. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. nct govern-ment under a governor, an executiveand a legislative council (9 appointedmembers), and a house of assembly (24elected members). BARBAROSSA. See FREDERICK I., Em-peror OF THE Holy Roman Empirb. BARBARY, a general name for themost northerly portion of Africa, ex-tending about 2,600 miles from Egyptto the Atlantic, with a breadth varying BARBAULD, ANNA LiETITIA, anEnglish poet and essayist, born in 1774 she married the Rev. RochemontBarbauld. Her first po
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. nct govern-ment under a governor, an executiveand a legislative council (9 appointedmembers), and a house of assembly (24elected members). BARBAROSSA. See FREDERICK I., Em-peror OF THE Holy Roman Empirb. BARBARY, a general name for themost northerly portion of Africa, ex-tending about 2,600 miles from Egyptto the Atlantic, with a breadth varying BARBAULD, ANNA LiETITIA, anEnglish poet and essayist, born in 1774 she married the Rev. RochemontBarbauld. Her first poems (1773) wentthrough four editions in one year. Shewrote Early Lessons for Children(about 1774); Devotional Pieces(1775); Hymns in Prose for Children(1776), translated in many languages;Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, herlongest effort (1811); and prepared anedition of the best English novels in50 volumes. She died March 9, 1825. BARBED WIRE. See WiRE. BARBED WIRE ENTANGLE-MENTS. Protection placed in front of amilitary position to check an enemy as-sault. In the World War these wereused to an unprecedented extent, owing. BARBED WIRE DEFENSE THAT CAN BE MOVED FROM PLACE TO PLACE from about 140 to 1,550 miles; comprisingMorocco, Fez, Algeria, Tunis, and Tri-poli (including Barca and Fezzan). Theprincipal races are the Berbers, theoriginal inhabitants,, from whom thecountry takes its name; the Arabs, whoconquered an extensive portion of itduring the times of the caliphs; theBedouins, Jews, Turks, negroes, and theFrench colonists of Algeria, etc. Thecountry, which was prosperous underthe Carthaginians, was, next to Egypt,the richest of the Roman province^, andthe Italian states enriched themselvesby their intercourse with it. In the 15thcentury, however, it became infested withadventurers who made the name of Bar-bary corsair a terror to commerce, a con-dition of things finally removed by theFrench occupation of Algeria. In theearly part of the 19th century theUnited States Governme
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