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 488 LINCOLN of oats, 13,499 of potatoes, 17,840 Ibs. of wool, 160,860 of butter, and 2,596 tons of hay. There were 2,678 horses, 1,706 mules and asses, 2,153 milch cows, 7,165 other cattle, 7,422 sheep, and 13,157 swine; 4 manufactories of saddlery and harness, 1 of woollen goods, 3 distilleries, and 9 saw mills. Capital, Stanford. X. A S. cen- tral county of Minnesota; area, 432 sq. m. ; pop. not reported in the census of 1870. It is watered by Hassan river and Buffalo creek. XL An E. county of Missouri, separated from Illi- nois by the Mississippi river ; area, 576 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 15,960, of whom 1,987 were col- ored. It is drained by the Cuivre or Copper river and its branches, and by the Eagle fork and Big creek. The surface is undulating and the soil fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 144,364 bushels of Indian corn, 25,052 of sweet potatoes, 3,850 bales of cotton, and 23,406 Ibs. of rice. There were 1,121 horses, 2,084 milch cows, 1,018 working oxen, 3,056 other cattle, 4,144 sheep, and 8,882 swine ; 4 flour mills, 3 saw mills, 1 leather-currying es- tablishment, 2 tobacco factories, and 4 wool- carding and cloth - dressing establishments. Oapital, Troy. XII. A central county of Kan- sas, intersected by Saline river and tlovert creek ; area, 720 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 516. The chief productions in 1870 were 1,785 bush- els of wheat, 9,536 of Indian corn, and 319 tons of hay; value of live stock, $33,436. Capital, Rocky Hill. XIII. A W. county of Nebraska, intersected by the Platte river; area, 2,592 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 17. It is trav- ersed by the Union Pacific railroad. Capital, North Platte. XIV. The S. E. county of Ne- vada, bounded E. by Utah and Arizona, from which it is in part separated by the Colorado river, and S. W. by California; area, 14,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 2,985, of whom 11 were Ohinese. It is generally barren and waterless, but there is some agricultural land in Meadow valley in the N. E., and in the valley of the Virgin, which empties into the Colorado. The principal agricultural region is the Pahranagat valley, in the N. W., 20 m. long and 6 m. wide. There are mines of silver at Pioche in the N. E., at Potosi in the S. W., in El Dorado canon, and in the Pahranagat district. The chief productions in 1870 were 2,995 bushels of wheat, 6,080 of Indian corn, 4,200 of bar- ley, 4,690 Ibs. of wool, and 1,169 tons of hay. There were 581 horses, 500 milch cows, 1,125 other cattle, 1,674 sheep, and 120 swine; 1 brewery, and 2 quartz mills. Capital, Pioche. XV. A S. E. county of New Mexico, bordering on Texas, and intersected by the Rio Pecos ; area, about 13,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 1,803. The W. part is mountainous ; the E. portion is occupied by the Llano Estacado or Staked Plain. The chief productions in 1870 were 13,607 bushels of wheat, 134,162 of Indian corn, and 2,843 of barley. Capital, Placita. XVI. A S. E. county of Dakota, separated from Iowa on the E. by the Big Sioux river ; area, about 600 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 712. The chief pro- ductions in 1870 were 4,830 bushels of wheat, 3,318 of Indian corn, 1,386 of oats, 295 of bar- ley, 3,301 of potatoes, and 17,340 Ibs. of but- ter. There were 112 horses and 864 cattle. Capital, Canton. LINCOLN, a S. county of Ontario, Canada, bounded N. by Lake Ontario, and E. by the Niagara river ; area, 321 sq. m. ; pop. in 1871, 29,547, of whom 9,005 were of English, 7,928 of Irish, 7,396 of German, and 3,611 of Scotch origin or descent. It is traversed by the Wei- land canal, the Erie and Niagara, the Great Western, and the Welland railways. Capital, St. Catharines. LINCOLN, a city and the capital of Nebraska, county seat of Lancaster co., on the right bank of Salt creek, a tributary of the river Platte, and at the intersection of the Burlington and Missouri River, the Midland Pacific, and the Atchison and Nebraska railroads, 50 m. S. W. of Omaha, and 475 m. W. by S. of Chicago ; lat. 40 55' N., Ion. 96 52' W. ; pop. in 1870, 2,441 ; in 1874, about 6,500. It is built on a beautiful and gently sloping prairie. The streets are lighted with gas. The state house is a handsome edifice of white limestone, erected at a cost of $100,000. The state university, with a brick building costing $150,000, and the state agricultural college are situated here. The United States post office and court-house build- ing, for which an appropriation of $130,000 has been made by congress, is now (1874) in course of erection. Just beyond the city lim- its are the state penitentiary and insane asylum. A mile and a half W. is a salt basin, where good salt is manufactured. Lincoln has a board of trade, three wholesale houses (one dry goods and two groceries), a foundery, a marble shop, a spring-bed factory, a pork-packing establish- ment, two bookbinderies and blank-book man- ufactories, three job printing offices, and five banks. There are four public school buildings, one of which cost $55,000, with a system of graded schools, including a high school ; four hotels, a public reading room, an opera house, an academy of music, two daily and three weekly newspapers, a semi-monthly periodical, and nine churches, viz. : Baptist, Congrega- tional, Disciples', Episcopal, Lutheran, Method- ist Episcopal, Methodist Protestant, Presby- terian, and Universalist. Lincoln was laid our in July, 1867. LINCOLN, a city and parliamentary and muni- cipal borough of England, capital of Lincoln- shire, and a county in itself, on the Witham, 120 m. N. by W. of London; pop. in 1871, 26,- 762. It is a very ancient town, irregularly built on the side of a hill, but is paved, light- ed with gas, and well supplied with water. It contains 13 churches, the principal of which is the cathedral, one of the finest in the kingdom. This stands on an eminence, and is 524 ft. long and 250 ft. wide ; it has three towers, the cen- tre one 53 ft. square and 300 ft. high, the oth- ers 180 ft. high. The famous bell called Great Tom of Lincoln hung in one of these towers,