[…] city-type centres and settlements in the Zaporozhian territory the Sich's role as the regional centre grew especially important and that fact unexpectedly gave to a free steppe region a highly centralized form of government.

Fresh butter, salt beef, anchovies, tunny, a shopful of Planchet's commodities, fowls, vegetables, salad, fish from the pond and the river, game from the forest--all the produce, in fact, of the province.

The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented.

HAINAN, an island of Kwangtung Province, China, situated in the South China Sea due s. of the Liuchow peninsula. Hainan Strait, about 15 m. in width, separates the peninsula from the island, which adjoins the Gulf of Tonkin on the E.