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CROSS RIVER

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 510 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CROSS

CROSS See also:
RIVER
RIVER , a river of See also:

West See also:

Africa, over 500 M. See also:

long. It rises in 6° N., 10° 30' E. in the mountains of Cameroon, and flows at first N.W. In 8° 48' E., 5° 50' N. are a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of rapids; below this point the river is navigable for shallow-See also:

DRAUGHT (from the common Teutonic word " to draw "; cf. Ger. 7'racht, load; the pronunciation led to the variant form " draft," now confined to certain specific meanings)

draught boats. At 8° 20' E., 6° 10' N., its most See also:

NORTHERN

northern point, the river turns S.W. and then S., entering the Gulf of See also:

GUINEA

Guinea through the See also:

CALABAR (or OLD CALABAR)

Calabar See also:

ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

estuary. The Calabar river, which rises about 5° 30' N., 8° 30' E., has a course parallel to, and 10 to 20 M. See also:

east of, the Cross river. Near its mouth, on its east See also:

BANK

bank, is the See also:

TOWN

town of Calabar (q.v.). It enters the estuary in 40 45' N. The Cross, Calabar, Kwa and other streams farther east, which rise on the flanks of the Cameroon Mountains, See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form a large See also:

DELTA (from the shape of the Gr. letter A, delta, originally used of the mouth of the Nile)

delta. The Calabar and Kwa See also:

rivers are wholly within the See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

PROTECTORATE

protectorate of See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern See also:

NIGERIA

Nigeria, as is the Cross river from its mouth to the rapids mentioned. The upper course of the river is in See also:

German territory. CROSS-ROADS, See also:

BURIAL

BURIAL AT, in former times the method of disposing of executed criminals and suicides. At the cross-roads a See also:

RUDE, FRANCOIS (1784–1855)

rude cross usually stood, and this gave rise to the belief that these spots were selected as the next best burying-places to consecrated ground.

The real explanation is that the See also:

ancient See also:

Teutonic peoples often built their altars at the cross-roads, and as human sacrifices, especially of criminals, formed See also:

PART

part of the See also:

RITUAL (from Lat. ritus, a custom, especially a religious rite or custom)

ritual, these spots came to be regarded as See also:

EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution grounds. Hence after the introduction of See also:

CHRISTIANITY

Christianity, criminals and suicides were buried at the cross-roads during the See also:

NIGHT

night, in See also:

order to assimilate as far as possible their funeral to that of the pagans. An example of a cross-road execution-ground was the famous See also:

TYBURN

Tyburn in See also:

LONDON

London, which stood on the spot where the See also:

Oxford, Edgware and London roads met.

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