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31 e 317, 322, 326; its connexion with

Naples, xvn. 191. ARAGON, province, Spain, II. 304; xxn.

298.

ARAGONA, town, Sicily, n. 305. ARAGONESE DIALECT, xxu. 351. ARAGONITE, mineral, xvi. 398. ARAGUAYA, river, Brazil, n. 305; IV.

221.

ARAHAL, town, Spain, n. 305. ARAHATSHIP, Buddhist doctrine, xiv.

226. ARAKAN, division, British Burmah, II.

305; iv. 556. ARAKCHEEFF, Russian minister, xxi.

101. ARAL, Sea or Lake of, Asia, n. 306; v.

177; xvin. 104; xxii. SiS; xxiii.

511, 512, 634. ARAL: A PAPYRI FERA, ri.ce paper, xx.

539- ARAM, Eugene, murderer, II. 306.

ARAMAEANS, people of Syria, xxu. 822; xvi. 533; name applied to Nabatseans,

XVII. 1 60.

ARAMAIC LANGUAGES, n. 307; xxi.

645, 647; their influence on Hebrew,

XI. 597; inscriptions, xm. 116. ARAM NAHARAYIM (Mesopotamia),

xvi. 47.

ARAMUS, genus of birds, xx. 223. ARANDA, Count of, Spanish statesman,

n. 308; xxu. 341. ARANEIDEA, order of Arachnida, n.

290.

ARAN ISLANDS, Ireland, n. 308. ARANJUEZ, town, Spain, n. 308. ARANMORE, island, Ireland, n. 308. ARANY, John, Hungarian poet, XH. 378. ARANYAKAS, Sanskrit treatises, xxi.

273-

ARANZI, Julius Caesar, Italian anato mist, I. 809; xxiv. 96. ARAPA, lake, Peru, xvm. 673. ARAPAHOES, American Indian tribe,

xu. 831.

ARAR, timber tree, Morocco, xvi. 833. ARARAT, mountains, Armenia, II. 309;

xvn. 523; xxni. 514. ARARGE (Harar), town, North-East

Africa, XL 454.

ARAS, river, Turkey in Asia, II. 309. ARATUS of Sicyon, ruler, n. 309.

of Soli, Greek poet, II. 309.

ARAUCANA, La, Spanish poem, vm.

519. ARAUCANIA, territory, South America,

n. 310.

ARAUCANIAN PINE, in Chili, v. 623. ARAUCANIANS, South-American race,

i. 701; v. 619; xii. 829. ARAUCARIA, genus of trees, n. 310. ARAUCO, province, Chili, v. 617. ARAUSIO (Orange), ancient town, France,

XVII. 8l2.

ARAVALLI HILLS, India, n. 310; xx. 260.

ARAVIAS, Portuguese tales, xix. 556. ARAWAN, oasis, Africa, xvn. 695. ARAXES (Aras), river, Transcaucasia, II.

309; xxni. 514. ARBACES, founder of Median empire, II.

310.

ARBAT (Rabat), town, Morocco, xx. 192. ARBELA (Arbil), ancient town, Asiatic

Turkey, II. 311; battle of (331 B.C.), I.

482.

ARBIL, town, Asiatic Turkey, 11. 311. ARBITER, Petronius, Latin writer, xvin.

720.

ARBITRAGE, in stock -broking, n. 311. ARBITRATION, n. 311. ARBOGA, town, Sweden, II. 313. ARBOGAST, Frankish warrior, xx. 779;

xxiv. 37.

, L. F. A., his theorem, Xlll. 20. A R BO IS, town, France, 1 1. 313. ARBOR ACTIONUM, Azo s work, in. 169. ARBORICULTURE, n. 314. ARBOR VnvE, coniferous tree, n. 313. ARBROATH, town, Scotland, n. 324. ARBUTHNOT, Alexander, early Scottish

poet, xxi. 542.

, John, English writer, II. 325; as

satirist, xxi. 320. ARC, Circular, graduation of, XI. 28.

, Joan of, xm. 695; ix. 550. - LIGHTS, electric, xiv. 632.

OF THE MERIDIAN, measurement

of, n. 792; vii. 597, 606; x. 189. ARCA, genus of Mollusca, xvi. 688. ARCACHON, Bay of, Gironde, France, x.

624.

ARCADE, in architecture, II. 325. ARCADIA, country, ancient Greece, II.

326; coins of, xvn. 643.

, Sannazaro s poem, xvn I. 345.

, Sir Philip Sidney s poem, XVIII.

346; xx. 660; xxii. 35.

, Academy of, I. 74; xm. 511. ARCADIAN DIALECT, of Greek, XL 133. ARCADIANS, Academy of, I. 74. ARCADIUS, emperor of the East, xx.

779, 780; xxiii. 259. ARCAGNUOLO, Italian painter and sculp tor, xvii. 814.

ARCANITE, mineral, xvi. 400. ARCESILAUS, Greek philosopher, n. 326;

i. 69; xxi. 379.

, Roman sculptor, II. 366.

I.-IV., kings of Libya, ill. 446. ARCH, in building, II. 327; in ancient

American monuments, n. 450; in

brickwork, IV. 464 ; in bridges, IV.

305; depressed and discharging, n. 463;

in masonry, IV. 474; pointed, intro duced into Europe, II. 422; at Rome,

II. 414; xx. 809, 819, 830. ARCHAEAN ROCKS, x. 327. ARCH^EOCETI, fossil whales, xv. 395. ARCHAEOLOGY, n. 333; academies of, i.

76; American, I. 692; prehistoric, II.

115; Raphael s contributions to, xx.

282; archasological societies, xxu. 227.

ARCHAEOLOGY, Classical, n. 343 (index,

368); Winckelmann s contributions to,

xxiv. 597. ARCH^EOPTERYX, fossil bird, in. 728;

xvm. 34; xxi. 323. ARCHAGATHUS, Roman physician, xv.

802. ARCHANGEL, government and town,

Russia, II. 368; xxi. 69. ARCHBISHOP, ecclesiastical dignitary, n.

369; place of, in British peerage, XVIII.

459- ARCHDEACON, ecclesiastical dignitary,

ii. 370; v. 228.

ARCHDUKE, title, n. 370; xix. 738. ARCHEGONIA, sexual organs in plants,

iv. 157; ix. 101, 105; xvii. 65. ARCHEGONIATA, group of plants, xx.

426. ARCHELAUS, king of Cappadocia, v. 76.

, king of Judaea, II. 371; XIII. 426.

, king of Macedonia, II. 371; XV.

138-

, Greek general, n. 371. , Greek philosopher, n. 371. , Greek sculptor, II. 371.

ARCHENA, town, Spain, n. 370; mineral water of, xvi. 435; xvn. 51.

ARCHENTEROM, cavity in animals, vin. 746.

ARCHER, Thomas, publisher of early English newspaper, xvn. 413.

ARCHERINA BOLTONI, species of Protozoa, Xix. 840.

ARCHERS, Royal Company of, in Scotland, II. 373.

ARCHERY, n. 370; glossary of terms, n. 378.

ARCHES, Court of, n. 378, 369.

ARCHETYPAL MAN, of the Kabbalah, xm. 811.

ARCHIANNELIDA, subclass of worms, xxiv. 683.

ARCHIDONA, town, Spain, 11. 379.

ARCHIL, purple dye, n. 379; xiv. 559.

ARCHILOCHUS, Greek poet, n. 379; xxi. 318.

ARCHIMANDRITE, title in Greek Church, 11. 380; i. 11, 23; xvi. 700.

ARCHIMEDES, mathematician and in ventor, n. 380; xxn. 21, 817; his knowledge of conic sections, vi. 273; his geometrical discoveries, xm. 5; on hydrostatics, xii. 435, 441; his planetarium, 11. 749; on squaring the circle, xxn. 434. , Screw of, n. 381.

ARCHIPELAGO, Grecian, n. 381. , Indian, XII. 815.

ARCHIPRESBYTER, ecclesiastical digni tary, vn. 14.

ARCHITECTURE, n. 382 (index, 458; glossary of terms, 459); as a fine art, IX. 204; relation of building to, IV. 447; use of the cross in, VI. 612; terra cotta in, xxni. 193; zodiacal symbol

ism in, xxiv. 796; of Babylonia, in.