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SIMLA , a See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

DISTRICT

district in See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

India, in the See also:

DELHI, DEHLI

Delhi See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the See also:

PUNJAB

Punjab. The town is the summer See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of the See also:

VICEROY (from O. Fr. viceroy, mod. viceroi, i.e. Lat. vice, in place of, and roy or roi, king)

viceroy and See also:

STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff of the supreme See also:

government, and also of the Punjab government. It is 58 m. by See also:

CART (A.S. crcet, Gaelic cairt; connected with " car ")

cart-road from the railway station of Kalka, which is 1116 m. from See also:

CALCUTTA

Calcutta. A See also:

METRE ((terpuc?, sc. rFxvf, from Gr. Or poi', measure)

metre-See also:

GAUGE, or GAGE (Med. Lat. gauja, jaugia, Fr. jauge, perhaps connected with Fr. jale, a bowl, galon, gallon)

gauge railway, 68 m. See also:

long, was opened from Kalka to Simla in 1903. The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 1901 was 13,960, but that was only the See also:

winter population, and the summer See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census of 1904 returned the number of 35,250. The See also:

SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium of Simla occupies a See also:

SPUR (A.S. spura, spora, related to spornan, spurnan, to kick, spurn; cf. M.H.G. sporn, mod. Ger. Sporn)

spur of the See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

HIMALAYA

Himalaya, See also:

RUNNING

running E. and W. for about 6 m. The See also:

ridge culminates at the E. in the See also:

EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence of Jakko, in the vicinity of which bungalows are most numerous; the viceregal See also:

lodge stands on See also:

OBSERVATORY

Observatory See also:

Hill. The E. of the station is known as See also:

CHOTA (or CHUTIA) NAGPUR

Chota Simla and the W. as Boileauganj. The situation is one of See also:

GREAT

great beauty; and the houses, built separately, See also:

lie at elevations between 6600 and 8000 ft. above See also:

sea-level. To the N., a beautiful wooded spur, branching from the See also:

main ridge, is known as See also:

ELYSIUM

Elysium. Three See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles W. is the See also:

CANTONMENT (Fr. cantonnement, from cantonner, to quarter; Ger. Ortsunterkunft or Quartier)

cantonment of Jutogh. The See also:

minor sanatoria of Kasauli.

Sabathu, Dagshai and See also:

SOLON (7th and 6th century n.c.)

Solon lie some distance to the S. The first See also:

EUROPEAN

European See also:

house at Simla was built in 1819, and the See also:

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

place was first visited by a See also:

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

governor-See also:

general in 1827. It has gradually chronicler, embraced the monastic See also:

LIFE

life before the See also:

YEAR

year ro83 in the monastery of See also:

JARROW

Jarrow; but only made his profession at a later date, after he had removed with the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his community to See also:

Durham. He was author of two See also:

HISTORICAL

historical See also:

WORKS

works which are particularly valuable for See also:

NORTHERN

northern affairs. He composed his Historia ecclesiae Dunelmensis, extending to the year 1096, at some date between 1104 and IIo8. The See also:

ORIGINAL

original See also:

MANUSCRIPT

manuscript is at Durham in the library of See also:

Bishop See also:

COSIN, JOHN (1594–1672)

Cosin. It is divided into four books, which are subdivided into chapters; the See also:

order of the narrative is See also:

CHRONOLOGICAL

chronological. There are two continuations, both See also:

ANONYMOUS

anonymous. The first carries the See also:

HISTORY

history from Io96 to the See also:

DEATH

death of Ranulf See also:

FLAMBARD, RANULF, or RALPH (d. 1128)

Flambard (1129); the second extends from 1133 to 1144. A See also:

Cambridge MS. contains a third continuation covering the years 1141-11J4. About 1129 See also:

Simeon undertook to write a Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum. This begins at the point where the Ecclesiastical History of See also:

Bede ends.

Up to 957 Simeon merely copies some old Durham See also:

ANNALS (Annales, from annus, a year)

annals, not otherwise preserved, which are of value for northern history; from that point to 1119 he copies See also:

Florence of See also:

Worcester with certain interpolations. The See also:

section dealing with the years 1119–1129 is, however, an See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent and practically contemporaneous narrative. Simeon writes, for his See also:

time, with ease and perspicuity; but his See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief merit is that of a diligent See also:

COLLECTOR

collector and copyist. Other writings have been attributed to his See also:

PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen, but on no See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good authority. They are printed, along with his undoubted works, in the Scriptores decem of See also:

Roger See also:

TWYSDEN, SIR ROGER (1597-1672)

Twysden (1652). The most See also:

COMPLETE

complete See also:

MODERN

modern edition is that of See also:

Thomas See also:

Arnold (" Rolls " See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, 2 vols., 1882-1885). The value of the " Northumbrian Annals," which Simeon used for the Historia regum, has been discussed by J. H. Hinde in the See also:

PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface to his Symeonis Dunelmensis See also:

OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera, vol. i. pp. xiv. If. (1868); by R. See also:

PAULI, REINHOLD (1823-1882)

Pauli in Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte, xii. pp.

137 sqq. (See also:

GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, 1872); and by W. See also:

Stubbs in the introduction to Roger of Hoveden, vol. i. p. x. (" Rolls " series). Simeon's works have been translated by J. See also:

Stevenson in his See also:

Church Historians of,See also:

England, vol. iii. See also:

PART

part ii. (1855). (H. W. C.

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