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twenty-two states had naval militia corps. The 

 members are not required to serve on ships, 

 but opportunity for a certain amount of train- 

 ing on board ship is usually provided, each 

 state maintaining a corps, usually being granted 

 the use of one or more warships for this pur- 

 pose. The Secretary of the Navy is also au- 

 thorized to establish schools or camps of in- 

 fraction for the naval militia, but during times 

 of peace tlu-.-r camps cannot continue longer 

 than six weeks in a year. In 1915 the naval 

 militia included 600 officers and 7,700 men, and 

 the law creating the naval reserve authorized 

 the President in time of war to increase this 

 number to 17,400. See MARINE CORPS. 



NAVAL SCHOOLS OF INSTRUCTION are 

 maintained by all the leading nations of the 

 world for the purpose of special and technical 

 training of officers and men for service in the 

 navy. In the United States the Naval Academy 

 (which see) at Annapolis, Md., is the leading 

 institution of its kind and one of the best ap- 

 pointed in the world; in that school the post- 

 graduate courses only are viewed as a naval 



<>1 of instruction, the undergraduates being 



simply ranked as students not yet in the serv- 



At the Naval War College at Newport, 



K I., officers are instructed and plans for opera- 



- prepared. Goat Island, in the harbor of 



port, R. I., is the home of the Naval Tor- 

 pedo School and there are other naval schools 

 at Port Royal, S. C., Lake Bluff, 111., and San 

 Francisco, Cal. Camps or temporary schools 

 of instruction may be established by the Secre- 

 tary of the Navy at such points as he considers 

 most convenient for instruction of the naval 

 reserve. 



leading naval schools of Great Britain 

 are at Dartmouth, occupying the old battle- 

 ships Britannia and Hindustan, with large shore 

 premises and the Royal Naval College at 

 Greenwich, on the Thames. At Kiel, at tin 

 mouth of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal (Ki.l 

 Canal), the German government maintains a 

 npped training school. France has a 

 similar institution at Brest. The object of 

 schools is the same in each country to 

 the efficiency of naval forces but 

 methods of instructio ny details, 



years been a strong 



: rowing inclination on the part of Canada 

 to build ships and organise places of instruc- 

 tor Canadians wishing to serve in a 

 "Canadian navy for Cana.i British 



iow provides naval protection for 

 nion. 



NAVARRE, navahr' , formerly an independ- 

 ent kingdom, which included a little of South- 

 ern France, but now a province of Spain, whose 

 northern point touches the Pyrenees Moun- 

 tains where they meet the Bay of Biscay. Its 



LOCATION OF NAVARRE 



area is about 4,055 square miles. The lower 

 ground is extremely fertile and produces wheat 

 in abundance. The fruit of Navarre is famous ; 

 from its apples cider is made, and its grapes 

 are in great demand in Southern France to 

 improve the flavor, of French wines. Flax, oil 

 and hemp are exported, and mulberry trees 

 are extensively cultivated, principally for their 

 leaves for feeding silkworms. The mountain 

 slopes are covered with forests containing pine, 

 beech, oak and chestnut. The streams abound 

 with trout and other fish and large and small 

 game is plentiful. Raising live stock forms an 

 important industry, Navarre in this respect 

 being the richest of all Spanish provinces. Na- 

 varre has been important in history. 



NAVE. The floor plan of the earliest ca- 

 thedrals was, in general, the shape of a Latin 

 cross. The space corresponding to the arms of 

 the cross, is called the transept. That part 

 above the arms is known as the apse and con- 



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!!.>< >i; 1 LAN OF A CATHEDRAL 



tin- choir >t:il|x and altar. The lorn- 

 body of the building is railed the nave. Usu- 

 ally on either side of the nave are aitlcs, sepa- 

 rated from it by columns. The nave 

 highest part of the building and is lighted by 

 windows in thr walls above the roof of tin 

 aisles. See CATHEDRAL. 



