ROS'TOCK, the most important t. and seaport of the grand duchy of Mecklenburg: Schwerin, stands in a flat fruitful district on the Warnow, 9 m. from the. mouth of that river in the Baltic, and 55 m. n.e. of Schwerin by railway. It is surrounded by ramparts and walls pierced by 12 gates, and has still a medireval aspect. The university, founded in 1419, maintains 39 professors and lecturers, and has a library of 120,000 volumes. The handsome new university building is a renaissance structure in brick. In St. Mary's church, a large building dating from the 13th c., and possessing one of the finest organs in Germany, is the tenth of Grotius. St. Peter's, dating from the 12th c., has a tower 420 ft. high. There are several squares, of which Bflicher's square contains a colossal monument of the gen. of that name. Manufactures of linen and tobacco, and tanning, brewing, and distilling are carried on. In the year 1865 the town of Rostock
owned 377 vessels. The exports are chiefly wheat, barley, oil-cakes, and cattle-bones to Great Britain. The imports are coals, salt, iron, limestone, herrings and other pro visions, thnher, etc. At the mouth of the Warnow is Warnemtindc, the port of Rostock, at which all vessels drawing more than 10 ft. load and unload. Pop. of Rostock '75. 34.172.—Rostock is of Slavic origin, and a shadowy glimpse of it is got in the 11111 or 12th c., but the progress of commerce and other causes, chiefly political, rapidly German ized it, and in 1218 it figures as wholly German. It was a member for centuries of the old Ilanseatic league, long ranked in hnportanee with Lubeck, and still enjoys to is wonderful extent its ancient privileges—the municipal constitution of the town being even yet almost wholly republican.