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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Inverness

a sea-port town of Scotland; on both sides of the Ness river, at its entrance into the Moray Firth, 115 miles from Edinburgh. It is a fine town, with a commodious harbor, and was long considered as the metropolis of the Highlands. Tartan cloth for the Highland markets is here manufactured in considerable quantities. Pop., about 20,000. Also a town in Australia. Pop., about 3,000. have duction to the New Testament. rocks of igneous origin which forced their way through crevices or rocks of igneous origin which have forced their way through crevices or broken them up.

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