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Jack – James's Bay

Jack

or JACA (Artocarpus integrifolia), a tree of the same genus with the bread fruit, a native of the East Indies. It is a larger tree than the bread fruit, and has larger fruit.

Jack Rabbit

a large rabbit or hare found in the S. and W. of the United States.

Jackscrew

a lifting implement which acts by the rotation of a screw in a threaded socket.

Jackson

a city of Ohio, the county seat of Jackson co. It is on the Hocking Valley, the Baltimore and Ohio, Southwestern, and the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton railroads. It has important coal and iron mines, foundries, a shoe factory, railroad shops, and other industries. Pop. (1910) 6,468; (1920) 5,842.

Jackson

SHELDON, an American educator; born in Minaville, N. Y., May 18, 1834; was graduated at Union College in 1855, and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1858; ordained in the Presbyterian Church; was missionary to

Jagst

or JAXT (yaxt), a river in Württemberg which unites with the Neckar, 6 miles N. of Heilbronn. It is over 160 miles in length. Also a portion of Northeastern Württemberg, with an area of 1,983 square miles. Pop. about 425,000.

Jahde

or JADE (yä'dä); a bay in the N. of Oldenburg, belonging to Prussia, which has a naval station on its shores.

Jamaica Bay

an inlet of the At- nected portions, and treats more of conlantic Ocean S. of Long Island, N. Y. lantic Ocean S. of Long Island, N. Y.

Sanskrit poetry and Buddhist writings, a name given to India, though strictly it is applicable to the whole earth, of which India was regarded as the principal part.

James

a name of two, if not three, persons mentioned in the New Testa-

James

WILLIAM, educator; born in New York city, Jan.

American

Jameson

ANNA, an Irish author

James's Bay

the S. arm of Hudson Bay, about 250 miles long from N. to S., with islands, and its navigation is dangerous.

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