The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar

part is devoted to cereal crops. The department is essentially

agricultural, and has few manufactures. The capital is Chartres. Pop. 251,259.

EURE´KA (Gr. _heur[=e]ka_, I have found it), the exclamation of Archimedes when, after long study, he discovered a method of detecting the amount of alloy in King Hiero's crown. Hence the word is used as an expression of triumph at ...