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H 117 milee north. Transportation is provided 

 by the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pennsylvania, 



abash and New York Central railways, 

 and by interurban lines which operate north 

 and south of the city. Zanesville was founded 

 in 1799 by John Mclntire and Jonathan Zane 

 df Virginia. In 1802 a post office was estab- 

 .iiul called Zanesville; from this the 

 town received its name. It was the capital of 

 the state from 1810 to 1812, but was not in- 

 corporated as a city until 1814. The popula- 

 tion increased from 28,026 in 1910 to 30,863 

 (Federal estimate) in 1916. 



Zanesville is distinctly a manufacturing city. 

 It lies within a circle of hills in a region rich 

 in coal, clay and limestone, and is crowded 

 with industrial plants; cheap fuel, raw material 

 and good water power from the Muskingum 

 River provide exceptional facilities for manu- 

 facture. Although the foundries and machine 

 shops have the largest output, the city excels 

 all others in the United States in producing 

 pottery, especially decorative tiles, about 2,000 

 people being employed in the tile plants. Pav- 

 ing blocks, agricultural implements, glass, 

 leather, marble and lumber products are other 

 articles of manufacture. Prominent buildings 

 are a Federal building, erected at a cost of 

 $150,000, a county courthouse, a Masonic Tem- 

 ple, an Odd Fellows' building and the Soldiers' 

 and Sailors' Memorial Hall. The city has a 

 Carnegie Library, a Roman Catholic academy 

 and a home for children. R.B.B. 



ZANGWILL, sang 'ml, ISRAEL (1864- ), a 

 British writer, of Jewish parentage, was born in 

 London and educated at the Jews' Free School, 

 Spitalfields, London. In 1888 he published a 

 romance, The Premier and the Painter, and in 

 1892 appeared his 

 Children oj the 

 Ghetto, the first 

 of several works 

 of fiction repre- 

 ive of Jew- 

 ish life and char- 

 acter. Some of 

 the later of these 

 are Ghetto Trage- 

 dies, They That 

 Walk in Dark- 

 ness and The 

 Mantle of Elijah. In Dreamers of the Ghetto, 

 Spinoza, Heine and other Hebrew men of 

 genius are portrayed. Others of his works are 

 Without Prejudice, a collection of essays con- 

 tributed to the Pall Mall Gazette; and Merely 



Mary Ann and Tin Melting Pot, plays that 

 have been very popular. Zangwill has lectured 

 in Ireland, the United States, Holland and 

 Palestine, and is a leader of the Zionists (see 

 ZIONIST MOVEMENT) . 



ZANZIBAR, zahnzibahr', or zan'zibahr, an 

 island of East Africa, off the coast of German 

 East Africa, under British protection, with an 

 area of 640 square miles and a population of 

 197,000, including the island of Pemba, a part 

 of the Zanzibar protectorate, which alone has 

 83,000 people. The island is nominally gov- 

 erned by a sultan, under the supervision of a 

 British agent and consul-general. The present 

 sultan, born in 1907, is sustained in his position 

 by Great Britain. 



The cocoanut palm flourishes, each tree 

 yielding 100 to 120 nuts a year; but cloves and 

 copra form the principal products, while to- 

 bacco and vanilla are also cultivated. The 

 population is very mixed, a Bantu-speaking 

 race being probably the original inhabitants; 

 the people are noted as fishermen, cattle raisers 

 and skilled artisans. Arabs, Parsis, Hindus, 

 Swahili and natives of all parts of Africa are 

 found in Zanzibar, while the white population 

 numbers only about 250, mostly British. The 

 port of Zanzibar is the only large town, with a 

 population of 35,262. The dominant religion is 

 Mohammedanism, but there are several Prot- 

 estant and Roman Catholic missions on the is- 

 land. Slavery was not abolished in Zanzibar 

 until 1897, when compensation was given to 

 slave owners. (See map, Africa, facing page 

 81.) 



ZEALAND, or SEELAND, ze'land, in Dutch, 

 zah'lahnt, the island on which Copenhagen, 

 the capital of Denmark, stands. It is separated 

 from Sweden by the narrow strait called the 

 Sound, about ten miles wide ; it is about fifteen 

 miles east of the Danish island of Fyen. The 

 island covers an area of 2,682 square miles, and 

 has a very irregular outline, the rocky coast 

 being indented by bays and fiords. There are 

 several rivers, but the largest is only fifty miles 

 long. Agriculture and cattle breeding are the 

 principal occupations, the island being noted 

 for its dairy products. The population, includ- 

 ing the people on neighboring islets, is 960,053. 



ZE'BRA, a group of horselike animals found 

 wild in Africa, in the region between the 

 Transvaal and Bechuanaland, in the south, and 

 in the Sudan, in Egypt. They are distin- 

 guished from all other members of the horse 

 family by their peculiar markings, parallel 

 black stripes on a gray-white or cream-colored 



