WHEELING

a city of West Virginia* in West Virginia Co., of which it is the county seat. It is on the Wheeling and Lake Erie, the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and other railroads, and on the Ohio River. A part of the city is on an island in the river, and is connected with the main part by bridges. Wheeling is an important manufacturing city and its industries are promoted by the natural gas and coal which are abundant in the vicinity. The chief plants include steel and iron works, blast furnaces, tobacco and cigar factories, boiler works, canneries, planing mnills, etc. The public buildings include a United States government building, court house, public library, Masonic and Odd Fellows halls. Wheeling was settled in 1769 and during the Revolutionary War was the scene of battles with the British and Indians. From 1863 to 1870 and from 1875 to 1885 it was the capital of the State. Pop. (1920) 56,208. ie,’ belongs to the GASTEROPOD A (g.v). master, Trin. Coll., Cambridge; pub. History of Inductive Sciences, 1837; held that all knowledge develops from experience; induction not only the collection of facts, but their grouping under an appropriate conception, already present in the inquirer’s mind. town, Durham, England; collieries,