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Copper Mines – Clackmannanshire

Copper Mines

AUSTRALIA

Copper Smelter

ARIZONA BANANAS, COSTA RICA Opposite page 260 TOWN IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA HAVANA, CUBA DANUBE RIVER SORTING RAW COTTON COTTON CARD SLIVER ROVING FRAMES, COTTON MILL COLOR MIXING, COTTON MILL MODEL DAIRY FARM DATE PALMS ON NILE Opposite page 372 BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF DELHI "STREET CALLED STRAIGHT," DAMASOUS MERCHANTS' BAZAAR, DAMASCUS

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one who sails round the globe. The first European known to have circumnavigated the globe was Magellan or Magalhaens, a Portuguese, who accomplished the feat in A. D. 1519. From him the Strait of Magellan derives its name.

Cirta

the capital of the ancient Massylii in Numidia. After the defeat of Jugurtha it passed into the hands of the Romans, and was restored by Constantine, who gave it his own name. See CONSTANTINE.

Cisleithania

or CISLEITHAN PROVINCES, formerly Austria proper or Austria W. of the river Leitha, which partly forms the boundary between it and Hungary.

Cist

a place of interment of an early or prehistoric period, consisting of a rectangular stone chest or inclosure formed of rows of stones set upright, and covered by similar flat stones. Such cists are found in barrows or mounds, inclosing bones. In rocky districts cists were sometimes hewn in the rock itself.

Citron

the fruit of the citron-tree, resembling a lemon, but less acid in taste.

CIUDAD (the-ö-dad'), the Spanish word for city, appearing in many names of Spanish Latin-American places.

Civics

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Civil Engineering

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Civil Law

the law of a state, city, or country; appropriately the Roman law comprised in the Institutes, Code, and Digest of Justinian, and the Novel Constitutions.

Civil List

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Clackmannanshire

the smallest county of Scotland, at the head of the Firth of Forth. Area, 55 square miles; pop. about 35,000.