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WESTPHALIA 



in the chapel of Edward the Confessor there is 

 kept the old Coronation Chair, with the Stone 

 of Scone, brought from Scotland and by legend 

 declared to be the stone which the patriarch 

 Jacob used as a pillow (see CORONATION, sub- 

 head Coronation Chair). Burial in Westmin- 

 ster Abbey is one of the greatest honors which 

 England can bestow, and sovereigns, as well 

 as many of the greatest of their subjects, lie 

 there. Henry VII, Elizabeth, Mary Queen of 

 Scots, Charles II, William and Mary, James I, 

 and other kings and queens are interred in the 

 chapel of Henry VII, which is specially reserved 

 for royalty ; Warren Hastings, Fox, the elder and 

 younger Pitt, Wilberforce and numerous other 

 statesmen lie elsewhere in the Abbey. Perhaps 

 the most sacred as well as the most interesting 

 spot is the so-called Poets' Corner, in the south 

 transept. Here are buried Chaucer and Spen- 

 ser, Goldsmith, Gray, Dryden and others of the 

 great poets of England, while near by lie Dick- 

 ens, Thackeray, Butler, Johnson, Addison and 

 other famous men of letters. Not all, of course, 

 of England's great writers are buried here, but 

 for those who are missing memorial tablets or 

 statues have been erected. Among the latter 

 stands a bust of Longfellow, the only American 

 who has been so honored. A.MC c. 



Consult Lofties' Westminster Abbey; Pratt's 

 Westminster Abbey. 



WESTMINSTER HALL, a building adjoin- 

 ing the British Houses of Parliament, a part 

 of the old Palace of Westminster. It was built 

 or rather rebuilt to replace an earlier struc- 

 ture destroyed by fire by Richard II, and is a 

 great room 290 feet long, sixty-eight feet wide 

 and ninety-two feet high. Architecturally, its 

 most interesting feature is its carved wooden 

 ceiling, accounted among the most wonderful 

 structures of its kind in the world. Histori- 

 cally, the Hall is noted as the scene of many 

 great events. Here More, Lady Jane Grey, 

 Strafford and Warren Hastings were brought to 

 trial, and here Charles I was condemned to 

 death. In this room, too, Cromwell was in- 

 stalled as Lord Protector of England. At the 

 present time the building serves as a vestibule 

 to the Houses of Parliament. 



WESTMOUNT, a city in Quebec, in Hoche- 

 laga County. It is a suburb of Montreal, and 

 is almost exclusively residential in character. 

 It has a number of notable church edifices, 

 and the public library and the city hall also 

 deserve mention. The electric-lighting plant 

 is owned by the city. Population in 1911, 

 14.579; in 1916, estimated, 15,800. 



WEST ORANGE, N. J., in Essex County, 

 sixteen miles west of New York City, is a resi- 

 dential town, attractively situated along the 

 side and at the foot of Orange Mountain. 

 Eagle Rock (600 feet) commands splendid 

 views of the neighborhood and of New York 

 City and harbor. Railroad transportation is 

 provided by the Erie and the Delaware, Lacka- 

 \vanna & Western railroads, and by interurban 

 lines. The two most noteworthy features of 

 the town are Llewellyn Park, a beautiful resi- 

 dence section, and the large electrical plants 

 owned by Thomas A. Edison. The latter were 

 partially destroyed by fire in 1914, but were 

 immediately rebuilt. In 1910 the population 

 was 10,980; in 1916, 13,550 (Federal estimate). 



WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. See subhead, 

 under PALM BEACH. 



WESTPHALIA, westja'lia, a province of 

 Prussia, first among the states of that former 

 kingdom in the production of iron, zinc and 

 copper. It is also an important center for 

 the production of coal, lead, stone and salt. 



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Westphalia has an area of 7,804 square miles 

 and a population (census of 1910) of 4,125,096. 

 The manufacturing industries are well devel- 

 oped, and the province has prosperous manu- 

 factories of metal wares, linens, cotton and 

 woolen goods and hosiery. Though Westphalia 

 is not a foremost agricultural state, its farms 

 yield profitable crops of rye, oats, potatoes and 

 flax. At Miinster, the capital of the province, 

 is the Academy, which stands at the head of the 

 Westphalian system of education. 



Peace of Westphalia. This is the name given 

 the treaty which concluded the Thirty Years' 

 War (which see). The general peace terms 

 were signed in October, 1648, in the city of 

 Munster. Two important matters of dispute 

 were settled the religious status of the Ger- 



