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BEETLING, in bleaching, in. 818. BEETS, Nicolaes, Dutch writer, xn. 98. BEGARELLI, Antonio, of Modena, Italian

sculptor, xxi. 569.

BEGAS, Karl, German painter, in. 507. BEGBAZAAR, town, Asiatic Turkey, in.

507. BEGGARS, English laws against, xix.

462.

BEGGAR S OPERA, Gay s, vn. 437; x. 120. BEGHARDS, communistic mystics, in.

507; i. 140; xvi. 711; xvn. 132;

Eckhart s connexion with them, vn.

642.

BEGONIA, stove plant, xii. 265. BEGUINES, communistic mystics, in.

507; xvi. 709; xvn. 132. BEHAIM, Martin, cartographer and navi gator, in. 509; x. 680. BEHAR, province, India, in. 508, 567;

town, in. 509; xvin. 409. BEHBEHAN, town, Persia, in. 509. BEHEM,or Behaim, Martin, cartographer

and navigator, in. 509; x. 680. BEHISTUN, Persia, rock inscriptions at,

in. 509; xvin. 567. BEHMEN, Jakob (Boehme, </.v.), German

mystic, in. 852. BEHN, Aphra, English dramatist, in.

509; vin. 424. BEHRING, Vitus, Danish Arctic explorer,

in. 510; xix. 318. BEHRING S ISLAND, North Pacific, in.

509. BEHRING S STRAIT, in. 509; xvin.

116; whale fishery in, xxiv. 528. BEHRISCH, E. W., friend of Goethe, x.

722. BEI BAZAAR (Begbazaar), town, Asiatic

Turkey, in. 507. BEIGHTON, Henry, his steam-engine

improvement, xxn. 474. BEING, Science of, xvi. 79.

AND NOT BEING, in Eleatic philo sophy, xvin. 315. BEIRA, province, Portugal, in. 510;

xix. 537. BEIROUT, or Beyrout, town, Syria, in.

622; commerce of, xxin. 655. BEIT-EL-FAKIH, town, Arabia, in. 510. BEJA, town, Portugal, in. 510. BEJAPORE (Bijapur), state and town,

India, in. 669.

BEJAR, town, Spain, in. 510; xxi. 203. BEJARD, Arniande, wife of Moliere, xvi.

625. BEKA, district, Asiatic Turkey, xxin.

654. BEKE, Charles T., English traveller, in.

510.

BEKES, town, Hungary, in. 511. BEKKER, Balthazar, Dutch theologian,

in. 511; xn. 95. , or Wolff, Elizabeth, Dutch

novelist, in. 511. , Immanuel, German philologist,

in. 511.

BEKR, tribe of Arabs, Mesopotamia,

xvi. 48.

BEL, Assyrian deity, in. 175. , Matthias, Hungarian historian,

in. 511.

BELA, town, Baluchistan, in. 511. BELABANZA, town, Hungary, xxi. 393. BELADHORI, Arab historian, xxin. 3. BELANDA NIAM-NIAM, Central African

tribes, xvn. 473. BEL AND THE DRAGON, History of, in

Apocrypha, II. 181. BELASPOOR (Bilaspur), town, India,

xin. 823.

BELBEIS, town, Upper Egypt, in. 511. BELCHEN, mountain, Black Forest,

Germany, xxiv. 700. BELCHER, Sir Edward, Arctic explorer,

xix. 321.

BELEBEI, town, Russia, xxin. 717. BELEMNITE, fossil mollusc, xvi. 676. BELESME, Robert of, Norman noble, XL

656. BELFAST, town, Ireland, in. 511; xin.

237; library, xiv. 524; newspapers,

xvn. 423; Queen s College at, xxin.

855.

LOUGH, Ireland, in. 512.

BELFORT, town, France, in. 513; xm.

781.

BELFRY, in architecture, n. 461. BELG.E, or Belgians, Gallic tribe, ix.

527; x. in. BELGAM, or Belgaum, district, India,

in- SU-

BELGIUM, in. 514; united to and separ ated from Holland, XII. 83; its relations to the papacy, VI. 242; academy of, I. 76; its army, n. 615; birds, xvin. 17; coalfields, vi. 55; coins, xvn. 656; small farms, I. 412; forests, IX. 400; foundling hospitals, IX. 483; irrigation works, Xin. 370; libraries, XIV - S3 1 ) 549! mines, xvi. 468; national debt, xvn. 246; newspapers, xvn. 430; observatories, xvn. 715; oyster culture, xvin. 108; periodical literature, xvin. 542; police system, Xix. 343; prison system, xix. 758; railways, XX. 250; Walloons, xxiv.

332- BELGRADE, town, Servia, in. 531; xxi.

688; battle of (1717), vin. 66 1; treaty

of (1739), xxin. 647. BELHAVEN, Lord, on farming in East

Lothian, Scotland, I. 301. BELIEF, in. 532; psychology of, xx.

83; in relation to theology, XXIII.

264; Jacobi s theory of, xin. 537. BELINSKI, Russian critic, xxi. 108. BELISARIUS, Byzantine general, in.

535; xin. 797; xvn. 233; xvin. 612;

XX. 782; African campaign of, xxiv.

59; Procopius s relations with, xix.

789. BELIUS, Matthias, Hungarian historian,

in. 511.

BELIZE, town, British Honduras, in.

536; xn. 132. BELKNAP, Jeremy, American writer,

in. 536. BELL, and bell manufacture, in. 536;

IV. 366; of Moscow (Tsar-Kolokol),

xvi. 867 ; of Nara, Japan, xvn.

229. , Alexander Graham, on telephony,

xxin. 127, 128, 130. , Alexander Melville, his system

of shorthand, xxi. 840; on visible

speech, I. 608; vn. 9; xxn. 3,85. , Andrew, English educationist, in.

539; vn. 678; educational system of,

xiv. 258. -, Andrew, printer of first edition of

Encyclopaedia Britannica, vin. 200. , Sir Charles, English anatomist, in. 540; XV. 817; his Anatomy of Expression, I. 817; on physiognomy, Xix. 5. -, Currer, Ellis, and Acton (the

sisters Bronte), iv. 365.

, George Joseph, Scottish jurist, in.

542.

-, Henry, Scottish mechanician, in.

542.

, Henry Glassford, Scottish writer, in. 542.

, John, American politician, xxin. 772, 788. , John, Scottish anatomist and sur

geon, in. 543.

, John, Scottish traveller, ill. 542.

, Patrick, inventor of reaping ma chine, I. 322. , Robert, editor of British poets, III.

543-

BELLA, suburb, Nicastro, Italy, xvn. 480. , Stefano de la, Italian engraver, III.

543- BELLADONNA, plant, in. 543; xvn.

231; as poison, xix. 279.

OIL, xvn. 744. BELLAI, Guillaume du, French general

and writer, in. 543. BELLAMAR, Caves of, Cuba, xv. 624. BELLAMY, Jacobus, Dutch poet, in. 543;

xn. 96. BELLARMINE, Robert F. R., cardinal,

in. 544; his relations with Galileo, X.

32- BELLARY (Ballari), district and town,

India, in. 286. BELLAY, or Bellai, Guillaume du,

French general and writer, in. 543.

, Joachim du, French poet, in. 544;

xx. 841. BELL-BIRD, of New Zealand, xn. 139

, of Venezuela, xxiv. 139. BELL-COT, in architecture, n. 461. BELLEAU, Remy, French pastoral poet,

in. 545; xvin. 345; XX. 841. BELLE- ISLE, Duke of, French marshal,