YARN

fibrous matter made into | thread for weaving, by proce of cleaning, bleaching, spinning into ‘hanks,’ and finally by dehydrating; warp y. | stronger and more elastic than weft y.; best cotton yarn weighs 1 lb. for every 588,000 yards of thread; ordinary, 250,000 yds. per lb.; fine linen thread weighs 1 Ib. for 180,000 yds.; ordinary, 60,000 yds. per 1b.; woolen thread is much heavier. ment, central Ru ia; consists of a broad depre ion traversed by Volga; much occupied by marshes and forests; soil not very fertile; flax widely grown; manufactures cotton, linen, flour, tobacco Pop. 1,200,000. Capital, Yarostavu (50° 36’ N., 40° 12’ E.), at junction of Ree ee Kotorost; cotton-mills. Pop. Brit. naturalist; b. London; entered busine as newspaper agent; wrote History of British Fishes (1836), History ve British Birds; famous as angler and shot. stream, Sel kirks hire, Scotland; i ues from St. Mary’s Loch and joins Ettrick near Selkirk.