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kp-eb0712-045802-3756 | ISAEUS, a celebrated Greek orator, whose birth-place was uncertain even in the time of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who treats of him at considerable length. Some thought him a native of Athens, and others of Chalcis, in the island of Eubaea. The precise dates of his birth and death are not given, but we know that he fl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045803-3756 | ISAIAH, or the Prophecy of Isaiah, a canonical book of the Old Testament. Isaiah is the first of the four greater prophets; the other three being Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. This prophet was of royal descent, his father Amos being brother to Azariah king of Judah. The first five chapters of his prophecy relate to th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045804-3756 | ISAURA, or Isaurus, in Ancient Geography, a strong city of Mount Taurus, in Isauria, which was twice demolished; first by Perdiccas, or at least by the inhabitants, who, through despair, destroyed themselves by fire, rather than fall into the hands of the enemy; again by Servilius, who thence took the surname Isauricus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045805-3756 | ISAURIA, a rugged and mountainous country, touching Pamphylia and Cilicia on the north, situated almost in Mount Taurus, and taking its name from Isaura; and, according to some, extending by a narrow slip to the Mediterranean. Stephanus, Ptolemy, and Zosimus, make no mention of places on the sea; though Pliny and Strab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045806-3756 | ISCA Dumniorum, in Ancient Geography, a town in Britain; now Exeter, capital of Devonshire. Lat. 5° 44', Long. 3° 40′ W.
Isea Silurum, in Ancient Geography, the station of the Legio Augusta Secunda in Britain; now Caerleon, a town of Monmouthshire, on the Uske. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045807-3756 | ISCHALIS, or 1scalis, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Belgae in Britain; now Ilchester, in Somersetshire, on the river Ill. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045808-3756 | ISCHIA, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, on the north-west side of the Bay of Naples, of volcanic origin, but fertile in wheat, wine, and fruits. It contains about twenty-seven square miles. The mountain Spomea, in height 2500 feet, is an extinguished volcano, but has woods and good pasture land, and several dairies... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045809-3756 | ISCHURIA, í¢Tĵa碢« (formed from ∖ rγ,ω, I stop, and t∕ξβr, urine), in Physic, a disease consisting in an entire suppression of urine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045810-3756 | ISELASTICS, a kind of games, or combats, celebrated in Greece and Asia, in the time of the Roman emperors. The victors at these games had very considerable privileges conferred on them. They were crowned on the spot immediately after their victory, had pensions allowed them, were furnished with provisions at the public... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045811-3756 | ISELWORTH, a town of the county of Middlesex, in the Hundred of the same name, eight miles from London. It is pleasantly situated on the banks of the Thames, and contains Sion House, belonging to the Duke of Northumberland, and several other mansions of high respectability. The principal industry is exercised in garden... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045812-3756 | ISENBERG, now a province of the principality of Hesse Cassel, having been added to it when the former sovereign, who is still the chief proprietor, was mediatised. It is about 100 square miles in extent, is a hilly district, with extensive woods, is watered by the rivers Kinzig and Bracht, and the population living in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045813-3756 | ISERE, a department of the south of France, formed out of the ancient divisions of Graisivaudan and Biellois, which were formerly portions of Dauphine. It extends over 3564 square miles, or, according to the royal almanack, 841,230 hectares. It is divided into four arrondissements, and these into 45 cantons, with 558 c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045901-3769 | ISERLON, a city of Prussia, the capital of a circle of the same name in the Arensberg division of the province of Westphalia. It stands on the river Baar en, and is one of the first manufacturing places in the kingdom for silks, velvets, and ribbons, and also has manufactories of cutlery, and other iron goods, with ext... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045902-3769 | ISH, in Scotch Law, signifies expiration. Thus we say “the ish of a lease.” It signifies also to go out ; thus we say “free ish and entry” from and to any place. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045903-3769 | ISIA, lσ-i ∣ u, feasts and sacrifices anciently solemnized in honour of the goddess Isis. The Isia were full of the most abominable impurities, for which reason, those who were initiated into them were obliged to take an oath of secrecy. They were held for nine, days successively, but grew so scandalous, that the senat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045904-3769 | ISIAC Table, is one of the most considerable monuments of antiquity discovered at Rome in 1525, and supposed, by the various figures in bas-relief upon it, to represent the feats of Isis, and other Egyptian deities. There have been various opinions as to the antiquity of this monument. Some have supposed that it was en... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045905-3769 | ISIACI, priests of the goddess Isis. Dioscorides tells us, that they bore a branch of sea wormwood in their hands instead of olive. They sung the praises of the goddess twice a-day, namely, at the rising of the sun, when they opened her temple, after which they begged alms the rest of the day, and returning at night, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045906-3769 | ISIDORUS, called Damiatensis, or Pelusiota, from his having lived in a solitude near that city, was one of the most famous of all St Chrysostom’s disciples, and flourished in the time of the general council held in 421. We have upwards of two thousand of his epistles in five books. They are short, but well written, in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045907-3769 | ISIS, a celebrated deity of the Egyptians. Some suppose her to be the same as Io, who was changed into a cow, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where she taught agriculture, and governed the people with mildness and equity, for which reasons she received divine honours after death. According to some tarditions m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045908-3769 | ISJUM, a city of the province Ukraine in Russia, the capital of a circle of the same name on the river Jszumez, which near to it falls into the Donez∙ It is surrounded with walls, but in a neglected condition; and contains four churches, 718 houses, and 4500 inhabitants, whose chief trade consists in the sale of corn a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-045909-3769 | ISLA de la Gente Hermoga, or Island of Handsome [7:12:460]People, an island in the Pacific Ocean, discovered by Mendana, about six leagues in circumference. Lat. 10° S.; Long. 175° 10′ W. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046001-3782 | ISLA de Leon, a city of Spain, in the kingdom of Seville, and in the province of Andalusia. It is a place generally containing 40,000 inhabitants, but from being within the line of defence of the Spanish troops and the garrison of Cadiz, during the siege it was supposed to contain more than double that number. When the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046002-3782 | ISLAM, or Islamism; the true faith, according to the Mahommedans. See Mahommedanism. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046003-3782 | ISLAMABAD, a town of Bengal, in the district of Chittagong, of which it is the capital. It is situated on the western bank of the Chittagon, near about ten miles from its junction with the sea. It carries on a considerable trade, and ships are also built there, and sent to Calcutta for sale. This town was early known t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046004-3782 | ISLAMNAGUR, a town of Hindostan, in the Mahratta territories, province of Malwah, five miles north-east from Bossal, in lat. 23° 19′ N.; long. 77° 31′ E. There are many small places of this name in’ Hindostan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046005-3782 | ISLAMPOOR. There are two towns of this name in Hindostan, one in the province of Ajmeer, seventy-seven miles north from Zeypoor. Lat 27° 4′ N.; long. 75° 23′ E. Another in the province of Bahar, district of Bahar, thirty-five miles south from Portna. Lat. 25° 7′ N.; long 85° 15′ E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046006-3782 | ISLAND, a tract of dry land encompassed with water; in which sense it stands contradistinguished from Continent, or Terra Firma. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046007-3782 | ISLE, a city of the arrondissement of Gaillac, in the department of the Tarn in France. It stands on the river Tarn, and is an ill-built manufacturing town, containing 6520 inhabitants, who make various kinds of woollen goods, and trade largely in wine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046008-3782 | ISLEBIANS, in ecclesiastical history, a name given to those who adopted the sentiments of a Lutheran divine of Saxony, called John Agricoa, a disciple of Luther, and a native of Isleb, who, interpreting literally some of the precepts of St Paul regarding the Jewish law, declaimed against the necessity of good works. Se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046009-3782 | ISLINGTON, a large parish in the hundred of Ossulton, in the county of Middlesex, one mile and a half from London. It rises in a gentle declivity from the metropolis, but, by the houses connecting with it, appears to be only a prolongation of the city. It is chiefly occupied by persons carrying on trade in London, or b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046010-3782 | ISMAELITES, the descendants of Ismael, dwellingfrom Havila to the wilderness of Sur, towards Egypt, and thus overspreading Arabia Petraea; wherefore Josephus calls Ismael the founder of the Arabs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046011-3782 | ISMAIL, a town of the Russian province Bessarabia, the capital of a circle of the same name. It is situated on an arm of the Danube, is strongly fortified, and has become celebrated for the carnage which attended its capture in 1789 by Suwarrow. Since that period it has not recovered its former importance, and contains... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046012-3782 | ISMARUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Cicoes in Thrace, giving name to a lake, and by Virgil called Ismara. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046013-3782 | ISMID, a town of Asia Minor, the ancient Nicoedia, capital of Bithynia. It retains no traces of its former grandeur, nor any antiquity, except the remains of a church. It contains 7 50 families, and is situated on the side of a hill overlooking the Gulf of Nicoedia. Lat. 40° 39′ N. ĵ Long. 29° 34′ E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046014-3782 | ISMIK, a town of Asia Minor, the ancient Nice, which now contains scarcely 300 houses, yet exhibits numerous monuments of ancient grandeur. It is situated on a lake communicating with the Sea of Marmora, and carries on [7:12:461]some trade in silk. This place is famous in ecclesiastical history, as the seat of two coun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046101-3795 | ISOCHRONAL, is applied to such vibrations of a pendulum as are performed in the same space of time; as are all the vibrations of the same pendulum, whether the arches it describes be longer or shorter.
Isochronal Line, that in which a heavy body is supposed to descend without any acceleration. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046102-3795 | ISOCRATES, one of the most celebrated rhetoricians of Athens, was born, B. c. 436, five years before the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, twenty-two years after the birth of Lysias, and fifty-four after that of Demosthenes. He died b. c. 338. He was son of Theodorus, who was a manufacturer of musical instruments, bu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046103-3795 | ISOPERIMETRICAL figures, in Geometry, are such as have equal perimeters or circumferences. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046104-3795 | ISOSCELES triangle, in Geometry, one that has two equal sides. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046105-3795 | ISPAHAN, from time immemorial the capital of the Persian monarchy, and long celebrated as one of the most splendid cities of the East, though now nearly in a state of ruin and decay. Its original name is said to have been Sipahan, which it received from the Persian kings, in consequence of its having been the general p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046301-3821 | ISPIRA, a town of Turkish Armenia, the ancient His-piratis, now an inconsiderable town, but situated in a very-fertile district, and surrounded by many fine and rich villages. It is ninety miles east of Trebisond. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046302-3821 | ISRAEL, the name which the angel gave to Jacob, after having wrestled with him all night at Mahanaim or Penuel (Gen. xxxii. 1, 2, and 28, 29, 30, and Hosea xii. 3). It signifies “a conqueror of God,” or “a prince of God,” or, according to many of the ancients, “a man who sees God.” By the name of Israel is sometimes un... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046303-3821 | ISRAELITES, the descendants of Israel, who were at first called Hebrews, by reason of Abraham, who came from the other side of the Euphrates; and afterwards Israelites, from Israel the father of the twelve patriarchs; and, lastly, Jews, particularly after their return from the captivity of Babylon, because the tribe of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046304-3821 | ISSACHAR, one of the divisions of Palestine by tribes, situated to the south of Zabulon, and by a narrow slip reaches the Jordan, between Zabulon and Manassch (Joshua, xix). But whether it reached to the sea, is uncertain. Some hold that it did; but this is an assertion not easy to be proved, as Joshua makes no mention... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046305-3821 | ISSENGEAUX, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Loire in France, extending over 1200 square miles. It is divided into six cantons, and these into thirty-seven communes, which contain 76,306 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, which contains 1050 houses, with 6571 inhabitants, who subsist c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046306-3821 | ISSIN, a small town of Persia, two miles north of Gombroon, to which many of the inhabitants of that city retire during the unhealthy season. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046307-3821 | ISSOIRE, an arrondissement of the department of the Puy-de-Dôme in France, extending over 758 square miles, divided into nine cantons, composed of 116 communes, and inhabited by 95,500 persons. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the river Crouse, which a little below falls into the Allier. It contains ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046308-3821 | ISSOUDUN, an arrondissement of the department of the Indre in France, extending over 466 square miles, divided into four cantons, and those into fifty-three communes, and containing 39,887 inhabitants. The capital from which it takes the name, is a city which is situated on the river Theals, a second-rate stream. It is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046309-3821 | ISSUE, in common law, has various applications, being sometimes taken for the children begotten between a man and his wife; sometimes for profits growing from amercements or fines; sometimes for profits of lands and tenements; but more frequently for the point of matter depending in suit, upon which the parties join, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046310-3821 | ISSURDU, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Asmeer, in the Rajpoot territories. It is surrounded with a wall and ditch, has a citadel in the centre, and is one of the best built towns in the province. Lat. 26° 26' N.; Long. 76° 10' E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046311-3821 | ISSUS, now Ajazo, a town ol Cilicia in Natolia, with a harbour on the Levant sea, a little to the north of Scanderoon. Lat. 36° 56' N.; Long. 36° 25' E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046312-3821 | ISTAKHAR, a castle of Persia, formerly one of the citadels of Persepolis. It is situated on a very lofty and steep rock, and completely commands the surrounding plains. On the top is abundance of water. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046313-3821 | ISTHMIA, or Isthmian Games, one of the four solemn games which were celebrated every fifth year in Greece. They derived their name from the isthmus of Corinth, where they were celebrated. In their first institution, according to Pausanias, they consisted only of funeral rites and ceremonies in honour of Melicertes; but... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046314-3821 | ISTHMUS, a narrow neck or slip of land, which connects two continents; or joins a peninsula to the terra firma, and separates two seas. The most celebrated isthmuses are that of Panama or Darien, which joins North and South America; that of Suez, which connects Asia and Africa; that of Corinth, which unites the Morea w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046315-3821 | ISTRIA, a peninsula of Italy, in the territory of Venice, situated in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by Carniola on the north; and on the south, east, and west, by the sea. It produces wine, oil, and pastures; and there are quarries of fine marble. One part of it belongs to the Venetians, and the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-046316-3821 | ITALICA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Baetica in Spain, built by Scipio Africanus, and famous for being the birth-place of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian, and of the poet Silius Italicus. It is now Seville Vieja, a small village of Andalusia, on the Guadalquivir.
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kp-eb0712-046401-3834 | ITALY.
This extensive and interesting portion of Europe did not receive the name it has long borne till the extension of the Roman empire. The origin of that name has been derived by different persons from various sources. Timaeus and Varro have deduced it from a Greek word, Ιταλοί, which signifies an ox, because it c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-048901-4159 | ITCH, a cutaneous disease, appearing in small watery pustules on the skin, and commonly of a mild nature, though sometimes attended with obstinate and dangerous symptoms. See Medicine, Index. Iτcιι-Insect. See Acarus, Entomology, Index.
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kp-eb0712-048902-4159 | ITCHAPOUR, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, thirty miles south-west from Ganjam.
ΙΓΕΑ, a genus of plants belonging to the pentandria class. See Botany, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-048903-4159 | ITHACA, in Ancient Geography, an island in the Ionian Sea, on the coast of Epirus, the country of Ulysses, with a town and port situated at the foot of Mount Neius. According to Pliny, it is about twenty-five miles in compass, and according to Artemidorus only ten; but it is now found to be seventeen miles long and fou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-048904-4159 | ITINERARY, Itinerarium, a journal of travels, or an account of the distances of places. The most remarkable itinerary is that which goes under the names of Antoninus and Aethicus, or, as Barthius found in his copy, Antoninus Aethicus ; a Christian writer, posterior to the times of Constantine. There is another itinerar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-048905-4159 | ITIUS Portus, in Ancient Geography, the crux geo graphorum, so called from the difficulty of ascertaining its position. It would be endless to recite the different opinions concerning it, with the various reasons advanced in support of them. Three ports are mentioned by Caesar, two of them without any particular name, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-048906-4159 | ITURUP, one of the Kurile Islands, on which the Japanese some years since made a settlement. The Russians attacked them in 1807, and returned with considerable booty to Kamtschatka, whence they had sailed with two vessels. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-048907-4159 | ITYS, in fabulous history, a son of Tereus king of Thrace, by Procne, daughter of Pandion king of Athens. He was killed by his mother when he was about six years old, and served up before his father. He was changed into a pheasant, his mother into a swallow, and his father into an owl. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-048908-4159 | ITZECUINTEPOTZOTLI, or Hunch-backed Dog, a Mexican quadruped similar to a dog. It is as large as a Maltese dog, the skin of which is varied with white, tawny, [7:12:490]and black. The characteristic mark is a great hunch which it bears from its neck to its rump. This animal abounds most in the kingdom of Michuacan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049001-4172 | ITZEHOE, a town of Denmark, in the province of Holstein, situated on the navigable river Stor, in a pleasant valley. It contains 513 houses, and about 4000 inhabitants, who carry on an extensive trade in corn, and fit out many ships for the Greenland whale-fishery. Long. 9. 26. E. Lat. 53. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049002-4172 | IULUS, a son of Ascanius, born in Lavinium. In the succession to the kingdom of Alba, Aeneas Sylvius, the son of Aeneas and Lavinia, was preferred to him. But he was, by way of compensation, made chief priest.
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kp-eb0712-049003-4172 | IVA, a genus of plants belonging to the monoecia class, and in the natural method ranking under the fourth order, Composites. See Botany, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049004-4172 | IVAHAH, the name of a canoe employed by the South Sea islanders for making short excursions to sea. It is wall-sided, flat bottomed, and of different sizes, varying from seventy-two feet to ten; but its breadth is by no means in proportion; for canoes of ten feet are about a foot wide, and those of more than seventy ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049005-4172 | IVER, a town of the county of Buckingham, in the hundred of Stoke, eighteen miles from London. It stands on the river Colme, which turns several corn and some spinning mills. The population amounted in 1801 to 1377, in 1811 to 1635, in 1821 to 1663, and in 1831 to 1870. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049006-4172 | IVES, St, a borough and market-town of the county of Cornwall, in the hundred of Penwith, 276 miles from London. It is a sea-port, on the west side of the bay of that name, on the Bristol Channel. The government is in a mayor, twelve capital and twenty-four inferior burgesses. It returns two members to the House of Com... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049007-4172 | IVISA, or IVICA, one of the Balearic Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to the crown of Spain. Its inhabitants amount to 15,200. It is about sixteen leagues to the eastward of Cape St Antonia, on the coast of Valencia. Its figure is an irregular polygon, stretching from north-west to south-east twenty-eight m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049008-4172 | IVINGHOE, a market-town of the county of Buckingham, in the hundred of Cotslow, thirty-six miles from London. The town is pleasantly situated on the side of a hill, with an extensive prospect over a rich valley. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 452, in 1811 to 508, in 1821 to 551, and in 1831 to 573. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049009-4172 | IVORY is the name given to the tusks of the elephant, and of the walrus or sea-horse. Each male elephant arrived at maturity has two tusks. These are extremely diversified in size, which depends principally on the age of the animal; they are hollow at their insertion into the jaw and for a considerable space therefrom,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049101-4185 | IVRY, a market-town of the arrondissement of Eve-reux, in the department of the Eure, in France, remarkable for the victory gained there by Henry IV. over the Duke of Mayenne in 1590. It is situated on the banks of the Eure, and contains about 1250 inhabitants, who are occupied in tanneries, and in twist spinning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049102-4185 | IVY. See Hedera, Botany, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049103-4185 | IXIA, a genus of plants belonging to the triandria class, and in the natural method ranking under the sixth order, Ensatae. See Botany, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049104-4185 | IXION, in fabulous history, the kingof theLapithae, who, having married Dia, the daughter of Deionius, refused to give her the customary nuptial presents. Deionius in revenge took from him his horses; when Ixion, dissembling his resentment, invited his father-in-law to a feast, and contrived that the latter should fall... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049105-4185 | IXORA, a genus of plants belonging to the tetrandria class, and in the natural method ranking under the forty-seventh order, Stellatae. See Botany, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049106-4185 | IXWORTH, a market-town of the county of Suffolk, in the hundred of Blackburn, seventy-seven miles from London. It is a neat town, with a market on Friday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 827, in 1811 to 846, in 1821 to 952, and in 1831 to 1061. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049201-4198 | JABESH, or Jabesh Gilead, was the name of a city in the half tribe of Manassch, beyond Jordan. The Scripture calls it generally Jabesh Gilead, because it lay in Gilead, at the foot of the mountains which go by this name. Eusebius places it six miles from Pella, towards Gerasa; and hence it must have been to the eastwar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049202-4198 | JABLONKA, a town of the circle of Trentsin, in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, celebrated for an extensive linen manufactory, containing 3580 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049203-4198 | JABLONSKI, Daniel-Ernest, a learned Polish protestant divine, was born at Dantzig, on the 20th of November 1660. He commenced his studies at the gymnasium of Lissa, then attended the academical course of the university of Frankfort, and, after taking his degrees, visited Holland and England, in which last country he re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049301-4211 | JACA, a city of Spain, in the province of Aragon. It is situated at the foot of the Pyrenees, near the river Aragon, from which the province has derived its name. The situation is on a plain of fertile land, between two lofty sierras. There are in it considerable manufactures of cloths and baizes. It is a place of grea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049302-4211 | JACATRA, a district of the island of Java, formerly a kingdom, governed by its own sovereigns. It was subdued by the Dutch East India Company’s troops in the year 1619, who have ever since retained possession of it as sovereigns by right of conquest. Since that period Batavia has been constituted the capital. The count... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049303-4211 | JACK, in Mechanics, a well-known instrument, of common use for raising great weights of any kind. The common kitchen-jack is a compound engine, where weight is the power applied to overcome the friction of the parts and the weight with which the spit is charged; and a steady and uniform motion is obtained by means of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049304-4211 | JACKAL, in Zoology. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049305-4211 | JACOB, the son of Isaac and Rebekah, was born in the year of the world 2168, and before Jesus Christ 1836. The history of this patriarch is given at large in the book of Genesis. He died in Egypt in the 147th year of his age. Joseph directed that the body should be embalmed, after the manner of the Egyptians; and there... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049306-4211 | JACOBIN Monks, the same with Dominicans.
Jacobins, the name assumed by a party or club at the beginning of the French revolution, composed of members of the National Assembly. The club held its meetings in the hall belonging to the Jacobin friars, and from the place of assemblage derived its name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049307-4211 | JACOBITES, a term of reproach, in England, bestowed on the persons who, vindicating the doctrines of passive obedience and non-resistance with respect to the arbitrary proceedings of princes, disavowed the revolution in 1688, and asserted the supposed rights of King James and his family.
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kp-eb0712-049308-4211 | JACOBSTADT, a town of Russian Finland, and capital of the circle of Korsholm, stands on the sea-shore, and contains 218 houses, with 1250 inhabitants. Long. 22. 27. E. Lat. 63. 31. 8. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049309-4211 | JACOBUS, a gold coin, worth twenty-five shillings, and so called from King James I. of England, in whose reign it was struck. There are two kinds of Jacobus, the old and the new; the former valued at twenty-five shillings, weighing six pennyweights ten grains; the latter, called also Carolus, valued at twenty-three shi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049310-4211 | JACOTTA, a small town on the sea coast of the province of Cochin. It is a fortified place, with a small harbour, where it is said St Thomas the apostle first landed from Africa. Long. 76. 1. E. Lat. 0. 14. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049311-4211 | JACTALI, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the nizam, in the province of Hyderabad. Long. 79. 32. E. Lat. 18. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049312-4211 | JAEN, an ancient kingdom of the south of Spain, now forming one of the four portions into which the province of Andalusia is divided. The extent of this province is 268 square leagues, and its population amounts to 206,807 souls. La Mancha bounds it on the north, Cordova on the west, and Granada on the east and south. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049401-4224 | JAFFIERAB2A.D, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, twenty-four miles north from Jalnapoor. Long. 76. 36. E. Lat. 20. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049402-4224 | JAFFRABAT, a town of Hindustan, on the sea-coast of the Gujerat peninsula, on the banks of a shallow river. It was formerly a place of considerable commerce, but is now possessed by native chiefs. Long. 71. 31. E. Lat. 20. 53. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049403-4224 | JAFNA, the capital of the district of Jafnapatam. It stands at some distance from the sea, but communicates with it by a river navigable for large boats, and which falls into the sea near Point Pedro. The town is fortified, and possesses a good citadel, which, though small, is exceedingly well built; but it was given u... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049404-4224 | JAFNAPATAM is the name of a district in the northern extremity of Ceylon. It is considered as the most healthy and populous part of the island, as it escapes, owing to its maritime situation, the intensely hot winds which prevail on the continent. It is clear of woods, produces a variety of fruit and vegetables, and ab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049405-4224 | JAGEPOOR, a large straggling town of Hindustan, in the province of Cuttack, situated on the south side of the Byturnee River, which is here nearly half a mile broad. It is the chief town of a principality of the same name, and has a manufacture of cotton cloths. Here formerly resided an independent rajah, who, in the y... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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