. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. eves that, beyond what mancan know by his senses or feel by hishigher affections, nothing can be , or, supposed facts, both of thelower and the higher life, are accepted,but all inferences deduced from thesefacts as to the existence of an unseenworld, or of beings higher than man,are considered unsatisfactory, and areignored. AGOITLT (a-go), MARIE CATHE-RINE SOPHIE DE FLAVIGNY, COM-TESSE D, a French .-^uthor and socialist,born at Frankfort-on-Main, Dec. 31,180
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. eves that, beyond what mancan know by his senses or feel by hishigher affections, nothing can be , or, supposed facts, both of thelower and the higher life, are accepted,but all inferences deduced from thesefacts as to the existence of an unseenworld, or of beings higher than man,are considered unsatisfactory, and areignored. AGOITLT (a-go), MARIE CATHE-RINE SOPHIE DE FLAVIGNY, COM-TESSE D, a French .-^uthor and socialist,born at Frankfort-on-Main, Dec. 31,1805;in sympathy with the revolutionists of1848. After separation from her hus-band, she became the mistress of thefamous pianist, Franz Liszt, by whomshe had a son and two daughters. Oneof the latter, Cosima, married first Hansvon Biilow and later Richard died at Paris, March 5, 1876. AGOUTI, a South American animal,of the family hystricidx, order agoutis live for the most part uponthe surface of the ground, not climbingnor digging to any depth. By eating theroots of the sugar-cane, they are often. AGOUTI the cause of great injury to the ears are short, and the tail rudi-mentary. The animal is nearly 2 feetlong. It is found m Guiana, Brazil, Para-guay, and some of the Antilles. 6—Vol. r—Cyc AGRA. (1) A division of the UnitedProvinces of Agra and Oudh, BritishIndia; area, 10,151 square miles; pop.,about 5,000,000. (2) A district of thesame name, consisting of a level plaindiversified by sandstone hills. The soilis barren and sandy, and, through thefailure of rains, famines frequentlyoccur; area, 1,850 square miles; 1,000,000. (3) The capital of Agradistrict, on the right bank of the Jumna,110 miles S. E. of Delhi, and 841 milesN. W. of Calcutta. Agra is thehandsomest city in upper India. Someof the public buildings, monuments of thehouse of Timur, are on a scale of strikingmagnificence. Among these are the fort-ress, built by Akba
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