Ross-shire

See Ro . Rost and (ros-tän'), Edmond. Born at Mar seilles in 1868. A French poet and playwright. He has written "Les Romanesques" (1894), "La Prince e Lointaine" (1895), "La Samaritaine" (1897), "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1897), "L'Aiglon" (1900), etc. It is the Rostock (ros'tok). A seaport in MecklenburgSchwerin, situated on the estuary of the Warnow, in lat. 54° 5′ N., long. 12° 8' E. principal place in Mecklenburg, and one of the chief ports of the Baltic, and has a trade in grain, herrings, timber, oil, etc. St. Peter's Church and some of the other churches are notable. Blücher was born and Grotius died there. The university, founded in 1419, was temporarily trans ferred to Greifswald from 1437 to 1443, and (in part) to Bützow from 1760 to 1789: it had 523 students in 18961897, and a library of about 307,000 volumes. Rostock is an ancient Wendish town. It belonged to the Hansa until 1630. Population (1890), 44,409. Rostoff (ros-tof'). A town in the government of Yaroslaff, situated on Lake Nero 125 miles northeast of Moscow. It was founded in the early middle ages; was the seat of a principality annexed by