ANATOLIA

i.e.,, Land of the Sanri or Eastern Land, the Greek and moder a pame of Asia Minor, a peninsulas asiarge as France, in the south-west of Asia. Its shores are washed by the Black Sea, the Archipelago, and the Levant. The country is a plateau, cro ed by lofty mountain ranges, and ptedoces cotton, opium, fruits, wine and silk. The population is of various races; the Turks govern, but the commerce and the profe ional work pf the country are in the bands of Greeks and Armenians. The largest towns are ea and Trebizond. AXAG’ORAS, 5. 500 B.c., d. 428 B.C.;: 9 Greok ete tae He went early to Athens, then in the zenith of its slory, and acquired fame as a philosopher and teach or, having Pericles and Euripi des among his pupils. It is curious to mark n0W nearly ho anticipated the present * Atomic” theory of the const it at i on of matter. [s. 44]