Upper Avon

See Avon. Upper Bavaria, G. Oberbayern. A govern- ment district in the southeast of Bavaria, ex- tending from the Alps to the Danube. Area, 16, 725 square miles. Population (1890), 1,103,160. and Bern. It comprises the two half-cantons Nidwald and Obwald. The surface is mountainous; highest point, Upper Brûlés. See Sitcanxu . the Titlis. The chief towns are Stanz and Sarnen; the lan- Upper Canada. See Ontario . guage is German;; the religion Roman Catholic. It has two representatives in the National Council. Unterwalden Upper Chinook (up'er chi-nuk'). One of the two divisions of the Chinook an stock of North united with the other Forest Cantons in the leagues of the 12th-14th centuries. It was a igned to the canton of Wald- American Indians. The principal tribes are statten in 1798; the resistance of Nidwald was suppre ed Cathlamet, Clackama, Echeloot, Multnoma, by the French. It became again a canton in position secured in 1815 (resistance of Nidwald suppre ed by Confederate troops in 1815), and joined the Sonder bund. Upper Germany (jer'ma-ni), G. OberdeutschArea, 295 square miles. Population (1888), 27,585. Untru ing of the Humorous Poet, The. See Sat i rom as tix . Unukalhai (ü"nuk-al-hä'i). [ Ar.'unuq - al - haiya , the neck of the serpent.] The third-magnitude star a Serpent is. Unungun (u-nung'un), or Aleut. ['People.'] A division of the Eskimauan stock of North. American Indians, inhabiting the Aleutian Archipelago. Number (1894), about 2,200. See Eskimauan . Wasco, Wasco, and Watlala. See Chinook an . land (ō'ber-doich'länt). 1. A geographical term nearly coextensive with South Germany, or Germany south of the Main.-2. A geo- graphical term for the German-speaking lands of the German Empire and Austria-Hungary which are situated in the Alps or about their northern slopes. It comprises Baden, Hohenzollern, Würtemberg, southern Bavaria, Upper and Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, and parts of Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola. Upper He e, G. Oberhe en. A province in the grand duchy of He e. Area, 3,287 square Unyamwezi (ö-nyä-mwā'zi). See Nyamwezi miles. Population (1890), 265,912. and Mirambo . Unyanyembe (ö-nyä-nyem'be). See Nyamwezi . Unyoro (ö-nyo'ro). A kingdom of British East Africa, just north of the equator, between Uganda and Lake Albert. It is still entirely independent of European control. The ruling native tribe, the Wanyoro, are kinsmen of the Ganda tribe, but le powerful and le progre ive. See Nyoro . Up an is hads (ö-pa-ni-shadz'). [Skt., from upa , unto, ni , down, and sad , to sit; and so, literally, a sitting down by,' 'setting oneself at the feet of another,' 'confidential communication,' 'esoteric doctrine.'] With the Aranyakas, Upper Peru. See Charcas and Bolivia . Upper Rhine (rin) Circle, G. Oberrheinkreis (o'ber-rin kris). One of the ten circles of the ancient German Empire, comprising an aggregation of ecclesiastical and temporal lordships, mainly west of the Rhine. Upper Saxon Circle, G. Obersächsischerkreis (ō'ber-zek"sish-er-kris). One of the ten circles of the ancient German Empire, comprising electoral Saxony, Brandenburg, the Saxon duchies, Anhalt, Pomerania, Schwarzburg, Reu , etc. Upping ham (up'ing-am). A town in Rutland the oldest speculative treatises of the Hindus: they lie at the root of the philosophical side of Hinduism, shire, England, situated 17 miles east by south Not only are they viewed as shruti, or revelation, equally with the Mantras and Brahman as, but they are practically the only Veda of all educated Hindus at the present day. Properly each Brahman a had its Aranyakas, or 'forest treatises,' intended for the Vanaprasthas, or 'dwellers in the forest' (that is, Brahmans who, having pa ed the two earlier stages of the brahma char in, or student, and the grihastha, or householder, retire into the forest to devote themselves to self-mortification and religious meditation); but the mystical doctrines of the latter were so mingled with extraneous matter that the chapters called Up an is hads appear to have been added to investigate more exclusively and definitely such problems as the origin of the universe, the nature of deity, the nature of the soul, and the connection of spirit and matter. Some of the most important are the Aitareya Up an is had and the Kaushitakibrahmana Up an is had of the Rigveda; the Taittiriya belonging to the Taittiriyasanhita of the Yajurveda; the Brihadaranyaka attached to the Shat a path a brahman a of the Vajasaneyisanhita of that Veda, and the Isha or Ishavasya, forming the 40th chapter of the latter Sanhita; the Chhandogya and Kena belonging to the Samaveda; and the Prashna, Mundaka, Mandukya, and Katha belonging to the Atharvaveda. Following the stratifica of Leicester. Upsala (öp-säʻlä). 1. A laen in eastern Sweden. Area, 2,053 square miles. Population (1893), 122,008.-2. The capital of the laen of Upsala, situated on the river Fyris in lat. 59°51′ N., long. 17° 38′ E. It is the seat of a noted university and of an archbishopric. The university was founded by Sten Sture in 1477. It has a library of 250,000 volumes, collections of coins and minerals, botanic garden and museum, observatory, etc. The cathedral was founded in 1260, but has since been altered. Among the radiating choir-chapels is that of Gustavus Vasa, adorned with historical frescos, and containing the king's tomb with sculptured figures of himself and his first two wives. The dimensions are 359 by 103 feet; length of transepts, 136; height of vaulting, 90. The two west towers have reached only about half of their projected height of 388 feet. The side portals and the exterior of the choir are exceedingly fine. Near Upsala was the medieval city Old Upsala, one of the oldest in the country. Population (1892), 21,109. Upshur (up's her), Abel Parker. Born in North amp ton County, Va., June 17, 1790: killed Urban VII. on the Potomac, Feb. 28, 1844. An American politician, secretary of the navy 1841-43, and secretary of state 1843-44. Upton (up'ton), Emory. Born at Batavia, Gene see County, N. Y., Aug. 27, 1839: died at San Francisco, March 14, 1881. An American general. He graduated at West Point in 1861; served in the Army of the Potomac and in Georgia and Alabama during the Civil War, attaining the rank of brigadier-general in 1864; and was commandant of cadets at West Point 1870-75. He wrote "New System of Infantry Tactics" (1867), "Armies of Asia and Europe" (1878), etc. Ur (er). The place (in Gen. Ur Kasdim , Ur of the Chaldeans) from which Abraham set out on his journey to Canaan. It has been identified with Uru which figures in the cuneiform inscriptions as the oldest capital of Babylonia and at the same time as an important maritime and commercial city. It is now represented by the ruins of Mugheir on the right bank of the Euphrates. It was the principal seat of worship of the moon-god Sin, and is therefore sometimes qualified in the inscriptions as the "moon city." Urabá (ö-rä-bä'), Gulf of. An old name for the Gulf of Darien: generally restricted to the southern arm which receives the river Atrato. Ural (ö'ral or ū'ral). A river which rises in the Ural Moüntains, flows southwest and south, and empties by a delta into the northern end of the Caspian Sea. It forms for a large part of its course part of the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia. Length, about 1,000 miles; navigable for large vesUral Mountains. A collection of mountain ranges situated mainly on the border between Europe and Asia, and in Ru ian territory. sels from Orenburg. They extend from the Arctic Ocean southward to near lat. 51° N. The chief divisions are the Arctic Urals (in Nova Zembla), Northern Urals (with the Pai-hoi, Vogul, and Obdorsk Mountains), Middle Urals, and Southern Urals. They are famous for their mineral wealth (gold, iron, copper, platinum, and precious stones). Highest peak (Tel-pos), 5,540 feet. Uralsk (ö-rälsk'). 1. A province of Ru ia, in Central Asia, lying between Astrakhan and Turgai. Area, 139,168 square miles. Population (1889), 559,552.-2. The capital of Uralsk, sit uated at the junction of the Tchagan with the Ural, about lat. 51° 10' N. Population, 26,054. Urania (u-rani-a). [NL., from L. Urania , from Gr. Οὐρανία , one of the Muses, lit. 'the Heavenly One.'] 1. In Greek mythology, the Muse of astronomy and celestial forces, and the arbitre of fate, second only to Calliope in the company of the Muses. Her usual attributes are a globe, which she often holds in her hand, and a little staff or compa for indicating the course of the stars. 2. An asteroid (No. 30) discovered by Hind at London, July 22, 1854. Uranienborg (ö-rä'ne-en-borg). A castle on the island of Hven, Sweden, the seat of the observatory of Tycho Brahe. Uranus (u'ra-nus). [L., from Gr. Οὐρανός , α personification of heaven, equivalent to Skt. Varuna , a deity of the highest rank in the Veda, later a god of the waters.] 1. In cla ical mythology, the son of Gæa or Ge (the Earth), and by her the father of the Titans, Cyclopes, etc. He hated his children, and confined them in Tartar us; but, on the instigation of Gæa, Cronus, the youngest of the Titans, overthrew and dethroned him. 2. In astronomy, the outermost but one of the planets, appearing to the naked eye as a faint star. It was discovered as a moving body with a disk, March 13, 1781, by Sir W. Herschel; but had previously been observed twenty times as a star by different observers. These are called the ancient observations of Uranus. The planet, seen with a telescope of the first cla , appears as a small bluish disk with two bands. It is a little smaller than Neptune, its diameter being 31,000 miles; its ma is density therefore is about 1.4, being a little more than that of Jupiter. It is about 19.2 times as far from the sun as the of that of the 14.7 times that of the earth; earth is; and its period of revolution is about 84 years and a week. It has four satellites - Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon-of which the first two are extremely diff i cult telescopic objects. They revolve in one plane, nearly perpendicular to that of the planet.