The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . has de-partments of arts, literature, philosophy, and law,and courses in agriculture, arts, etc. There is alsoa post-graduate course. In i8g8 it had 47 profes-sors and instructors and 670 students. It is non-sectarian, and provides special facilities for poorbut deserving students; has a library of 35,000volumes; the value of the grounds and buildingsis about $250,000. and its productive funds amountto $100,000. Its total income in 1898 was $50,000,$20,000 from the state. NORTHCOTE, Sir Stafford. See Iddesl
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . has de-partments of arts, literature, philosophy, and law,and courses in agriculture, arts, etc. There is alsoa post-graduate course. In i8g8 it had 47 profes-sors and instructors and 670 students. It is non-sectarian, and provides special facilities for poorbut deserving students; has a library of 35,000volumes; the value of the grounds and buildingsis about $250,000. and its productive funds amountto $100,000. Its total income in 1898 was $50,000,$20,000 from the state. NORTHCOTE, Sir Stafford. See Iddesleigh,Lord, in these Supplements. NORTH DAKOTA, one of the north centralgroup of states, and the thirty-ninth to be admitted. ST.\TE SEAL OF NORTH HAKOTA. to the Union. The first settlement made within theterritory of Dakota, which now constitutes the statesof North and South Dakota, was in 1780, bv a Frenchtrader, who located at Pembina. The United Statesgovernment expedition under Lewis and Clarkepassed through thecountn*, ir^ 1804 going to and in1S06 returning from the Columbia River. A Scot-tish colony under a grant from the Hudson BayCompany settled at Pembina in 1812, remaining inpossession until Aug. 8, 1823, when Maj. S. , in charge of a United States expedition,reached that point and raised the flag over the set-tlement. The first attempt at navigation of thewaters of Dakota was in 1832, when the Yellowstone,a side-wheel steamboat, ascended the Missouri Riverto Fort Union, near the mouth of the YellowstoneRiver, in the interests of the American Fur Com-pany of Pittsburg, which also sent the Assiniboine upthe same river, but it was burned on its return tripwith a cargo of furs, near the mouth o
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