Altoona
a city in Blair co., Pa.; on the Pennsylvania and the Altoona, Clearfield and Northern railroads; 117 an elevation of 1,180 feet above seacend the mountains at a grade of 90 miles E. of Pittsburgh. It is at the E. base of the Allegheny Mountains, at tensive machine shops of the Pennsyllevel, where the railroad begins to asfeet to the mile. The city contains expital, two convents, a public library, vania railroad, large individual works, rolling and planing mills, a hosgeneral offices of the Pennsylvania railrapid development. Pop. (1910) 52,127; road, and several National banks. Altoona is a mining, manufacturing, lumbering, and farming trade center for central Pennsylvania, and has had a (1920) 60,331. car bering, and farming trade center for central Pennsylvania, and has had a rapid development. Pop. (1910) 52,127; ALTORF, or ALTDORF, a town of where William Tell is said to have shot the apple from his son's head. The adjacent village of Burglen is Tell's tradi- Switzerland, in the canton of Uri, near Lake Lucerne. A tower marks the spot tional birthplace. Pop. about 4,000.
Lake Lucerne. A tower marks the spot where William Tell is said to have shot the apple from his son's head. The ad- jacent village of Burglen is Tell's tradiproject more than half their true proporthe term used is mezzo-relievo; and when less than half, basso-relievo, or in sculptured work of which the figures tions. When they project just one-half, English, bas-relief. sculptured work of which the figures project more than half their true propor- tions. When they project just one-half, the term used is mezzo-relievo; and when less than half, basso-relievo, or in important village in the Prussian province of Saxony, near Lützen. It is fa- ALTSHELER mous for its castle, where, on Sept. 24, mineral, called also kalinite. Soda alum, 1706, Charles XII. of Sweden signed the peace with August II., King of Poland.
By this treaty, August II. agreed to vacate the Polish throne, not to enter any alliances against Sweden, especially any with the Czar, and to give up the Livlander Patkul, to grant the Swedish winter quarters in Saxony, and pledge himself not to persecute the Evangelical Church. This treaty did not go into effect until Nov. 26, because August felt that, by reason of a previous peace, he was obliged to support the Russians in their attack upon the Swedish General Mardefeld. After the defeat of Charles XII. at Poltava, August II., on Aug. 8, 1709, declared the Peace of Altranstädt to be void under the pretext that his representatives had exceeded their authority. Through the Treaty of Altranstädt of Aug. 30, 1707, Charles XII. obtained from the Emperor Joseph I. religious liberty and toleration of the Protestants of Silesia.