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a city of California, the countyseat of the county of the same name. It is situated on the Napa river and on the Southern Pacific railroad, about 46 miles N. E. of San Francisco. It is the site of the State Hospital for the Inthe Insane and in the vicinity are the Napa Redwoods, several hot springs, and a petrified forest. The city has a public library, an excellent high school building. Its chief industries are fruit growing, and the manufacture of leather, of leather , shoes, shirts, olive oil, etc. Pop. ( 1910) 5,791; (1920) 6,757.

NAPHTALI (Hebrew=my wrestling), the 6th son of Jacob and the head of one of the 12 tribes. The tribe had its full share in repelling the incursions of the Canaanites during the first centuries of the conquest, but disappears from history when Tiglath-pileser overran the N. of Israel and bore away the whole of the population to Assyria. Under the title of Galilee the district occupied by the tribe became in New Testament times more famous than it had ever been before.

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