Faro
a game of cards, in which the was introduced into France by the Venetian ambassador in 1674, in a form like tian ambassador in 1674, in a form like by this game that Louis XIV. made a name Pharaoh was adopted. The game law against it. To elude this law it was essentially consists in betting on which new prohibitions, to evade which the of two piles, into which the cards are essentially consists in betting on which ranging from ace to king, inclusive, and It is played with a "lay-out" of 13 cards, one at a time, in two piles, alternately, principal one being known as a split, as above said. There are various per which occurs when two cards of the same denomination follow in succession from but two or three cards remain to be "calls the turn," as the gambler hath half the sum bet by the player. When the box, in which case the dealer takes it) receives from two to four to one, acthe order in which they will appear (or cording to the denomination of the cards, the amount being determined by the doctrine of chances. Northern Ocean, between lat. 61° 15′ lands belonging to Denmark, in the cording to the denomination of the cards, and 62° 21' N., and lon. 6° and 8° E.:
FARRAGUT about 185 miles N. W. of the Shetland Isles, and 320 S. E. of Iceland; area 530 square miles; pop. (1901) 15,230.
The principal island, Stromoe, in the center, is 27 miles long by about 7 broad; the chief of the others are Osteroe, Vaagoe, Bordoe, Sandoe, and Suderoe. Only 17 of the islands are inhabited. Each of these islands is a lofty mountain rising out of the waves, and divided from the others by deep and rapid currents.
The highest point, Skoelling, in Stromoe, has an altitude of 2,240 feet. Some of the group are deeply indented with deep and secure harbors; all are steep and most of them present, seaward, a succession of sheer precipices. Soil, thin, but tolerably fertile: barley is almost the only cereal grown. Products, hay in large quantities, salted mutton, tallow, feathers, eiderdown, etc. Manufactures, coarse woolen stuffs, and stockings. Vast quantities of sea-fowl haunt the rocks, the taking of which for the sake of their feathers affords a perilous employment to the inhabitants. Capital, Thorshavn, at the S. E. end of Stromoe. These is lands are under the jurisdiction of a Danish governor, and have belonged to Denmark since the union of that kingdom with Norway in the 14th century. sa