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See also:JAN See also:JACOB See also:VAN See also:OOSTERZEE (1817-1882) , Dutch divine, was See also:born at See also:Rotterdam on the 1st of See also:April 1817 . After acting as pastor at See also:Alkmaar and Rotterdam, in 1863 he was made See also:professor of biblical and See also:practical See also:theology at the university of See also:Utrecht . See also:Oosterzee earned a reputation as a preacher, was editor of the Theolog . Jahrbucher from 1845, wrote a number of noteworthy books on religious See also:history, and published poems in Dutch (1882) . He died on the 29th of See also:July 1882 . A collected edition of Oosterzee's See also:works was published in See also:French, TEuvres completes, in three volumes (1877-188o) . His autobiography appeared in 1882 . 00TACAMUND, or UTAKAMAND, a See also:town of See also:British See also:India, headquarters of the See also:Nilgiris See also:district in See also:Madras, approached by a See also:rack railway from the Mettapolliem station on the Madras railway . Pop . (1901) 18,596 . It is the See also:principal See also:sanatorium of See also:southern India, and summer headquarters. of the Madras See also:government . It is placed on a See also:plateau about 7230 ft. above the See also:sea, with a See also:fine artificial See also:lake, and mountains rising above 8000 ft . The mean See also:annual temperature is 58° F., with a minimum of 38° in See also:January and a maximum of 76° in May; See also:average annual rainfall, 49 in . The houses are scattered on the hillsides amid luxuriant gardens, and there are extensive See also:carriage drives . In the neighbourhood are plantations of See also:coffee, See also:tea and See also:cinchona . There are a brewery and two See also:dairy farms . The See also:Lawrence See also:asylum for the See also:children of See also:European soldiers was founded in 1858, and there are also the Breeks memorial and See also:Basel See also:Mission high See also:schools . See See also:Sir F . See also:Price, Ootacamund: A History (Madras, 1908) . |
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