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AUCH, a city of south-western France, capital of the department of Gers, 55 m. W. of Toulouse on the Southern railway. Pop. (1906) 9294. Auch is built on the summit and sides of a hill at the foot of which flow the yellow waters of the Gers. It consists of a l ...

AUCHMUTY. SIR SAMUBL (1756-1812). Hritish general. was born at New York in 1756, and served as a loyalist in the American War of Independence, being given an cnsigncy in the royal army in 1777. and in 1778 a lieutenancy in the 45th- Foot, without purchase. Whe ...

AUCHTERARDER (Gaelic, "upper high land"), a police burgh of Perthshire, Scotland, 13} m. S.W. of Perth by the Caledonian railway. Pop. (1001) 2276. It is situated on Ruthven Water, a right-hand tributary of the Earn. The chief manufactures are those of tartans ...

AUCHTERMUCHTY (Gaelic. - the high ground of the wild sow "), a royal and police burgh of Fifcshirc. Scotland, built on an elevation about q m. W. by S. of Cupar, with a station on a branch of the North British railway from Ladyhank to Mawcane Junction. Pop. 13 ...

ARCH, JOSEPH (1826- ), English politician, founder of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, was born at Barford, a village in Warwickshire, on the loth of November 1826. His parents belonged to the labouring class. He inherited a strong sentiment of inde

... rosecuted for preaching the Blood Accusation and convicted (1894). Cardinal Schlauch, bishop of Grosswardein, declared in the Hungarian House of Magnates that the Liberals were in league with " cosmopolitans " for the ruin of the country. In October 1894 the m ...

... of England excepting London. Arbroath is" Fairport " of Scott's Antiquary, and Auchmithie, 3 m. north-east (" Musselcrag " of the same romance), is a quaint old-fashioned place, where the men earn a precarious living by fishing. On each side of the village th ...

... gnac brandy is made. In Roman Gaul this territory formed part of the diocese of Auch (civitas. Ausciorum), which corresponded roughly with the later duchy of Gascony (q.v.). About the end of the gth century Fezensac (comitatus Fedentiacus) , in circumstances o ...

... Arsenic trioxide has been known from the earliest times, and was called Huttenrauch (furnace-smoke) by Basil Valentine. It occurs naturally in the mineral claudetite, and can be artificially preparep! by burning arsenic in air or oxygen. It is obtained commer ...

... sing time a* the sole variable, the orbital elements remaining constant. A. L. Cauchy published in 1842-1845 a method similarly conceived, though otherwise developed; and the scope of analysis in determining the movements of the heavenly bodies has since been ...

... "Life of Anthony a Wood written by Himself "(Atken. Oxo»., ed. Bliss). AUBURN— AUCH interests. The principal manufactures are cordage and twine, agricultural implements, engines, pianos, boots and shoes, cotton and woollen goods, carpets and rugs, rubber good ...

... formations are the highly fossiliferous marine sands known as the " Sands of Beauchamp ' and the local fresh-water limestone, the " Calcaire de St Ouen." The Middle Eocene is represented by the well-known " Calcaire grassier," about 90 ft. thick. The beds in ...

... the discovery of an Armenian version of the whole work, which was published by Aucherin 1818 (Latin translation in Schoene's edition), and of two Syriac versions published in Latin translation respectively in 1866 (by Koediger in Schoene's edition) and in 188 ...

... critical editions, C. Wagener (1884), F. Riihl (1887). J. Sorn's Der Sprachgebrauch des Historikers Eutropius (1892) contains a systematic account of the grammar and style of the author. There are numerous English school editions and translations.

... nd large numbers of refugees were embarked. The order received by Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour (afterwards Lord Alcester) on the 3rd of July was as follows: — " Prevent any attempt to bar channel into port. If work is resumed on earthworks, or fresh guns moun ...

... nged it with Roger de Newburgh, earl of Warwick, whose descendant, William de Beauchamp, in the reign of Edward I., claimed by prescription a court leet with assize of bread and ale and other liberties here, which were allowed him, as it was found that his anc ...

... ille 6. Logan 5. Black Hand 4. Cuyahoga 3. Sunbury 2. Berea grit I. Bedford 2. Mauch Chunk I. Pocono 3. Mauch Chunk 2. Greenbrier I. Pocono In the interior the Kinderhook series has a distribution similar to that of the Devonian; the Osage series is more wides ...

... , Le Ventriloque, ou I'engastrimythe (London, 1772); E. Schultz, Die Kunst des Bauchredens (Erfurt, 1895); Sievers, Grundz&ge der Phonetic (Leipzig, 1901); Russel, Ventriloquism (London, 1898).