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UPCOTT. 749 trPOLU. the Principal Works Relating to English Topog- raphy (.'} Vdls.. ISIS) ; revised tor the pios.s Ecr- lyn's Diary (1818) ; edited Evelyn's Miscellane- ous Writings (1825); and engaged in much other antiquarian work. UPERNIVIK, oU-per'ni-vIk. or UPERNA- VIK. The most northern Danish district in Greenland, on Baffin Bay. The town Upernivik, with a mission station, is on a small island just off the coast in latitude 72° 48' N., and longitude 55° 54' W. (Map: Arctic Regions, G C). Tlie mean temperature here is 5.8° in January and 40.5° in July. XTPHAM, up'om, Charles Wentworth (1802-75). A Unitarian clerg-man. He was bom at Saint John, N. B. ; graduated at Harvard College, 1821, and at the divinity school, 1824; was ordained colleague pastor with the Rev. John Prince of the First Unitarian Church, Sa- lem, Mass., the same year, and remained there until he was compelled to leave the ministry on account of loss of voice in 1844. He edited the Christian Review and Christian Register; was Mayor of Salem, 1852; several times member of the Legislature; president of State Senate, 1857- 58; member of Congress 1853-55. He published Letters on the Logos (1828) ; Lectures on Witch- craft, Contprising a- Histon/ of the Salem Delu- sion, 1092 (1831, enlarged cd. 1867); Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather, a Reply (1870), and Lives of Sir Henry Vane (1835), J.C.Fre- mont (1856), Francis Peabody (1869), and Tim- othy Pickering (1867-72). UPHAM, Thomas Cogswell (1799-1872). A Congregational theologian. He was born at Deerfield, >f. H. ; graduated at Dartmouth Col- lege, 1818, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1821. He was assistant teacher of Hebrew at the latter place. 1821-22; colleague pastor of the Congregational Church, Rochester, N. H., 1823-24 ; professor of mental and moral philos- ophy, and instructor in Hebrew, Bowdoin College, 1825-07. He published a philosophical series: Elements of Intellectual Philosophy (1827) ; Elements of Mental Philosophy (1831) ; Treatise on the Will (1834); Outlines of Dis- ordered and Imperfect Mental Action (1840); Lives of the French Mystics, Madame Guyon and Fenelon (1847), and Madame Catharine Adorna (1856) ; The Life of Faith (1848) ; A Treatise on the Divine Union (1851) ; Christ in the Soul (1872). TJPHAM, Warren (1850—). An American geologist and librarian, born in Amherst, N. H. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1871, was em- ployed on the Geological Surve.v of New Hamp- shire from 1870 to 1878, and on the United States Geological Survey from 1885 to 1895. In 1895 he became librarian of the Minnesota Historical Society. Saint Paul. He wrote: The Upper Beaches and Deltas of the Glacial Lake Agassiz (1887) ; The Glacial Lake Agassiz {1895) ; and Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic, with a A'pic Discussion of the Causes of the Ice Age, with Professor A. F. Wright (1896). TJPHUES, oo'foo-az, Joseph (1850—). A German sculptor, born at Sassenberg, Westphalia. He studied for three years at the Berlin Academy, and became a follower of Begas, whom he after- wards assisted in his workshop. Much severer treatment of form, however, than is characteristic of Begas distinguishes his work, as may be seen in his "Sabine Defending His Sister," and the •■Bowman" (great gohl medal, .Melbourne, 1888; Chicago, 1893), in the National Gallery at Sydney. For Diiren in Rhenisli Prussia lie ex- ecuted a Monument to Emperor William 1. and the Bismarck Monument (1892); for Honiburg and • Viesl)aden (189(1). Monuments to Emperor Frederick; and in Berlin he created an entirely novel type of a youthful "I'rcderick the Great;" and contributed to the iiionunents in the Siegesallee the statue of Margrave Otto II. Three large sepulchral monuments of his design at Diiren exhibit deep religious feeling and noble conception. TJP'JOHN, Richard (1802-78). An Ameri- can architect, born in Shaftesbury, England. He emigrated to the United States in 1829, and in 1839 he settled in New York, where his best work was done. His principal works are the cathedral at Bangor, Me., Christ Church and the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn ; and in New York, Trinity Church, the Trinity Building, Grace Church and Saint Thomas's Church, the Corn Exchange Bank, besides numerous private residences. From 1857 to 1876 he was president of the American Institute of Architects. UPLAND PLOVER. A sportsman's name for tlie large sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) common throughout the United States, and fre- quenting uplands and plains more than is cus- tomary with other species of its kind. See Sandpiper. TJPMARK, vp'mark, Gustaf Heinrich Vil- iiELM (1844 — ). A Swedish art-historian, born at Stockholm. After studying at L'psala from 1801 to 1869, he secured a position in the National Jluseum at Stockholm and was appointed its director in 1880. He is the founder and chair- man of the "Gripsholms Society" which, in 1889- 93, restored the long-neglected ancient castle of the Vasa dynasty. Upmark's more important publications include: De grafiska. koiisternti (1889); Svenska Riddnrhuset, byggnadshistoria (1891); Die Architektur der Renaissanre in Schweden 1530-1760 (1897 et seq.) ; besides many essays concerning art in Sweden under the Vasa dynasty, such as Tapetmfveriet i Sverige under de f&rsta Yasakomingama (1886), Grips- holms slott (1887), Vadstena slott (1892), Skdnska herrgardar under retvdssanst iden ( 1894) , Stoekholms slott under Tasatiden (1890), and others. UPOLU, oo'p6-loo. The second largest island of the Samoan group, situated just southeast of Savaii (Map: Australasia, L 4). It belongs to Germany. Length, 40 miles; extreme width. 15 miles; area, including adjacent islands, 340 square miles. It is the most fertile and at- tractive island of the archipelago. The coasts are fringed with coral reefs. The western part, the productive region, contains the volcano of Tafua (3100 feet). A mountain range extends east and west throughout the island. The northern slope is long and gentle and covereid with forests. Apia is the capital: Falealili, the largest town. Vessels with 55.000 tonnage en- tered at Apia in 1901. Population, in 1900, 18,- 341. See Samoan Islands.