Nashta

Nashta, a city and one of the shire towns of Hillsborough co., New Hampshire, at the junction of the Merrimack and Nashua rivers, 35 m. S. of Concord, and 40 m. N. N". W. of Boston; pop. in 1870, 10,543. The streets are broad, well lighted, and lined with trees, and many of the churches and residences are handsome. Its prosperity depends upon its railroad facilities and its manufactures. The railroads meeting here are the Boston, Lowell, and Nashua; the Concord; the Nashua, Acton, and Boston; the Worcester and Nashua; the Wilton; and the Nashua and Rochester. Water power is obtained from the Mine falls in the.

Nasnsus Nyerup

Nasnsus Nyerup, a Danish antiquary, born at Orsted in the island of Fünen, March 12, 1759, died in Copenhagen, June 28, 1829. He was educated at Copenhagen, where in 1796 he became professor of literary history and university librarian. He wrote several valuable bibliographical works, but his reputation rests chiefly on his antiquarian compilations, of which the most noteworthy is his "Historical and Statistical Exhibition of the Condition of Denmark and Norway in Ancient and Modern Times" (2 vols., 1802-'6); and more especially on his numerous writings in regard to the ancient Danish language and literature.

Naso

Naso, a town of Sicily, in the province and 40 m. W. S. W. of the city of Messina; pop. about 8,000. It is celebrated for its picturesque situation and its mediaeval appearance. It contains fine buildings, and the trade is active. In the vicinity are ferruginous springs. Some authorities identify Naso with the ancient Agathyrnum or Agathyrna, but the site of the latter town is also assigned to another locality, and is altogether doubtful.

Nasr-Ed-Din

Nasr-Ed-Din, shah of Persia, born in 1829. He succeeded to the throne on the death of his father, Muhammad, Sept. 10, 1848. The principal events of his reign are his successful contests with some of the neighboring tribes; his defeat in the war with England (1856-'7); a famine which broke out in 1871, and desolated a large portion of the country; and his visit in 1873 to European courts, the Russian and British cabinets both attempting to secure his good will. While in England he made concessions to Reuter for establishing railways and canals and working mines in Persia; but differences arose between the contracting parties, and nothing has yet been effected (1875). The shah wrote a curious diary of his European tour, which was translated verbatim into English by J. W. Redhouse (London, 1874).

Nassau Hall

See Princeton.

Nassau William Senior

Nassau William Senior, an English political economist, born at Uffington, Berkshire, Sept. 26, 1790, died June 4, 1864. He graduated at Magdalen college, Oxford, in 1811, and was called to the bar in 1819. From 1825 to 1830, and again from 1847 to 1852, he was professor of political economy at Oxford. From 1836 to 1853 he was a master in chancery. His works are: "Introductory Lectures on Political Economy" (1826); "On Foreign Poor Laws and Laborers" (1840); "Treatise on Political Economy" (1850); "A Journal kept in Turkey and Greece in 1857 and 1858" (1859); "American Slavery" (1862); "Biographical Sketches" (1864); "Essays on Fiction" (1864); "Historical and Philosophical Essays" (1865); "Journals, Conversations, and Essays relating to Ireland" (1868); "Journal kept in France and Italy in 1848-'52" (1871); and "Correspondence and Conversations with Alexis de Tocqueville" (1872). (See Political Economy, vol. xiii., p. 672).