ROSSAUL SCHOOL 



to 20 years' penal servitude for 

 treason-felony in 1865, he was 

 elected M.P.'for Tipperary, 1869, 

 and was released conditionally in 

 1871. He then resided in the 

 U.S.A., and opened a fund for the 

 support of dynamite outrages. 

 He visited England in 1894, and 

 attempted to address the House of 

 Commons. Expelled from the 

 Fenian brotherhood in 1886, he 

 had little political influence in 

 later days, and died in New York, 

 June 29J 1915. 



Rossall School. English public 

 school. It stands on the sea shore 

 at Rossall, Lancashire, 3 m. from 

 Fleetwood, its station. Founded in 

 1884, it was incorporated in 1890, 

 and consists of nine houses. There 

 is a separate preparatory school. 



Ross and Cromarty. County 

 of Scotland. One of the largest in 

 the country, its area being 3,089 

 sq. m., it consists of the two 

 counties of Ross and Cromarty, 

 which were separate until 1889. It 

 has a long, irregular coast-line, 

 pierced by Dornock Firth, Cro- 

 marty Firth, and Beauly Firth on 

 the E., and by Lochs Broom, Ewe, 

 Torridon, Carron, and Alsh, and 

 the Gairloch on the W. It includes 

 parts of Lewis and several of the 

 smaller islands of the Hebrides. 



The surface is very mountainous, 

 the highest peak being Cam Eige 

 (3,877 ft.), Mam Soul (3,862 ft.), 

 Ben Wyvis, Ben Attow, and 

 several others, all over 3,000 ft. 

 Of the rivers the chief are the 

 Orrin, the Oykell, separating it 

 from Sutherlandshire, and the 

 Conon. In the county are lochs 

 Maree, Fannie h, Luichart, Glass, 

 and many others. Most of the 

 surface is given up to deer forests ; 

 elsewhere sheep and cattle are 

 reared ; the fisheries are valuable, 

 and game is abundant. The High- 

 land Rly. serves the county. Ding 

 wall is the county town, others being 

 Stornoway, Tain, Cromarty, Fort- 

 rose, Invergordon, and Strathpeffer 

 Ross and Cromarty originated 

 as two earldoms, having previously 

 been included in the province of 

 Moray. Ross was made a county 

 in 1661, and Cromarty in 1685. 

 The latter consisted of detached 

 pieces of territory scattered 

 throughout Ross-shire, a fact 

 which made their union desirable. 

 One member is returned to Parlia- 

 ment. Pop. 77,000. See History of 

 the Ancient Province of Ross, R. 

 Bain, 1899. 



Rossano. City of S. Italy, in the 

 prov. of Cosenza. It is 28 m. N.E. 

 of Cosenza near the Gulf of Taranto 

 A well-built walled city, it contains 

 an old castle, a Byzantine cathe- 

 dral, and a library with a valuable 

 MS. of the Gospek Silk, olive oil, 



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ROSSBERG 



allied armies were 

 completely scat- 

 tered, the Ger- 

 mans retreating 

 into Bavaria, and 

 Soubise making 

 northward. See 

 Frederick II ; 

 Seven Years' War. 

 Rossberg. 

 Mountain of 

 Switzerland. ' In 

 the cantons Zug 

 and Schwyz, be- 

 tween the lakes of 

 Mam gateway and school buildings Zugj Lowe rz, and 



alabaster are the Aegeri, its highest point is Wild- 

 spitz, 5,190 ft. A road leads to 

 the summit from Unter-Aegeri, a 

 bridle path from Steinerberg, and 



Rossall School 



marble, and alabaster are 

 principal products. Pop. 13,000. 



Rossbach, BATTLE OF. Battle of 

 the Seven Years' War. In it Fred- 

 erick II inflicted 

 decisive defeat on 

 the German and 

 French forces, 

 Nov. 5, 1757 

 Rossbach is a 

 small village of 

 Prussian Saxony, 

 22 m. W.S.W. o{ 

 Leipzig. T h^e 

 allied troops 

 crossed the Saale 

 with a view to 

 attacking Leipzig, 

 and took up a 

 strong defensive 

 position on the 

 left bank. 



Soubise attempted to outflank 

 Frederick, who, making a feint 

 retreat, drew the allies from their 

 strong position, and suddenly 

 attacked. Within two hours the 



Rossberg, Switzerland. Village of Arth at the foot of 

 the mountain 



a footpath from Sattel station 

 on the Rothenthurm line. From 

 it descended the landslip of 1806, 

 which buried four villages and 457 

 people. See Goldau. 



Ross and Cromarty. Map of the :arge Scottish county. Inset, part o> Lewis 

 and smaller islands of the Hebrides included in the count; 



