The new international encyclopaedia . , pure whitebeneath, and with the throat and breast brightyellow. VIRGIL. See Vergil. VIRGILIA (Neo-Lat., named, in honor ofthe Latin i)oet Virfiiliiis. Vcrgilius, Vergil, inallusion to his agricultural poem, the Geuniica).A genus of leguminous trees, natives of SouthAfrica. The only species, Virgilia capensis, is ahandsome tree 15-20 feet tall occurring abun-dantly along streams in Cape Colony. The woodis light, soft, and easily worked, and is muchused for yokes, spars, etc. To this genus Michauxreferred a North American tree., the yellow-wood (Tln/iVia l
The new international encyclopaedia . , pure whitebeneath, and with the throat and breast brightyellow. VIRGIL. See Vergil. VIRGILIA (Neo-Lat., named, in honor ofthe Latin i)oet Virfiiliiis. Vcrgilius, Vergil, inallusion to his agricultural poem, the Geuniica).A genus of leguminous trees, natives of SouthAfrica. The only species, Virgilia capensis, is ahandsome tree 15-20 feet tall occurring abun-dantly along streams in Cape Colony. The woodis light, soft, and easily worked, and is muchused for yokes, spars, etc. To this genus Michauxreferred a North American tree., the yellow-wood (Tln/iVia liitea). but, fiom differences inthe pods and other parts. Rafinesque made a newgenus for it, Cladrastis, which is its presentbotanical name. See Cladeastis. VIRGIL PBACTICE CLAVIEB. 158 VIRGINIA. VIRGIL PRACTICE CLAVIER. See PlANOFOKTE. VIRGIN. See Mart; Madoxna. VIRGINAL (OF., Fr. virginal, fiora , maidenly, from riryo, maiden; socalled probably because ])layed especially byyoung girls). A keyed instrument, one of the. precursors of the pianoforte. It resembled inform a small pianoforte, with a compass of fouroctaves, furnished with a quill and jack likethose of the spinet, and a single string to eachnote. VIRGINIA. The heroine of a Roman legendof the days of the Republic. See AppiusClaidivs VIRGINIA (Xeo-Lat., named in honor ofQueen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen). A SouthAtlantic State of the United States, known pop-ularly as the Old Dominion. It lies betweenlatitiides 36° 31 and 39° 27 N., longitudes75° 13 and 83° 37 W., and is bounded on thenorth by West Virginia and ilaryland, on theeast by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south byNorth Carolina and Tennessee, and on the westby Kentucky. The southern boundary is a straightline 440 miles long, but the others are extremelyirregular, following various Appalachian ridgeson the northwest and the Potomac River on thenortheast. The greatest breadth from north tosouth is I92 miles. The State includes thenarr
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