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 Mitre, visited England in connex- 

 ion with the formation of a London 

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Nadia OR NABADWIP. Dist. and 

 town of Bengal, India. The dist. 

 is a part of the Ganges delta, and 

 the govt. maintains channels for 

 steamer navigation in the Bhagira- 

 thi, Bhairab, Jalangi, and Matab- 

 hanga rivers Rice and jute are 

 grown. The town is on the 

 Bhagirathi or Upper Hooghli, 55 

 m. N. of Calcutta. Area 2,790 

 sq. m. Pop. dist., 1,618,000 ; town, 

 12,500. 



Nadiad. Town of India, in Kaira 

 dist. Bombay Prov. It is a rly. 

 junction on the line from Baroda 

 to Ahmadabad. There is con- 

 siderable trade in tobacco and ghL 

 A cotton mill provides some em- 

 ployment. Pop. 27,100. 



Nadir. In astronomy, the point 

 of the celestial sphere directly 

 beneath the observer, i.e. exactly 

 opposite to the zenith (q.v.). 



Nadir (1688-1747). Shah of 

 Persia. Born in Khorassan and 

 named Nadir Kuli, at the age of 17 

 he was cap- 

 tured by the 

 Uzbeg Tartars, 

 escaping after 

 four years' cap- 

 tivity. After 

 many wild ad- 

 ventures, in 

 1726heentered 

 the service of 

 Nadir Shah, Tahmasp II, 



Ruler of Persia 8 h a h of Persia, 

 whom he deposed in 1732, pro- 

 claiming himself regent for the 

 minor Abbas III. He carried out 

 successful campaigns against the 

 Russians and Turks, and on the 

 death of Abbas, 1736, seized the 

 Persian throne. Victorious against 

 Afghanistan and Bokhara, he in- 

 vaded India, attacked the Great 

 Mogul, seized Delhi in 1739, 

 carried away the Koh-i-Nur dia- 

 mond and the Peacock throne, and 

 put over 30,000 of the inhabitants 

 to the sword. He was assassinated 

 at Fethabad, June 19-20, 1747. 



Nadson, SEMION YAKOVLEVITCH 

 (1862-86). Russian poet. Born in 

 St. Petersburg, of Jewish birth, at 

 the age of 20 he published a volume 

 of poems, which was severely at- 

 tacked by some critics, but met 

 with a popular success hitherto 



S. Y. Nadson, 

 Russian poet 



unknown i n 

 Russia. In 

 1884 he ob- 

 tained work 

 on a St. 

 Petersburg 

 weekly paper, 

 but two years 

 later died of 

 consumption 

 at Yalta. 

 His poetry, 

 though marked by a monotony 

 of gloom, has been described as 

 magically musical. 



Naevius (c. 269-204 B.C.). 

 Roman dramatist and poet. A 

 native of Campania, he was the 

 predecessor of Ennius and an older 

 contemporary of Plautus. He 

 fought in the first Punic War, and 

 afterwards settled in Rome and 

 devoted himself to literature. He 

 persistently attacked the aristo- 

 cracy, especially the Metelli, by 

 whom he was banished to Utica, 

 where he died. He was the author 

 of tragedies and comedies, and of 

 the first Roman epic poem, written 

 in the old Saturnian metre, the 

 subject of which was the Punic 

 Wars. Naevius drew most of the 

 material of his comedies from 

 Greek sources, especially Menander. 



Naevus (Lat., birthmark) OR 

 MOLE. Lesion of the skin present 

 at birth. The term is applied by 

 pathologists to several abnormal 

 conditions of the skin. Naevus 

 vascularis is due to overgrowth of 

 the blood vessels of the skin, and 

 form the conditions known popu- 

 larly as port-wine mark and straw- 

 berry mark. Small naevi are of 

 very common occurrence. Naevi 

 should be left r __ . 

 alone unless they '. 

 are increasing or 

 cause disfigure- 

 ment. Treatment 

 by liquid air, solid 

 carbon dioxide, or 

 radium has been 

 found effective. 



anklets are worn. Eighteen British 

 expeditions, 1832-87, were needed 

 for their subjugation. 



Nagada. Town of Egypt. It 

 stands on the left bank of the Nile, 

 16 m. below Luxor, Upper Egypt. 

 Between it and Ballas 3,000 graves 

 and two towns were excavated in 

 1894. The pottery, with paint- 

 ings of gazelles, ostriches, and river- 

 boats, was associated with bone 

 harpoons, flint implements, and 

 other neolithic remains. In 1897 

 de Morgan unearthed a brick 

 mastaba, claimed to be the tomb 

 of Mena, who founded the 1st 

 dynasty. 



Naga Hills. District of Assam, 

 India. It is occupied by the Naga 

 tribe, and comprises a section of 

 the mountainous tracts on the 

 borders of Burma. Manipur lies 

 to the S. ; practically none of the 

 area is cultivated. Its area is 3,070 

 sq. m. Pop. 150,000. 



Nagano. Town of Japan, in 

 Honshu. It is situated towards the 

 W. side of the island, near the con- 

 fluence of the Saugawa and the 

 Shinanogawa. It is the capital of 

 a prefecture famed for its seri- 

 culture and forestry. The town 

 was formerly called Zwenkoji, from 

 the Buddhist temple which stands 

 on an elevation in the city. The 

 monastery dates from 664, but the 

 buildings are modern ; the chief 

 images are reputed to have been 

 made by Buddha himself. The 

 town is on the rly. from Tokyo to 

 the W. coast at Takata. -Pop. 

 39,200. 



Nagasaki. Seaport of Japan, on 

 Kyushiu island. It stands on a fine 

 natural harbour on the W. side of 



Naevus pig- 

 mentosus is the 

 pigmented mole. 

 These moles may 

 be single or scajt- 

 tered over the 

 whole body, and 

 may be as small 

 as a pin's head or 

 cover large areas. 

 Sometimes they are covered with 

 long hair. See Mole. 



Naga. Tribes of Indonesian 

 stock occupying the hill-ranges of 

 E. Assam. They numbered in 1911 

 220,034, speaking diverse Tibeto- 

 Burman dialects. The head-hunt- 

 ing warrior is distinguished by 

 cowry ornaments with human hair 

 and tattooing. Cane girdles and 



Nagasaki, Japan. The bund, or harbour front ; the 

 European business centre of the town 



the island, 3 m. from the open sea. 

 It held the monopoly of European 

 trade from the 16th century until 

 1859, when Japan was opened to 

 foreign trade and towns more 

 centrally situated superseded Na- 

 gasaki. The port has connexion by 

 rly. and ocean liner with other 

 Japanese ports. Coal is mined in 

 the neighbourhood. There are coke 



