The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ATN-EL-HAGAR, a stony district in Nubia,along the Nile, in lat. 2i°-22° N., and ° 4o-3i° 10 E. The Nile, in the upper portionof the district is often forced by approaching rocksinto a very narrow channel, and its navigation isfrequently interrupted by small islands, rocksand cataracts. The district is peopled by Arabs. BATON ROUGE, a city and capital of Louisi-ana and of East Baton Rouge Parish, on theeast bank of the river, 130 miles by river and 89by rail above New Orleans. From 1S47 to 1864it was
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ATN-EL-HAGAR, a stony district in Nubia,along the Nile, in lat. 2i°-22° N., and ° 4o-3i° 10 E. The Nile, in the upper portionof the district is often forced by approaching rocksinto a very narrow channel, and its navigation isfrequently interrupted by small islands, rocksand cataracts. The district is peopled by Arabs. BATON ROUGE, a city and capital of Louisi-ana and of East Baton Rouge Parish, on theeast bank of the river, 130 miles by river and 89by rail above New Orleans. From 1S47 to 1864it was the state capital, when it gave place to 386 BATRACHIA—BATfHYANYI New Orleans, and again became the state capi-tal in 1882. The situation, on a bluff 25 feetabove the highest water-mark, affords a fine viewof the river and surrounding country. The dis-trict is exceedingly fertile, yielding abundantcrops of cotton, sugar, Indian corn, sweetpotatoes, etc. The city has a state peniten-tiary, barracks, military hospital, asylums forthe deaf and dumb and blind, and the State Uni- ^. CAPITOL, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. versity, moved from Alexandria. On the 5th ofAugust, 1862, General Breckinridge attacked theUnion army here and was repulsed, the Unioncommander. General Thomas Williams, defendingthe city, being killed in the action. Population1880, 7,197; 1890, 10,478; 1900, 11,269. SeeBaton Rouge, Vol. Ill, p. 442. BATRACHIA, a name nearly synonymous withAmphibia in Cuviers system, including salaman-ders, frogs and toads. It is now restricted to thetailless forms, the frogs and toads, and is equiva-lent to Anura. BATRACHOMYOMACHIA {The Battle of theFrogs and Mice), a Greek mock-heroic poem inhexameters, of which 316 fines are extant, errone-ously ascribed to Homer, with whose works it hasbeen generally printed. Pigres of Caria, wholived in the times of the Persian wars, was namedamong the ancients as its author. It is a parodyon the Iliad, in which the military preparationsand co
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