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water communication with the ocean. The river here is a mile wide, and is ordinarily very shallow and dotted with islets, but rises from 4 to 6 ft. after a moderate See also:

RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and Dan. regn; it has been connected with Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)

rain; it is spanned by several See also:

bridges. The See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city lies for the most See also:

PART

part on the E. slope of a See also:

hill extending from the river bank, several feet in height, across the Pennsylvania canal to See also:

PAXTON, SIR JOSEPH (1801-1865)

Paxton See also:

Creek. Front See also:

Street, along the river, is part of a parkway connecting the See also:

park See also:

SYSTEM

system with which the city is encircled. Overlooking it are the finest residences, among them the See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor's See also:

MANSION (through O. Fr. mansion, mod. maison, from Lat. mansio, dwelling-place, stage on a journey; manere, to remain)

mansion. See also:

State Street, 120 ft. in width, runs at right angles with Front Street through the business centre of the city, being interrupted by the Capitol Park (about 16 acres). The Capitol,' dedicated in 1906, was erected to re-See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place one burned in 1897; it is a See also:

FINE

fine See also:

BUILDING

building, with a See also:

DOME (Lat domus, house; Ital. duomo, cathedral)

dome modelled after St See also:

Peter's at See also:

Rome. At the See also:

main entrance are See also:

BRONZE

bronze doors, decorated in See also:

RELIEF

relief with scenes from the state's See also:

HISTORY

history; the See also:

FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor of the rotunda is of tiles made at Doylestown, in the See also:

style of the pottery made by See also:

early Moravian settlers, and illustrating the state's resources; the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate Chamber and the See also:

House Chamber have stained-See also:

glass windows by W.

B. See also:

van Ingen and mural paintings by See also:

Edwin A. See also:

Abbey, who painted a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, " The Development of the See also:

Law," for the Supreme See also:

Court See also:

ROOM

room in the eastern wing and decorated the rotunda. The mural decorations of the See also:

south See also:

CORRIDOR (Fr. corridor, from Ital. corridore, Med. Lat. corridorium, a " running-place," from currere, to run)

corridor, by W. B. van Ingen, portray the state's religious sects; those in the See also:

north corridor, by See also:

John W. See also:

Alexander, represent the changes in the See also:

PHYSICAL

physical and material See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the state; and there is a See also:

FRIEZE

frieze by See also:

MISS

Miss See also:

VIOLET

Violet Oakley, " The See also:

FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

Founding of the State of See also:

LIBERTY (Lat. libertas, from liber, free)

Liberty Spiritual," in the governor's: reception room. Two heroic See also:

groups of statuary for the building were designed by See also:

George See also:

Grey See also:

Barnard. The state library in the Capitol contains about 15o,000 volumes. In the same park is also a See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument 105 ft. high erected in and completed a course of medical studies at the university of See also:

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, after which he established himself as a See also:

general medical practitioner in See also:

Plymouth. On his See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage in 1824 he resolved to abandon his profession on See also:

account of its duties interfering too much with his favourite study of See also:

ELECTRICITY

electricity. As early as 182o he had invented a new method of arranging the See also:

LIGHTNING

lightning conductors of See also:

SHIPS

ships, the peculiarity of which was that the See also:

metal was permanently fixed in the masts and extended throughout the See also:

hull; but it was only with See also:

GREAT

great difficulty, and not till nearly See also:

THIRTY

thirty years afterwards, that his invention was adopted by the See also:

government for the royal See also:

NAVY

navy. In 1826 he read a See also:

paper before the Royal Society " On the Relative See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

Powers of various Metallic Substances as Conductors of Electricity," which led to his being elected a See also:

FELLOW

fellow of the society in 1831. Subsequently, in 1834, 1836 and 1839, he read before the society several valuable papers on the elementary See also:

LAWS

laws of electricity, and he also communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh various interesting accounts of his experiments and discoveries in the same See also:

field of inquiry.

In 1835 he received the See also:

COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON (1737—1815)

Copley See also:

gold See also:

MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal from the Royal Society for his papers on the laws of electricity of high tension, and in 1839 he was chosen to deliver the Bakerian lecture. Meanwhile, although a government See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission had recommended the general See also:

ADOPTION (Lat. adoptio, for adoptalio, from adoptare, to choose for oneself)

adoption of his conductors in the royal navy, and the government had granted him an See also:

ANNUITY (from Lat. annus, a year)

annuity of I300 "in See also:

CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration of services in the cultivation of See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science," the See also:

NAVAL

naval authorities continued to offer various objections to his invention; to aid in removing these he in 1843 published his See also:

WORK

work on Thunderstorms, and also about the same See also:

time contributed a number of papers to the Nautical See also:

MAGAZINE

Magazine illustrative of damage by lightning. His system wa3 actually adopted in the See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian navy before he succeeded in removing the prejudices against it in See also:

England, and in 1845 the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor of See also:

Russia, in See also:

ACKNOWLEDGMENT (from the old acknow, a compound of on- and know, to know by the senses, which passed through the forms oknow, aknow and acknow; acknowledge is formed on analogy of " knowledge ")

acknowledgment of his services, presented him with a valuable See also:

RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring and See also:

vase. At length, the efficiency of his system being acknowledged, he received in 1847 the See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

KNIGHTHOOD

knighthood, and subsequently a See also:

grant of l5000. After succeeding in introducing his invention into general use See also:

Harris resumed his labours in the field of See also:

ORIGINAL

original See also:

RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research, but as he failed to realize the advances that had been made by the new school of science his application resulted in no discoveries of much value. His manuals of Electricity, Galvanism and See also:

Magnetism, published between 1848 and 1856, were, however, written with great clearness, and passed through several See also:

EDITIONS

editions. He died at Plymouth on the 22nd of See also:

JANUARY

January 1867, while having in preparation a See also:

TREATISE

Treatise on Frictional Electricity, which was published posthumously in the same See also:

YEAR

year, with a memoir of the author by See also:

Charles Tomlinson.

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