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Washington

MRS. WASHINGTON, AND HER CHILDREN AT MT. VERNON. A REPRODUCTION OF

Waste Lands

according to the general use of the term, uncultivated and unprofitable tracts in populous and cultivated countries. The term waste lands is not employed with reference to land not reduced to cultivation in countries only partially settled.

Water Dog

a variety of the dog head, and webbed toes. It seems to be allied to the poodle, but differs from the

Water Flea

a popular name for minute aquatic Crustaceans such daphnia among Cladocera, cypris among Ostracoda, and cyclops among Copepoda.

The common Daphnia pulex, abundant in fresh water, is a good representative.

Waterloo

a city and county-seat flowers are yellow, and the common river, and on the Illinois Central, the of Blackhawk co., Ia.; on the Cedar the yellow water lily.

Chicago Great Western and other rail-

Water Meter

a contrivance for measuring the amount of water received are numerous varieties. Also an instrument for determining the amount of water evaporated in a given time, as from a steam boiler. applied to the various means by which

Water Scorpion

the popular name of Nepa, a genus of hemipterous insects, the species of which inhabit ponds, etc. Some of them are powerul insects, two or three inches in length.

They receive their popular name from the scorpion-like form of the forelegs, with which they seize their prey.

Water Turkey

the Plotus an-

Water Turkey

the Plotus anthis bird is a constant resident in Florida, and the lower parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia; in spring it goes up as far N. as North Carolina, breedup as far N. as North Carolina, breedlocalities it bears the name of water localities it bears the name of water cormorant.

Water Vine

in botany, the Phytocrene gigantea, a large climber occuris soft and porous, discharges when ring in Martaban. The wood, which wholesome fluid, drunk by the natives, wounded a quantity of pure, tasteless, and wholesome fluid, drunk by the natives. about 20 feet long, with yellow flowers. A Also the Tetracera potatoria, a climber native of Sierra Leone.

Watkin

SIR EDWARD WILLIAM, an English railway manager; born in

Watling's Island

a small island in the Bahama group, West Indies. It is 18 miles long, and has a lake in its center. It is supposed to be the first land in the New World seen by Columbus, generally known as San Salvador.