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NEMESIS 



was elected as a Reform member of the Lower 

 Canada assembly. He labored earnestly to 

 secure some readjustment of political rights for 

 his province, and was soon recognized as one 

 of the foremost Radicals in Canada. In 1837 

 Papineau persuaded him to take a hand in the 

 revolt. NYIson was in command at Saint Denis, 



T Canada, when the rebels won a victory 



the government's forces. Later he was 



captured and, by the Earl of Durham's order, 



was banished to Bermuda. He was released 



r a year, and until 1842 made his home at 

 Plattsburg, N. Y. 

 The proclamation of amnesty in 1842 opened 



ula to Dr. Nelson. He at once returned to 

 Montreal, where he won new honors and showed 

 his ability and his high character to better ad- 

 vantage. In 1854 and 1855 he sat in the Lower 

 Canada assembly. Later he was for several 

 ra inspector of prisons, was twice elected 

 mayor of Montreal, and as head of the Lower 



ida College of Physicians and Surgeons 

 held a high place in his profession. The im li- 



ons of his youth were forgotten in the solid 

 achievements of his mature years. 



NELSON RIVER, the largest river in Mani- 

 toba. It forms the lower course of the groat 

 Saskatchewan River, which rises on the eastern 

 slopes of the Rockies, flows across the plains of 

 Alberta and Saskatchewan, and finally empties 

 into Lake Winnipeg. The surplus waters of this 

 system, as well as of the Red and Winnipeg 



is, are carried from Lake Winnipeg to Hud- 

 son Bay by the Nelson River, which issues from 

 tin northern end of the lake. It is a deep, 

 broad and swift stream, carrying an enormous 

 volume of water and having an average fall 

 of n< arly two feet per mile, throughout its 



Tl ii- Nelson is navigable for small stoanu t> 



about sixty miles below its outlet from 



Winnipeg. Tin- lower course for seventy 



miles from the mouth is also navigable for 



s or gasoline launches, but the 



miilille course is broken by numerous rapids 



falls, and is navigaNe only for ca- 



noes. At the mouth of the Nelson is Port 



on, the trrmmus of the Hudson Hay Kail- 



utory, an old tr..d- 



inn P.M. The NYU,, i, , s l.'H) miles long from 



Lak. ..nth. ;md i- 1 7 



from its mouth to th. rs of the 



Sask t m di .mage basin of 



'!"- is 370300 square mil,-. 



an : one-half t of the 



J.H.T. 



NELUM'BO, a genus of plants which grow 

 in fre-h water and n -. inble the water lilies, the 

 best-known representatives of which are the 

 lotuses, particularly those of China and Egypt. 

 The fleshy roots and the seeds and stalks of t he 

 lotus are used as 

 food by the Chi- 

 nese, the roots 

 furnishing Chi- 

 nese arrowroot. 

 In China this is 

 pickled with salt 

 and vinegar and 

 used to flavor 

 rice, or is pow- 

 dered and made 

 into soup. In In- 

 dia, where the lo- 

 tus is held sacred, 

 the fiber of the 

 dried stalk is used 

 as a wick for the NELUMBO 



temple lamps. Yellow nclumbo (also called 

 lotus, sacred bean and water chinquapin) is an 

 American species found occasionally in the 

 Middle Tinted States and in the eastern part 

 of the country. The leaves are from eigh 

 to twenty inches across and are borne on tall 

 stems. The yellow flowers are from one to five 

 inches in diameter. See LOTUS. 



NEMEAN, neme'an, or ne'mean, GAMES, 

 one of the four Greek national festivals, held 

 at the shrine of Jupiter or Zeus, in the valley 

 of Nemea in Argolis. The Nemean games were 

 celebrated every other year in midsummer, and 

 the competitive exercises were athletic contests, 

 horse racing and playing the eithara, the ancient 

 Greek harp. Each winner was given a palm 

 branch and a crown of parsley. The games 

 were said in legend to have been instituted by 

 II-: rules in honor of his father. Jupiter, but 

 later they became a feature of the worship of 

 iles himself. It was in the Nemean forest 

 that the lu TO performed the first of his few* 

 labors the slaughter of the lion (see HER- 

 CULES). The lir.-i >enes of games recorded in 

 the historical pi nod was celebrated in 573 B.C. 

 See ( >> i Mi'i \N GAMES. 



NEMESIS, it, in' < sis, in Greek mythology, 

 the gnddex of \< ngeanoo, who represented the 

 just anger of the nods. She was especially in- 

 flexible in her attitude toward those who 

 proud and m-oleiit and did not pay to the gods 

 pro] nee. To-day the word means 



retribution or retributive justice, an exact dis- 

 tribution to every man according to his deserts. 



