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See Igara. Alabama (al-a-bä'mä). [Ind., 'here we rest,' or 'place of rest' (1).] A river in the State of Alabama, which is formed by the Coosa and Tall a poos a, above Montgomery, and unites with the Tombigbee to form the Mobile, about 32 miles north of Mobile. Its chief tributary is the Cahawba. Its total length is 312 miles, and it is navigable to Montgomery. Alabama. One of the Southern States of the United States, capital Montgomery, bounded by Tenne ee on the north, Georgia (partly separated by the Chattahoochee) and Florida (separated by the Perdido) on the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and Mi i ippi on the west, and extending from lat. 30° 13′ to lat. 35° N., and from long. 84° 53′ to long. 88° 35' W.: one of the Gulf States. It is moun tainous in the north, hilly and rolling in the center, and low in the south; and is traversed by the Tenne ee river in the north, and by the Alabama and Tombigbee systems from north to south. It is rich in coal and iron in the mountainous region, and was the third State in the production of pig-iron in 1890. It has 66 counties, 9 representatives in Congre , and 11 electoral votes. It was settled by the French in 1702. The territory north of lat. 31° N. was ceded to Great Britain in 1763, and to the United States in 1783; and the remaining territory was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1819. It was admitted to the Union in 1819, seceded Jan. 11, 1861, and was readmitted July, 1868. Area, 52,250 square miles. Population (1890), 1,513,017. Alabama, The. A wooden steam-sloop of 1,040 tons built for the Confederate States at Birken head, England. Her commander was Captain Semmes of the Confederate navy. (See Semmes.) Her crew and equipments were English. She cruised 1862-64, destroy. ing American shipping, and was sunk by the Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, June 19, 1864. Alabama claims Alabama claims. Claims for damages preferred by the United States against Great Britain for lo es caused during the Civil War by the depredations on American commerce of ve els the chief of which was the Alabama-fitted out or supplied in British ports under the direction of the Confederate government. The adjustment of these claims was provided for by the treaty of Washington, concluded May 8, 1871, which referred them to a tribunal of arbitration to be composed of five members, named respectively by the governments of the United States, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, and Brazil. The tribunal a embled in Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 15, 1871, and was composed of the following arbitrators: Count Federigo Sclopis, of Italy; Baron Itajuba, of Brazil; Jacques Staempfli, of Switzerland; Charles Francis Adams, of the United States; and Lord Chief Justice Sir Alexander Cock burn, of Great Britain. The agent for Great Britain was Lord Tenter den, the counsel Sir Roundell Palmer; the agent for the United States, J. C. Bancroft Davis, the counsel William M. Evarts, Caleb Cushing, and Morrison R. Waife. Count Sclopis was elected president, and Alexandre Favrot, of