. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . in Sicily to hold out againstCharles of Anjou, but was betrayed into the hands of WilliamLEstendard, one of his barons, in 1268, when it was sacked, and itsinhabitants mercilessly butchered. It remained desolate for years,but having been rejieojiled, and begun again to prosper, it wasburned and razed to the ground in 1360 in anotlier Sicilian war;and again was taken and burned by the Turks in 1551. Finally, inl(i63, it was destroyed by an earthquake, when one-third of the in-habitants perished. It has three long p
. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . in Sicily to hold out againstCharles of Anjou, but was betrayed into the hands of WilliamLEstendard, one of his barons, in 1268, when it was sacked, and itsinhabitants mercilessly butchered. It remained desolate for years,but having been rejieojiled, and begun again to prosper, it wasburned and razed to the ground in 1360 in anotlier Sicilian war;and again was taken and burned by the Turks in 1551. Finally, inl(i63, it was destroyed by an earthquake, when one-third of the in-habitants perished. It has three long parallel streets. Thehouses are generally of one story. The jiort is spacious, but ofrather difficult access. Salt is the chief article of export. Oil,wine, cheese, fruit, honey, and sardines are also exported. AGOUTI [Dasypirocta Agouti), a small quadruped nearly alliedto tlie Cavy or Guinea-jiig, very abundaiit in some parts of tlieWest Indies and of South America. It is often very injurious to thefields of sugar-cane. It is gregarious. Its flesli resembles that of. Agouti. the hare or rabbit. Other species are found in tlie same regions,and even in the colder jiarts of South America. The PampasHare is Dasyprocta Patachonica. AGRA, a British district in the lieutenant-governorship of theNorth-western Provinces, bounded N. and E. by the districts ofMuttra, Minpooree, and Etawah, S. and W. by the territories ofDliortpore, Gwalior, and Bliurtpore. Its area is 1908 squaremiles. The surface of the country is for the most part verj- level,the principal elevation of the Futtehpore Sikri hills, a sandstonerange on the west frontier, being about 700 feet. The principalrivers are the Jumna—flowing along the north-east frontier, andits tributary the Cliunibul (along the southern boundary), both ofwhich are too deep in the channel to be of much avail for irriga-tion. The district generally is, inconsequence, deficient in water;and tlie failure of the rains in some seasons (as
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