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kp-eb0702-037402-4671 | ALARBES, a name given to those Arabians who live in tents, and distinguish themselves by their dress from the others Who live in towns. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037403-4671 | ALARES, in Roman Antiquity, an epithet given to the cavalry on account of their being placed in the two wings of the army. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037404-4671 | ALARIC, a famous general of the Goths. He entered Thrace at the head of 200,000 men, and laid waste all the country through which he passed. He marched next to Macedonia and Thessaly. The Thessalians met him near the mouth of the river Peneus, and killed about 3000 of his army; nevertheless he advanced into Greece, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037405-4671 | ALARM, in the military art, denotes either the apprehension of being suddenly attacked, or the notice thereof signified by firing a cannon, firelock, or the like. False alarms are frequently made use of to harass the enemy, by keeping them constantly under arms. Sometimes also this method is taken to try the vigilance ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037406-4671 | ALASCANI, in Church History, a sect of Anti-Luther-ans, whose distinguishing tenet, besides their denying baptism, is said to have been this, that the words, This is my body, in the institution of the eucharist, are not to be understood of the bread, but of the whole action or celebration of the Supper. They are said t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037407-4671 | ALASCO, John, a Polish nobleman of the 16th century, who, imbibing the reformed opinions, was expelled his country, and became preacher to a Protestant congregation at Embden; but foreseeing persecution there, he came to England about the year 1551, while the reformation was carrying on under Edward VI. The publication... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037408-4671 | ALASSIO, a seaport in the duchy of Genoa, in the Sardinian kingdom, with 1420 inhabitants, who equip several vessels annually to the coral fishery on the shores of the island of Sardinia. ' o ∣ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037409-4671 | ALASSONA, a town in European Turkey, with 3000 inhabitants. It is in the ancient Thessaly, now in the pachalic of Tirhala. A great fair is held here. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037410-4671 | ALATAMAHA, a large river of North America, which, rising in the Apalachian mountains, runs south-east through the province of Georgia, and falls into the Atlantic Ocean, below the town of Frederica. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037411-4671 | ALAVA, a province in the north of Spain, one of those three usually denominated Provincias Vascongadas, which enjoy privileges that distinguish them from the other dominions of the Spanish monarchy, and speak a language most remote from the Castilian, generally called by the natives Vascuence, and by other people the B... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037412-4671 | ALAUTA, a considerable river of Turkey in Europe, [7:2:375] which, after watering the north-east part of Transylvania and part of Wallachia, falls into the Danube almost opposite to Nicoolis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037501-4684 | ALAY, signifying in the Turkish language “The Triumph,” a ceremony which accompanies the assembling together the forces of that vast empire upon the breaking out of a war. It consists of the most insipid buffoonery, and is attended with acts of the most shocking barbarity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037502-4684 | ALAYOR, a town of Spain, in the district of the same name, the former containing 900, the latter 3960 inhabitants. It is in the island of Minorca, belonging to the Spanish crown. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037503-4684 | ALB, or Albe, in the Romish Church, a vestment of white linen-hanging down to the feet, and answering to the surplice of the English clergy. In the ancient church it was usual with those newly baptized to wear an alb, or white vestment; and hence the Sunday after Easter was called dominica in albis, on account of the a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037504-4684 | ALBA, a province in the duchy of Piedmont, in the continental Sardinian dominions. It is a fine plain of 366 square miles, or 234,240acres, producing abundant harvests of corn, wine, fruits, oil, and truffles, besides the best silk. The cattle arc not numerous. There are no mines, but quarries of marble, slate, and roc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037505-4684 | ALBACETE, a Spanish town in the province of Murcia. It has 1 parish church, 5 monasteries, 1 hospital, and 5200 inhabitants. There are looms for weaving cloth, 28 manufactories of cutlery, a famous fair held in September, and excellent wine here. Long. 2. 2. W. Lat. 38. 51. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037506-4684 | ALBAHURIM, figura sexdecirn laterum, a figure of great importance, according to astrological physicians, who built their prognostics on it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037507-4684 | ALBAIDA, a Spanish town in the province of Valencia, containing 3200 inhabitants. There are linen manufactories, bleaching, and soap-boiling carried on here. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037508-4684 | ALBAN, a town of 3070 inhabitants, in the arrondissement of Alby, and department of Hérault, in France, near to which is a rich iron-mine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037509-4684 | ALBAN, St, is said to have been the first person who suffered martyrdom for Christianity in Britain; he is therefore usually styled the protomartyr of this island. He was born at Verulam, and flourished towards the end of the third century. In his youth he took a journey to Rome, in company with zlmphibalus, a monk of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037510-4684 | ALBANENSES, in Church History, the same with Albigenses. See Albigenses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037511-4684 | ALBANI, in Roman Antiquity, a college of the Salii, or priests of Mars so called from Mount Albanus, the place of their, residence.
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Albani, Francis, a celebrated painter, born in Bologna, March 17. 1578. His father was a silk merchant, and intended to bring up his son to that business; but Albani, having a s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-037601-4697 | ALBANIA, a country of considerable extent, which, though frequently ruled by turbulent and nearly independent chiefs, ranks as one of the provinces of the Turkish empire. It extends from the thirty-ninth to the forty-third degree of north latitude, for the space of about 250 miles, along the Mediterranean and the Gulf ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038001-4749 | ALBANO, a city near the lake of the same nape, in the Campagna di Roma, in the Papal territories. It is much admired for the picturesque scenery around it It is well built, and the Roman aqueduct and other monuments of antiquity are in tolerable preservation. The city contains a cathedral, four monasteries, a nunnery, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038002-4749 | ALBANS, St, a large town of great antiquity, in the hundred of Cashio, in the county of Hertford. It was the ancient Verulam of the Romans and the Watlingcester of the Saxons, and celebrated in more recent times by having conferred a title, by its ancient name, on the great Lord Bacon. The abbey church, now parochial, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038003-4749 | ALBANUS Mons, in Ancient Geography, now called Mont Albano, 26 miles from Rome, near where Alba Longa stood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038004-4749 | ALBANY, a fortress belonging to the British, seated on the S. W. of Hudson’s Bay. Long. 82.10. W. Lat. 59.20. N.
Albany, a town of North America, the capital of a county of the same name, and the seat of government for the state of New York. It is a well-built place, and contained 12,600 inhabitants in 1820. It is sit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038005-4749 | ALBARAZIN, a strong town, and one of the most ancient of the kingdom of Àrragon, in Spain. It is seated on an eminence near the riyer Guadalquivir, a little below its source, and on the frontiers of Valencia and New Castile. It is the seat of a bishop, and produces the best wool in all Arragon. It is about 100 miles ea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038006-4749 | ALBARII, in Antiquity, properly denoted those who gave the whitening to earthen vessels, &c.; in which sense they stood contradistinguished from Dealbatores, who whitened walls. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038007-4749 | ALBARIUM Opus, in the ancient building, the incrustation or covering of the roofs of houses with white plaster, made of mere. lime. This is otherwise called opus album. It differed from Tectorium, which is a common name given to all roofing or ceiling, including even that formed of lime and sand, or lime and marble; wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038008-4749 | ALBATEGNI, an Arabic prince of Batan, in Mesopotamia, and a celebrated astronomer, who lived about the year of Christ 880, as appears by his observations. He is also called Muhammed ben Geber Albatani, Mahomet tìae son of Geber, and Muhamedes Aractensis. He made astronomical observations at Antioch, and at Racah or Ara... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038101-4762 | ALBATERRA, a town in the government of Orihuela, and province of Valencia, in Spain. It contains 2400 inhabitants, and produces abundance of figs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038102-4762 | ALBATI Equi, an appellation given to such horses, in the games of the ancient circus, as wore white furniture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038103-4762 | ALBATROSS. See Ornithology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038104-4762 | ALBAZIN, a town of Greater Tartary, with a strong castle. It is situated upon the river Amur or Yamour, and belongs to the Russians. Long. 103. 30. E. Lat. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 N 103 30' E | ALBAZIN |
kp-eb0702-038105-4762 | ALBE, a small piece of money, current in Germany, worth only a French sol and seven deniers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038106-4762 | ALBECK, or Alpeck, a bailiwick in the circle of Jaxt, in Wirtemberg, extending over 114 square miles, or 72,960 acres. It contains one city, three market-towns, and 13,953 inhabitants. The soil is fertile, and produces good crops of corn, flax, hemp, rape-seed, and fruit. The chief trade depends on spinning linen, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038107-4762 | ALBEMARLE, or Aumale, a town of France, in Upper Normandy, now in the department of Seine Inferior, from whence the noble family of Keppel takes the title of Earl. It is seated On the declivity of a hill, on the confines of Picardy, 35 miles north-east of Rouen, and 70 north-west of Paris. 1 Long. l. l 42. ’ E. Lat. 49... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038108-4762 | ALBENGUA, a town of Italy, in the ' territory of Genoa. It is the see of a bishop, and is a very ancient, handsome town, but not well peopled, on account of the insalubrity of the air. It is seated in a very beautiful plain, which is well cultivated; and the outside of the town is surrounded with olive-írees. It is a s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038109-4762 | ALBERNUO, a kind of camlet, brought from the Levant by the way of Marseilles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038110-4762 | ALBERONI, Julius, the son of a poor gardener in the suburbs of Placentia, born in 1664, who, by his great abilities and good fortune, rose from this low ^origin to the employment of first minister of state at the court of Spain, and to the dignity of cardinal. He roused that kingdom out of the lethargy it had sunk into... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038111-4762 | ALBERT, Margrave of Brandenburg, and the last grand master of the Teutonic order, laid aside the habit of his order, embraced Lutheranism, and concluded a peace at Cracow in 1525, by which he was acknowledged duke of the east part of Prussia (formerly called for that reason Ducal Prussia), but to be held as a fief of P... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038112-4762 | ALBERTI, Leone Battista, was descended from a noble family of Florence, and was perfectly acquainted with painting, sculpture, and architecture. He wrote of all three in Latin, but his studies did not permit him to leave any thing considerable behind him in painting. He was employed by Pope Nicholas V. in his buildings... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038113-4762 | ALBERTI, a market-town of Hungary, in the province of Hither Danube and the palatinate of Pest, on the line through which the canal intended to unite the Theiss and the Danube is to pass. It is in long. 19. 47. 58. E. lat. 47. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038114-4762 | ALBERTISTS, a sect of scholastics, só named from their leader Albertus Magnus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038115-4762 | ALBERTUS Magnus, a Dominican friar, and afterwards bishop of Ratisbon, was one of the most learned men and most famous doctors of the 13th century. He is said to have acted as a man-midwife; and some have been highly offended that one of his profession should follow such an employment. A book entitled De Natura Perum, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038116-4762 | ALBERTUS, a gold coin, worth about fourteen Frencíi livres. It was coined during the administration of Albertus, archduke of Austria. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038117-4762 | ÁLBESIA, in Antiquity, a kind of shields, otherwise called Decumana. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038118-4762 | ALBI, a city of France, in the department of the Tarn, the capital of the Albigeois, in Upper Languedoc. The cathedral is dedicated to St Cecilia, and has one of the finest choirs in the kingdom. Here is a very valuable silver shrine, of exquisite workmanship, of the mosaic kind; it contains the relics of St Clair, the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038201-4775 | ALBIGENSES, in Church History, a sect or party of reformers, about Toulouse and Albigeois, in Languedoc, who sprung up in the 12th century, and distinguished themselves by their opposition to the discipline and ceremonies of the Romish church.
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kp-eb0702-038202-4775 | ALBINI, in Antiquity, the workmen employed in what was called opus albarium. They make a different profession from the dealbatores or Whiteners. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038203-4775 | ALBINOS, the name by which the Portuguese call the white Moors, who are looked upon by the negroes as monsters. They at a distance might be taken for Europeans; but when you come near them, their white colour appears like that of persons affected with a leprosy.
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kp-eb0702-038401-4801 | ALBINOVANUS, a Latin poet, whom Ovid surnamed the Divine. There is now nothing of his extant, except an elegy on Drusus, and another on the death of MecaenSr. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038402-4801 | ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfred, a celebrated physician and anatomist, was born of an illustrious family at Frankfort on the Oder in 1697. His father was then professor of the practice of medicine in the university of Frankfort; but in the year 1702 he repaired to Leyden, being nominated professor of anatomy and surgery in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038403-4801 | ALBION, the ancient name of Britain.
New Albion, a name given by Sir Francis Drake to California, on the north-west coast of America, which he discovered and took possession of in the year 1578. Captain Cook visited this coast in 1778, and landed in a place situated in long. 235. 20. E. lat. 44. 33. N. In the year 179... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038404-4801 | ALBIREO, in Astronomy, a star of the third or fourth magnitude, in the constellation Cygnus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038405-4801 | ALBIS, in Ancient Geography, now the Elbe, which divided ancient Germany in the middle, and was the boundary of this country, so far as it was known to the Romans; all beyond they owned to be uncertain, no Roman except Drusus and Tiberius having penetrated so far as the Elbe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038406-4801 | ALBI SOLA, a small town belonging to the republic of Genoa. Here is a porcelain manufacture, and several country-houses of the Genoese nobility. It was bombarded in 1745 by the English. Long. 8. 20. E. Lat. 44. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038407-4801 | ALBLASSER-WAARD, a district in the circle of Dordrecht and province of Holland, inclosed on two sides by the Merwe, and on the third by the Lech. It receives its name from the river that flows through it, and comprehends sixteen villages, which yield abundance of good hemp. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038408-4801 | ALBOGALERUS, in Roman Antiquity, a white cap worn by the piamen Dialis, on the top of which was an ornament of olive branches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038409-4801 | ALBORAK, amongst the Mahometan writers, the beast on which Mahomet rode in his journeys to heaven. The Arab commentators give many fables concerning this extraordinary mode of conveyance. It is represented as of an intermediate shape and size between an ass and a mule. A place, it seems, was secured for it in paradise ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038410-4801 | ALBORO, in Zoology, a name by which the erythrinus, a small red fish caught in the Mediterranean, is commonly known in the markets of Rome and Venice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038411-4801 | ALBOURG, a town of Denmark, in North Jutland, capital of the diocese of the same name, and a bishop’s see. It has this name, which signifies eel-town, on account of the great number of eels taken here. It is seated on a canal 10 miles from the sea, 30 north of Wiburg, and 50 north of Aarhuus. It has an exchange for mer... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038412-4801 | ALBRICIUS, born at London, was a great philosopher, a learned and able physician, and well versed in all the branches of polite literature. He lived in the 11th century, and wrote several works in Latin; particularly, 1. Of the Origin of the Gods; 2. The Virtues of the Ancients; 3. The Nature of Poison. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038413-4801 | ALBUERA, a town of Spain, in the province of Estremadura, which has been rendered celebrated by a victory gained there on the 16th of May 1811, over a French army marching from Seville to the relief of Badajos, which was besieged by Marshal Beresford. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038414-4801 | ALBUFEIRA, a Portuguese town, on a bay in the province of Algarve, containing 1 parish church, 1 hospital, 1 poor-house, 962 houses, and 3181 inhabitants. Its [7:2:385]harbour is capable of containing large ships, and is well defended by a castle and battery. Lat. 37. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038501-4814 | ALBUM, in Antiquity., a kind of white table or register, wherein the names of certain magistrates, public transactions, &c. were entered. Of these there were various sorts; as the album decurionum, album senatorum, album judicum, album praetoris, &c.
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kp-eb0702-038502-4814 | ALBUMAZAR, a learned Arabian astronomer in the tenth century, who wrote a treatise Of the Revolution of the Years. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038503-4814 | ALBUMEN, a substance found both in animal and vegetable matters, and in great abundance in the white of eggs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038504-4814 | ALBUQUERQUE, a town of Spain, in the province of Estremadura, is seated on an eminence, nine miles from die frontiers of Portugal, and containing 5500 inhabitants. It is commanded by an almost impregnable fortress, built on a high mountain, and serving to defend the town. It has some trade in wool and woollen manufactu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038505-4814 | ALBURN, the English name of a compound colour, being a mixture of white and red,+r reddish brown. Skinner derives the word, in this sense, from the Latin alhus, and the Italian burno, from bruno, brown. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038506-4814 | ALBURNUM, the soft white substance which in trees is found between the liber or inner bark and the wood, and in process of time acquiring solidity, becomes itself the wood. From its colour and comparative softness, it has been styled by some writers the fat of trees, adeps arborium. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038507-4814 | ALBY, an arrondissement in the south-west of France, in the department of the Tarn, comprehending an extent of 56G square miles, or 362,240 acres. It is divided into 8 cantons and 105 communes, and contains 70,054 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038508-4814 | ALCAEUS, a famous ancient lyric poet, born at Mitylene, in the island of Lesbos. Horace seems to think him the inventor of this kind of poesy.
Now the Homan muse inspire,
And warm the song with Grecian fire.
Francis .
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kp-eb0702-038509-4814 | ALCAICS, in Ancient Poetry, a denomination given to several kinds of verse, from Alcaeus, their inventor.
The first kind consists of five feet, viz. a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, a dactyle, another dactyle. Such is the following verse of Horace:
Omnes ∣ eo∣dem ∣ cogimur, ∣ omnium
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kp-eb0702-038601-4827 | ALCAID, Alcayde, or Alcalde, in the polity of the Moors, Spaniards, and Portuguese, a magistrate or officer of justice, answering nearly to the French provost and the British justice of peace. The alcaid among the Moors is vested with supreme jurisdiction, both in civil and criminal cases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038602-4827 | ALCALA de Guadeira, a small town of Spain, in Andalusia, upon the river Guadeira. Here are abundance of springs, from whence they convey water to Seville by an aqueduct. Long. 6. 16. W. Lat. 37. 15. N.
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kp-eb0702-038603-4827 | ALCALY, or Alcali, or Alkali. See Chemistry, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038604-4827 | ALCAMO, a city of Sicily, on the river Freddo or St Bartholomew, in the intendancy of Trapani. It is a parliamentary city, in a district of peculiar fertility, which produces some of the best wines of the island. It contains a very strong castle, many churches and monasteries, and 13,000 inhabitants. Near to it are rem... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038605-4827 | ALCANIZ, a Spanish town upon the Guadaloupe, in the province of Arragon, with a college, three parish churches, six monasteries, one hospital, and 4200 inhabitants. The surrounding country is wild, but rich in olives, mulberry trees, and alum. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038606-4827 | ALCANNA, or Alkanna, in Commerce, a powder prepared from the leaves of the Egyptian privet, in which the people of Cairo drive a considerable trade. It is much used by the Turkish women, to give a golden colour to their nails and hair. In dyeing, it gives a yellow colour when steeped with common water, and a red one wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038607-4827 | ALCANTARA, a town of Spain, in the province of Estremadura, on the left bank of the Tagus, over which is a magnificent bridge. It is in long. 6.10. W. lat. 39. 44. N. It has two parish churches, five monasteries, and 3000 inhabitants.
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... | 39 44' N 6 10' W | ALCANTARA |
kp-eb0702-038608-4827 | ALCARAZ, a small city of La Mancha, in Spain, defended by a pretty strong castle, and remarkable for an ancient aqueduct. It stands near the river Guardamena, and the soil about it is very fruitful. They have a breed of little running horses, which are very fleet and strong. It is 25 miles north of the confines of Anda... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038609-4827 | ALCASSAR do Sal, a town of Portugal, in Estremadura, which has a castle said to be impregnable. It is indeed very strong, both by art and nature, being built on the top of a rock which is exceedingly steep on all sides. Here is a salt-work, which produces very white salt, from whence the town takes its name. The fields... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038701-4840 | ALCAUDETE, a town of Andalusia, in Spain, in the province of Jaen, in a fertile territory, producing wine, oil, corn, and abundance of fruits. It has a castle, two parish churches, four monasteries, and 4000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038702-4840 | ALCAVALA, in the Spanish Finances, was at first a tax of 10 per cent., afterwards of 14 per cent., and is at present of only 6 per cent., upon the sale of every sort of property, whether movable or immovable; and it is repeated every time the property is sold. The levying of this tax requires a multitude of revenue off... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038703-4840 | ALCAZAR de St Juan, a city on the border of a small lake, in the province of Toledo, in Castile. It contains 2200 inhabitants. It has a saltpetre refinery, and some gunpowder works.
Alcazar Leguer, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Fez, and in the province of Ilabat. It was taken by Alphonse, king of Portugal, in 14... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 0' N 3 50' W | ALCAZAR |
kp-eb0702-038704-4840 | ALCHEMY, that branch of chemistry which had for its principal objects the transmutation of metals into gold, the panacea or universal remedy, an alkahest or universal menstruum, an universal ferment, and many other things equally ridiculous.
Kircher, instructed in all the secrets of chemistry, has fully exposed the ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038705-4840 | ALCIAT, or Alciate, Andrew, a great lawyer, who flourished in the 10th century, was born at Milan. He mixed much of polite learning in the explication of the laws, and happily drove out the barbarity of language which till then had reigned in the lectures and writings of lawyers; for which Thuanus highly praises him. H... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038706-4840 | ALCIBIADES, an Athenian general. It was the fate of this great man to live at a time when his country was a scene of confusion. The Greeks, grown insolent from their conquests in Persia, turned their armies against each other, and bandied together under the conduct of the two most opulent states, Athens and Lacedemon. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038707-4840 | ALCINOUS, king of the Phaeacians, in the island now called Corfu, was son of Nausithous, and grandson of Neptune and Periboea. It is by his gardens that this king has chiefly immortalized his memory. He received Ulysses with much civility, when a storm had cast him on his coast. The people here loved pleasure and good ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038708-4840 | ALCIRA, a Spanish town upon an island in the river Xucar, in the province of Valencia. It is surrounded with walls, and has two parish churches, six monasteries, one hospital, four poor-houses, and 9000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038709-4840 | ALCMAER, a city of the United Provinces, seated in North Holland, about four miles from the sea, 15 from Haerlem, and 18 from Amsterdam. The streets and houses are extremely neat and regular, and the public buildings very beautiful. It had formerly two parish churches, dedicated to St Matthew and St Lawrence. The latte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 28' N 4 26' E | ALCMAER |
kp-eb0702-038801-4853 | ALCMAN, a lyric poet, who flourished in the 27th Olympiad, about 670 years before Christ. He was born at Sparta, and composed several poems, of which only some fragments are remaining, quoted by Athenaeus and some other ancient writers. He was very amorous, accounted the father of gallant poesy, and is said to have bee... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | ALCMAN | |
kp-eb0702-038802-4853 | ALCMANIAN, in ancient lyric poetry, a kind of verse, consisting of two dactyles and two trochees; as,—
Virgini|bus pue|risque|canto.
The word is formed from Aleman, the name of an ancient Greek poet in great esteem for his erotics or amorous compositions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038803-4853 | ALCMENA, the daughter of Electryo, king of Mycenae, and wife of Amphitryon. Jupiter, putting on the shape of her husband while he was abroad in the wars, begot Hercules upon her: he made that night as long as three ordinary ones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038804-4853 | ALCOBAZA, a town of Portugal, to the north of Lisbon, in the province of Estremadura, at the mouth of the two rivers Alcoa and Baza. It is celebrated for its monastery, one of the richest and most splendid establishments in the kingdom. It contains 295 houses and 1500 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | ALCOBAZA | |
kp-eb0702-038805-4853 | ALCOCK, John, doctor of laws, and bishop of Ely in the reign of King Henry VIL, was born at Beverley in Yorkshire, and educated at Cambridge. He was first made dean of Westminster, and afterwards appointed master of the rolls. In 1471 he was consecrated bishop of Rochester: in 1476 he was translated to the see of Worce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038806-4853 | ALCOENTRE, a town of Portugal, in the province of Estremadura. It is within the lines of Torres Vedras, and was occupied by the allied troops as cantonments during the important period when those lines were the barrier that secured the safety of the peninsula. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-038807-4853 | ALCOHOL, or Alkool, in Chemistry, spirits of wine highly rectified. It is also used for any highly rectified spirit.
Alcohol is also used for any fine impalpable powder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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