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13, 1818: died there, June 20, 1883. A and manufactures, and is a mi ionary center. Popula French novelist and traveler in the United tion (estimated), 20,000. States, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, and the Cauca- sus: author of "Les Trappeurs de l'Arkansas" (1858) and numerous other works in the style of Cooper. He died insane. Aimon. See Aymon . Aimon, Jacques. A pseudonym of Voltaire. Aimorés (i-mō-res'), or Aymorés, or Aimures. An Indian tribe of eastern Brazil, now known as Botocudos. Air (ä-er'), or Asben (äs-ben'). A mountainous oasis in the Sahara, Africa, lat. 16°-20° N., long. 6°-10° E., having an area of about 20,000 square miles, and a population estimated at 60,000. Its capital is Agades, and chief town Tintellust. Also Ahir . Airavata (i-räva-tä). In Hindu mythology, the prototype of the elephant, produced at the churning of the ocean: the world-elephant of the East, and Indra's beast of burden. Aimorés, Serra dos. See Serra dos Aimorés . Aimwell (am'wel). 1. In Farquhar's comedy Airay (ar'ā), Henry. Born at Kentmere, "The Beaux' Stratagem," a young gentleman West more land, about 1560: died Oct. 6, 1616. of a romantic temperament, who has di ipated An English Puritan divine, vice-chancellor of his fortune and who, with his cooler-headed Oxford, 1606, and author of a "Commentary on friend Archer disguised as his servant, person- Philip pians" (1618). ates a rich lord, with a view to retrieving their Air castle (ar'kas"l). A character in Foote's lo es by a rich marriage for either or both, making a journey from one town to another, and taking turns in being master and man -a stratagem which is succe ful.-2. In Shirley's play "The Witty Fair One," a gentleman, the lover of Violetta. Ain (an). A river of eastern France, about 100 miles long, which joins the Rhône 17 miles east of Lyons. It is narrow in its lower course. Ain. A department of France, bounded by Saône-et-Loire and Jura on the north, HauteSavoie and Savoie (from both of which it is separated by the Rhône), with Switzerland, on the east, Isère (separated by the Rhône) on the south, and Rhône and Saône-et-Loire (from both of which it is separated by the Saône) on the west. It is mountainous (Jura) in the east and a table-land in the west, and is rich in iron, asphalt, and building and lithographic stones. Its capital is Bourg, its area 2,239 square miles, and its population (1891) comedy "The Cozeners," played in an amusingly prolix and digre ive manner by Foote himself, burlesquing Gahagan, a highly educated young Irish gentleman who was hung in 1749 for "filing or diminishing the current coin of the realm." Aird (ard), Thomas. Born at Bowden, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Aug. 28, 1802: died at Dumfries, April 25, 1876. A Scottish poet and journalist. He was editor of the "Edinburgh Weekly Journal" (1833), and the "Dumfrie hire and Galloway Herald" (1835-63), and author of "The Old Bachelor in the Scottish Village" (1845), "Poetical Works" (1848), etc. Airdrie (ar'dre). A town in Lan arks hire, Scotland, 10 miles east of Glasgow. Population of parliamentary burgh (1891), 15,133. Aire (ar).