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QUINCY 402 QUINSY C), public library, Blessing and St. Mary's Hospitals, State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, residence of a Protestant Episcopal bishop, parks, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National, State and private banks, and several daily and weekly periodicals. There is daily steamboat connection with cities along the Mississippi river. Quincy has flouring mills, carriage fac- tories, machine shops, foundries, saw mills, planing mills, and extensive manu- factures of cigars, tobacco, sash, blinds, stoves, elevators, pumps, furniture, bricks, steam engines, plows, etc. A magnificent railroad bridge crosses the river here. Pop. (1910) 36,587; (1920) 35,978. QUINCY, a city in Norfolk cc, Mass.; at the mouth of the Quincy river where it enters Quincy Bay, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford rail- road; 8 miles S. E. of Boston. It com- prises nearly a dozen villages. Here are the Adams Academy for Boys, Woodward Institute for Girls, Thomas Crane Public Library, city hospital, wa- terworks, electric street railroads, elec- tric lights. National, co-operative, and savings banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. The city contains quarries of the celebrated Quincy granite, which is shipped to nearly all parts of the United States. It also has a large boot and shoe industry. Quincy is noted as the birthplace of John Hancock, of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, Presi- dents of the United States. Pop. (1910) 32,642; (1920) 47,611. QUINCY, JOSIAH, sometimes called JosiAK Quincy, Jr., an American law- yer; boi-n in Boston, Mass., Jan, 23, 1744. He graduated from Harvard in 1763. He joined with John Adams in defending the British soldiers in the Boston Massa- cre case. But he took part in the town meeting ordering the "Boston tea-party"; and in September, 1774, went to England to speak in behalf of the colonists. His best-known works are: "An Address of the Merchants, Traders, and Freehold- ers of Boston" in favor of a non-impor- tation act (1770), and "Observations on the Boston Port Bill" (1774). He died April 26, 1775. QUINCY, JOSIAH, an American au- thor and orator; born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 4, 1772, son of Josiah Quincy. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1790, studied law, and entered Congress in 1805, where he distinguished himself as a favorite orator in opposition to the policy of Jefferson and Madison, and was one of the earliest to denounce slavery. He became a member of the Senate of Massachusetts, and in 1822, judge of the Municipal Court of Boston. In 1823 he was elected mayor of Boston; and in 1829 accepted the post of president of Harvard College, which he held till 1845. Among his published works are a "History of Harvard University" (1840) ; "The Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston" (1852) ; "Life of John Quincy Adams" (1858) ; "Essays on the Soiling of Cattle" (1859). He died in Quincy, Mass., July 1, 1864. QUINET, EDGAB, a French historian and philosopher; born near Bourg, France, Feb. 17, 1803. His works fill nearly 30 volumes, of which only a small part has any permanent value. He was appointed Professor of Foreign Litera- tures at Lyons, and afterward at the College de France in Paris. His princi- ples were strongly republican, and brought him into trouble more than once. His leading works are: "Ahasuerus" (1834) ; "Merlin the Enchanter" (1861) ; "The Revolution" (1865); and "The Creation" (1869). He also wrote sev- eral long poems. He died in Versailles, March 27, 1875. QUININE, in chemistry, C.oH=.N202, chinin or quinia; the most important al- kaloid of the true cinchona barks, first obtained, but in an impure state, by Gomez, of Lisbon, in 1811. QUININE SULPHATES, the neutral or common medicinal sulphate, 2CaoH2i N.OrHjS04+8H.O; prepared by the neu- tralizing quinine with dilute sulphuric acid. Quinine sulphate is largely em- ployed as a febrifuge and tonic, and it possesses powerful antiseptic properties. QUTNOA, Chenopodium Quinoa, a valuable food-plant, a native of Chile and the high table-land of Mexico, whici much resembles some of the British species of Chenopodium. In the coun- tries in which it is indigenous it is much cultivated for its seeds, which form a principal food of the inhabitants. It is sometimes cultivated in British gardens for its leaves, which are a good substi- tute for spinach. QUINOLINE, a pungent colorless liquid obtained by the distillation of bones, coal tar, and various alkaloids. QUINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY, the Sunday next before Lent, being about 50 days before Easter. QUINQUEREMES, vessels with five banks of oars, however arranged; may be regarded as the first-rates of the an- cient navies. QUINSY, or QUINANCY, inflamma- tory sore throat. There is swelling of one tonsil, or of both, attended with dif-