Lyon
MARY, an American educator; After more than 20 years of teaching, she founded at South Hadley, Mass., the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, of which she was president until her death.
Many of her pupils afterward established schools on the same plan.
South Hadley, March 5, 1849. See MOUNT She died in HOLYOKE COLLEGE.
LYONS (lē-ông'), a city of France, second of the republic in population and capital of the department Rhône, and the commercial importance, situated chiefly on a peninsula between the rivers Rhône and Saône, and on the Paris and Maron a peninsula between the rivers Rhône seilles and other railroads, 275 miles E. N. E. of Bordeaux, 172 miles N. N. W. of Marseilles, and 245 miles S. E. of Paris; lat. 45° 45' 44" N., lon. 4° 49' 34" E.; warehouse of the S. of France and of Switzerland; principal manufacture ture silk stuffs, giving employment dior indirectly to 100,000 hands. It is the seat of an archbishop, and is the of the 7th military division.
The cathedral and Church of St. Nizier, the Hotel de Ville (town hall), the finest edifice of the kind in the country, the volumes, and the Palais des Beaux Arts, hospital , the public library with 130,000 are perhaps the most notable among numerous and important institutions.
There are also a university-academy, the country-schools for agriculture, a veterinary school-the first founded in medicine , the fine arts, etc. The two rivers are crossed by 24 bridges: 12 over the Saône , 11 over the Rhône, and one at the confluence . The quays, 28 in number, are said to be the most remarkable in Europe. There are several large and important important suburbs-La Guillotière, Les Vol. VI-Cyc-D