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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... and woolen mills, boot and shoe factories, print-goods factories, creameries and cigar factories. The trade is chiefly in manufactures, farm and dairy products. It has a city hospital, good municipal buildings and a number of fmc church edifices. The edu cationai institutions are a State Normal School, high schools, public and parish schools and the North Adams Library. The charter of 1895 provides for a mayor, who holds office one year, and a council. The school committee, assessors and library trustees are elected by popular vote. The city owns and operates the waterworks. Pop. 22,019. Consult Spear, 'History of North Adams'; 'Berkshire Hills'; Rowe and Fairfield, 'North Adams and Vicinity, Illustrated' (North Adams 1898). NORTH AMERICA. See America. NORTH AMERICAN BUFFALO (Bison Americanus), the only species of the ox indigenous to America, though the Bovidce include the American antelope, Rocky Mountain sheep and goat, and the musk-sheep, or musk-ox. The bison is called buffalo by the Americans and Canadians, although it is very different from the buffaloes of the Old World. A generation ago it was found in vast numbers in the great prairies between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains; it occurs as far north an the vicinity of Great Marten Lake, latitude 63 or 64, extensive level and marshy tracts there affording it suitable food. The American buffalo is very similar to that of Europe. It is generally smaller in size, and is said to attain at times a weight of 2,000 pounds. Its limbs and tail are short and the tail has fewer vertebra; than that of Europe. The horns are shorter and more blunt. The foreparts are still more shaggy, and retain more of that quality in summer. See Buffalo; Bison. NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. See Indians,...
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