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ALBERTA. places, particularly in the valley of tlie Red Deer River. The greatest wealth of the district, however, is in its mineral resources. The coal area is very extensive, and recent inter- est in its mining indicates an enormous growth of this indxistry in the near future. Gold is found near Edmonton. Two branches of the Canadian Pacific Railway cross the district from east to west, while a tliird branch extends northward to Edmonton. The country is but sparsely settled ( for ])opulatiun see article Nortiive.st TerriTOitiES), most of the settlements being close to the railway lines. There are a number of small foreign colonies along the line running north to Edmonton.

AL'BERT CHAP'EL. A memorial chapel in Windsor Castle. See.

ALBERT ED'WARD. See.

ALBERT ED'WARD NYAN'ZA, called by the natives ^Iuta XziuE. A lake in central Africa, a little south of the equator, on the )ioundary line between the Congo Free State and the British protectorate of Uganda (Map: Africa, G 5). It is situated at an altitude of more than 3100 feet, and is one of the sources of the Nile. It is about 50 miles long, and is connected liy the Semliki River (about 130 miles) Avith the Al- bert Nyanza on the north. The lake was dis- covered in 1870 by Stanley, who regarded it as the southern part of Albert Nyanza. On his subsequent visit. 1SS9, he explored it thoroughly, and named it in lionor of the then Prince of Wales, now King Edward VII. For geological features, see Albert Nyanza : Great Rift Valley.

ALBERT EMBANK'MENT. The name given to a part of the Thames Embankment (q.v.), London.

ALBERT HALL, The Royal. A large amphitheatre in Kensington, London, built in 1807-71 for concerts and other great assemblies. In shape the building is oval, 270 by 240 feet in dimensions ; it seats 8000 people. Its style is Italian Renaissance, the material being brick and the chief external crnament a frieze in terra cotta, representing the different races of men. Its organ, which has nearly 9000 pipes, is famous as one of the largest in the world.

ALBERTI, ul-ber'tf. (1707-40). An Italian composer. He was born in Venice, and died in Formio. A style of broken chord bass-accompaniment, which he developed, still is called "Alberti" or "Albertinian" bass.

ALBERTI, Leoxe Battista degli (1404-72). An Italian architect and writer, born in Venice, of the noble Florentine family of the Alberti, recalled from exile in 142S. He was the leader in the second phase of early Italian Renaissance architecture, both by the works he executed and by his theoretical writings and teachings. He lived principally in Rome, and was for a time charged with the projects for rebuilding St. Peter's and the Vatican. The purity of his classic taste is shown in the fatjade of St. Francis at Rimini, reproduced from a Roman triumphal arch. His intended use here of the dome, his barrel vaults at St. Andrea in Mantua, show how in construction he also returned to the forms of ancient Roman architecture. He had a number of pupils and associates, who carried out his plans: Mattco dci Pasti. at Rimini: Fancelli, at Mantua: Rertini in the facade of St. Maria Nwclla at Florence (where he so successfully copied the media val style of incrustcd marbles); and Rossellino in the famous Rucellai Palace (1446-51) at Florence, which combined the older rustic bossed work with the smooth pilastcred style, and caused a revolution in palace architecture. His book De Re JiJdificatoria (1485) was the first great work on architecture of the Renaissance, and had been preceded by a manual on the five orders, as well as by other manuals on statuary and painting. He prepared the way for Brunelleschi.

ALBERTI, LuiGi Maria d' (1S4I— ). An Italian traveler, born at Voltri. He attended tile College of Savona, and served in the army of Garibaldi in 1800. From 1871 to 1878 he made a careful exploration and study of the Island of New Guinea. The results of this expedition he published in his Explorazione della Xuova Guinea {18S0; English translation, 18S0).

ALBERTINELLI, alber'te-nel'le, Mariotto ( l-i74-151.'i ). An ltalianpainter.l>ornin Florence, the friend and most efficient colleague of Fra Bar- tolommeo (q.v.), who was his fellow-pupil under Cosimo Roselli. It is difficult to separate the works of the two ; together they produced an "Assmnption" (Berlin) and a "Last .Judgment" (Santa Maria Novella, Florence). Albertinelli's own principal works are a splendid "Visita- tion" (Uffizi), a "Holy Family" (Pitti), and an "Annunciation" (Academy, Florence).

AL'BERTITE. A form of asphaltic coal obtained at Hillsborough, Albert Co., New Bruns- wick. Canada, where it occurred in a fissure vein in rocks of the Upper Devonian age. It is a soft, jet black mineral that has been derived from petroleum by oxidization of the oily contents, and it was at one time highly prized as a gasenricher. See Asphaltic Coal.

AL'BERT LEA. A city and county scat of Freeborn Co., Jlinn., 110 miles south of Minneapolis, on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Minneapolis and St. Louis, the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern, and other railroads (Map: Minnesota, E 7). The city has a fine location between two lakes, in a region popular as a place of resort ; it is the seat of Albert Lea College for women (Presbyterian), opened in 1885, and contains a public libriiry and a handsome court house. It is the market for the agricultural and dairy products of the surrounding region, and has grain elevators, flour mills, foundries and machine shops, brickyards, wagon and plow works, a woolen mill, etc. There are some twenty artesian wells of chalvbeate waters. Pop., 'l890, 3305; 1900, 4500.

ALBERT MED'AL. A decoration instituted in F.nuland (ISOli) — in memory of Prince Consort Albert, whose name it bears — to reward heroic acts in saving life at sea. In 1877 it was extended to acts of gallantly in preventing loss of life in perils on land. There are two classes, the first of gold and the second of bronze, with the words "For Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea" or "on Land," as the case may be. See Memal.

ALBERT NYAN'ZA, called by the natives MwUTAN-NziGE. A large lake of" British East Africa, one of the reservoirs of the Nile, situated in a deep rock-basin, 80 miles northwest of the Victoria Nyanza (Map: Africa, H 4). This lake is the northernmost of a series of five that occupy the lower basins of a great rift valley. that extends for 1000 miles in a general