Algol
a fixed star in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus. Technically of 2½ magnitude, it really varies from the 2d to the 4th magnitude in 3½ hours, remaining thus for about 20 minutes. In 3½ hours more it is again of the 2d magnitude, at which it continues for 2 days and 13 hours, after which the same series of changes takes place again. after which the same series of changes Indian linguistic stock, originally the most extensive in North America. It extends southward from Labrador to Pamlico Sound, N. C., and westward dialects. from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains, comprising about 40 tribes, each with a separate language and numerous Constant wars with the English, their numbers. Filled at first with the idea of freeing the soil from the whites, French, and Dutch colonists depleted dialects. mercenaries, fighting on either side for revenge or gain. After the War of 1812, in which they took the side of the British, the United States Government resolved to send them as far W. as ALHAMBRA possible. After 1840, few of them remained E. of the Mississippi. War and disease have thinned their number, until only 37,000 remain in the United States, and 63,000 in Canada. The chief occupations of the Algonkians were hunting, fishing and corn raising.