Allantois

one of the foetal membranes present the embryos of reptiles, birds, and mammals. It as an outgrowth from the hinder portion the intestinal canal, which gradually enlarges, iteelf: with its ve els between the folds, until it comes into contact with the membrane. In birds the allantois undergoes development and serves as an aerating to the growing embryo, which it completely ) Allegory. envelops. In man and sels are only distributed brane, that part, namely, will be formed. The internal persists in man as the groups of vertebrate animals, amphibia, have no allantois. Alleghany mountains, APPAL A CHI AN mountains Gaspé, on the Gulf of St. the Gulf of Mexico, a distance Appal a chi ans are divided Cape Gaspé to New York, the Green and the White from New York to the contains part of the Blue proper, and many smaller Southern, from the New Mexico, embraces the Ridge, the Black, the Mountains. The system and forms the watershed Mi i ippi and the rivers The average height of under 3,000 feet, but Mount Hampshire, rises to 6,620 Alleghanies are made up clay, slate, and primary valaable mines of coal wooded to their summits, valleys. ‘The Alleghanies of an enormous plateau into the Mi i ippi basin. Alleghany, 2 river America, which unites Pittsburg and forms the it is navigable for 200 miles, Allegiance, the duty sovereign. According nations a subject may not by emigration or naturalisation but this genera] law is statute. The oath of allegiance every subject may be called usually taken either upon of State or judicial and United States the oath the constitution, and with of persons applying for naturalisation, tion of native allegiance power. In England the faithful, and to bear Sovereign, Allegory, a discourse tended Sowa be taken & meaning other than the Allegories may also be rae ptt sculpture, and rated allegories in the doubtedly Spenser's Faerie Pilgrim's Progre , An from a parable, or a fable, extended metaphor. manimals the allantoic vesover part of the outer mem where the placenta (q.v.) part of the allantois urachus (q.v.). Of the five two, namely, fish and a section of the stretching from Cape Lawrence, to Alabama, in of 1,300 miles. The into the Northern, from includes the A dir on dacks, Mountains; the Centra, valley of the New River, Ridge, the Alleghanies parallel ranges; the River to the Gulf of smaller half of the Blue Smoky, and the Unaka then traverses many states, between the basin of the flowing into the Atlantic. the component ranges is Washington, in New fect. Geologically the of granite, gnei , mica, limestones. They contain and iron, and are usually and intersected by rich form the northern section which gradually merges of Pennsylvania, North with the Monongahela at Ohio. Above Pittsburg of a subject to his or her to the general policy of renounce allegiance even in another country, in some cases modified b is the oath whic upon to take, and which is a uming the higher offices some other offices. In the is simply of obedience to it is implied, in the case the ren uncia to any other sovereign oath of allegiance is to be true allegiance to the which it is not in literally, but as convey in one actually expre ed. frequently expre ed by the like. The most cele- English language are un- Queene and Bunyan’s allegory differs but little and is simply a kind of 7 96 Allegretto. ( CL LL LLL LLL LLL Allegretto, in music, a tempo livelier and brighter than andante (q.v.), but not so quick or brilliant as allegro. Allegro, 2 quick measure of time in music, which may be modified by additional adjectives, such as agitato, moderato, giusto, etc. It is between andante and presto. Like andante and adagio it may be used as a substantive signifying a particular movement whose tempo is allegro. Alleine, RicHArp, born in 1611 at Ditcheat, Somerset, where his father held preferment, and educated at Oxford, was for twenty years rector of Batcomb, but was ejected after the Restoration as a nonconformist. He died in 1681. Of his many religious treatises the best known is entitled Vindicia Pictatis. Allemande, 1 slow, solemn air in common time; also a dance in triple time, very similar to the waltz, Allen, Bog ov, a name which embraces all the bogs of peat and mo E. of the Shannon in King’s County and Kildare, Ireland. These extend over 848,600 acrox, and have an average depth of 25 ft. The rivers Boyne, Barrow, and Brosna have their ae here, wnd the Grand Canal traverses the i strict. Allen, Ernay, one of the earliest champions of American independence, born in Connecticut, 1737. Raising» Vermont corps, he took Ticonderoga in 1775, but in the attack on Montreal he was made prisoner, carried off to England, and only released after the Convention of Saratoga. He spent his remaining years in Vermont, where he wrote several books. He died in 1789. Allen, Jouyx, D.D. Archbishop of Dublin, educated at Oxford for the priesthood, and in 1515 sent by Archbishop Warham as his agent to Rome, where he resided nine years. For a brief period he was ‘Lord Chancellor of Ireland. In 1634, during the insurrection of Thomas Fitzgerald, “the Silken Lord,” Allen tried to escape from Dublin on board ship. He was stranded at Clontarf, seized by the rebels, and murdered. Allen, Louau, a lake in the province of Con naught, Ireland, nine miles from Carrick. It is commonly regarded as the source of the Shannon. Allen, WILLIAM, a distinguished chemist and a Christian philanthropist, born in 1770, being the son of a Spital fields woaver. He received little or no education, but abandoning his father's trade, took a place in the well-known druggist’s house in Plough Court, and by sheer industry he became a ner. He held the office of lecturer in chemistry at Guy's Hospital for many years, made some important discoveries, such as the true constitution of the diamond, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Allen had been reared from his youth in the principles of the Society of Friends, and like so many of that sect, he devoted his wealth and energies to humanitarian objects. The reform of the English criminal law, the extinction of slavery, the establishment of savings banks, the extension of ° 88 ) Alligator. LL LOCC CL SERENA an RS vaccination, were among many interests that claimed his attention. He worked personally amongst the poor, and even did mi ion work in foreign countries, persuading the Czar to have the Scripture taught in Ru ian schools. For years he was treasurer of the British and Foreign School Society. He died in 1843. Allen town, U.S.A., and up tu 1838 called North amp ton, is situated on the W. bank of Lehigh river, Pennsylvania. Its most important industry is the production of iron. It has two colleges, one being exclusively for women. The town was founded by W. Allen, hence its name.