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VOLOST, administrative division, Russia,

xxi. 70. VOLSCI, or Volscians, ancient Italian

people, xin. 445; xiv. 344; xx. 739. VOLSINII, Etruscan town, Italy, Yin.

635- VOLSK, town, Russia, xxiv. 283; xxi.

305- VOLT, electrical unit of measurement,

xxiii. 116. VOLTA, river, West Coast, Africa, x.

755-

, Alessandro, Italian physicist, xxiv.

284; his electrical experiments, vill.

9-

VOLTAIRE, Frangois Marie Arouet de, French man of letters, xxiv. 285; IX. 665; his influence on the French drama, VII. 425; his religious opinions, ix. 669; as satirist, xxi. 320; influence of his writings, IX. 592; quarrel with Lessing, xiv. 479; his relation to Ninon de Lenclos, xiv. 445.

YOLTAITE, mineral, XVI. 402.

VOLTAMETER, electric machine, vill. 107.

VOLTCHANSK, town, Russia, xiv. 57.

VOLTERRA, town, Italy, xxiv. 293; vui.

636.

, Daniele da, Italian artist, xx.

537- VOLTERRANO, II (Baldassare Frances-

chini), Italian painter, ix. 687. VOLTORE, Monte, Italy, Xin. 439. VOLTURNO, river, Italy, Xin. 440. VOLTZINE, mineral, XVI. 396. VOLUBILIS, Morocco, Ruins of, xvi.

834.

VOLUME, Mensuration of, xvi. 13.

VOLUNTEERS, British, xxiv. 293.

VOLUSENUS, Florentius, Scottish hu manist, xxiv. 296.

VOLUTE, in architecture, n. 475.

VOMER, Anatomy of the, in man, I. 825; iu Amphibia, I. 754; in mammals, xv. 355; in reptiles, xx. 450, 452; de velopment of, in birds, III. 700.

VOMITING, xvn. 670.

VONDEL, Joost van der, Dutch writer, vn. 444; xn. 94.

VONONES I., Parthian king, xvm. 600. II., Parthian king, xvm. 602.

VOORBROEK, Jakob (Perizonius), Dutch scholar, XVIII. 547.

VOPISCUS, Flavins, Augustan historian, in. 74.

VORAGINE, Jacobus de, archbishop of Genoa, xxiv. 296; Xill. 499.

VORARLBERG, district, Austria, xxiv. 297.

VORINGFOS, Norway, xvn. 575.

VOROBIOVY HILLS, Russia, xx. 35.

VORONEZH, government, Russia, xxiv. 297; town, xxiv. 298. , river, Russia, vil. 356; xxi. 74.

VORONTSOVAH, town, Russia, XXIV. 298.

VOROSMARTY, Michael, Hungarian poet,

XII. 378. VORSTERMAN, Lucas, engraver of works

of Rubens, vill. 442. VORTEX ATOMS, Theory of, in. 43. VORTEX MOTION, in hydromechanics,

XII. 450. VORTICES, Descartes s theory of, vil.

124. VORTIGERN, British prince, II. 650;

vui. 269.

Vos, Jan, Dutch writer, XII. 95. VOSGES, department, France, xxiv.

298. , mountains, France and Germany,

xxiv. 298; ix. 506. VOSMAER, C., Dutch writer, XII. 98. VOSS, Johann Heinrich, German poet

and archaeologist, XXI v. 299; x.

541-

VossiUS, Gerardus Johannes, German scholar and theologian, xxiv. 299. -, Isaac, Dutch scholar, xxiv. 300,

VOTAN, legendary legislator of Yucatan,

I. 704. VOTERS, Parliamentary, Registration of,

in England, xx. 344. VOTIAK LANGUAGE, xxiv. i; xvm.

779; dictionaries of, vil. 188. VOTING, Modes of, in. 288. VOTKlNSK, town, Russia, XXIV. 300. VOUET, Simon, French painter, XXIV.

300.

VoussoiR, in an arch, iv. 305. Vow, Religious, xxiv. 300; Nazarite,

xxin. 17.

VOWEL POINTS, in Hebrew, XL 600. VOWELS, their sounds, I. i ; pronuncia tion of, xxn. 382; musical sounds and

notation of, I. 119. VOYAGE HOME, Lucian s work, xv.

45- VOYAGE OF PARNASSUS, by Cervantes,

v- 354- VOYAGES, Quickest, down to 1883, xvn.

277.

VOZHE, Lake, Russia, XVII. 606. VOZNESENSK, Ivanovo-, town, Russia,

xin. 520; xxiv. 271. VRANCX, Sebastian, Flemish painter,

xxiv. 301. VRANITZA, Turkey, Charles XII. s

residence at, v. 421. VRAZ, Stank o, Servian poet, xxi. 691. VklENDT, Frans de (Floris), Flemish

painter, IX. 342. VRIES, Sinun de, friend of Spinoza,

XXII. 401.

ISLAND, Japan, xin. 570.

VRIESLAND (Friesland), province, Hol land, ix. 785.

VUITERGA, river, Russia, XVII. 772.

VUKASHIN, king of Servia, XXI. 689.

VULCAN, Roman deity (the Greek Hepluestus), XXIV. 301; XI. 679.

VULCANI.-E INSULT (Lipari Islands), Mediterranean Sea, xiv. 682.

VULCANIST THEORY, in geology, xxiv.

502.

VULCANITE, Manufacture of, xn. 841. VULCANO, one of the Lipari Islands,

Mediterranean Sea, xiv. 682. VULCATIUS GALLICANUS, Augustan

historian, in. 74. VULFILA (Ultilas, q.v.), Gothic writer,

X. 852. VULGAR FRACTIONS, in arithmetic, n.

529; tables of, XXIII. 8, 13. VULGATE, Latin translation of the

Scriptures, in. 647; xin. 631. VULPES, genus of carnivorous mammals,

ix. 493.

VULPINITE, mineral, xvi. 400. VULPIUS, Christiane, wife of Goetlu, x.

73i- VULSO, Cnreus Manlius, Roman consul,

xv. 492. VULTURE, bird, xxiv. 301.

, Bearded, bird, xiv. 243. VURFU OURLA, mountain, Hungary.

xn. 361.

VYASA, Brahman poet, xxi. 281. VYATKA, government, Russia, xxiv.

302; town, xxiv. 303; xxi. 89, 91. VYAZMA, town, Russia, xxiv. 303; xxn.

183-

VYAZNIKI, town, Russia, xxiv. 271. VYERNYI, town, Russia in Asia, xxn

303; xxi. 641.

VYISKI, iron-works, Russia, xvn. 500. VYRNWY, river, Wales, Waterworks of,

xiv. 714; xxiv. 407. VYSHNEVOLOTSK, canals, Russia, xxin.

672. VYSHNIY VOLOTCHOK, town, Russia,

xxiv. 303; xxin. 672. VYTCHEGDA, river, Russia, xxiv. 283.

T the twenty-third letter of the

• * > alphabet, XXIV. 304.

WAAL, river, Holland, XII. 63; XX.

519. WABASH, river, Indiana, U.S.A., xn.

813- WAGE, Maistre, French trouvere, xxiv.

304; vui. 407. WACHSTEIN, mountain, Germany, xxi.

349- WACHUSETT, mountain, Massachusetts,

U.S.A., xv. 611; xxin. 792. WACKENRODER, Wilhelm Heinrirh,

German writer, x. 542. W AC LAW, king of Poland, xix. 288. WACO, town, Texas, U.S.A., xxiv.

304-

WAD, mineral, xvi. 388. WADAI, or Waday, country, Soudan,

Africa, i. 271; xxn. 278, 279. GROUP, of Negroes, xvn. 319.

WADDING, Luke, Irish ecclesiastical

historian, XXIV. 304. WADHAM COLLEGE, Oxford, xvm. 97.