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kp-eb0712-049406-4224 | JAGERNDORF, or, in the Sclavonic, Karnou, a city of the Austrian province of Moravia, situated on the river Oppa. It is surrounded with high walls, contains two colleges, the castle of the Lobenstein family, and 538 houses, with 4590 inhabitants, who are occupied in manufacturing linen and woollen goods of various desc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049407-4224 | JAGERON, a river of Persia, which rises nearly 120 miles north-east of Casbin, and loses itself in a sandy desert after a course of 150 miles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049408-4224 | JAGGERNAUT. See Juggernaut. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049409-4224 | JAGHIRE, a district of the Carnatic, now included in the collectorship of Chingleput. It extends northwards from Madras to the Pullicat Lake, southwards to Allum-parva, and westwards beyond Conjeveram. It is about 108 miles along shore, and forty-seven inland in the widest part, containing altogether 2440 square miles.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049410-4224 | JAGHIREDAR, the holder of a jaghire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049411-4224 | JAGO, Richard, an ingenious poet, was vicar of Sniţ-terfield in Warwickshire, and rector of Kimcote in Leicestershire. He was the intimate friend and correspondent of Shenstone, who was his contemporary at Oxford, and also, it is believed, his school-fellow; he belonged to [7:12:495]University College, and took the deg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049501-4237 | JAGO, St. See Santiago. Jago, St, the name of several provinces, towns, and rivers of South America, which will be described under the heads of the several countries in which they occur.
Jago, St, one of the Capc de Verde Islands. See Verde Islands, Cape de. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049502-4237 | JAGRAAM, a town of Hindustan, in Delhi, belonging to the Seiks. Long. 75. E. Lat. 30. 47. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049503-4237 | JAGUEER. See Jaghire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049504-4237 | JAGUEERDAR. See Jaghiredar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049505-4237 | JAHDE, a town of the circle of Neuenburg, in the duchy of Oldenburg, in Germany, on a navigable river of the same name, which empties itself into the sea about two miles below the town. It contains 307 houses, with 2160 inhabitants. Long. 8. 12. 43. E. Lat. 53. 20. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049506-4237 | JAHIL, a town of Hindustan, in the Rajpoot territories, in the province of Ajmeer, sixty-five miles west-northwest from Jyanagur. Long. 74. 38. E. Lat. 27. 9. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049507-4237 | JAHJOW, a village of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, remarkable for two great battles fought near it; the first on the 8th of June 1658, in which Aunmgzebe was totally defeated; and the last on the 19th of June 1707, between the son and grandson of Aurungzebe, in which the latter was slain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049508-4237 | JAILLIEU, a town of the arrondissement of La Tour du Pin, in the department of the Isère, in France, on the river Bourbre. It contains 420 houses, and 1620 inhabitants, who are employed in paper-making and in calico-printing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049509-4237 | JAINS, called by some Joinus, a sect or rather race of Hindus, found in considerable numbers in different parts of India, particularly in the southern peninsula. They form a class of dissenters from the established faith of Brahminism, so generally considered throughout India as alone founded on an orthodox basis. They... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049510-4237 | JAIVER, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, situated on the east side of the Jumna, forty-three miles south by east from Delhi. Long. 78. 28. E∙ Lat. 28. 9. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049511-4237 | JAJARCOTE, a town of Hindustan, tributary to the Goorkhali rajah of Nepaul. Long. 81.30. E. Lat. 29.39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049512-4237 | JAJGHUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, and capital of a district of the same name. It formerly belonged to the rajah of Odeypoor, from whom it was taken by Zalim Singh, chief of Kotah, about the year 1803. The surrounding district comprehends eighty-four villages and towns, twenty-two of which are inh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049513-4237 | JALEMUS, in Antiquity, a kind of mournful song, used upon occasion of death, or any other affecting occurrence. Hence originated the Greek proverbs, ίαλΐ/ζ,ου οoigorigος, or ∙^υxξοriξος, sadder or colder than ajalemus ; sις τους ∕αλ*- μονς εγτξαΐτηος, worthy to be ranked among jalemuses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049514-4237 | JALOFFS, or Yalloffs, a warlike people inhabiting that part of Africa lying between Senegal and the Mandingo states on the Gambia. See Africa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-049515-4237 | JAMADAR, an officer of horse or foot, in Hindustan; also the head or superintendent of the peons in the se-waury or train of any great man.
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kp-eb0712-049601-4250 | JAMAICA.
Jamaica, called ∖ aymaca by the Indians, and St Jago by the Spaniards, is the largest and most valuable island in the British West Indies. It is situated between the parallels of 17° 35' and 18° 30' north latitude, and of 76° and 78° 40' west longitude, being one hundred and sixty miles in length by forty-fiv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050501-4367 | JAMBLICUS, the name of two celebrated Platonic philosophers, one of whom was a native of Chalcis, and the other of Apamea in Syria. The first, whom Julian compares to Plato, was the disciple of Anatolius and Porphyry, and died under the reign of the Emperor Constantine. The second also enjoyed great reputation. Julian ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050502-4367 | JAMES, St, called the Greater, the son of Zebedee, and the brother of John the Evangelist, was born at Bethsaida in Galilee. He was called to be an apostle, together with St John, as they were mending their nets with their father Zebedee, who was a fisherman; when Christ gave each of them the name of Boanerges, or Son ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050701-4393 | JAMESON, George, an eminent artist, the Vandyck of Scotland, was the son of Andrew Jameson, an architect, and born at Aberdeen in 1586. He studied under Rubens at Antwerp; and, after his return, applied with indefatigable industry to portraits in oil, though he sometimes practised in miniature, and also in history and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050702-4393 | JAMPOL, a town of the province of Podolia, in Russia, the capital of a circle of the same name, and situated on the river Dnieper. It is the frontier town towards the Turkish dominions, and has a quarantine and customhouse. Long. 28. 24. Ľ. Lat. 48. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050703-4393 | JAMTLAND, a province in the north of Sweden, extending over 17,732 square miles, and bounded on the west by Norway, and on the other sides by Swedish provinces. It is mountainous, as there are five chains of alpine elevations that cross it from west to east, several of whose points are 7000 feet in height. Through some... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050704-4393 | JAMYN, Amadis, a French poet of the sixteenth century, was born at Chaource, in Champagne, about the year 1540. His parents, who were respectable, neglected no means calculated to promote his education. He received instructions from Dorat, Turnebus, and other learned men, who early inspired him with a taste for letters... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050801-4406 | JANEIRO. See Rio Janeiro. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050802-4406 | JANICULUM, a hill on the opposite side of the river Tiber from Rome, said to have derived its name from the city built on its summit by Janus. (Virgil, Aen. viii. 354.) At the foot Numa was buried, and many centuries afterwards his tomb is said to have been found here. (Liv. xl. 29.) This part of Rome was at first peop... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050803-4406 | JANIZARIES, or Janissaries, an irregular infantry, which, until the year 1826, formed the principal strength of the Turkish army. Vossius derives the word from geni-zers, which in the Turkish language signifies nom homines or milites. But D’Herbelot tells us thatĵenitcheri signifies a new band or troop, and that the na... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050804-4406 | JANSEN, Cornelius, bishop of Ypres, one of the most learned divines of the seventeenth century, and principal of the sect called from his name Jansenists. He was born in Holland, of Catholic parents, and studied at Louvain. Being sent into Spain to transact some business of consequence relating to the university, the C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050805-4406 | JANSENISTS, a sect of Roman Catholics in France, who followed the opinions of Jansen or Jansenius in relation to grace and predestination.
In the year 1640, the universities of Louvain and Douay, and particularly Father Molina and Father Leonard Celsus, thought fit to condemn the opinions of the Jesuits on grace and f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050901-4419 | JANSSEN, Cornelius, called Johnson, an eminent painter of portraits, was born at Amsterdam, though, in the Chronological Tables, and in Sandrart, it is asserted that he was born in London; but he resided for several years in England, where he was engaged in the service of King James I. and painted several excellent por... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050902-4419 | JANUARIUS, St, the patron saint of Naples, where his head is occasionally carried in procession, in order to stay the eruption 'of Vesuvius. The liquefaction of his blood is a famous miracle, or rather juggle, at Naples. The saint suffered martyrdom about the end of the third century. When he was beheaded, a pious lady... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-050903-4419 | JANUARY, the name of the first month of the year, according to the computation now used in the West. The word is derived from the Latin Januarius, a name given to it by the Romans from Janus, one of their divinities, to whom they attributed two faces, because on the one side the first day of January looked towards the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-051001-4432 | JANUS, in the heathen worship, the first king of Italy, who, it is said, received Saturn into his dominions, after he was driven from Arcadia by Jupiter. He tempered the manners of his subjects, and taught them civility; and from him they learned to improve the vine, to sow corn, and to make bread. After his death he w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-051002-4432 | JAPAN.
The extensive and powerful empire of Japan consists of several large islands on the eastern coast of Asia, which extend in a direction north-east and east-northeast, from the 30th to the 41st degrees of north latitude, and from the 129th to the 143d of east longitude. The largest of these islands is called Niph... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052201-4588 | JAPANNING, the art of varnishing and drawing figures on wood, after the manner of the Japanese, from whom it takes its name. The substances which admit of being japanned are almost every kind that are dry and rigid, or not too flexible; as wood, metals, leather, and prepared paper. The practice of japanning gdods has v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052401-4614 | JAPETUS, a son of Coelus and Terra, who married Asia, Asope, Theonis, or Clymene, and had four sons, Atlas, Menoctius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. He was thus considered as the author of the Hellenic race. (Apollodor. i. 1,2; Diodor. v. 66, 67; Hesiod, Theog. 134. Iapetionides, a son of Japetus; Atlas, Ovid. Met. iv. 6... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052402-4614 | JAPHETH, the son of Noah. His descendants possessed all Europe and the islands in the Mediterranean, as well those which belong to Europe, as those which depend on Asia. They had all Asia Minor, and the northern parts of Asia above the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates. Noah, when he blessed Japheth, said to him, [7:... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052501-4627 | JAPYDES, or Iapodes, a people who stretched along the coast of the Adriatic, from the Gulf of Quarnero, as far as Zara, the ancient Jadera, for a distance of 1000 stadia. They occupied the valleys of Mons Albius, which form the extreme point of the Alps to the east, extending in the interior to the Pannonii and the Ist... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052502-4627 | JAQUELOT, Isaac, a learned French Protestant divine, was born on the 16th December 1647, at Vassy in Champagne, of which place his father was minister. The revocation of the edict of Nantes having obliged him to quit France, he took refuge first at Heidelberg, and then at the Hague, where he procured an appointment in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052503-4627 | JAR, an earthen pot or pitcher, with a big belly and two handles. The word comes from the Spanish jarra or jαrro, which signifies the same thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052504-4627 | JARCHI, Solomon, otherwise Isaahi Solomon, a famous rabbi, born at Troyes, in Champagne, who flourished in the twelfth century. He was a perfect master of the Talmud and Gemara; and he filled the postils of the Bible with so many Talmudical reveries, as totally extinguished both the literal and the moral sense of it. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052505-4627 | JARDYN, or Jardin, Karel du, a painter of conversations, landscapes, and such like subjects, was born at Amsterdam in 1640, and became a disciple of Nicholas Berchem. This painter, in colouring and touch, resembled his master Berchem; but he added to that manner a force which distinguishes the great masters of Italy; a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052506-4627 | JARENSK, a town of the Russian province of Wologda, the capital of a circle of its own name, extending over 23,936 square miles, but containing no more than 31,500 inhabitants. It is generally a neglected district, covered with woods, marshes, and lakes. The town is situated on the river Wytscheda, which is usually clo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052507-4627 | JARGEAU, a town of the arrondissement of Orleans, in the department of the Loiret, in France. It stands on the left bank of the river Loire, over which is a fine bridge. It contains 428 houses, and 2690 inhabitants. Long. 2 1. E. Lat. 47. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052508-4627 | JARMERITZ, a town of the circle of Znaym, in the Austrian province of Moravia, and situated on the river Rokitna. It has near it a magnificent palace and park belonging to the family of Q,uestenburg, with a very extensive library. The town contains 272 houses, with 1650 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052509-4627 | JARNAC, a town of the arrondissement of Cognac, in the department of the Charente, in France, on the right bank of the river. It contains 1560 inhabitants, amongst whom are merchants dealing very extensively in brandy for foreign countries. It is celebrated for the great battle fought there in 1569, between the Hugueno... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052510-4627 | JAROSLAW, a government of European Russia, formerly in the province of Moscow, to the eastward of Twer, extending over 15,202 square miles. It comprehends twelve cities or towns, 554 parishes, 7705 villages, and 1,022,900 inhabitants. It is an elevated level district. The soil is generally marshy, but mixed with portio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052511-4627 | JASHER, The Book of. This book is mentioned by Joshua, and referred to in the following passage: “And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies: is not this written in the book of Jasher?” It is difficult to determine what this booh of Jasher, or “the upright,”... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052601-4640 | JASLO, a circle of the Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, extending over 1354 square miles. It contains five cities, eleven market-towns, and 366 villages, inhabited by 195,200 individuals, occupying 28,562 houses. It consists of part of the Carpathian Mountains, and the soil is for the most part poor and stony; but it prod... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052602-4640 | JASON, chief of the Argonautic expedition, was son of Aeson, king of Iolcos, and of Alcimede or Polymede. His father was obliged to yield to the superior power of his brother Pelias, and was driven from his kingdom. Jason was secretly carried by his mother to the valleys of Mount Pelion, and there delivered into the ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052603-4640 | JASPER, a species of mineral belonging to the siliceous genus of stones, and of which there are many varieties, some of them extremely beautiful, which are much sought after, and employed as trinkets and ornaments. See Mineralogy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052604-4640 | JASPONVX, an obsolete term in mineralogy, importing, as appears from the name, a compound of jasper and onyx. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052605-4640 | JASSY, a city, the capital of Moldavia, the residence of the prince, of a Greek archbishop, and of many of the waywodes or nobles. It stands on a lofty situation, but is surrounded with hills still higher. It is watered by brooks forming a stream ending in the Pruth. The town is composed chiefly of wooden houses, and i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 8' 30" N 27 24' 55" E | JASSY |
kp-eb0712-052606-4640 | JASTROW, a city of the circle of Deutschkrone, in the province of East Prussia, situated on a brook running to the river Kuddow. It contains 296 houses, and 2380 inhabitants, of whom more than 400 are Jews. There is a manufactory for arms and military clothing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052607-4640 | JAUER, a city, the capital of a district of the same name, in the circle of Herschberg, of the Prussian province of Silesia. It stands on the river Neisse, is surrounded with wallsand ditches, and contains one Lutheran and five Catholic churches, 604 houses, and 5230 inhabitants, chiefly occupied in the several branche... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052608-4640 | JAULNAY, a town of the arrondissement of Poitiers, in the department of the Vienne, in France, on the river Elain, with 245 houses and 1476 inhabitants. Close to this town was fought, in 1356, the battle usually called that of Poitiers, and sometimes Maupertuis, in which Edward the Black Prince defeated the French army... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052609-4640 | JAUNDICE (derived from the French jauni sse, yellowness, of jaune, yellow), a disease consisting in a suffusion of the bile, and a rejection thereof to the surface of the body, whereby the whole exterior habit is discoloured. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052610-4640 | JAUTS, a people of Hindustan, who have at different times made some figure in its annals. The first historical mention of them occurs at the beginning of the eleventh century, on the invasion of India by Mahmoud the Gazne-vide. That conqueror found them established on the eastern bank of the Indus, prepared to oppose h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-052701-4653 | JAVA.
This large and fertile island belongs to the group which modern geographers denominate the Sunda Islands. It extends eastward, with a slight deviation on the south, from 105. 11. to 114. 33. of east longitude from Greenwich, and lies between the latitudes of 5. 52. and 8. 46. south. It is in length, between Java... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053301-4731 | JAVELIN, in Antiquity, a sort of spear five feet and a half long, the shaft of which was of wood, with a steel point. Every soldier in the Roman armies had seven of these, which were very light and slender. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053302-4731 | JAXT, one of the circles into which the kingdom of Wirtemberg is divided. It is 2112 square miles in extent, and comprehends thirty-one cities, thirty-five markettowns, and 1608 small villages and hamlets, with 336,000 inhabitants, who are chiefly Lutherans, but intermixed with some Catholics and Jews. It is subdivided... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053303-4731 | JAY, Gui Michel le, distinguished by the Polyglott which bears his name, was born at Paris in 1588. He studied the ancient languages, in which, however, he was but moderately skilled. In 1615, three men of rare merit, Cardinal Duperron, Jacques de Thou, and François de Brèves, had conceived the project of publishing a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053401-4744 | JAYES, a town of Hindustan, in the nabob of Oude’s territories, fifty-five miles south-east from Lucknow. Long. 81. 30. E. Lat. 26. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 15' N 81 30' E | JAYES |
kp-eb0712-053402-4744 | JAYNAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, 122 miles south-south-west from Patna. Long. 84. 25. E. Lat. 24. 1. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053403-4744 | JEALOUSY is that peculiar passion which arises in the mind from fear that some rival may rob us of the affection of one whom we greatly love, or suspicion that he has already done so. The first sort of jealousy is inseparable from love, before it is in possession of its object; the latter is often unjust, generally mis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053404-4744 | JEAN d’Angely, an arrondissement in the department of La Vendee, in France, extending over 334 square miles, divided into seven cantons, and these into 128 communes, with a population of 70,261 persons. The capital, which gives its name to the arrondissement, is a city situated on the river Boutonne, containing 5460 in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 55' N 0 40' 5" W | JEAN |
kp-eb0712-053405-4744 | JEAN DE LUZ, St, a town of the arrondissement of Bayonne, in the department of the Lower Pyrenees, in France. It is situated on the sea-shore, on the river Nivelle, and is defended by a fort at the mouth of that stream. It contains about 600 houses, with 2830 inhabitants, and is a place of considerable traffic, being t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 23' 15" N 2 15' 7" W | JEAN DE LUZ |
kp-eb0712-053406-4744 | JEARS, or Geers, in nautical language, an assemblage of tackles, by which the lower yards of a ship are hoisted along the mast to their usual station, or lowered from thence, as occasion requires; the former of which operations is called swaying, and the latter striking. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053407-4744 | JEBNA, a town of Palestine, on the site of the ancient city of Gath, containing the remains of a fortress built during the crusades by Foulques, king of Jerusalem; ten miles south of Jaffa. ∙ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053408-4744 | JEBUSAEI, one of the seven ancient peoples of Canaan, descendants of Jebusi, Canaan’s son; so warlike and brave as to have stood their ground, especially in Jebus, afterwards called Jerusalem, down to the time of David. (Judges, i. 21; 1 Sam. v. 6.) | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053409-4744 | JEDBURGH, a royal burgh, the seat of a presbytery, and the capital of a parish of the same name, as well as the county town or Roxburghshire in Scotland. It is beautifully situated in the romantic valley of the Jed, on the left bank of that stream, environed with sylvan banks, and embosomed in venerable orchards. This ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053501-4757 | JEDO, or Jeddo, a large city of Japan, the residence of the emperor, and the capital of the country, as it is by much the largest city of the empire, from the resort of princes and lords, who, with their numerous families and servants, swell the train of the imperial court. It is situated in the province of Musasi, in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 30' N 140 E | JEDO |
kp-eb0712-053502-4757 | JEFREMOW, a city of the province of Tula, in Russia, the capital of a circle of the same name, on the river Metscha. It contains six wooden churches, and one of stone, 399 houses of different structure, and 2600 inhabitants. Long. 38. 54. E. Lat. 53. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 40' N 38 54' E | JEFREMOW |
kp-eb0712-053503-4757 | JEFFERSON, Thomas, one of the founders of American independence, and president of the United States, was born at Shadwell, in Albemarle county, Virginia, on the 2d of April 1743. His ancestors had at an early period emigrated to that province, and his father had been one of the commissioners for determining the boundar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053801-4796 | JEFFREYS, StR George, Baron Wem, commonly called Judge Jeffreys, was the sixth son of Mr John Jeffreys, of Acton, in Denbighshire; and was educated at Westminster School, whence he removed to the Inner Temple, where he applied himself to the study of the law. Alderman Jeffreys, who was probably related to him, introduc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053901-4809 | JEGHEDERPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, twenty miles south from Bustar. Long. 82. 21. E. Lat. 19. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 26' N 82 21' E | JEGHEDERPOOR |
kp-eb0712-053902-4809 | JEHANABAD, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the Mahrattas, in the province of Khandesh, three miles south from Boorhanpoor. Long. 76. 21. E. Lat. 21. 18. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 18' N 76 21' E | JEHANABAD |
kp-eb0712-053903-4809 | JEHENABAD, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, thirty-three miles south by west from Patna. Long. 82. 5. E. Lat. 25. 13. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 13' N 82 5' E | JEHENABAD |
kp-eb0712-053904-4809 | JEHOVAH, one of the scriptural names of God, signifying the Being who is self-existent and gives existence to others. So great a veneration had the Jews for this name, that they discontinued the custom of uttering it, and hence its true pronunciation was forgotten. They called it tetragrammaton, or the name of four let... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053905-4809 | JEHUNGSEAL, a small town of the Afghan territories, in the province of Mooltan, thirty miles north-east from the city of Mooltan. Long. 71. 40. E. Lat. 30. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 54' N 71 40' E | JEHUNGSEAL |
kp-eb0712-053906-4809 | JEJUNUM, the second of the small guts, so called from the Latin jejunus, hungry; because it was always found empty. See Anatomy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053907-4809 | JEJURRY, a Mahratta town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor. This place is noted for a fine Hindu temple, built of hewn stone, and dedicated to an incarnation of Mahadeva or Siva, under the form of Khandeh Row, which he assumed to destroy an enormous giant named ĩvlanimal. The temple has very ample revenues, abo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 16' N 74 17' E | JEJURRY |
kp-eb0712-053908-4809 | JELASIR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, twenty-eight miles north-east from the city of Agra. Long. 78. 15. E. Lat. 27. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 30' N 78 15' E | JELASIR |
kp-eb0712-053909-4809 | JELATMA, a city of the Russian province of Tambow, the capital of a circle of the same name, on the river Oka. It is an ancient and large place, containing eight stone and two wooden churches, several public buildings, and 778 houses, with 5800 inhabitants. It has considerable manufactures of linen and sail-cloth. Long... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 5' N 42 28' E | JELATMA |
kp-eb0712-053910-4809 | JELEZ, a town of the province of Orel, in Russia, the capital of a circle of the same name, on the river Alt. It is a very ancient city, containing twelve stone and two wooden churches, 1290 houses, and 7950 inhabitants. Long. 38. 33. E. Lat. 52. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 38' N 38 33' E | JELEZ |
kp-eb0712-053911-4809 | JELEZENKA, a small river in the government of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic Russia, which falls into the Irtysch.
JELĽZENSKAIA-Crepost, a port of Asiatic Russia, on the right bank of the Irtysch, in the government of Tobolsk. It contains a church and 130 houses, and is surrounded by a fertile country very carefully cultivated.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053912-4809 | JELISAWETGRAD, a city of Russia, in the province of Cherson, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands on a beautiful plain on the banks of the river Ingul. It is fortified, and defended by a strong citadel. It contains 1500 houses, and 12,000 inhabitants, consisting of various tribes and countries, attracted... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053913-4809 | JELLALABAD, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, and district of Bareilly, forty-four miles south by east from Barielly. Long. 79. 37. E. Lat. 27. 45. N.
Jellalabad, a town of Afghanistan, in the province of Cabul, situated in the rich plain of Jellalabad. It was formerly of great note, and is still of consi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053914-4809 | JELLALAEAN, or Gelalaen Calendar, Epoch, and Year. See Calendar and Chronology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053915-4809 | JELLY, a form of food or medicine, prepared from the juices of ripe fruits, boiled to a proper consistence with sugar; or the strong decoctions of the horns, bones, or extremities of animals, boiled to such a degree as to be stiff and firm when cold, without the addition of any sugar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053916-4809 | JELPESH, a town of the province of Bengal, and district of Ringpoor, sixty-five miles north-north-west from Ringpoor. Long. 88. 25. E. Lat. 26. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 30' N 88 25' E | JELPESH |
kp-eb0712-053917-4809 | JEMAULABAD, a town and fortress in the south of India, province of Canara, which was originally called Narasingha Augady. The first, which was built by Tippoo, stands on the summit of an immense rock, which may be deemed impregnable, as it is wholly inaccessible except by one narrow way. The nature of the access to it,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 N 75 24' E | JEMAULABAD |
kp-eb0712-053918-4809 | JEMAULNAIG, a town of Hindustan, in the Balaghaut ceded territories, situated on the north side of the Pennar River, forty-one miles north-west from Cuddapah. Long. 78. 28. E. Lat. 14. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 48' N 78 28' E | JEMAULNAIG |
kp-eb0712-053919-4809 | JEMLAH, a small district of Hindustan, situated between the thirtieth and thirty-first degrees of north latitude. It was formerly an independent state, but is now tributary to the rajah of Nepaul. It is said to be nearly of the same extent as that of Nepaul, but to be more contiguous to the great Himalaya ridge of moun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-053920-4809 | JEMMAPPES, a large village of the Netherlands, in the province of Henegau, and circle of Mons. It stands on the river Haine, and contains 2838 inhabitants, who are busily occupied in the numerous coal-mines and the mill-stone quarries with which it abounds. It is remarkable for the decisive battle fought there in 1792,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054001-4822 | JENA, a city of the grand duchy of Saxe-Wcimar, in Germany, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands in a beautiful valley, through which the river Saale runs, and is surrounded with hills, whose sides are covered with vineyards. It contains three Lutheran and one Catholic church, three hospitals, and 795 ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | JENA |
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