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Northbridge

a town of Massachusetts in Worcester co., 12 miles S. E. of Worcester, on the Blackstone and Mumford rivers, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. The town includes several villages. It has a public library, a hospital and important manufactories of cotton-mill machinery, cotton, silk, paper, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,807; (1920) 10,174.

North Britain

a name often given to Scotland, it forming the extreme N. part of the island of Britain.

North Cape

the extreme N. point however, on the continent, but on the island of Magerö. The extreme N. point in Europe in lat. 71° 10' N. It is not, on the continent is Cape Nordkyn (lat. 71° 6' N.), 6 miles farther S. than the North Cape, and some 45 miles to the E. of it.

North Carolina

UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational no non-sectarian institution in Chapel Hill, N. C., founded in 1795; reported at the close of 1919:

Professors and instructors, 105; students, 1,316; volumes in the library, 85,- 000; grounds and buildings valued at $290,000; benefactions, $1,000; income, $325,427; president, H. W. Chase, Ph. D.

Northeast Passage

a passage PASSAGE, a passage rope and Asia to the Pacific Ocean. The first to make the complete voyage by this passage was the Swedish denskjöld. passage was the Swedish explorer Norapplied to members of the Baptist

Northern Drift

in geology, a name formerly given to boulder-clay of the Pleistocene period, when its materials were supposed to have been brought by polar currents from the N.

Northern Giant

a figurative designation sometimes applied to Russia.

Northern Province

one of the five provinces into which Uganda in east Africa is divided, the others being Rudolf, Eastern, Western, and Buganda. There is gold and iron, and soil is fertile.

Province comprises districts of Bunyoro, Gulu, Chua, West Nile.

North Plainfield

a borough of New Jersey, in Somerset co. It is on the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Its industries include fruit canneries, a woodworking factory, a telescope factory, etc. In the neighborhood are important stone quarries. It is the seat of Mount St.

Mary's College and Herbert's Hall for NORTH PLATTE Exceptional Children.

North Providence

a town of Rhode Island, the county-seat of Providence co., 5 miles from Providence on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. It has important manufactories of woolen goods. ds. It contains a public library. Pop. (1910) 5,407; (1920) 7,697,

Northumberland

a county of

Northwestern College

a coeducational institution in Naperville, Ill.; founded in 1861 under the auspices of the Evangelical Church; reported at the close of 1919: 27 members of the faculty, and 392 students. President, E. E. Hall, Ph. D.