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FARRAGUT 



Philip V of Spain, and being naturally of a 

 domineering and ambitious disposition, she 

 completely ruled the king. In 1731 the male 

 line became extinct at the death of ANTONIO. 



The palace of the family in Rome, com- 

 pleted in 1575, was owned by the Pope for 

 many years, and then it became the property 

 of the king of Naples. At present it is the 

 residence of the French ambassador to Italy. 



Farnese Bull, a group of colossal statuary, 

 represents Dirce about to be bound to the 

 horns of a bull by Zethus and Amphion, the 

 two stepsons of Antiope, for whom Dirce had 

 decreed a similar fate. Antiope stands pas- 

 sively in the background. The group was 

 made by two brothers, Apollonius and Tauris- 

 cus of Tralles, in the second century B. c. and, 

 excepting the Laocoon, is the most important 

 surviving work of the Rhodian school of art. 



FARNHAM, jahrn'am, the county town of 

 Missisquoi County, Quebec, and an important 

 railroad center. It is situated in the extreme 

 southern part of the province, on the Tamaska 

 River, eighteen miles from the United States 

 boundary line. Montreal is forty-three miles 

 northwest, and Saint Hyacinthe is twenty-five 

 miles north. Transportation service is pro- 

 vided by the Stanstead, Shefford & Chambly 

 and branches of the Canadian Pacific and 

 Central Vermont railways. The population, 

 which is chiefly Canadian, was 3,560 in 1911: 

 in 1916 it was about 3,800. 



Tobacco is one of the crops of the country 

 around Farnham, and many of the people in 

 the town are engaged in making tobacco prod- 

 ucts. Car repair shops of the Canadian Pa- 

 cific Railway are located here; there also are 

 tanneries, shirt and overall factories, manu- 

 factories of safes and vaults, building materials 

 and furniture; other industries are grist mills, 

 butter and cheese factories and marble works. 

 Farnham has a town hall, an electric power 

 house, a $15,000 post office, a hospital and a 

 large railway station; these are noteworthy, 

 considering the size of the town. In addition 

 to public and private schools there are a Ro- 

 man Catholic college, a convent and a public 

 library. A military camp and an experimental 

 farm, in which $20,000 have been invested, are 

 located here. 



FAROE, ja'ro, ISLANDS, (in Danish, 

 FAEROER), a group of twenty-one volcanic 

 islands belonging to Denmark, lying in the 

 North Atlantic Ocean, between Iceland and 

 the Shetland Islands. Only seventeen are 

 inhabited, the remainder being barren, rocky 



islets, all covering an area of 541 square miles. 

 The coasts are precipitous, deeply indented and 

 surrounded by treacherous currents which make 

 navigation difficult. The principal islands are 

 Stromo, Ostero, Vaago, Bordo, Videro, Sando 

 and Sudero. The inhabitants hardy, vigorous 

 Norsemen are chiefly engaged in fishing and 

 sheep raising. Vast numbers of sea birds nest 

 on the precipices and yield a large revenue to 

 the islanders, their eggs and feathers finding a 

 ready market. 



The islands are governed by a parliament, or 

 lagthing, of eighteen members and a governor 

 appointed by the crown of Denmark. There 

 is representation in the Danish Parliament. 

 Thorshavn, on the island of Stromo, is the seat 

 of government. Population in 1911, 18,000, an 

 increase of 2,770 since 1901. 



FARRAGUT, fair 'a gut, DAVID GLASGOW 

 (1801-1870), an American naval officer whose 

 brilliant and daring exploits during the War 

 of Secession inspired Congress to create ex- 

 pressly for him the grades of vice-admiral and 

 admiral. At the 

 age of seven he 

 was adopted by 

 Commander 

 David D. Porter 

 (which see), and 

 two years later 

 entered the navy 

 as a midshipman. 

 He served with 

 credit during the 

 War of 1812 and 

 the Mexican War, 

 and between 1854 



DAVID G. FARRAGUT 



and 1858 was occupied in establishing the Mare 

 Island Navy Yard in San Francisco Bay. 



The outbreak of the War of Secession found 

 him on duty at the Norfolk Navy Yard. Hav- 

 ing offered his services to the North, he was 

 put in command of a blockading squadron late 

 in the year 1861, and ordered to unite with 

 Porter in the capture of New Orleans. A 

 fierce bombardment of the forts guarding the 

 approach to the city being without result, 

 Farragut ran the enemy's batteries, defeated a 

 Confederate fleet of fifteen vessels, and on 

 April 27, 1862, took formal command of New 

 Orleans. This triumph won him the rank of 

 rear-admiral. 



In 1863 he gave valuable assistance to 

 Grant's land forces engaged in the siege of 

 Vicksburg, and the following year took com- 

 mand of a fleet of twenty-five vessels assem- 



