Miskolcz, a town of Hungary, 113 miles by rail NE. of Pesth. Pop. 40,408.

Mississippi, one of the Gulf States of the American Union, lies west of Alabama and south of western Tennessee, and is bounded on the W. by the Mississippi River. Length, north to south, 335 miles; width, 150 miles ; area, 46,810 sq. m. The surface, except in the Yazoo delta, is generally hilly, though nowhere mountainous, the highest hills rising only 800 feet above the sea-level. There are three distinct watersheds, represented by the Tombigbee, the Pascagoula, and the Yazoo. There are mineral springs here and there. Mississippi is essentially an agricultural state. The north-eastern prairie region, 70 miles long and 15 to 20 wide, with its fertile, black, calcareous soil, contains much of the best farming and grazing land in the state. There are no springs here, but cisterns dug in the rotten limestone, bored wells, and artesian wells furnish ample water. In the north the bottom-lands along the numerous creeks and rivers especially are well adapted to agriculture; while in the central portion stock-raising is carried on, and in the yellow-pine region large herds of sheep are raised. The Yazoo Delta, embracing the elliptical area of alluvial bottoms between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, was subject to inundations; but levees now protect the lands. The delta contains 4 1/2 millions of acres of alluvial land, only 500,000 acres of which are under cultivation. Virgin forests of hardwoods cover the rest. Chief products are cotton, corn, oats, fruits, and vegetables. The winters are short and mild, the mean temperature 45° F.,the annual rainfall 48 to 58 inches. Cotton is manufactured, and there is some trade in lumber. Mississippi was first settled by the French in 1699, as part of Louisiana. It was ceded to Great Britain in 1763; was admitted into the Union as a state in 1817; seceded in 1861; was readmitted into the Union, 1869. Vicksburg, Greenville, and Natchez are principal ports on the Mississippi River, and Pascagoula and Biloxi on the Gulf. Meridian is the second town, and Jackson is the capital. Pop. (1820) 75,448; (1850)605,948; (1880) 1,131,597; (1900) 1,551,270.