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University, where he was graduated in science, medicine and surgery, later studying chemistry in Montreal and under Lord Playfair at Edinburgh. He joined the geological survey of Canada in 1857, and has ever since been engaged in extensive topographical and geological surveys throughout the Dominion, Bell River being officially named after him. He has been royal commissioner on the mineral resources of Ontario, 1888-9, a tnember of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, member of the government geographical board, professor of chemistry and natural science in Queen's University, Kingston, from 1863 to 1867, and is honorary chief of the Algonkin Indians of Grand Lake. His published writings aggregate two hundred titles, including geology, geography, biology and folk-lore.

Bellaire (bel-l&r'), a city in Belmont County, Ohio, on the Ohio River, five miles south of Wheeling, West Virginia. The region around Bellaire abounds in coal, iron, limestone, cement and brick clay. The city has manufactories of stoves, carriages, glass, foundry and machine-shop products. Bellaire has all the improvements of a progressive citv. Population, 12,946 (1910).

Beiramy, Edward, American economist, journalist and story writer, was born in Massachusetts, Mar. 26, 1850, and died there May 22, 1898. Entering journalism as a profession, he was for a time on the staff of the New York Evening Post and later was editorial writer and critic for the Springfield Union. Owing to poor health, he made a voyage in 1876 to the Sandwich Islands, and after this began to write short stories for the magazines. His chief success, however, was his socialistic novel, Looking Backward, which, issued in 1888, had a sale of over 300,000 copies in this country. Inspired by the book, "Bellamy" communities became for a time the vogue. His later works embrace Equality, The Blind Man's World and other stories.,

Beliefon'taine, Ohio, a city, the county-seat of Logan County on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis and the Toledo and Ohio Central railroad, 30 miles north of Springfield and 45 northwest of Columbus. Besides a large railway plant and carshops, the city, which dates from 1818, has a number of manufactures of iron bridges, carriage bodies, tools, harness, etc., besides the city's gas, electric-plant and water-works. It has also a flour-mill. It has a number of churches and several good schools. Population, (1910), 8,238.

Belleville, 111., county seat of St. Clair County, southwestern Illinois, 7 miles southeast of St. Louis, is beautifully situated in the midst of rolling and somewhat broken country. It has good railroad connections and has nearby shipping facilities furnished by the Mississippi. It has a dozen

large foundries, extensive brick works, factories for the manufacture of farm implements, breweries, a distillery and two large glass-works. It possesses some fine civic buildings, good public schools, many churches, a large convent and handsome residences. It has 15 miles of paved streets. Population, 21.122.

Belleville is a manufacturing city of 9,117 souls, admirably placed on the north shore of the Bay of Quinte and on the Grand Trunk Railway. It is the county seat of Hastings County, Ontario, the southern terminal of the Midland Railway, and is touched by a line of lake steamers on Lake Ontario.

Bellevue, Ky., a city, in Campbell County, on the Ohio River, opposite Cincinnati, and on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Settled in 1871, it was incorporated in 1871. An attractive residential suburb of Cincinnati, it is connected with the latter by electric railway. Population (1910), 6,683.

Bellicent. In the Arthurian legends Bellicent is represented as the daughter of Gorlois and Ygerne and the half-sister of King Arthur. She was the wife of Lot, King of Orkney. When King Lodogran hesitated to give his daughter Guinevere to King Arthur in marriage because of the doubts about Arthur's parentage, Bellicent won his consent to the marriage. See Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

Beiringham, Wash., a city in Whatcom County, on Puget Sound and on the Bell-ingham Bay, the British Columbia, Great Northern and the Northern Pacific railroads, 70 miles north of Seattle, west of Mount Baker and near the British Columbia boundary. It has a fine land-locked harbor, an inlet of the Strait of Georgia, and has communication by steamer not only with Seattle, but with San Francisco and the nearby city of Victoria the capital of British Columbia. Besides its shipping trade, chiefly in lumber, it has a large number of shingle and saw mills and several large salmon canneries. Population, 24,298.

Bellini (bel-le'ne), Vmcenzo, a composer of operas, was born at Castania, in Sicily, in 1802, and was the son of an organist. He was sent to the conservatory of Naples, where he studied composition. After a number of early operas had made him known in Italy, he wrote, in 1827, the opera II Pirata, which gave him a name in the musical world. For the next eight years he wrote a fresh opera almost every year, and visited Paris and London. When only thirty-two years old, and before his powers were fully developed, he died near Paris, Sept. 21, 1835. Among his best works are Norma, I Puritani and La Sonnambula. His operas are replete with sweet melodies.

Beloit (be-loif), a city of Rock County, Wisconsin, situated on Rock River, ninety-