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397. Uncommercial Traveller, The. A volume of sketches by Dickens, first published serially in "All the Year Round" in 1860. Uncompahgre (un-kom-pā'gre) River. A tributary of the Gunnison River, in Colorado. Undine (un-den' or un'den; G. pron. ön-de'ne). A tale by Fouqué, Baron de la Motte, published in German in 1811. Undine is a water-spirit who is endowed with a soul by her marriage with a mortal. Unfortunate Peace, The. A name sometimes given to the treaty of Câteau-Cambrésis (which see). Ungama Bay. See Formosa Bay . Ungarisch-Brod. A town in Moravia, Austria Hungary, situated near the Olsawa 45 miles south-southeast of Olmütz. Population (1890), commune, 4,036. Ungarn. The German name of Hungary. Ungava Bay (ung-ga và ba). An arm of Hud son Strait, projecting into Labrador. Unger (öng'er), Franz. Born in Styria, 1800: died at Gratz, Feb. 13, 1870. A distinguished Austrian botanist and paleontologist, profe or of botany at Vienna from 1850. He was particularly noted for his researches in the anatomy and physiol ogy of plants and in fo il botany. Ungern-Sternberg (öng'ern-stern'berg), Baron Alexander von. Born near Reval, Esthonia, 1806: died at Dannenwalde, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Aug. 24, 1868. A German novelist. Among his best-known novels are "Der Mi ionar," "Diane," and "Die Royal is ten." Unicorn, The. See Monoceros . Unieh (u'ni-e or ū-nē'e). A small seaport on the coast of the Black Sea, Asiatic Turkey, 120 miles west of Trebizond. Uniformity Act. In English history: ( a ) An act of Parliament, pa ed in 1549, which provided for uniformity of religious service. (b) An act of Parliament pa ed May 19, 1662. It obliged holders of church livings to be ordained by a bish op; to a ent to the Prayer-book; to renounce the Covenant; to declare the unlawfulne of bearing arms against the sovereign; and to make oath of canonical obedience. Many clergymen resigned their benefices. Uni gen it us Dei Filius (ū-ni-jen'i-tus dē'i fil'ius). [L., Only-begotten Son of God.'] A bull promulgated by Pope Clement XI. in 1713, in which the Jansenists were condemned. Union (u'nyon), The. 1. The United States of America. 2. Same as Union , Act of , 3. Union, Act of. 1. A statute of 1535-36, which enacted the political union of Wales to England. -2. A statute of 1706, which united the kingdoms of England and Scotland on and after May National African Company in 1882, and the Royal Niger Company in 1886. United Brethren. See Moravians . United Irish men. An Irish society formed in 1791 by Wolfe Tone, for the purpose of procuring parliamentary reform and the repeal of the penal laws. It afterward became a secret society with revolutionary aims, and was influential in causing the of 1798. United Kingdom, The. See Great Britain . United Netherlands, The. See Netherlands . United Provinces, The. The seven provinces of the Low Countries - Holland, Zealand, Utrecht, Fries land, Gelder land, Groningen, and Overy el-which in 1579 formed the Union of Utrecht and laid the foundation of the republic of the Netherlands. United Provinces of La Plata. See La Plata . United States (u-ni'ted stats), or United States of America. [F. Etats - Unis , G. Verein igte Staaten , It. Stati Uniti , Sp. Estados Unidos , D. Vereenigde Staten .] A federal republic which occupies the central part of North America. Capital, Washington. Excluding the detached district of Alaska, it is bounded by British America on the north, the Atlantic on the east, Florida Strait, the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico on the south, and the Pacific on the west. The great physiographical divisions are the Atlantic slope, Appal a chi an system, Gulf coastal plain, central plain (including the Mi i ippi valley and the Great Lakes basin), Rocky Mountain system, Columbian plateau, great interior basin, Sierra Nevada and Cascade systems, and Pacific slope. The principal rivers are the Mi i ippi (with the Mi ouri, Ohio, etc.), St. Lawrence (forming a University College Columbia). North Central division : Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Mi ouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas. South Central division: Kentucky, Tenne ee, Alabama, Mi i ippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas (with the Territory of Okla homa and Indian Territory). Western division: Montana, vada, Idaho, and Utah (with the Territories of Arizona Wyoming, Colorado, Washington, California, Neand New Mexico). - In all 45 States and 3 Territories, besides the District of Columbia (which contains Washington, the capital, and is administered by the Federal government), the unorganized Indian Territory, and the civil and judicial district of Alaska. The largest cities are New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. The Federal executive power is vested in a President, elected for 4 years by an electoral college which is elected by the votes of the people of the different States. He is a isted by a cabinet of 8 members of his own appointment. The legislative authority is vested in Congre , which consists of a Senate, 2 members of which are returned by each State, and a House of Representatives, at present (1895) of 356 members, returned by the States in the proportion of one for about every 174,000 inhabitants. The separate States have extensive independent powers reserved to them under the Constitution of the republic. The State governments are administered each by a gover nor and a legislature of two houses. There are distinct Federal and State judicial systems, the highest court in inhabitants are mainly of British descent, about 8,000, the land being the United States Supreme Court. The 000 are colored. There are many immigrants and descendants of recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Bohemia, Ru ia proper, Poland, Hungary, etc.; also Indians and Chinese. All religions are tolerated, and in a population of such diversified origin all may be said to have adherents. The largest of the Protestant denominations are the Methodists and Baptists. The region is said to have been visited and temporarily colonized by North men about 1000. It was seen by the Cabots in 1497-98, and explored by Ponce de Leon in 1513-14, Verrazano in 1524, De Soto in 1539-42, and others. The first permanent settlement was made at St. Augustine in 1565. Thirteen colonies were planted, which by their union in 1776 formed the thirteen original States: Virginia (1607), Ma achusetts (1620), New Hampshire (1623), Maryland (1634), Connecticut (1635), Rhode Island (1636), North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania (1682), and Georgia (1733), all by the English; New York and New Jersey by the Dutch; and Delaware (1638) by Swedes. Among the wars carried on with the Indians were the Pequot war and King Philip's war; with the French and Indians, King William's war, Queen Anne's war, King George's war, and the French and Indian war. The following are among the leading events of United States history: Revolution hastened by the Stamp Act of 1765, taxes in 1767, and the Boston Port Bill of 1774; commencement of the Revolution, 1775 (see Revolutionary War ); Declaration of Independence, 1776; Articles of Confederation adopted, 17771781; surrender of Cornwall is at York town, 1781; recognition of independence, 1783; Ordinance of 1787 relating to the Northwest Territory; Constitution framed, 1787; new form of government inaugurated, 1789, with the capital at New York; capital removed to Philadelphia, 1790; Indian wars, 1790-94; French war, 1798-1800; capital transferred to Washington, 1800; Tripoli tan war, 1801-05; Louisiana Purchase, 1803; embargo, 1807; war with Great Britain, 1812-15; ce ion of Florida by Spain, 1819; Mi ouri Compromise, 1820; Nullification movement, 1832-33; financial crisis, 1837; annexation of Texas, 1845; Mexican war, 1846-48; acquisition of territory from Mexico, 1848, and by the Gadsden Purchase, 1853; Omnibus Bill, 1850; Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1854; financial crisis, 1857; sece ion of eleven States, 1860–61; Civil War, 1861-65 (see Civil War); Lincoln's emancipation proclamations, 1862 and struct i on in the South, pur chas est rom Ru ia, 1867; financial crisis, 1873; disputed presidential 1863; constitutional prohibition of slavery, 1865; Area, 3,025,600 square mes in 57,000 including Alaska, square miles. Population (1890), exclusive of Alaska, In- dian Territory, and non-domiciled Indians, 62,622,250; es- timated for July 1, 1894, 68,397,000. United States. An American frigate, built at Philadelphia in 1797, which, under the com- mand of Decatur, captured the British frigate Maced on i an, Oct. 25, 1812. United States Military Academy. See West Point Military Academy. Colorado, and Columbia; the principal lakes, the group known as "the Great Lakes" (partly in Canada), Great Salt Lake, and Lake Cham plain. The most elevated point of land east of the Mi i ippi River is Mount Mitchell (Black Dome) in North Carolina; west of the Mi i ippi, apparently Mount Whitney, in the Sierra Nevada of California. There are seemingly no fully active volcanoes within the United States at the present day, but volcanic outbursts Academy , United States . United States of Brazil. See Brazil . United States of Colombia. [Sp. Estados Uni- dos de Colombia .] The official name of Colom- bia from 1861 to 1886, when a federal constitu- tion was in force. have been reported within a comparatively recent period, United States of Mexico. See Mexico . and many of the western peaks (Shasta, Tacoma, etc.) are United States of Venezuela. See Venezuela . volcanic in origin. The leading agricultural products are corn, wheat, oats, sugar, cotton, tobacco, rye, rice, dairy Universal Doctor, The, L. Doctor Universal is products, live stock, hay, and potatoes. The metallic pro- (dok'tor ūni-ver-sā'lis). A name given to ducts are iron, silver, gold, copper, lead, zinc, quicksilver, Thomas A quinas, and also to Alain de Lille. nickel, aluminium, antimony, platiaum; other products are coal, petroleum, natural gas, mineral waters, etc. The principal exports are breadstuffs, cotton, provisions, petroleum, Indian corn, tobacco, sugar, lumber, oil-cake, leather, machinery, cattle, furs. The country is the first in the world in the production of steel, pig-iron, cotton, wheat, and Indian corn, and ranks among the first in tobacco and sugar. There is no universally recognized system of grouping the States of the Union: they are often cla ified as New England States, Middle States, Southern States (including the subdivision Gulf States), Western States (including Lake States and "the Northwest"), and Pacific States. The following is an accepted arrangement- North Atlantic division: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ma achusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. South Atlantic division: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida (and the District of Université Nation ale de France. An insti- tution which virtually includes the entire edu- cational system of France. The organization of the old University of Paris having been destroyed by the Rev- olution, certain "écoles cent rales" appeared at various points in the country. These were abolished by Napoleon, and the whole system was reconstructed. University College. 18A A non-sectarian London college, founded in street. Opposite is the University College Hospital, the patients of which are treated by the profe ors of med i- cine of the college. In 1881 additions were made to the main building. There are about 40 profe ors and 1,600 students. There is connected with it a school for boys. Near here, in Gordon Square, is University Hall, a Uni- tarian university settlement. University College University College. The oldest college of Oxford University. According to an apparently basele tradition, it was founded by King Alfred in 872. It doubtle originated in a fund bequeathed by William, archdeacon of Durham, in 1249; and the college was practically established in 1280. The foundation now (1894) consists of a master, 13 fellows, 17 scholars, and 12 exhibitioners. Unkiar-Skele i (ön'kē-är-skā-les'sē), or Hunkiar-Skele i. A small place in Asia Minor, near Constantinople, where, in 1833, Ru ia and Turkey concluded a treaty favorable to the IMG:content-0991.png:[blocks in formation] Unnatural Combat, The. A play by Philip Mas singer, acted about 1619, printed in 1639. Unready, The. An epithet of the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred. See Æthelred . Unst (unst). The northernmost of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Length, 12 miles. Unstrut (ön's tröt). A river in central Germany which joins the Saale near Naumburg. Length, 108 miles. Unter den Linden (ön'ter den lin'den). [G., 'under the lindens.'] A famous street in Berlin which extends from the Brand enb urger Thor eastward about three fifths of a mile. On it are the imperial and princely palaces, the university, the academy, the statue of Frederick the Great, etc. Width, 160 feet. Unterpfalz. See Palatinate . Untersberg (ön'ters-berg). A mountain in the Salzburger Alps, situated near the border between Salzburg and Bavaria, 8 miles southwest of Salzburg: celebrated in folk-lore (legends of Charles the Great). Height, 6,480 feet. Untersee (ön'ter-zā). [G., 'lower lake.'] The name given to the western arm of the Lake of Con stance. Length, about 13 miles. Unterseen (ön'ter-za-en). A village in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, situated between the Lakes of Thun and Brienz, near Interlaken. Unterwalden (ön'ter-väl-den). [G., 'lower forest.'] One of the Forest Cantons of Switzerland, bounded by Lucerne, the Lake of Lucerne, Uri, tory principle, in general the only guide in determining the age of Sanskrit works, the ancient Up an is hads-that is, those which occupy a place in the Sanhitas, Brahman as, and Aranyakas are believed to be older than 600 B. c., or anterior to Buddhism, though the germs of the doctrines contained in them are to be found in some of the latest hymns. The others range through a long period, and are very numerous. The ancient Vedic literature first became known outside of India through these Up an is hads. They were translated from Sanskrit into Persian by or for Dara Shukoh, the eldest son of the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan, who held the liberal religious views of Akbar. He had heard of the Up an is hads in Kashmir in 1640, invited several pandits to Delhi to a ist in their translation, and finished the work in 1657. Translated into Persian, then the most widely read language of the East, they became generally acce ible. In 1775 a manuscript of this Persian translation was sent by the French resident at the court of Shuja ud Daula to Anquetil Duperron, the discoverer of the Avesta; and later another manuscript. Anquetil Duperron collated the two, and translated the work into French and into Latin, publishing the latter version in 1801 and 1802 under the title of Oupnekhat, a corruption of Up an is had. This Latin translation was studied by Schopenhauer. Twelve of them are translated by Max Müller, with introductions and notes, in the "Sacred Books of the East," I. and XV. Upernavik (ö-per'nä-vik). The northernmost Danish district in Green land, situated on the western coast. Position of the chief settlement, lat. 72° 48′ N., long. 55° 54′ W. Upham (up'am), Charles Went worth. Born at St. John, N. B., May 4, 1802: died at Salem, Ma ., June 14, 1875. An American Unitarian He was a clergyman, author, and politician. Whig member of Congre from Ma achusetts 1853-55. Upham, Thomas Cogs well. Born at Deer field, N. H., Jan. 30, 1799: died at New York, April 2, 1872. An American philosophical and religious writer and poet. Upolu (ö-po-lö'). The second in size of the Samoan Islands, southeast of Savaii. It is mountainous and fertile, and contains Apia, the chief town of the group. Area, 350 square miles. Population, about 16,000.