Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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SEAPIKE, or GARPIKE (Belone vulgaris), a fish, known also as the sea needle, making its appearance a short time before the mackerel in their the sea needle, making its appearance a and slender, sometimes 2 or 3 feet in is also given to other species of Belone, and to a ganoid fish of the genus Lepidosteus, found in the fresh waters of America. of America.

Lepidosteus, found in the fresh waters the "spur" of Italy, in the province of the Adriatic Sea, and attaining in Foggia, jutting out about 30 miles into in as in the time of Horace. The district the Adriatic Sea, and attaining in is visited mainly by pilgrims to a shrine Monte Calvo a height of 3,460 feet. of St. Michael on Monte St. Angelo.

GARGARA ridge of Ida, in Asia Minor, near the Gulf of Adramyti, on the N. of St. Michael on Monte St. Angelo. is visited mainly by pilgrims to a shrine in as in the time of Horace. The district (gär'ga-rä) (Turkish in geese, affecting the head. ridge of Ida, in Asia Minor, near the Kasdagh), the highest mountain of the GARGARA (gär'ga-rä) (Turkish

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