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* WARWICK. 307 WASHBURN. into honorable banishment by means of embassies to Fiance, liuryiuuly, and Brittany, Warwick in 14G9 gave his daughter in marriage to (ieorge, Duke of Clarence, the King's brother, without asking Edward's permission. He finally broke out into open revolt against Edward, and con- cluded a treaty with Queen Jlargaret, by which it was agreed that her son. Prince Edward, ■ should espouse Anne Neville, Warwick's daugh- ter, and that in failure of issue the crown should devolve on Clarence. King Edward esca))ed to Holland, and Henry VI., who had been conlined in the Tower, resumed the sovereignty. Edward, however, raised a bod.y of Flemings and J)utch- men. and, landing near Hull, advanced toward London. He gave battle to King Henry's army, commanded by Warwick, at Uarnet, .piil 14, 1471. Warwick and his brother Montagu, be- trayed by Clarence, were left dead on the field, and with them fell the greatness of the House of Neville. Consult; Oman, Wancick the Kiii;iiii(iki r (London, ISHl); Stubbs, Con.stHutiomil History of EiHjland. vol. iii. (.5th ed., Oxford, 189.5); Eamsav, Luncuslcr and York, vol. ii. (Oxford, 1892)." WARWICK, Robert Rich, second Earl of (158"-l('i5S). An English Puritan nobleman and naval eonnnander. He was the eldest son of Lord Robert Rich, who was created Earl of Warwick in 1018; in the following year the son succeeded to the title. He was educated at Emmanuel Col- lege, Cambridge, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1004, and became member of Par- liament for Maldon in 1610. He joined the Puritan movement ; took great interest in the colonization of Rhode Island and other settle- ments; was a councilor of the New England Company, and a friend of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. In the Civil War he was a supporter of the Parliamentarian cause; in 1642 he served as lieutenant of the Heet under North- umberland, whom he succeeded as admiral; and during the Protectorship of Cromwell was chosen to bear the sword of state in the hitter's presence. His grandson and heir married Cromwell's daugh- ter Frances in 1657, dying, however, three months later, and two months prior to Warwick's death. WARWICKSHIRE. A midland county of England, bounded by Leicester. Northampton. Ox- ford, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford (ilap: England, E 4). Area, 902 square miles. The surface is generally level or gently undulating. The county is traversed by the river Avon ; it was formerly covered with forest and there is still much woodland. Five-sixths of its area is under cultivation, including pastures; wheat is the chief crop, while dairying receives much at- tention. Mechanical industries are very impor- tant, especially founding and the manufacture of machinery, jewelry, and instruments. Near- ly 3.000.000 tons of coal are mined annually, and the production of iron ore is increasing. Population, in 1891, 80.5,072; in 1901, 897.078. The county town is Warwick, and the largest cities are ISirmingham and Coventry. WASATCH (wa'sach or wa'sach') MOUN- TAINS. A mountain range of I'tah licloiisjing to the Rocky Mountain system (Map: Utah. B 2). It begins in the southeastern part of Idaho, and run-s southward east of the Great Salt Lake and through the centre of Utah, gradually turn- ing to the .southwest, and ending at the south- western corner of the State. It forms the eastern boundary of the Great Basin, from which it rises abruptly in great and very consj)icuous rugged masses broken by deep canons, and bearing large I)ine forests on its midiUc slopes. Its average height is about 10,000 feet, and several of its ]icaks are over 12,000 feet high-. The range is a recent u|dift, and of a composition similar to that of the minor Basin Ranges. It consists in the n(irth of a ridge of Carboniferous rocks Hanked by Tertiary and Cretaceous strata, and in the south of great masses of igneous rocks. Coal, iron, and silver constitute its chief mineral wealth. WAS'CO (Tenino, grass people). The east- ernmost tribe of Chinookan (q.v. ) stock, former- ly claiming the country on the south side of the Columbia River, about the Dalles, Oregon, and now gathered with other tribes upon the Warm- spring Reservation in the same vicinity. They were essentially a fishing people. They are now civilized, prosperous, and industrious, working among the whites in the intervals of caring fur their crops. They numl)er about 2,50. WASE'CA. The county-seat of Waseca County, ilinn., 76 miles south of Saint Paul; en- tile Chicago and Northwestern and the Minne- apolis and Saint Louis railroads (Map: Minne- sota, EG). It is in a ])roduetive grain-growing country, and has several grain elevators, and manufactories of flour, oatmeal, foundry and machine-shop products, etc. .djoining the city on the east is Clear Lake, where the meetings of the Chautauqua of the Northwest are held. The new State grounds of the German Evangeli- cal Association are also here. The water-works and the electric light plant are the property of the municipality. Population, in 1890, 2482; in 190.3, 3500. WASH, The. An estuary on the eastern coast of England, between the counties of Lin- coln and Norfolk (Map: England, G 4). It is about 22 miles in length, 15 miles in average breadth, and receives the rivers Witham, Wel- land, Ouse, and Nen. The shores are low and marshy, and the estuary is occupied by sand- banks, dry at low water. Two wide spaces or pools of water, called Lynn and Boston Deeps, afford anchorage for vessels. WASH'BURN. The county-seat of Bayfield County. Wis.. 00 miles east by .south of Duluth, Minn.; on Chaquamegon Bay. an arm of Lake Superior, and on the Chicago, Saint Paul. jMin- neapolis and Omaha 'and the Northern Pacific railroads (Map: Wisconsin, C 2). It has a handsome high school building and a public li- brary. The harbor is well adapted to shipping, and considerable trade is carried on in the prod- ucts of the vicinity — principally grain, lumber, and brownstone. There are a grain elevator, a brewery, lumber mills, and a box factory. A large dynamite plant has been established four miles from the town. The .Jesuits founded a mission near here in 1065. Population, in 1890, 3699; in 1900. 6814. WASHBURN. CAnwALt.'VDER Colden (1818- 82). An .merican soldier, political leader, and capitalist, born at Livermore, Maine. In 1839 he removed to Iowa and later to Illinois, where