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CHARLOTTE MARY, an English novelist; born in Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, Aug. 11, 1823. She published more than 30 novels, usually YORK suburbs are the Convent of Mount St.
Vincent and the former residence of Edwin Forrest, now used as the art gallery of the convent. The public school enrollment is over 10,000. The city has manufactories of carpets, hats, elevators, sugar, maltine, tools, chemicals, silk goods, etc. Pop. (1910) 79,803; (1920) 100,176.
YONNE (yon), a department of France; surrounded by the departments of Seine-et-Marne, Aube, Côte-d'Or, Nièvre, and Loiret; area, 2,868 square miles; pop. about 300,000. The department is watered by the Yonne river, which flows across it in a N. E. direction.
The surface is hilly, many of the hills being covered with fruitful vineyards, the intervening valleys being beautiful and fertile. There are some fine forests in the department. The vineyards yield large quantities of wine, the best being those of Chablis, Auxerre, and Tonnere.
The chief mineral products are red granite, marble, limestone, and ocher; and there are some miscellaneous manufactures. Capital, Auxerre. of "High Church" tendencies, the most popular of which are: "The Heir of Redclyffe" (1853); and "Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations" (1856). The profits of the former were largely given by her to fitting out the missionary schooner "Southern Cross" for Bishop Selwyn, of New Zealand; those of the latter ($10,000) to the erection of a missionary college at Auckland, New Zealand. Among her his torical and biographical works are: "The Kings of England" (1848); "Landmarks of History, Ancient, Middle Age, and Modern" (1852-1857); "The Victorian Half Century" (1887); etc. She died in Winchester, March 24, 1901.
YONKERS (yungk'urs), a city in Westchester co., N. Y.; on the Hudson river and on the New York Central and Hudson River railroads; immediately adjoining New York City on the N. It is noted for its beautiful suburban residences, many of which are built on the terraces of the Hudson, the shore of which here reaches an altitude of 425 feet above the tide water, thus giving grand views of the river and the opposite shore. Here are Lowden and Halsted Schools, a high school, public library, Hebrew Home for the Aged and Infirm, the Leake and Watts Orphan Home, Homœopathic Home, St. Joseph's Hospital, St. John's Riverside Hospital, and "Graylock," the summer residence of the late Samuel J. Tilden. In the