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AjODHYA, town, British India, vill. 855. AjURUOCA, town, Brazil, I. 434. AKABA, Gulf of, Red Sea, i. 434; xx. 316. , station for Moslem homages, xvi.

AKABAH, town, Arabia, I. 434.

AKAKIA, Diatribe du Docteur, Voltaire s Avork, ix. 671; xxiv. 289.

AKATZIRS (Khazars), people, xiv. 60.

AKBAR, the Great, emperor of Delhi, I. 434; ii. 700; xn. 794; xx. 1 10. KHAN, Afghan prince, I. 240.

AK-DAGH (Ararat), mountain, Armenia, ii. 309.

AK DENIZ, lake, Syria, xxii. 821.

AKE, Pyramid of, Yucatan, xxiv. 759.

AKEMAN STREET, Roman road, England, xvin. 94.

AKEN, toAvn, Prussia, I. 435.

, Hein van, Dutch romancist, xn.

90.

AKENSIDE, Mark, English poet, I. 435.

AKERBLAD, Jan David, Swedish Orien talist, i. 436.

AKERMAN, town, Russia, I. 436 ; conven tion of (1826), xxi. 20.

, John Yonge, English numismatist,

I. 436.

AKERMANN, Prof., on iron and steel, xm. 282.

AKHAF, desert, Arabia, II. 240.

AKH ALZIKH, or Akhaltsikh, toAvn, Trans caucasia, Russia, I. 436; xxiii. 514.

AKHBAR (Akbar, q.v.), emperor of Delhi,

I- 434- AKHBARIS, Mohammedan theological

school, xxii. 665. AKHDAR, Jebel, province and moiintain

range, Arabia, 1 1. 238, 255. , Jebel al, district, Tripoli, North

Africa, xxiii. 575.

AKHISSAR, town, Asiatic Turkey, I. 436. AKHMIN, toAvn, Upper Egypt, vn. 794. AKHTUBA, branch from the Volga,

Russia, xxiv. 279. AKHTYRKA, town, Russia, i. 436. AKIBA, Ben Joseph, rabbi, I. 436. AKIERMAN, or Akerman, convention of

(1826), xxi. 20.

AKKA (Acre), toAvn, Syria, I. 120. AKKAD (Accad), district, Mesopotamia,

xvi. 51.

AKODAH, settlement, West Africa, x.755- AKOLA, district and town, British India,

i. 436.

AKRA, citadel, Jerusalem, xm. 641. , Jebel, mountain, Syria, XXII.

821. AKRAGAS (Agrigentum), ancient toAvn,

Sicily, i. 417; xxii. 16. AKRON, town, Ohio, U.S.A., i. 437; xvn.

737- AKROPONG, settlement, West Africa,

n. 217; x. 755. AKROSTOMUM, genus of nemertine

worms, XVII. 326. AKSA, E1-, mosque, Jerusalem, xm. 642.

AKSARAl, river, Afghan Turkestan, I.

241. AK-SU, town, Chinese Turkestan, I. 437;

xxiii. 638. AK-TUBE, town, Asiatic Russia, xxiii.

627.

AKUAMU, country, West Africa, ii. 217. AKYAB, district and town, British Bur-

mah, I. 437; II. 305. ALABAMA, State, U.S.A., i. 438; xxiii.

761 ; population, xxiii. 802. , Confederate cruiser, XXIII. 777,

782.

GROUP, Eocene rocks, X. 365. ALABANDINE, mineral, xvi. 392.

- RUBY, mineral, xvi. 386. ALABASTER, mineral, i. 439; xv. 529,

xvi. 401. -, William, English Avriter, I. 439.

ALACALUFS, race, Tierra del Fuego,

xxiii. 384. ALACHUA, savanna, Florida, U.S.A., ix.

338.

ALACHUN DAGH, mountain range, Cau casus, v. 255. ALACRANES, islands, Gulf of Mexico, i.

440. ALA-DAGH, mountains, Asia Minor, n.

705. AL - AGHLAB, founder of a Moslem

dynasty, xvi. 579. ALAGHOZ, mountain, Transcaucasia,

XXIII. 514; sulphur from, xxii. 634. ALAGOAS, province, Brazil, i. 440. ALAHA-ZEKHA, Syriac writer, xxii.

844. ALAI, plateau and mountains, Central

Asia, xvin. 103; xxii. 3. ALAIN DE LILLE, theologian, i. 440;

xxi. 325.

ALAIS, town, France, I. 440. ALAJUELA, town, Costa Rica, i. 441. ALA-KUL, lake, Central Asia, xxi.

640.

ALALITE, mineral, xvi. 416. ALAM, emperor of Delhi, XII. 802. ALAMANNI, Luigi, Italian poet, I. 441. ALAMANNIC LAW, xxi. 215. ALAMO, town, Texas, U.S.A., xxi. 254. ALAMOS, Los, town, Mexico, I. 441.

DE B ARRIENTOS, Balthazar, Spanish

philologist, i. 441. ALAMUT, mountain fortress, Persia, II.

723-

ALAN, William, cardinal, I. 441. ALAND ISLANDS, Gulf of Bothnia, i.

441. ALANG-ALANG, grass, in Java, xm. 602 ;

in Sumatra, xxii. 639. ALANS, or Alani, Eastern tribes, I. 441 ;

in Spain, XX. 780; XXII. 308; their

inroads on Persia, XVIII. 602; on

Rome, XX. 780. ALANTIKA, mountain, Soudan, Africa,

xxii. 248, 277.

ALANUS AB INSULIS, theologian, I. 440. ALAOTRA, lake, Madagascar, xv. 169.

ALAPHION, early

xxii. 291. ALARCON, Hernando

navigator, I. 442. Y MENDOZA, Juan

Syrian Christian, de, Spanish

Ruiz de, Spanish dramatist, I. 442; VII. 421; xxii. 359.

ALARIC, king of the West Goths, i. 442; x. 849; destruction of Athens by, III. 10 ; in Italy, XX. 780; his relations to Stilicho, xxii. 550. II., king of the Goths, I. 443.

ALARUM CLOCK, vi. 24.

ALASCO, John, Polish theologian, I. 443.

ALA-SHEHR, town, Asia Minor, I. 443.

ALASKA, Territory, U.S.A., I. 443 ; area and population, xxi 1 1. 802 ; purchased from Russia, I. 711; XXIII. 782; birds of, ill. 752; seal fisheries of, xxi. 583.

ALATAU, mountains, Central Asia, xxi. 64; xxiii. 633, 637.

ALATRI, town, Italy, I. 444.

ALATYR, town, Russia, xxii. 77.

ALAUDA, genus of birds, xiv. 314.

ALAVA, province, Spain, I. 444; XXII. 298.

, Miguel Ricardo d , Spanish general,

i. 445.

ALAY, Turkish ceremony, I. 445.

ALAZUN, river, Caucasus, v. 255.

ALB, ecclesiastical vestment, I. 445; VI. 461.

ALBA, town, Italy, I. 445.

, or Alba Longa (^.v.), ancient town,

Italy, xiv. 344. -, or Alva (q.v. Duke of, I. 647.

ALBACETE, province, Spain, I. 445; XXII.

298; town, i. 446. ALBACORE, fish, xxiii. 625. ALBA LONGA, ancient town, Italy, i.

445; xii. 166; xiv. 344; xvin. 489. ALBAN, St, British martyr, I. 446.

HILLS, Rome, xx. 807. ALBANI, Francesco, Italian painter, I.

446; xx. 396. , Giovanni Francesco (Pope Clement

XL), v. 822. ALBANIA, ancient country, Asia, I. 448.

, Scottish kingdom, xxi. 477. , province, Turkey in Europe, I.

446; xxiii. 653.

ALBANIAN LANGUAGE, xvm. 784; dic tionaries of, vn. 189. ALBANIANS, in Greece, XL 83. ALBAN MOUNT, Jupiter worshipped on,

xm. 780. ALBANO, town and lake, Italy, I. 448.

, Francesco, Italian painter, I. 446;

xx. 396. ALBANY, town, New York, U.S.A., i.

448; xvii. 454, 457; State library at,

xiv. 535, 55-

, town, Western Australia, xxiv.

508.

-, Louisa of Stolberg, countess of, I. 449; xxii. 99; her relations with