montem

[See def.] A custom which prevailed among the scholars of Eton College, England, up to 1847, and which consisted in their going in proce ion on Whit-Tuesday of every third year to a mound (Lat. ad montem ), near the Bath Road, and exacting a gratuity from all present or pa ing watered by the Upper Mi ouri, Yellow stone, and by. The amount collected was given to the captain tributaries of the Columbia river. Organized as a Territory in 1863, and admitted as a State, November 8, 1889. It is rich in minerals, leads in the production of copper, ranks second in silver, third in gold, and fourth in lead. Coal and iron exist in abundance. Wheat, oats, rye, and all fruits of the temperate zone thrive well. Principal cities, Helena, the capital; Butte, Great Falls, Anaconda and Mi oula. *montāne, a. [Latin montan us , from mons (gen it. montis ) =a mountain.] Mountainous, hilly. "A single species restricted to elevated montane local i. ties in Tasmania."- Gardener's Chronicle, No. 407 (1881), p. 503.