. 



Achaia, 96. 



Achilles, 88. 



Acre, 173. 



Acts of parliament, 58. 



Adal, 295. 



Adamawa, 296. 



Addison, Joseph, 158. 



Addition, in Arithmetic, 595 ; in Algebra, 606. 



Adelaide, 301. 



Aden, 280. 



Adjectives, 580 ; inflection of, 585. 



Admiralty, Board of, 207. 



Admiralty Court, 60, 182. 



Adverbs, 582 ; adverbial conjunctions, 583 ; in- 

 flection of, 585. 



Adversative conjunctions, 583. 



Advowsons, or patronage of livings, 183. 



/Ediles, 102. 



yEgaean, islands of the, 90. 



yEgina, 82. 



yEolus, 86. 



yEschines, 96. 



yEschylus, 95. 



yEsir, 434, 435, 436. 



yEtheling, Edgar, 132. 



yEtius, in. 



Affixes, in Language, 23. 



Afghanistan, population, 276 ; races, &c. 277 ; 

 products, 277. 



AFRICA OCEANIA, 289-304. 



Africa, physical features, 290 ; climate, botany, 

 zoology, 291 ; population, 291 ; great divisions, 

 292 ; Northern Africa, 292 ; Western Africa, 293 ; 

 Southern Africa, 293 ; Eastern Africa, 294 ; 

 Abyssinia, 295 ; Zanzibar, 295 ; Mozambique, 

 295 ; Central Africa, 295. 



African languages, 29. 



Agamemnon, 88. 



Agassiz's origin of races, in Anthropology, 16. 



Agesilaus, 95. 



Agglutinate languages 28, 29. 

 103 



Agincourt, battle of, 125. 



Agnosticism, 376, 377. 



Agows, the, in Anthropology, 6. 



Agra, 284. 



Agricola, in the History of Rome, no. 



Agricola, in the History of England, 130, 



Agricultural statistics of Britain, 188. 



Ahriman, 437. 



Aix-la-Chapelle, peace of, 160. 



Ajmere, in India, 282. 



Alabama, in United States, 316. 



Alabama, the, privateer, 174. 



Alaric, in. 



Alarms in churches and theatres, 792. 



Alaska Territory, 316. 



Alatyan group of languages, 29. 



Albert Diirer, painter, 654. 



Albert N'yanza, Lake, 291, 296. 



Albigenses, the, 121, 128. 



Albinos, in Anthropology, 8. 



Albuera, battle of, 168. 



Albumen process, in Photography, 781. 



Alcaeus, 92. 



Alcibiades, 95. 



Alcuin, 117. 



Aleppo, population, trade, 279. 



Alexander the Great, 96. 



Alexandria, population, 294. 



ALGEBRA, 605-608. 



Algeria, population, provinces, government, army, 

 exports, 292. 



Alison, the historian, 176. 



Alleghanies, the, 306. 



Allen, Lough, 272. 



All-Fools' Day, 455. 



Alliance, the Holy, 170. 



Alliance, the Triple, England, France, and Hol- 

 land, 151. 



Allodium or freehold, 119. 



Allophylian or Sporadic languages, 29. 



All-Saints' Day, festival of, 460. 



All-Souls' Day, festival of, 461. 



Almeida, battle of, 168. 



Alphabet, English, its defects, 21. 



Alsace and Lorraine, cession of, to Prussia, 



174- 



Alsace-Lorraine, Reichsland of, 219. 



Altai Mountains, 276. 



Altaic Mongolida:, in Anthropology, 4- 



Amasis, 72. 



Amazon, the river, 322. 



Amazons, the, 87. 



Ambassadors, 47. 



Ambrose, as a reformer of church muskr, 706. 



AMERICA, NORTH, 305-320 ; superficial features, 

 305 ; hydrography, 306 ; geology, 307 ; climate, 

 botany, zoology, 308 ; countries, 308 ; British 

 North America, 309 ; United States, 315 J 

 Mexico, 319 ; Central America, 320, 



