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ETESIAN WIND (Lat. etesius, annual; Gr. ITOS, year), a Mediterranean wind blowing from the north and west in summer ior about six weeks annually.

... ghlands of Europe are so distributed as to allow of the penetration of westerly winds far to the east ; (2) the fact that the principal series of highlands has a direction from east to west, Europe in this point resembling Asia but differing from North America ...

... -3°; and at Caconda, 67-3". The climate is greatly influenced by the prevailing winds, which arc \\ . S.W. and S.S.W. Two seasons are distinguished— the cool, from June to September; and the rainy, from October to May. The heaviest rainfall occurs in April, an ...

... ence the rattlesnake as grandfather and king of snakes who is able to give fair winds or cause tempest. Among the Hopi (Moqui) of Arizona the serpent figures largely in one of the dances. The rattlesnake was worshipped in the Natchez temple of the sun; and the ...

... ot the stars also, on their never-ceasing daily round, the lightning, fire, the wind, the sea, all are in motion and therefore animate; but the savage does not stop short here; mountains and lakes, stones and manufactured articles, are for him alike endowed wi ...

... 's Die Borsen und Grundergeschvtindel in Berlin (" The Bourses and the Company Swindles in Berlin "), dealing in detail with the Jewish participation in the scandals first revealed by Lasker. The agitation gradually swelled, its growth being helped by the sens ...

... Larne, and Whitehead on Belfast Lough. All are somewhat exposed to the easterly winds prevalent in spring. The only island of size is Rathlin. off Ballycastle, 6} m. in length by ij in breadth, 7 m. from the coast, and of similar basaltic and limestone formati ...

... e is hot, and in the low-lying, swampy districts very unhealthy, the prevailing winds are north-west and. south-east, the former hot and dry from the arid districts west of Mesopotamia, the hitter bearing much moisture from the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocea ...

... With the rest of the crew, Arago was taken to Rosas, and imprisoned first in a windmill, and afterwards in the fortress of that seaport, until the town fell into the hands of the French, when the prisoners were transferred to Palamos. After fully three months ...

... Valencia and Catalonia effectually bar out the fertilizing moisture of the sea-winds, much of the province is a sheer wilderness, stony, ash-coloured, scarred with dry watercourses, and destitute of any vegetation except thin grass and heaths. In contrast wit ...

... violence of the storms, and the almost total absence of shelter. The north-east wind is the most prevalent, and sometimes blows for months together. The only other craft, except the steamships of the Russians, that venture on the waters, are the flat-bottomed ...

... esmen in the town, suddenly disappeared. Suspicions of being concerned in this swindling transaction fell upon Aram. His garden was searched, and some of the goods found there. As, however, there was not evidence sufficient to convict him of any crime, he was ...

... lendour. The remains include the vestry, the southern transept (the famous rose window of which is still entire), part of the chancel, the southern wall of the nave, part of the entrance towers and the western doorway. It was here that the parliament met which ...

... r terethra. The western country is more open, with isolated mountain-groups and winding valleys, where the Alpheus with its tributaries the Ladon and Erymanthus drains off in a complex river-system the overflow from all Arcadia. The ancient inhabitants were a ...

... ive powers, save those wielded by the polemarch (see below and cf. STRATEGUS), dwindled away into matters of routine. We know that Peisistratus ruled by controlling the archonship, which was always held by members of his family, and the archonship of Isagoras ...

... he Nearer East after the rise of Islam. On his return he was driven by contrary winds to Britain, and so came to lona, where he related his experiences to his host, the abbot Adamnan (679-704). This narrative, as written out by Adamnan, was presented to Aldfri ...

... yptian hieroglyphs, As or AS-IT).' an ancient and modern Egyptian and Arab wood-wind instrument, with cylindrical bore and single reed mouthpiece of the clarinet type. The arghoul consists of two reed pipes of unequal lengths bound together by means of waxed t ...

... at the bridge of Orchy, 113-62 in., and at Upper Glencoe 127-65. The prevailing winds, as observed near Crinan, are south-west and south-east, and next in frequency are the north-west and north-east. The average yearly temperature is 48° F. Apiculture. — Argyl ...

... Alexander. Having witnessed the unjust exactions of a democracy at Athens, the dwindling population of an oligarchy at Sparta, and the oppressive selfishness of new tyrannies throughout the Greek world, he condemned the actual constitutions of the Greek states ...

... the 25th of July, when the fleets were near the Isle of Wight, a shift of. the wind offered the Spaniards a chance of bringing on a close action, but it soon changed again. The English fleet, of which part had been in some danger, escaped uninjured, and the S ...

... tecture it is applied to the iron stays by which the lead lights are secured in windows. (See STANCHION and SADDLE: Saddle-Bars.) In magnetism Dr William Gilbert applied the term to the piece of soft iron with which he " armed " or capped the lodestone in orde ...

... l settings of the songs, " Under the greenwood tree," " Blow, blow, thou winter wind " and " When daisies pied," for a performance of Shakespeare's As You Like It. Four years before this, in 1736, he had married Cecilia, the eldest daughter of Charles Young, o ...

... by the same laws of specific gravity and equilibrium as a tree uprooted by the wind and blown into the water. The corn which men raise for food grows and produces its grain by the same laws of vegetation by which the wild rose and the mountain strawberry brin ...

... ed air, and to this belief they owe the name, which was originally given to the windpipe (trachea). Two great trunks, the aorta and pulmonary artery, leave the heart and divide again and again until they become minute vessels to which the name of arterioles is ...

... rwise the dawn could not be addressed as one who " in shining light, before the wind arises, comes gleaming over the waters, making good paths." The vocabulary is still largely the same; whole sentences can be transliterated from one language to the other mere ...

... . The whole structure was enclosed within one great wall, pierced with numerous windows. This structure was probably put to some ecclesiastical Byzantine use, as certain mutilated heads of saints appear upon it; and later it became a fortress ASPER— ASPERN-ESS ...

... year. An immense sensation was caused by the finish for the Marathon race from Windsor Castle to the stadium in the Exhibition grounds in London. The first competitor to arrive was the Italian. Dorando Pietri, whose condition of physical collapse was such tha ...

... s clinging to the hill-sides. The southern flanks, being exposed to the hot dry winds of the Sahara, are generally destitute of vegetation. At several points the crest of the range has been deeply eroded by old glaciers and running waters, and thus have been f ...

... ly recognition; thus Hesiod, in his Works and Days, speculated on the origin of winds, ascribing them to the heating effects of the sun on the air. Ctesibius of Alexandria, Hero and others, founded the science of pneumatics on observations on the physical prop ...

... s many artistic treasures, the chief of which are the magnificent stained-glass windows of the Renaissance which light the apsidal chapels, and the 113 choir-stalls of carved oak, also of Renaissance workmanship. The archbishop's palace adjoins the cathedral; ...

... IST BARON (1745-1814), English statesman, son of Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Bart., of Windlestone Hall, Durham, and of Mary, daughter of William Davison, was born in 1745, educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. and called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1768 ...

... s instituted as one of the first founders, and his stall in St George's chapel, Windsor, was the eleventh on the side of Edward, the Black Prince. He appears to have served in France in 1346, and in August 1350 took part in the naval fight off Sluys. When host ...

... ure was as follows. At midnight, when the sky clear and there was an absence of wind, the augur, in the pr of a magistrate, took up his position on a hill which afforded a wide view. After prayer and sacrifice, be marked out the templum both in the sky and on ...

... k Sea, has its source in the Carpathians in Eastern Galicia, and pursues a very winding course towards the south-east, passing into Russia. It has in Austria a course of 370 m. of which 300 are navigable, and drains an area at u.ooo tq. m. The Vi.iuU and the O ...

... task of suppressing the Revolutionary forces, and though such victories as Neerwinden were sufficient proof of the efficiency and valour of the Austrians, they made no headway. In later campaigns, in which the enemy had acquired war experience, and the best o ...

... g from just above the triforium floor, so that there was no room for clerestory windows, and consequently the interior is dark. In San Michele the ribs rise from the level of the top of the triforium arcades, and two clerestory windows are provided to each bay ...

... ving the crown of England and the heirship of France to his only child Henry of Windsor, an infant less than two years old. Few sovereigns in history have accomplished such a disastrous life's work as this much-admired prince. If he had not been a soldier of t ...

... ven to the decoration of their later work, where archivolts, wood mouldings and window dressings are looked upon as simply surface decoration to be applied round doorways and windows, without any reference to the jointing of the masonry. The immense series of ...

... on singing " ' as it is called, for the best playing on the harp or stringed or wind instruments, as well as occasionally for the best specimens of handicraft and art. In the evening of each day a concert is given, generally attended by very largcnumbcrs. The ...

... uggested the construction of what were then called intensity electromagnets, by winding upon a horseshoe-shaped piece of soft iron many superimposed windings of copper wire, insulated by covering it with silk or cotton, and then sending through the coils the c ...