Identifier: americanaunivers08newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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egate,at Port-au-Prince, and Haiti has a ministeraccredited to the Holy See. Freedom of con-science is, however, guaranteed: and all cultsare protected. Haitian citizens only can ownreal estate. .\ny foreigner may easily benaturalized. Haiti produces coffee, cocoa, logwood, ma-hogany, and cotton; tortoise-shells, all kind ofcabinet wood, hides, honey, bees-wa.x, etc., arealso exported: for home consumption, they makesugar, rum. soap, straw hats, potterv-, matches,artificial ice, etc. There is a railroad from CapeHaiti to Grande Riviere and another one fromPort-au-Prince to LEtang. These railroadsare managed by Haitian companies; so are theinland telegraph and telephone lines. Thearea of the Republic is estimated at 26,000 squarekilometres and the population (1900) 1^94,400, J. N. Leger, Ent-.^yc Extraordinare et Ministre PUnipotcn- tijirc dHaiti aux Etats-Lnis. Hake, Alfred Egmont English journalist and author. He is a son of Thomas Gord ti Hake (q.v.) and cousin of General C. E. Gor-
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< ■J 2 a HAKE — HALE don (q.v.), whose life he has written in TheStory of Chinese Gordon (1883). Otherworks by him are: Paris Originals (1878);Flatterinc; Tales (1882) ; The UnemployedProblem Solved (l883); Events in the Tai-ping Rebellion (i8gi); Suffering London(1892) ; Gordon in China and the Soudan(1896) ; Irish Finance (1897). Hake, Thomas Gordon, English poet andphysician: b. Leeds 1809; d. London 11 Jan.1895. He took his medical degree at GlasgowUniversity in 1831, and practised his professionin East Anglia, later becoming the physicianand friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Hispoetry is thoroughly original, but very subtlyphilosophical. His works include: PoeticLucubrations (1828); Vates: A Prose Epic(1839) ; Madeline with Other Poems and Para-bles (1871); New Symbols (1875); MaidenEcstasy, verse (1S80) ; The Serpent Play, aDivine Pastoral (1883) ; Memoirs of EightyYears (1892). Hakes, Fishes of the family Gadidcc andchietly of the genera Pliycis and Mcrluccius,distinguis

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