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LEFT FAKRAGUT 102 PABBAND about 185 miles N. W. of the Shetland Isles, and 320 S. E. of Iceland; area 530 square miles; pop. (1901) 15,230. The principal island, Stromoe, in the center, is 27 miles long by about 7 broad ; the chief of the others are Osteroe, Vaa- goe, Bordoe, Sandoe, and Suderoe. Only 17 of the islands are inhabited. Each of these islands is a lofty mountain ris- ing out of the waves, and divided from the others by deep and rapid currents. The highest point, Skoelling, in Stromoe, has an altitude of 2,240 feet. Some of the group are deeply indented v?ith deep and secure harbors; all are steep and most of them present, seaward, a suc- cession of sheer precipices. Soil, thin, but tolerably fertile: barley is almost the only cereal grown. Products, hay in large quantities, salted mutton, tallow, feathers, eiderdown, etc. Manufactures, coarse woolen stuffs, and stockings. Vast quantities of sea-fowl haunt the rocks, the taking of which for the sake of their feathers affords a perilous employment to the inhabitants. Capital, Thorshavn, at the S. E. end of Stromoe. These is- lands are under the jurisdiction of a Danish governor, and have belonged to Denmark since the union of that king- dom with Norway in the 14th century. FARRAGUT, DAVID GLASCOE, an American naval officer; born in Camp- bell's Station, Tenn., July 5, 1801. He was appointed, without previous train- ADMIRAL FARRAGUT ing, a midshipman as early as 1810. Under Commodore Porter he was en- gaged in the "Essex" in her cruise against the British in 1812-1814, and after her capture he served on board the line-of-battle ship "Independence." Pass- ing for a lieutenant, he was ordered to the West India station, and was ap- pointed, in 1847, to the command of the "Saratoga" in which ship he took part in the naval operations during the Mexican War. When the Civil War broke out Farragut received the command of the Gulf squadron which was to co-operate with General Butler in the reduction of New Orleans, and engaged and passed the two strong forts of the Mississippi in April, 1862, which brought about the surrender of that city on the 28th of the same month. Natchez was taken in May, and Farragut's fleet ascended as far as Vicksburg, which place he bombarded till the fall of water compelled him to re- turn to New Orleans. In 1862 he was the first officer to receive the rank of ad- miral in the United States navy; and in March, 1863, he passed the batteries of Port Hudson, and was in a few days again before Vicksburg, co-operating with General Grant in the reduction of that important stronghold. Having been ordered to attempt the capture of Mobile, he took the forts commanding the mouth of that harbor in August, 1864, with the loss, however, of one of his ironclads, the "Tecumseh," and its crew, by the ex- plosion of a torpedo, and met with a re- pulse in an attack on Wilmington, Dec. 24-25. The place was, however, taken Jan. 15, 1865, and Mobile surrendered April 12, following. Admiral Farragut served in the United States navy for 60 years. In 1865 Farragut was appointed to the command of an American squad- ron dispatched on a cruise in European waters, from which he returned in 1868. He died in Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 14, 1870. FARRAND, LIVINGSTON, an Amer- ican educator, born in Newark, N. J., in 1867. He graduated from Princeton University in 1888, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1891. He carried on post-graduate studies in Cam- bridge, England, and in Berlin. He was on the faculty of Columbia University as professor of psychology and anthro- pology, from 1893 to 1914. In the latter year he was appointed president of the University of Colorado, serving until March 1, 1919, when he became chair- man of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross. He was director of tuberculosis work in France for the International Health Board in 1917-1918. He was a member of many American so- cieties and was the author of "Basis of American History" (1904). He con- tributed to psychological and anthropo- logical publications. FARRAND, MAX, an American edu- cator, born in Newark, N. J., in 1869.