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FIERI FACIAS, in English law, ix. 147; xxiv. 696.

FIESCHI, Counts of, Italy, xiv. 350.

, Giovanni Luigi cle , Genoese con spirator, IX. 147.

, Joseph Marie, French conspirator,

ix. 147. , Sinibaldo de (Pope Innocent IV.),

Xin. 84. FlESCO, or Fieschi, Giovanni Luigi de ,

Genoese conspirator, ix. 147.

, Schiller s play, XXI. 396.

FIESOLE, town, Italy, ix. 148.

, Fra Giovanni Angelico da (Fra

Angelico), Italian painter, IX. 148,

772; xxi. 434, 435. , Mino di Giovanni da, Italian

sculptor, xvi. 477; xxi. 568. FIEVEE, Joseph, French journalist, xvn.

426; xviii. 540. FIFE, county, Scotland, ix. 150; area

and population, xxi. 528; coalfields,

vi. 54; representation, xxm. 727.

, musical instrument, ix. 351.

FIFTH MONARCHY MEN, Puritan sect,

ix. 153. FIG, tree and fruit, ix. 153; iv. 121;

xn. 271. FIGARO, dramatic character, ix. 155.

, Paris newspaper, ix. 155; xvii.427.

, comedy by Beaumarchais, III. 468.

, opera by Mozart, xvn. u.

, Jose de Larra, Spanish satirist,

xxn. 361. FIGBURY RING, Wilts, England, xxiv.

594-

FlGEAC, town, France, IX. 155. FlGlG, town, Sahara, Africa, xxi. 149. FlGUERAS, town, Spain, IX. 155. FIGURE, Rigid, Kinematics of a, xv. 691.

OF THE EARTH, vn. 597. FIGURES, Lully s logical system of, xv.

64.

, Mathematical, xv. 268.

FIGURE STONE, mineral, xvi. 425.

FIHR, tribe, Arabia, II. 256.

FIHRIST, work on Arabic literature,

xvn. 160; xv. 482, 484. FIJI ISLANDS, South Pacific, ix. 155;

xv. 835. FILANGIERI, Carlo, Italian general, ix.

158.

, Gaetano, Italian publicist, IX. 159;

xix. 362. FlLARETE, Antonio, Florentine sculptor,

XXI. 568. FlLARlA, genus of nematode worms,

XVII. 325; xxiv. 206. FILATURE, reeling of silk, xxn. 61. FILBERT, tree and nut, xi. 548; plan tations of, I. 384. FILE, steel tool, ix. 160; xi. 438.

FlLE-FlSH, IX. l6l.

FlLELFO, Francesco, Italian scholar, ix.

161. FILFLA, islet, Mediterranean Sea, xv.

339-

FILI, Irish bards, v. 303.

FILIBUSTER, buccaneer, ix. 162 ; iv.

408. FILICAIA, Vincenzo da, Italian poet, ix.

162; xin. 511. FILICES, or Ferns, ix. 101. FILICIN^E, class of plants, xxiv. 129. FILICUDI, Lipari Islands, Mediterranean

Sea, Xiv. 683. FILIGREE, jewel work of threads and

beads, ix. 163. FILING OF DOCUMENTS, in law, xx.

342- FILINTO ELYSIO (F. M. do Nascimento),

Portuguese writer, xix. 557. FILIPPINO LlPPl, Italian painter, xiv.

685; ix. 773; xv. 606; xxi. 435. FILIPPO OTTONIERI, Leopardi s imagi nary biography, xiv. 464. FILIPPOPEL (Philippopolis), town, Rou-

melia, Turkey, xvm. 753. FILLAN, St, Scottish saint, ix. 164. FILLE DU REGIMENT, by Donizetti, vn.

363-

FILLES A LA CASSETTE, French emi grant girls at New Orleans, XVII.

43-

FILLET, in architecture, n. 464. FILLMORE, Millard, president of United

States, ix. 165; xxin. 770. FILLOWITE, mineral, xvi. 404. FILMER, Sir Robert, English political

writer, ix. 166. FILMS, Liquid, in capillary action, v.

58, 59, 65. , Sensitive, in photography, xviii.

836. FlLOCOPO, tale by Boccaccio, ill. 843;

xm. 504. FlLOSTRATO, poem by Boccaccio, ill.

844- FILTER, apparatus for purifying liquids,

ix. 1 66. FILTER-BEDS, in water-works, xxiv.

408.

FIN, of fish, xii. 637; xxn. 119. FINALE DELL EMILIA, town, Italy, ix.

171. FINANCE, ix. 171; Law s system 01, xiv.

369- FINCH, bird, ix. 191.

, Daniel, earlof Nottingham, English

secretary of state, xvil. 600. , Heneage, earl of Nottingham, lord

chancellor of England, xvn. 600. -, Margaret, long-liver, xvn. 596.

FlNCK, Heinrich, German composer, ix.

193-

, Hermann, German musical writer,

IX. 193.

FIND, Celtic hero, IX. 215. FINDEN, William, English engraver, IX.

193- FINDHORN, river, Scotland, vni. 129;

XVII. 1 66.

FINE, in law, ix. 193. ARTS, The, IX. 194; theory of, I.

212; application of, in numismatics, XVIL 629, 633 ; position of poetry among, xix. 260,262; how affected by tlie Renaissance, xx. 385,390; Japanese, xm. 588; Winckelmann s studies in, xxiv. 5.97; academies of, I. 77, 78.

FlNFOOT, bird, XX. 223.

FlNGAL, Celtic hero, IX. 215.

FINGAL S CAVE, Staffa, Scotland, v. 265.

FINGER RINGS, xx. 560.

FINGERS, Anatomy of the, I. 828; joints of, I. 839; use of, to express numbers, xvn. 625; redundancy of, xvi. 762; whitlow on, xxiv. 555. AND TOES, in turnips, I. 367.

FINGOLAND, South Africa, xin. 817.

FINI, Tommaso (Masolino), Italian painter, xv. 610; xxi. 435.

FINIAL, in architecture, II. 464.

FINIGUERRA, Maso, Italian engraver, ix. 215.

FINISTERE, department, France, IX. 215.

FINLAND, province, Russia, ix. 216; xxi. 69; acquisition of, by Russia (1809), XXI. 100; XXII. 752; climate of, xxil. 738; newspapers, xvn. 430; periodical literature, xviii. 543. , Gulf of, Russia, in. 294.

FINLAV, George, English historian of Greece, ix. 220.

FINNANS, smoked haddocks, i. 44.

FINNER, cetacean mammal, xv. 395.

FINNISH LANGUAGE, xxiv. i; diction aries of, vii. 1 88.

FINNS, race of people, ix. 219; xxi. 79; religion of, xx. 363.

FlNSBURV, borough, London, Xiv. 821.

FINTRY HILLS, Scotland, xxn. 553.

FiOGO, town, Japan, xi. 851.

FIORAVENTI, Aristotle, Italian architect, XXL 91.

FlORENTINO, Giovanni, media-val Italian writer, xni. 505.

FIORENZUOLA, town, Italy, ix. 221.

FlORILLO, Johann Dominions, German painter and historian of art, IX. 221.

FlORITE, mineral, xvi. 390.

FlOTE, language, Congo, Africa, vi. 267.

FIR, coniferous tree, IX. 222; culture of, II. 316, 319; Riga, strength of its wood, xxn. 603; Scotch, xix. 103; of United States, xxin. 808; of California, iv. 704.

FIRANDO, island, Japan, xin. 569.

FlRBOLGS, Irish legendary people, V. 299; xni. 243; xv. 650.

FlRDOUSi, or Firdausi, Persian poet, ix. 225; xvm. 656; patronage of, by Mahmud, xv. 287; his place as epic poet, Xix. 267.

FIRE, element, IX. 227; acquaintance of early man with, vni. 617; in mytho logy, xvn. 158; xix. 807; sacred, of