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city of Prussia, situated on the Inde, eight miles N. E.

Chapelle, in the Rhine province. It is the center of a rich wineproducing region producing region. Following the armiconcluded the World War, it became part of the territory occupied by the Allied forces as a guarantee of of the provisions Treaty of Peace. ons of the ESCURIAL (es-kū'ri-al), a famous monastery of New Castle, Spain, in the This solitary pile of granite has been called the eighth the world, and at the time of itsrection surpassed over other its erection surpassed every other building of the kind in size and magnificence. It owes its origin, it is said, to an inspired vow made by Philip II. during the battle of St. Quentin, who promised that, should victory be granted to him, he would dedicate a to the saint. The escurial Vol. IV-Cyc-D e'lon), a plain extending across Pales-

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