The largest and only important The best-known among them are Puerto Deseado (Port Desire) at the mouth of the Deseado The steamships under the national flag are almost wholly engaged in the traffic between Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the At the time when further armaments were suspended, the effective strength of the Argentine navy consisted of 3 ironclads, 6 first-class armoured cruisers, 2 monitors (old), 4 second-class cruisers, 2 torpedo cruisers, 3 destroyers, 3 high-sea torpedo boats, 14 There is also a dockyard and torpedo arsenal at La Plata, an artillery depot at Zarate, above Buenos Aires, and naval depots on the island of Martin Garcia and at Tigre, on the Lujan Magellan, as soon as he had satisfied himself that there was no passage to the west, left the Cabot, with a large following, entered the Parana and established a settlement just above the mouth of the He continued the ascent of the Parana as far as the rapids of Apipe, and finding his course barred in this direction, he afterwards explored the The arrival of these first-fruits of the mineral wealth of the southern continent gained for the estuary of the Parana the name which it has since borne, that of Rio de la Plata, the silver As Cabot was descending the stream to his settlement of San Espiritu, he encountered an expedition which had been despatched from Spain for the express purpose of exploring the for means to open up communications with Peru by way of the Finding their comrades did not return, Irala and his companions determined to descend the This able leader, eager to reach Asuncion as quickly as possible, sent on his ships to the Forty years were now to elapse before any further efforts were made by the Spaniards to colonize any part of the territory of the Garay, when on his way to Santa Fe, was unfortunately murdered by a party of Indians, Minuas (Mimas), three years later, while incautiously sleeping on the Thus at the opening of the 17th century, after many adventurous efforts, and the expenditure of many lives and much treasure, the Spaniards found themselves securely established on the To prevent internal trade with Peru a custom-house was set up at Cordoba to levy a duty of 50% on everything in transit to and from the The Portuguese were even worse offenders, for in 1680 they made a settlement on the north of the Pedro de Zeballos, the first viceroy, took with him from Spain a large military force with which he finally expelled the Portuguese from the banks of the The combined forces of Buenos Aires and Chile defeated the Spaniards at Chacabuco in 1817, and at Maipu in 1818; and from Chile the victorious general Jose de San Martin led his troops into Peru, where on the 9th of July 1821, he made a triumphal entry into Lima, which had been the chief stronghold of the Spanish power, having from the time of its foundation by Pizarro been the seat of government of a viceroyalty which at one time extended to the Feverish attempts were made to remedy the lack of warlike stores, but difficulty was experienced on account of the fleet blockading the entrance to the To the maritime ports mentIoned above must be added the The head of a white goat obtained in 1900 from the mountains at the mouth of Copper The principal water supply is derived from the Macarao By means of the Stecknitz canal, the Elbe, the principal Descending rapidly from its source, sometimes over cascades, the EU, a town of north-western France, in the department of Seine-Inferieure, on the On the west the Darling Range faces the Indian Ocean, and extends from Point D'Entrecasteaux to the Murchison Besides those mentioned, there are a number of smaller From the sources of its various tributaries to the town of Bourke, the The annual rainfall and the area of the catchment afford no measure whatever as to the size of a It was this remarkable fact which first led to the idea that, as the rainfall could not be accounted for either by evaporation or by the The south-western angle of the continent, bounded by a line drawn diagonally from Jurien A very fine freshwater fish is the Murray cod, which sometimes weighs Too lb; and the golden perch, found in the same A considerable number of men are engaged in the various states on alluvial fields, in hydraulic sluicing, and dredging is now adopted for the winning of gold in In northern Queensland copper is found throughout the Cloncurry district, in the upper basin of the Star Very rich lodes of the metal have been found in the Northampton, Murchison and Champion Bay districts, and also in the country to the south of these districts on the Irwin In New South Wales, in the form of cinnabar, it has been discovered on the Cudgegong Coal of a very fair description was discovered in the basin of the Irwin It has been ascertained from recent explorations that the area of carboniferous formation in that state extends from the Irwin northwards to the Gascoyne The most important discovery of coal in the state, so far, is that made in the bed of the Collie The first of these comprises chiefly the mines of the Hunter One of the richest has been found at Greta in the Hunter Other precious stones, including the sapphire, emerald, oriental emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, garnet, chrysolite, topaz, cairngorm, onyx, zircon, etc., have been found in the gold and tin bearing drifts and Towards the close of the year 1696 this expedition reached the island of Rottnest, which was thoroughly explored, and early the following year a landing party discovered and named the Swan The land was soon after made near the mouth of a small stream, which Cook called, after the ship, the Endeavour deep, which baffled every effort to reach the interior until in 1813, when a summer of severe drought had made it of vital importance to find new pastures, three of the colonists, Messrs Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth, more fortunate than their predecessors in exploration, after crossing the Nepean A line of road was constructed across the mountains as far as the Macquarie On his return journey Oxley again crossed the Lachlan about 160 m., measured along the Continuing in a north-easterly direction Oxley struck the Macquarie He was, however, disappointed in this, as after descending the course of the Macquarie below Mount Harris, he found that the Yet its result was a disappointment to those who had looked for means of inland navigation by the Macquarie From a shipwrecked English sailor he met with, who had lived with the savages, he heard of the Messrs Hamilton Hume and Hovell set out from Lake George, crossed the Murrumbidgee, and, after following the 139° gaining a practical solution of the problem of the destination of the westward-flowing This was the object of Dr Leichhardt's expedition in 1844, which proceeded first along the banks of the Dawson and the Mackenzie, tributaries of the Fitzroy It thence passed farther north to the Burdekin, ascending to the source of that Skirting the low shores of this gulf, all the way round its upper half to the Roper, Leichhardt crossed Arnheim Land to the Alligator His starting-point was on the Fitzroy Downs, north of the Kennedy explored the northern tributaries of the Darling, and a Among the performances of less renown, but of much practical utility in surveying and opening new paths through the country, we may mention that of Captain Banister, showing the way across the southern part of Western Australia, from Swan He then pushed on, through a very thick forest, with scarcely any water, till he came to the streams which supply the Roper, a Having crossed a table-land of sandstone which divides these streams from those running to the western shores of Arnheim Land, Mr Stuart, in the month of July, passed down what is called the Adelaide north of Adelaide city, Warburton succeeded in making his way to the De Grey Major Warburton had virtually raced across from the Macdonnell range in South Australia to the headwaters of the Oakover From the springs the journey was continued along the same meridian to the Fitzroy In 1827 and 1829, an English company endeavoured to plant a settlement at the Swan PANDHARPUR, a town of British India, in Sholapur district of Bombay, on the right bank of the UJJAIN, or Ujain, a city of central India, in the state of Gwalior, on the right bank of the AUGUSTA, the capital of Maine, U.S.A., and the county-seat of Kennebec county, on the Kennebec It is built on a series of terraces, mostly on the west bank of the lies Plumstead, with the Plumstead marshes bordering the Battersea is a district mainly consisting of artisans' houses, and there are several large factories by the It was constructed with difficulty by embanking the He found the country peopled partly by tribes of Gallo-Celtic, partly by tribes of Germanic stock, the This middle kingdom formed a long strip stretching across Europe from the North Sea to Naples, and embraced the whole of the later Netherlands with the exception of the portion on the left bank of the Scheldt, which In the northern Netherlands generally up to the end of the 14th century the towns had no great political weight; their importance depended upon their Interprovincial wars frequently altered its boundaries, notably in 332 when the three Collas, sons of Eochaidh Doimhlein, conquered the land between the Whether the division of the lobus dexter into two divisions - (i) lobus dexter proper and (2) lobus quadratus, as in modern anatomical nomenclature - was also assumed in Babylonian hepatoscopy, is not certain, but the groove separating the right lobe into two sections - the fossa venae umbilicalis - was recognized and distinguished by the designation of "It is pleasantly situated in the upper valley of the Wye, in a bend of the from its mouth, and it is therefore probably the deepest In the interior brakes of bamboos are found, many of which spread for miles along the They subsequently hid among the Pulau Sambilan near the mouth of the Perak PUENTEAREAS, a town of north-western Spain in the province of Pontevedra; on the Tuy-Santiago de Compostella railway and on the into Lake Memphremagog, the waters of which, like those of Lake Champlain, are tributary to the St Lawrence The olive green syenite found on Mount Ascutney, near the Connecticut The first important industry of the state was "rafting" lumber from Vermont through Lake Champlain and the Richelieu and St Lawrence Closely connected with the manufacture of lumber is the making of paper and wood pulp, centralized at Bellows Falls, with waterpower on the Connecticut Water communication is afforded by Lake Champlain to the south, for seven months of the year, by way of the Champlain canal, via Whitehall, New York, to Troy and the Hudson New Hampshire claimed that her territory extended as far to the west as those of Massachusetts and Connecticut, whereas New York, under the charter of 1664, claimed eastward to the Connecticut The first legislature of the state met at Windsor in March 1778, and voted to admit sixteen towns east of the Connecticut from just south of the town of Schleswig to the marshes of the Large stretches of marsh occur on each side of this The principal streets of the city meet in the place du Gouvernement: the rue Bab Azoun (Gate of Grief) which runs parallel to the boulevard de la Republique; the rue Bab-el-Oued (The "Marble Arch" cave near Florencecourt, with its emerging A small expedition sent by Cromwell in February 1654 to capture New Amsterdam (New York) from the Dutch was abandoned on the conclusion of peace, and the fleet turned to attack the French colonies; Major Robert Sedgwick taking with a handful of men the fort of St John's, Port Royal or Annapolis, and the French fort on the From the junction of these three streams below Yeste the the coast as a true stream current at least as far as the Half a mile east of Kabul it is joined by the Logar, a much larger It is situated on the canal from Bruges to Sluys (Ecluse), but in the middle ages a navigable channel or South and east of the range the country, apart from that watered by the coast streams, drains to the Mono BERHAMPUR, a town of British India, the headquarters of Murshidabad district, in Bengal, situated on the left bank of the CASAS GRANDES (" Great Houses"), a small village of Mexico, in the state of Chihuahua, situated on the Casas Grandes or San Miguel This dockyard covers an area of 516 acres, and has a In 374 the Quadi, a German tribe in what is now Moravia and Hungary, resenting the erection of Roman forts to the north of the Danube in what they considered to be their own territory, and further exasperated by the treacherous murder of their king, Gabinius, crossed the Thence its northern and northeastern frontier marches with the Punjab and the United Provinces until it touches the Three miles to the south of Herat the Kandahar road crosses the The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historial usage.