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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a name applied to numerous American insects, nearly related to grasshoppers. They are arboreal in habit, and are well concealed in the foliage by their age by their green color. The true abundant in the Central and but Microcentrum retinervis is yet com- Western States, is Cyrtophyllus concavus, moner, and there are several other species.

Prussia, in Silesia, rising at Katzchdorf, KATZBACH (käts'bäh), a river of and falling into the Oder 30 miles N. W. of Breslau; length, 34 miles. On the banks of that river , Aug. 26, 1813, the French were defeated by Blücher. land of volcanic origin, belonging to the KAUAI (kä-ö-ä'e), a very fertile is- Hawaiian group; area 590 square miles; pop. 9,000. Its highest point is about 5,000 feet; principal industry sugar- Captain Cook landed at the mouth of the Waumea river in 1778.

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