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See also:CATSKILL (formerly KAATSKIL.) MOUNTAINS , a See also:group of moderate See also:elevation pertaining to the See also:Alleghany See also:Plateau, and not properly included in the Appalachian See also:system of See also:North See also:America because they lack the See also:internal structures and the See also:general parallel-ism of topographic features which characterize the Appalachian ranges. The group contains many summits above 3000 ft. elevation and See also:half a dozen approaching 4000, Slide See also:Mountain (4205 ft.), and See also:Hunter Mountain (4025 ft.), being the only ones exceeding that figure. The bottom lands along the creeks which drain the mountains, together with See also:rolling uplands rising to elevations of from 1500 to 2000 ft., are under cultivation, the mountain slopes being forested or devoted to grazing. The pure and cool See also:atmosphere attracts summer visitors, for whose See also:accommodation many hotels have been built, some of which have become celebrated. Stoney Clove and Kaaterskill Clove are picturesque See also:gorges, the former being traversed by a railway, and the latter containing three cascades having a See also:total fall of about 300 ft. The growing need of New See also:York See also:City for an increased See also:water-See also:supply has driven her See also:engineers to the Catskills, where several See also:great reservoirs have been projected to supplement those of the Croton See also:watershed.
CATI'ANEO, CARLO (1801-1869), See also:Italian philosopher and patriot. A republican in his convictions, during his youth he had taken See also:part in the Carbonarist See also:movement in See also:Lombardy. He devoted himself to the study of See also:philosophy, hoping to re-generate the Italian See also:people by withdrawing them from romanticism and See also:rhetoric, and turning their See also:attention to the See also:positive sciences. He expounded his ideas in a See also:review founded by him at See also:Milan in 1837, called II Politecnico. But when the revolution of 1848 See also:broke out he threw himself See also:heart and soul into the fray, and became one of the leading See also:spirits of the insurrection against the Austrians, known as the Five Days of Milan (See also:March 18-22, 1848). Together with Terzaghi, See also:Cernuschi and Clerici he formed a
See also:council of See also:war which, having its headquarters at Casa Taverna, directed the operations of the insurgents. He was second to none in self-sacrificing See also:energy and heroic See also:resolution. When on the 18th of March See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field See also:Marshal See also:Radetzky, feeling that the position of the See also:Austrian See also:garrison was untenable, sounded the rebels as to their terms, some of the leaders were inclined to agree to an See also:armistice which would give See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for the Piedmontese troops to arrive (See also:Piedmont had just declared war), but Cattaneo insisted on the See also:complete evacuation of Lombardy. Again on the 21st, Radetzky tried to obtain an armistice, and Durini and See also:Borromeo were ready to See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant it, for it would have enabled them to re-organize the defences and replenish the supplies of See also:food and See also:ammunition, which could only last another See also:day. But Cattaneo replied: " The enemy having furnished us with munitions thus far, will continue to furnish them. Twenty-four See also:hours of victuals and twenty-four hours of See also:hunger will be many more hours than we shall need. This evening, if the plans we have just arranged should succeed, the See also:line of the bastions will be broken. At any See also:rate, even though we should lack See also:bread, it is better to See also:die of hunger than on the gallows." On the See also:expulsion of the Austrians the question arose as to the future See also:government of Milan and See also:Italy. Cattaneo was-an uncompromising republican and a federalist; so violent was his dislike of the Piedmontese See also:monarchy that when he heard that See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Charles See also:Albert had been defeated by the Austrians, and that Radetzky was marching back to reoccupy Milan, he exclaimed: " See also:Good See also:news, the Piedmontese have been beaten. Now we shall be our own masters; we shall fight a people's war, we shall See also:chase the Austrians out of Italy, and set up a Federal See also:Republic." When the Austrians returned Cattaneo had to flee, and took See also:refuge at See also:Lugano, where he gave lessons, wrote his Storia della Rivoluzione del 1848, the Archivio triennale delle cose d' Italia (3 vols., 1850-1855), and then See also:early in 186o he started the Politecnico once more. He bitterly attacked See also:Cavour for his unitarian views, and for the cession of See also:Nice and See also:Savoy. In 186o See also:Garibaldi summoned him to See also:Naples to take part in the government of the Neapolitan provinces, but he would not agree to the See also:union with Piedmont without See also:local See also:autonomy. After the union of Italy he was frequently asked to stand for See also:parliament, but always refused because he could not conscientiously take the See also:oath of See also:allegiance to the monarchy. In 1868 the pressure of See also:friends overcame his resistance, and he agreed to stand, but at the last moment he See also:drew hack, still unable to take :the oath, and returned to Lugano, where he died in 1869. As a writer Cattaneo was learned and brilliant, but far too See also:bitter a See also:partisan to be judicious, owing to his narrowly republican views; his ideas on local autonomy were perhaps See also:wise, but, at a moment when unity was the first essential, inopportune.
End of Article: CATSKILL (formerly KAATSKIL.) MOUNTAINS
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