[Yankee], slang name for a New Englander; applied in England to the citizens of the United States generally; it is of uncertain derivation.
[Yapura], an affluent of the Amazon, which rises in Columbia; has a course of 1750 m., and is navigable to steamers for 970 m.
[Yarkand] (60), the capital or chief city of Eastern Turkestan, 100 m. SE. of Kashgar; is in the centre of a very fertile district of the vast continental basin of Central Asia, abounding also in large stores of mineral wealth; it is a great emporium of trade, and the inhabitants are mostly Mohammedans.
[Yarmouth] (49), a seaport, fishing town, and watering-place of Norfolk, 20½ m. E. of Norwich and some 2 m. above the mouth of the Yare; is the principal seat of the English herring fishery, and is famous for its herrings, known as bloaters; it has a fine roadstead called Yarmouth Roads, a safe anchorage for ships, being protected by sandbanks; has a number of public buildings, in particular a parish church, one of the largest in England, and a fine marine parade.
[Yarrell, William], naturalist, born at Westminster; wrote "History of British Fishes" and "History of British Birds" (1784-1856).
[Yarrow], a famous Scottish stream which rises on the confines of the shires of Peebles, Dumfries, and Selkirk, passes NE. through the Loch of the Lowes and St. Mary's Loch, and joins the Ettrick 2 m. above Selkirk after a course of 25 m.
[Yates, Edmund], journalist, founded The World newspaper; wrote a supremely interesting "Autobiography" (1831-1894).
[Yellow Sea], or Whang-hai, an inlet of the Pacific, on the NE. coast of China, bounded on the E. by the Corea, including in the NW. the Gulf of Pechili, some 600 m. long, and its average breadth 300 m.; is very shallow, and gradually silting up owing to the quantity of alluvium brought down by the rivers which fall into it.
[Yellowstone, the], a river which rises in the NW. of [Wyoming] (q. v.), and falls into the Missouri as one of its chief tributaries after a course of 1300 m.