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KOCKFORD COLLEGE. 207 ROCK ISLAND. nient of $12o.H7ii, and an inoniiu' of .'i!21,324. Its li- brary contained about (10(1(1 volumes. The dupart- liients are c'(dk'giatf. pruijaratory, mu.sic, and art, vitli a total attendance of 138 and a faculty of 20. ROCKHAMP'TON". A seaport town of Liv- ingstone County. C^hieensland. .iistralia, on the Fitzroy River. 380 miles north of Brisbane by rail (Jfap: Australia, J 3). It is the outlet for a large portion of Central Queensland and the port of the Morgan gold tield. It is a well-built town, with wide and shaded streets, fine govern- ment buildings, a town hall, botanical gardens, etc. A bridge IIGO feet long spans the river. Its harbor for ocean steamers is at Port Alma, 36 miles below, but vessels of 1.300 tons ascend to the city, roinilation. in 1801, 11,029; in 11)00, 15,4(51. ROCK HILL. A city in York County, S. C, 80 miles north of Columbia, on the Southern and the Ohio River and Charleston railroads (Map: South Carolina, C 2). It is the seat of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina, a State institution for wotnen. Cotton, farm produce, and fruit are extensively cultivated in the surrounding district. Its industries include cotton mills, a large buggy factory, a flour mill, brick plants, sash, door, and blind manufactories, and foundries and ma- chine shops. The city is the headquarters of the Catawba Power Company, which is electrically developing 8000 horse-power on the Catawba River, five miles distant. Population, in 1890, 2744: in 1900, 5485. ROCK'HILL, William Woodville (1854—). An American diplomat, traveler, and author, born in Philadelphia. In 1884 he was ap- pointed second secretar.y of the American legation at Peking, the next year he was promoted to secretary, and in 1880 he was ajipointed charge d'afl'aires in Korea. Between 18SS and 1892 he made two long journeys through China, ilongolia. and Tibet. In 1893-94 he was chief clerk in the United States Department of State, in 1894 he was appointed Third Assistant Secretary of State, and in 1890 was promoted to First Assistant Secretary. He was United States Minister to Greece, Rumania, and Servia from 1897 to 1899, when he became director of the Bureau of American Republics. His pub- lished works include: Explorations in Mongolia, and Tibet (1893) ; Diary of a Joiirney Through Mongolia and Tibet in 1S91 and 1892 (1894); The Land of the Lamas (1891) ; The Life of the Bnddha and the . Earhi History of His Order (1884) ; yotes on the Ethnology 'of Tibet (1895) ; and Report of W. W. Rockhill, Late Commis- sioner tn China (1901). ROCK HIND. One of the groupers (Epine- phehis Adscensionis) , well known throughout the EOCK HIND. Western Atlantic and common in rocky places about all the West Indian coasts and islands, where it is known as 'cabra mora,' and is re- garded as the best market lisli of its kind. It is about Is inches long, cloudeil greenisli gray, everywhere spoiled Willi orange, and with live dark roundish blotelies along llie buck. See (-iUOl TKH. ROCK-HOPPER. See PE.NOinN. ROCK'INGHAM, Chahlks WatsonWent- vyonrii. .second .Marquis of (17.30-82). An Kng- lish statesman. He was educated at Westminsler School and Saint John's College. Cambridge. Be- longing to an old Whig family, lie received inuny honorary olliees, and in 1750 sueceeiled his father in the peerage. In 1705 Rockingliuni was se- lected as Prime Minister, the chief men in his Cabinet being Conway, the Duke of Grafloii. and the Duke of Xewcastle. The tiovernment was not a strong one, but it is famous on account of its repeal of the Stamp Act and the passing of other measures which conciliated the American Col- onies. In 1700 the Ministry resigned and Rock- ingham for many years was an opponent of the King's policy and throughout showed friendship for America. On the resignation of Lord Noiih in 1782 Lord Rockingham again became Prime Minister. The principal men this time in his Cabinet were Fox and Shelburne. Rockingham died on .Tuly 1st, within a Utile more than three months after his installation. Though not a man of great abilities, Rockingham was lield in esteem by all, and his general acceptability was the cause of his selection on two occasions as Prime Jlinister. Consult: Albemarle, Memoirs of Rock- ingham (2 vols., London, 1852-53) ; Leeky, Bis- tort/ of England in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1878). ROCKING STONES, ilasses of rock so finely poised as to move backward and forward when pushed by the hand. They are generally formed of granite as being the stone that most easily resists general decomposition. The wearing away of the lower portions is usually the combined re- sult of the sand-blast action of the wind and sand and the disintegrating action of frost or the effect of lichens which disintegrate the feldspar immediately below and contribute to the wasting of the rock. In ancient times rocking stones were used as a means of divination. Among the famous rocking stones is the Logan Rock, near the Land's End in Cornwall, whose weight is com- puted to be between 70 and 90 tons, and that at Island Magee. on Brown's Bay. County . trim, Ireland, which is popularly believed to tremble or rock at the approach of sinners and malefactors. The largest rocking stone is that of Tandil. .-Vr- gentine Republic. ROCK ISLAND. A city and the county-scat of Rock Island County, 111., 180 miles west by south of Chicago, on the Mississippi River and the Hennepin Canal, and on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and its Rock Island and Peoria branch, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Chicago, >Iilwaukee and Saint Paul, and other railroads (ilap: Illinois. B 2). It is the scat of Augustana CoUetie (Lutheran) opened in 1800. and has a public library with more than 14.000 volumes. On fioverninenl's Island, near the city, is the Uiiiled States arsenal and armory, covering an area of nearly 1000 acres and costing about .$10,000,000. There are railroad ami highway liri.lges from the city to the island, which in turn is connected with Davenport, Iowa, by a fine highway and railway