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A L M A L T

ALMONRY, in architecture, n. 459.

ALMORA, town, India, I. 595.

ALMORAVIDES, Moliammedan dynasty, i. 595, 565; xv. 525; xxii. 316.

ALMQVIST, Karl Jonas Luclwig, Swed ish writer, I. 596; xxii. 757.

ALMS, in early church, xvm. 422.

ALMSGIVING, in relation to poor laws, xix. 463.

ALMSHOUSES, English, xix. 465.

ALMUCE, church vestment, vi. 463.

ALMUG TREE, of Scripture, I. 596.

ALMUNECAR, town, Spain, i. 596.

AL-NAHR (Oxus), river, Central Asia,

XVIII. 101.

AL-NASIRA (Nazareth), town, Palestine,

xvii. 302.

ALNE, river, England, xvii. 565. ALNWICK, town, England, I. 596; XVII.

567, 568. ALOD, or Alodium, in land tenure, I.

587; ix. 120. ALOE, plant, I. 597; xn. 262; incense,

XII. 718. ALOID^E, or Aloiadee, in Greek legend,

i. 597. ALOIN, bitter principle in plants, XIX.

53-

ALOMBRADOS, Spanish mystics, xn. 706.

ALOMPRA, Burmese king, i. 597; iv. 556.

ALONZO, kings of Spain and Portugal, I. 615. See Alphonso.

ALOPECIA, skin disease, xxii. 121.

ALOPECIAS, genus of sharks, xxi. 777.

ALOST, town, Belgium, I. 597.

ALOURIE, town, West Africa, xn. 710.

ALP, mountain pasture, I. 620, 632.

ALPACA, wool-bearing animal, I. 597; iv. 12; xiv. 740; relation of domesti cated to wild forms, IV. 251.

ALP ARSLAN, Seljuk sultan, i. 598; xvi. 44, 588; xx. 730; xxi. 634.

ALPE DI SUCCISA, Apennines, Italy, XIIL 437.

ALPEN-HORN, trumpet, xxm. 593.

ALPES, three departments (Basses, Hautes, Maritimes), France, I. 599.

ALPHA AND OMEGA, i. 599.

ALPHABET, I. 600; letters of, as numerals, xvii. 62 5 ; characters in ancient inscrip tions, xni. 114; Celtiberian, xil. 605; deaf and dumb, vn. 8 ; Egyptian, XL 807; early Greek, XII. 112; Hebrew, XI. 597 ; hieroglyphic, XL 796 ; A. J. Ellis s palaeotype, xxii. 381, 385; Phoenician, XI. 807; xvm. 802, 806; phonetic, XVlll. 812; xxii. 39; phono graphic, XXI. 836; Roman, xni. 125; Sabsean, xxiv. 740; Sanskrit, xxi. 270.

ALPH^EUS, father of the apostle James, xni. 552.

ALPHARABIUS (Al-Farabi), Arabian philosopher, 1 1. 267.

AL-PHASI (Riph), Jewish rabbi and Talmudist, XX. 566.

ALPHEN, Hieronymus van, Dutch

writer, XI I. 97. ALPHEUS, river, Greece, I. 615; xvii.

765. ALPHONSINE TABLES, in astronomy, i.

617. ALPHONSO, or Alfonso, I., king of

Aragon, L 617; xxii. 316.

II., of Aragon, I. 618; xxii. 316.

- III., of Aragon, I. 618; XXII. 322.

- IV., of Aragon, I. 618; xxn. 323.

- V., of Aragon (I. of Sicily), I. 618 ; xni. 478 ; xxn. 324.

I.-III., kings of the Asturias, L 615 ; xxii. 311.

IV., king of Leon, I. 615.

- V., of Leon, I. 615 ; xxii. 312.

- VI., king of Castile, I. 615 ; XXII. 316 ; xix. 539.

- VII., of Castile, I. 616 ; xix. 540; xxn. 316.

- VIII., of Castile, I. 617; xxn. 317. IX., king of Leon, I. 616 ; xxii.

317.

X., the Wise, king of Castile, I. 616; xxii. 318. - XL, of Castile, I. 617 ; xxii. 319

XIL, king of Spain, xxn. 346.

I.-IV., princes of Este, vin. 559.

I. -VI., kings of Portugal, I. 618. See also Affonso.

DE CARTAGENA, Spanish historian,

i. 619.

ALPHONSUS A SANCTA MARIA, Spanish historian, I. 619.

ALPINI, Prospero, Italian physician and botanist, I. 619.

ALPINIA, genus of plants, x. ij.

ALPNACHERSEE, Lake of Lucerne, Switzerland, xv. 41.

ALPS, the, I. 619 ; geological structure of, x. 371, 373 ; Hannibal s passage of, XI. 441; XX. 749; heights of, compared with the Himalayas, XL 826; Saussure s observations on, xxi. 324; Southern, Xin. 434; Styrian, xxii. 614; Swiss, xxn. 776, 779.

ALPUJARRAS, or Alpuxaras, district, Spain, I. 636.

ALRED, archbishop of York, i. 475.

ALREDUS, early English historian, I. 636.

ALRESFORD, New, town, England, i. 636.

AL-RUSS, town, Arabia, xvii. 774.

ALSACE, province, Germany, I. 636; ceded to Spain, XXII. 330; annexed to France (1675), ix. 577; x. 502; re stored to Germany (1871), ix. 627; x.

5I3- ALSEN, island, Schleswig-Holstein, i.

637; xxi. 414.

ALSOP, Vincent, Puritan divine, I. 637. ALSOPHILA, genus of tree-ferns, xxm.

534-

ALSTED, Johann Heinrich, German author, I. 637; his Encyclopaedia, vm. 193-

ALSTON, Charles, Scottish botanist, I. 638; on the sexes of plants, IV. 82. , Mount, Vancouver Island, xxiv.

57-

ALSTONIA GUM, XL 339.

ALSTONITE, mineral, xvi. 398.

ALSTON MOOR, town, England, I. 476.

ALSTROEMER, Jonas, Swedish indus trial reformer, I. 638.

ALT, river, Transylvania, I. 638.

ALTAI MOUNTAINS, Siberia, i. 638; n. 686; xxii. 2; xxm. 438.

ALTAITE, mineral, xvi. 391.

ALTAMAHA, river, Georgia, U.S.A., x.

434-

ALTAMURA, town, Italy, i. 638. ALTAN KHAN, Mongol chief, xvi. 744. ALTAR, i. 638.

ALTAR-WORSHIP, xxm. 165. ALTAZIMUTH THEODOLITE, x. 165. ALTDORF, town, Switzerland, i. 642;

XXIV. II.

, Bavaria, University of, xxm. 845,

848. ALTDORFER, Albrecht, German painter,

i. 642.

ALTEN, river, Norway, xvii. 576. ALTENBURG, town, Germany, I. 642;

xxi. 347.

ALTEN GETTING, town, Bavaria, i. 642. ALTENSTEIN, castle, Saxe-Meiningen,

Germany, I. 642. ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS, in.

687; iv. 159; XIIL 146; xx. 429. ALTH.EA ROSEA, species of plants, xn.

102. AL-THING, parliament of Iceland, xn.

618, 621. ALTHORP, Lord (Earl Spencer), English

statesman, xxn. 391. ALTIERI, Emilio (Pope Clement X.), v.

822.

ALTIN, lake, Siberia, I. 642. ALTING, Heinrich, German theologian,

I. 642.

, Jacob, German theologian, I. 642.

ALTIONOS (Tours), ancient town, France,

xxm. 491. ALTIS, in ancient Olympia, xvii. 766,

768. ALTITUDES, Geodesic determination of,

x. 171; meridian, xvn. 269; deter mination of, in surveying, xxn. 707,

711. ALTMARK, district, Prussian Saxony,

xxi. 359. ALTO DOURO, Portugal, wine industry

of, xvn. 795 ; xxiv. 607. ALTOETTING, town, Bavaria, I. 642. ALTOFTS, parish, Yorkshire, England,

xvn. 552. ALTON, town, England, I. 642.

, town, Illinois, U.S.A., I. 643. - LOCKE, Kingsley s novel, xiv. 88. ALTONA, town, Schleswig-Holstein, i.

643; XL 404; xx. 16; xxi. 415;