Northampton (Parliamentary capand municipal)
a parliamentary , capand municipal berough of England name, on the ital of the county of same , which is conleft bank of the Nene Grand Junction canal. nected with the Northampton has one of the three rechurches of the counmarkable round try-a Norman structure. The staple shoes for manufacture is boots and currying home and export trade. The on on a large of leather is also carried brass scale. There are also iron and , corn mills, etc. foundries, breweries Iron-stone is found in the neighborhood, Pop. furnaces are at work. Po and smelting (1917) 82,471.
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Northamptonshire
a midland county of England with a total area of is chiefly an in- 914 square miles. It also imdustrial county, but there are . The chief portant agricultural interests are the Nene, Welland, and rivers Avon. The most important products Avonron Northampton is the capital. Pop. about 325,000.
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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.
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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.
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Northern Giant
a figurative designation sometimes applied to Russia.
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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.
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Northern Territory
a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia, situated between Western Australia and Queensland on the west and east, and reaching from South Australia north to the Timor and Arafura seas. It has a total area of about 525,000 square miles. There are mountain ranges and the country is for the most part exceedingly dry, although portions are well adapted to cultivation of tropical products. Cattle and sheep raising are the chief industries. The total population in 1912 was estimated at about 3,000. NORTHFIELD CONFERENCES and SUMMER SCHOOLS, an annual series of meetings for Christian workers in the Evangelical Protestant Churches, established in 1882 by the famous evangelist Dwight L. Moody. The Student Conference met at East Northfield in 1886 and has held its sessions there ever since. It is a meeting designed primarily to interest students in Christian work. The Mount Hermon School for Bible study also has its sessions during the summer at Northfield. Other summer conferences are: the Home Mission School, the Young Women's Conference, the Sunday School Workers' Conference, and the Foreign Missionary School. Since Moody's death the work has been in charge of his sons. NORTH LITTLE ROCK. See AR- GENTA.
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Northumberland
a county of England, situated in the northern extremity. It is for the most part a hilly county. The coast region and the valleys produce barley, wheat, and vegetables. The western part is largely given up to pasturage. There are important mines of coal, lead, and zinc, and there are manufactories of iron, glass, chemicals, and pottery. The county has important salmon fisheries. Pop. about 700,000.
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Northumbria
the extreme N. of the ancient English kingdom, stretching from the Humber N. to the Firth of Forth, and separated W. from Cumbria and Strathclyde by the Pennine range and the Ettrick Forest. Bernicia, the district N. of the Tees, had for its first king Ida (547-559), who built Bamburgh as his capital. His grandson, Ethelfrith, mounted the throne in 593, married the daughter of Ella, who in 560 had formed the kingdom of Deira out of the district between the Tees and the Humber, set aside the rights of his boy brother-in-law Edwin, and so united both Bernicia and Deira into one kingdom. But Edwin returning, defeated and killed the usurper in 617, and became King of the Northumbrians as well as Bretwalda. Under him Northumbria was Christianized. In 633 he fell in battle against Penda of Mercia and the Welsh Cadwallon, but a year later St. Oswald, son of Ethelfrith, cleared the country, and united both divisions under his rule. His brother and successor, Oswy, yielded Deira to Oswin, son of Osric, his cousin, but in 654, by a great victory in which Penda perished, was able to unite his kingdom, and reigned till 670. Under Egfried fried (670- 685), Aldfrid (685-705), and as many as 14 obscure successors, Northumbrian influence gave way before the rise of Mercia, internal tumults, and Danish ravages, till 806, when the chronicles cease, and 827, when at length Northumbria became tributary to Egbert.
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Northwest Passage
a passage for ships from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific by the N. coasts of the American continent, long sought for, and at last discovered in 1850-1851 by Sir R. MacClure. See NORTH POLAR EXPEDI-
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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.
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Northwestern Provinces
a lieutenant-governorship of British India, constituted under an Act of 1835, and occupying the upper basin of the Ganges and Jumna, extending from Bengal to the Punjab; area, 107,503 square miles; pop. about 50,000,000. Oudh, till 1877, a separate government, is now under the lieutenant-governor of the Northwestern Provinces. The province which constitutes the great part of Hindustan proper, is mainly a great alluvial plain, sloping from the Himalayas, and comprises the Doab, Rohilkhand, Bundelkhand, etc., and the Upper Ganges valley. It is the great great wheat country of India. The headquarters of Hinduism, and containing some of the most sacred memorials of the Aryan race, it was nevertheless long subject to Moslem sway. The divisions of the Northwestern Provinces are Meerut, Agra, Rohilkhand, Allahabad, Benares, Jhansi, Kumaon, and the four divisions of Oudh- Lucknow, Sitapur, Fyabad, Rai Bareli.
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Northwestern University
a coeducational institution in Evanston and Chicago, Ill., founded in 1851, under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 501; students, 4,750; president, T. F. Holgate. NORTHWEST FRONTIER PROV- INCE, a province of British India. Afghanistan bounds it on the W. and N., Kashmir and the Punjab on the E., and Baluchistan on the S. It has an area of 13,418 square miles, and the population is about 2,000,000. The capital is Peshawar.
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