DOLNJA TUZLA, or D0N

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DOLNJA TUZLA, or D0N ,ff

SOLI

SOLI
SOLI (mod. Mezetlii)

, the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the Dolnja
Tuzla

district

DISTRICT

, in Bosnia, beautifully situated on the Jala or Julla, a small stream flowing into the SpreCa, which joins the Bosna at Doboj, 39 M. W.N.W.; and on a branch railway from Doboj. Pop. (1895) 10,227; almost all, including a permanent colony of

gipsies

GIPSIES, or GYPSIES

, being Moslems. Dolnja Tuzla is the seat of a

district

DISTRICT

court and an Orthodox

bishop

; with several churches, many mosques, a

hospital

, gymnasium and commercial school. Besides large alkali works, it has a vigorous trade in

grain

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

,_ livestock, timber and coal, from the surrounding hills, where there is a colony of Hungarian miners; while the salt springs, owned by the state both at Dolnja, or Lower, and Gornja, or Upper Tuzla, 6 m. E., are without a rival in the Balkan Peninsula.
Dolnja Tuzla was called by the Romans Ad Salinas. Constantine Porphyrogenitus mentions it, in the loth century, as Salenes; in other medieval documents it appears as Sou, Sow or

Soli

SOLI
SOLI (mod. Mezetlii)

. Its modern name is derived from the Turkish tuz, " salt." In 1690 the Austrians routed the Turks at Gornja Tuzla, and removed the Franciscan friars, with about 3000 other Roman Catholics, into Slavonia.
of natural history, to which, after the death of

Daubenton

DAUBENTON

, he had been elected in January z800. His course of lectures concluded, he revisited Switzerland. Returning thence he reached the residence of his brother-in-law at Chateau-Neuf, in the department of Saone-et-Loire, where he was seized with a fever, to which in a few days he succumbed, on the 26th of November 'Sol.
Dolomieu's geological theories are remarkable for originality and boldness of conception. The materials constituting the primordial globe he held to have arranged themselves according to their specific gravities, so as to have constituted a fluid central sphere, a solid crust external to this, next a stratum of water, and lastly the atmosphere. Where water penetrated through the crust, solidification took place in the underlying fluid mass, which enlarging in consequence produced rifts in the superincumbent rocks. Water rushing down through the rifts became decomposed, and the resulting effervescence occasioned submarine volcanoes. The crust of the earth he believed to be continually increasing in thickness, owing to the deposition of aqueous rocks, and to the

gradual

GRADUAL (Med. Lat. gradualis, of or belonging to steps or degrees; gradus, step)

solidification of the molten interior, so that the volcanic eruptions and other geological phenomena of former must have been of far greater magnitude and frequency than those of

recent

RECENT

times.
See Lacepede, " Eloge historique de Dolomieu," in Memoires de la classe des sciences de l'Institut (1806); Thomson, in Annals of Philosophy, vol. xii. p. 161 (1808). _

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