Raleigh

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Raleigh

State College of Agriculture and Engineering.
Raleigh is an important industrial city, with
cotton mills, wood-working and printing es-
tablishments, iron foundries, and manufac-
tures of hosiery, yarns, underwear, school
supplies, cotton oil, fertilizers, etc. In 1793
the site of the present city was chosen by
the legislature for the location of the State
capital. General Sherman and his troops
occupied Raleigh in the spring of 1865; P-
46,897.

Raleigh, Sir Walter (1861-1922), English
man of letters, was educated at Cambridge.
He occupied the chair of English language
and literature in Glasgow University from
1890 to 1904, when he was appointed to the
same chair at Oxford. In 1915 he spent sev-
eral months in the United States, lecturing at
Princeton and Brown Universities. His works
include The English Novel (1894); Robert
Louis Stevenson (1895); Style. (1897); Mil-
ton (1900); Wordsworth (1903); The Eng-
lish Voyagers of the i6tk Century (1906);
Six Essays on Johnson (1910); Romance
(1917); England and the War (1918); The
War in the Air (1922).

Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618), English
courtier. He joined the ill-fated expedition
of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, his half brother,
in 1578; in 1580 he assisted in quelling an
insurrection in Ireland, and later served in

Sir Walter Raleigh.

(From the painting in the National Por-
trait Gallery, London.)

the Netherlands. During the next few years
he sent out expeditions to America, explored
the seaboard from Florida to Newfoundland,
planted a settlement on Roanoke Island, on

the Carolina coast (1585), which proved a
failure, and christened Virginia, to which, in
after years, he sent other expeditions. He
was the means through which the potato
and tobacco plant were introduced and cul-
tivated in England. His influence at court
was often great, and he devoted all his ener-

Statue of Rameses II.
Found at Tanis, Now at Turin.

gies to crippling the power of Spain. In
1592 he prepared an expedition, which sailed
under Frobisher, but the same year was him-
self sent to the Tower as a punishment for a
court intrigue. In 1595 he sailed up the Ori-
noco, but was unable to establish any per-
manent settlement. In 1596 he took part in
an expedition against Spain. In 1600 Raleigh
was made governor of Jersey.

Upon the accession of James I. Raleigh
fell into disfavor and in 1603, being suspected
of complicity with Cobhara in a plot against