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UPPER SIND FRONTIER, a district of British India, in the Sind province of Bombay, with administrative headquarters at Jacobabad. Area, 2621 sq. m. In the north-east the country is hilly; the remainder consists of a narrow strip of level plain, one half being c ...

... dings in Venice offered considerable difficulties. A trench was dug in the soft upper mud until the stratum of stiff blue clay was reached. Piles of elm, oak, white poplar or larch were driven into this clay to the depth of 1 6 to 20 ft. or until absolute resi ...

... o forms for 80 m. the boundary separating Angola from the Congo Free State. The frontier thence (in 5° 52' S.) goes due east to the Kwango river. The eastern boundary — dividing the Portuguese possessions from the Congo State and Barotseland (N.W. Rhodesia) — ...

... is enters the Gulf of Arta some distance south of the town. The river forms the frontier between Greece and Turkey, and is crossed by a picturesque bridge, which is neutral ground. There are a few remains of old cyclopean walls. The town contains also a Byzant ...

... her indications farther east. The best-known paste* are: (i) The Bfbawan in the upper Wad Sus basin (4150 ft.); (2) the Gindafi, giving access from Marrakesh to Tarudant, rugged and difficult, but low; (j) the Tagharat, difficult and little used, leading to th ...

... l the great European countries the most continental character, in so far as its frontiers are mostly land-frontiers, only about one-tenth of them being coast-land. The Adriatic coast, which stretches for a distance of about ipoo m., is greatly indented. The Gu ...

... Germany, in the Prussian Rhine Province, between the Rhine, the Moselle and the frontier of the grand duchy of Luxemburg. It is a hilly region, most elevated in the eastern part (Hohe Eifel), where there are several points from 2000 up to 24 10 ft. above sea-l ...

... ong left intact, for E. Beyrich in 1854 proposed the term " Oligocene " for the upper portion, and later, in 1874, K. Schimper suggested " Paleocene " as a separate appellation for the lower portion. The Oligocene division has been generally accepted as a dist ...

... y in the south-east, others take the line of the Manych depression, between the upper end of the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea, nearly parallel to the Caucasus. Various limits are assigned to the continent on the east. Officially the crest of the Caucasus an ...

... a god could be suspended in mid-air (hence the phrase deus ex machina). In the upper part of the aiaiirii was a balcony called the biartyia. (" second story "), and at the top a narrow platform called the fleoXofetoc, upon which gods supposed to be stationary ...

... elation; those who extend the province of reason in theology, and push back the frontier of revelation, are often called Rationalists.4 Such being the Theology usual point of view, it is plain that the claim of «sa theology to be a science, or a group of scien ...

... arted for Germany in January 1857. Tolstoy only three times crossed the Russian frontier, and these journeys were all between 1857 and 1861. On his first trip, Germany and Italy were hurriedly visited. He also made a short stay in Paris, which had attractions ...

... t of the Mountain Nile. The chief of the headstreams of the Welle (known in its upper course as the Kibali) rises on the western slope of a hill about 40 m. west of Wadelai. It is joined by several small streams, the main river flowing in a W.N.W. direction. A ...

... er the great Mississippi system discharges southward to the Gulf of Mexico. The upper Mississippi and some of the Ohio basin is the prairie region, with trees originally only along the watercourses; the uplands towards the Appalachians were included in the gre ...

... across that river, 71° 40' 36" W. long., and along the water-parting around the upper basin of the Huahum to a junction with the line previously determined. In the third and longest section, the line starts from a pillar erected in the Perez Rosales pass, near ...

... st being that called the Aeng route, leading from the village of that name into Upper Burma. The staple crop of the province is rice, along with cotton, tobacco, sugar, hemp and indigo. The forests produce abundance of excellent oak and teak timber. The native ...

... the Prussian province of Saxony). The western or smaller portion (the to-called Upper Duchy or Ballcnstedl) U alto enclosed by the two Utter districts and, (or a distance o( s «• on the wett, by the duchy of Brunswick. The western portion of the territory U un ...

... e campaigning yean up to 1745 in command of an army of observation on the Saxon frontier. Early in that year his wife died. He was now over seventy, but his last campaign was destined to be the most brilliant of his long career. A combined effort of the Austri ...

... also consecrated to Osiris. Similar observances are found in our own day on the Upper Nile; the Nuba and Nuer worship the bull; the Angoni of Central Africa and the Sakalava of Madagascar keep sacred bulls. In India respect for the cow is widespread, but is of ...

... s the ends of which he contrived to fix among the joists and flooring of a fine upper-room in which Zeno entertained his friends, and then subjected it to a miniatureearthquake by sending steam through the tubes. Secondly, he simulated thunder and lightning, t ...

... argely employed by the Greeks to decorate (i) the fronts of ante-fixae, (2) the upper portion of the stele or vertical tombstones, (3) the necking of the Ionic columns of the Krrrht hrum and its continuation as a decorative frieze on the walls of the tame, and ...

... be understood by reference to figs, i and 2. Each mesentery is attached by its upper margin to the peristome, by its outer margin to the body-wall, and by its lower margin to the basal disk. A certain number of mesenteries, known as complete mesenteries, arc ...

... erized by having 44 teeth, with five semi-crescentic cusps on the crowns of the upper molars. In many respects, especially the form of the lower jaw, Anthracotherium, which is of Oligocene and Miocene age in Europe, and typifies the family Anthracolheriidae, i ...

... column, sternum and pelvis; in the adaptation of the arms for turning the palm uppermost at will; in the possession of a long vermiform appendix to the short caecum of the intestine; in the size of the cerebral hemispheres and the complexity of their convolut ...

... gisters showed that the anti-Semitic movement bad driven 67,000 Jews across the frontier, and it was estimated that they had taken with them 13,000,000 roubles, representing a minimum loss of 60,000,000 roubles to the annual turnover of the country's trade. To ...

... employed as a designation of the bread and wine in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

... 1860, to facilitate their restoration by fomenting brigandage on the Neapolitan frontier. To the overtures of Ricasoli in 1861, Pius IX., at Antonelli's suggestion, replied with the famous " Non possumus," but subsequently (1867) accepted, too late, Ricasoli's ...

... time to time told off for other tasks, such as that of forming garrisons in the frontier towns. The institution seems to have disappeared during the anarchy with which the 8th century opened. It has wrongly been held to be the origin of vassalage. Only the kin ...

... st northern of the nine provinces of Belgium. It is conterminous with the Dutch frontier on the north. Malines, Lierre and Turnhout are among the towns of the province. Its importance, however, is derived from the fact that it contains the commercial metropoli ...

... Anubis was the principal god in the capitals of the XVIIth and XVIIIth nomes of Upper Egypt, and secondary god in the XIII th and probably in the XII th nome; but his cult was universal. To begin with, he was the god of the dead, of the cemetery, of all suppli ...

... o which tools, such as the anvil-cutter or chisel, can be dropped, cutting edge uppermost. For power hammers the anvil proper is supported on an anvil block which is of great massive-ness, sometimes weighing over 200 tons for a 1 2-ton hammer, and this again r ...

... ered as a w hole. The apophyge is the inverted cavetto or concave sweep, on the upper edge of which the diminishing shaft rests.

... anite or lead pipes to the various tanks. The water with which the tanks on the upper floors are filled is first pumped into large wooden tanks placed beneath the roof, thence it flows, under almost constant pressure, into the tanks. The water circulated in th ...

... anged somewhat since Roman times. It was founded by the Romans in 181 B.C. as a frontier fortress on the north-east, not far from the site where, two years before, Gaulish invaders had attempted to settle. The colony was led by two men of consular and one of p ...

... ion with the Tocantins at Sao Joao do Araguaya, or Sao Joao das Duos Barms. Its upper course forms the boundary line between Goyaz and Matto Grosao. The river divides into two branches at about 13° to' S. lat., and unites again at 10° 30', forming the large is ...

... nd the entablature having been utilized again. The shafts of the columns of the upper storey are richly carved with geometrical patterns similar to those found by Loftus at Warka. The American researches at Nippur have resulted in the discovery on the top of t ...

... n bells dates from the wars between Spaniards and Moors in which " Arcos of the Frontier " received its name. After its capture by Alphonso the Wise of Castile (1252-1284), the town was a Christian stronghold on the borders of Moorish territory. Another church ...

... y cities of the Latin league. In 445 B.C. an unfair decision by the Romans in a frontier dispute with Aricia led, according to the Roman historians, to a rising; the town became a Latin colony 442 B.C., and shortly afterwards it appears as the place of exile o ...

... west falls into the Helmund 20 m. below Girishk. Very little is known about its upper course. It is said to be shallow, and to run nearly dry in height of summer; but when its depth exceeds 3 ft. its great rapidity makes it a serious obstacle to travellers. In ...

... hpiece. The shorter pipe has six holes on which the melody is played; the three upper holes being covered by the fingers of the right hand, and the lower by those of the left hand. The longer pipe has no lateral holes; it is a (From Edward William Laae't Am Au ...