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Gilbertite

a whitish, silky mineral; apparently an impure kaolinite. It occurs near St. Austell in Cornwall, Eng- eral; apparently an impure kaolinite. It land.

GILBOA (gil-bō'ä), a chain of hills between 500 and 600 feet high, overhanging the site of the ancient city of Jezreel, and ris rising between the fertile plain of and rising between the fertile plain of valley of the Jordan on the E. It is memorable as the scene of the defeat and at the hands of the Philistines. an American literary critic and editor, born in Flushing, L. I., N. Y., 1849. She was first associated with her brother, Richard Watson Gilder, in the editorial was first associated with her brother, now known as the "Century Magazine."

Later she also became associated with now known as the "Century Magazine." editor of "The Critic," after which, in 1906, she became connected with "Put- Charleston, S. C., Oct. 23, 1831; gradtine"; etc. He died Nov. 18, 1909. an American classical scholar; born in professor of Greek and Latin at the Uniuated at Princeton in 1849, and studied versity of Virginia from 1856 to 1876, in Germany for several years. He was when he was appointed Professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins University. He is the founder and editor of the "Ameriis the founder and editor of the "Ameriworks are: "Persius" (1875) ; "Justin can Journal of Philology." Among his Greek at Johns Hopkins University. He has published volume of "Essays and Studies"; "Hellas has published a Latin grammar and a ed a Latin grammar and a Miller "Syntax of Classical Greek from and Hesperia" (1909) and with C. W. Miller "S "Creed of the Old South" (1915). " Syntax of Classical Greek from Hieromax (Yarmuk), Arabia, Moab and

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