Universal manual of ready reference : antiquities, history, geography, biography, government, law, politics, industry, invention, science, religion, literature, art, education and miscellany . ofslavery for themselves, and it came asa relief to Northern Democrats by en-abling them consistently to oppose theWilmot Proviso. Yellowstone Park. This interesting sec-tion of our country lies the greater partin Wyoming, the remainder partly inMontana and partlyinIdaho. Its adapta-bility to the purposes of a national parkwas first brought prominently before thepublic by a company of surveyors whovisite
Universal manual of ready reference : antiquities, history, geography, biography, government, law, politics, industry, invention, science, religion, literature, art, education and miscellany . ofslavery for themselves, and it came asa relief to Northern Democrats by en-abling them consistently to oppose theWilmot Proviso. Yellowstone Park. This interesting sec-tion of our country lies the greater partin Wyoming, the remainder partly inMontana and partlyinIdaho. Its adapta-bility to the purposes of a national parkwas first brought prominently before thepublic by a company of surveyors whovisited the region in 1869. In 1870and 1871 the territory was again ex-plored by scientific expeditions, andthe reports of the first visitors were con-firmed. The expedition of 1871 washeaded by Professor Hayden, and uponhis representations an act was passed byCongress and approved March 1, 1872,by which what is now known as theYellowstone National Park was reservedand withdrawn from settlement, occu-pancy, or sale, and dedicated and setapart as a public park orpleasure-groundfor the benefit and enjoyment of thepeople. {See description of Park onpage 298.) BOOK V. LITERATURE, EDUCATION, ART. Art, Education, Religion Abbey. A religious community, se-cluded from the world, and presidedover by an abbot or abbess. When thesuperior was a prior, the establishmentwas called a Priory, the prior being therepresentative of an abbot. The build-ings in which the communities dwelt arealso called Abbeys, and this is by farthe most general use of the term. Thesocieties were dissolved in England atthe time of the Reformation, andmany of their buildings are now in the most important exceptionsare Canterbury Cathedral, WestminsterAbbey, the Cathedrals of Ely and Nor-wich, etc., all of which are still devotedto religious uses, though divested of theconventual character. Abbot. The superior of certain es-tablishments of religious persons of themale sex, thence called Abbeys. Theword abbot, o
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