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LEFT JAMES mVEB 232 JANE the Central Prisoners of War Committee during the World War. He died in 1917. JAMES BIVER, a river in Virginia; formed by the union of the Jackson and Cowpasture rivers, passes through the Blue Ridge, and pursues a devious course as far as Scottsville. At Richmond it falls 100 feet in six miles, thereby afford- ing a grand water power. Above this point the James river and Kanawha canal extends, following the course of the river, and embracing extensive reaches of slack water navigation, to Buchanan, 196 miles. The tide comes up to the Rocketts, just below Richmond. This is the head of navigation for steam- boats and schooners of 130 tons. Ship- ping of the first class comes up to City Point, 40 miles below, at the mouth of the Appomattox. Below City Point the river is a broad, deep, tidal estuary, 66 miles long. The James river flows into Chesapeake Bay through Hampton Roads. The entire length from Covington, Va., to Old Point Comfort is some 450 miles. JAMES'S BAY, the S. arm of Hudson Bay, about 250 miles long from N. to S., and 175 miles wide. It is greatly beset with islands, and its navigation is dan- gerous. JAMESTOWN, a city in Chautauqua CO., N. Y., at the outlet of Chautauqua Lake, and on the Erie, the Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie, and several other railroads, 69 mile S. W. of Buf- falo. It is the trade center for Chau- tauqua county, and the distributing point for Chautauqua Lake resorts; con- nected by trolley with Falconer and Lakewood; is largely concerned in the agricultural industry; and has manu- factures of cloth, boots and shoes, fur- niture, axes, and other edge tools, pianos, iron fabrics, and brooms. The city con- tains the Jamestown High School, a Na- tional and other banks ; has daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) .31,297; (1920) 38,917. JAMESTOWN, a district of James City CO., Va., the first permanent English settlement within the limits of the United States; founded in 1607 on a peninsula 32 miles from the mouth of James river. It has now become an island by the ac- tion of the current, which has carried away a portion of the site of the ancient town. Only the ruins of the church, the fort, and of two or three houses mark the spot. Jamestown became the capital of an extensive colony, and in 1619 a house of burgesses, the first legislative assembly ever convened in British Amer- ica, met here. After the seat of gov- ,ernment was removed to Williamsburg Jamestown began to decline; it was burned by Nathaniel Bacon during the rebellion of 1676, and never rebuilt. It was the scene of an engagement between the forces of Wayne and those of Lord Cornwallis in 1781. JAMESTOWN TERCENTENNIAIi EXPOSITION, held at Hampton Roads, Va., in 1907 to celebrate the three-hun- dredth anniversary of the founding of the first permanent English colony in America. The principal buildings were grouped about the center of the exposi- tion, a square named Raleigh Court. All of the original colonies which had de- veloped into States in the Union were represented by buildings, usually erected to represent some famous colonial struc- ture in that State. The Pennsylvania building was a replica of Independence Hall, that of Massachusetts, the old State House in Boston. There were in all about 2,500 exhibits showing the state of the principal arts and manufactures. Numerous gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded as prizes. Although over a million and a half paid admission to the exposition, the financial results were poor, a deficit of two millions remaining to be raised. JAMTLAND or JEMTLAND, also called Ostersund, a Ian or province of Sweden bounded on the W. by Norway. It is very mountainous, and only a small part of the land is under cultivation. There are numerous forests and large lakes. The entire area covers 19,712 miles. Pop. about 200,000. JAMUNA, the name of several rivers of Northern India, the chief being the lower section of the Brahmaputra, and that which connects it directly with the Ganges. JANAUSHEK (yan'o-shek), FRAN- CESCA BOMANA MAGDALENA, a Polish actress; born in Prague, Bohemia, July 20, 1830. She began her career in Cologne, playing in that city and in Frankfort from 1848 to 1860. She afterward played in Dresden and all the principal cities of Germany. In 1852 she was married to Capt. Frederick Pillot, of the German navy. She made her first tour in America in 1867-1869, and at once secured favorable notice. Returning to Germany, she studied Eng- lish, and in 1873 made her second visit to the United States, when she played in English the most exacting Shake- spearean roles. She retired from the stage in 1898, and died Nov. 29, 1904. JANE, FREDERICK T., an English naval writer and novelist; born in 1870.