capital of the state of New York in North America, on the western bank of the river Hudson, about 145 miles above the city of New York. Placed on one of the noblest rivers of that part of America, and backed by a rich country, it has every natural requisite for commercial importance. These natural advantages have been increased by canals connecting it with Lakes Erie and Champlain; while a tissue of railways unites it with Boston and the valley of the Mohawk. It contains many handsome buildings, and valuable institutions of various kinds. Of its public buildings, the principal are the capitol, a handsome stone edifice 115 feet in length by 90 in width, with richly furnished apartments for the Senate and Assembly, &c.; the city hall, a superb building of white marble, surmounted with a large gilded dome; the exchange, &c. On 17th August 1848, a dreadful fire broke out which consumed one-eighth of the city. Its population in 1850 amounted to 50,771. Lat. 42. 39. N. Long. 73. 32. W.

port and trading station of the Hudson's Bay Company, on the south-western shore of that sea, in Lat. 52. 20. N. Long. 82. 20. W.

district in the eastern part of the British colony of the Cape of Good Hope, with an area of 2000 square miles, and a population of about 12,000. See Good Hope, Cape of.

Albarracin, a judicial district of the province of Teruel, in Spain. Pop. about 20,000. The country is cold, Albarracin mountainous, and barren, but produces iron, and wool of a very fine quality.

Alberoni. Albarracin, Sta. Maria de, the chief town of the above district, on the banks of the Guadalquivir. It is the see of a bishop; and was once a place of great strength and importance, but its old fortifications are for the most part in ruins, and its population scarcely amounts to 2000.