. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. than five miles wide. Its greatest width iseight miles. NARVAEZ, nahrvalieth, Panfilo de(1470?-1528), a Spanish adventurer and ex-plorer, who, in 1528, left Cuba with an ex-pedition for the purpose of exploring thesoutheastern part of what is now the UnitedStates. He was betrayed and misled by In-dian guides and was finally forced to put tosea. After cruising along the Gulf coast forseveral months, his party reached the mouthof the Miss
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. than five miles wide. Its greatest width iseight miles. NARVAEZ, nahrvalieth, Panfilo de(1470?-1528), a Spanish adventurer and ex-plorer, who, in 1528, left Cuba with an ex-pedition for the purpose of exploring thesoutheastern part of what is now the UnitedStates. He was betrayed and misled by In-dian guides and was finally forced to put tosea. After cruising along the Gulf coast forseveral months, his party reached the mouthof the Mississippi. Two of the boats wereswept to destruction by the rush of the rivercurrent and Narvaezs was lost in a storm. NARWHAL, nah/wahl, a marine mam-mal, about fifty feet long, found in coldwaters of the northern hemisphere. Its body,tapering like the whales, ends in a fishliketail, and on each side of it, near the head,is a limb resembling a fin. It has no teeth. NASEBY 2475 NASHVILLE but between the eyes is a straight, hollow,spiral tusk, which tapers to a point andmeasures about seven feet in length. Thistusk is of hard, white material, somewhat like. NARWHAL. ivory, for which it is often substituted incommerce. The animal feeds chiefly on mol-lusks. The Greenlanders obtain an oil fromthe blubber, which they use much as theyuse whale oil, and make the skins into va-rious articles. The narwhal is sometimescalled sea unicorn, unicorn fish and unicornwhale. NASEBY, nazhy, Battle of, a famousbattle, fought on June 14, 1645, in the par-ish of Naseby, in Northampton, struggle was between Charles I and theParliamentary army under Fairfax andCromwell, and it ended in the complete de-feat of the royalists. NASHUA, N. H., the second city in sizein the state and the county seat of HillsboroCounty, forty miles northwest of Boston,on the Nashua River near the Merrimac, andon several divisions of the Boston & Mainerailroad. In size it is the second city in thestate. A canal fr
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