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kp-eb0712-054002-4822 | JENEAHGUR, called also Jagncii, a town, and also a strong and celebrated fortress, of Hindustan, province of Bejapoor, situated upon a rock with an extensive tableland. It was built about the year 1443, by Mulik al Ta-jur, generalissimo of the Bhamence sultan. It afterwards came into the possession of the Bejapoor dyna... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054003-4822 | JENJAPOOR, a town of Hindustan, province of Bahar, and district of Tyrhoot. eighty miles north-east from Patna. Long. 86. 15. E. Lat. 26. 14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054004-4822 | JENKINS, Sir Leoline, a civilian and statesman of considerable note, born in Glamorganshire about the year 1623. Having become obnoxious to the parliament during the civil war, by adhering to the king’s cause, he consulted his safety by flight; but he returned at the restoration, was admitted an advocate in the court o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054005-4822 | JENTACULUM, among the Romans, a morning refreshment like our breakfast. It was exceedingly simple, consisting, for the most part, of bread alone; but labouring people had something more substantial, to enable them to support the fatigues of their employment. The Greeks distinguished this morning meal by the several nam... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054006-4822 | JENYNS, Soame, a distinguished English writer, was born in Great Ormond Street, London, in the year 1704. Sir Roger Jenyns, his father, was descended from the family of the Jenyns of Churchill in Somersetshire. The country residence of Sir Roger was at Ely, in the isle of the same name, where he turned his attention to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054101-4835 | JEOFAILE (compounded of three French words, Pay faille, I have failed), a term in law, used to indicate an oversight in pleading or other proceeding at law.
The showing of these defects or oversights was often practised by the counsel formerly; and when the jury came into court in order to try the issue, they said, Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054102-4835 | JEPHTHAH, judge of Israel, and successor to Jair in the government of the people, was a native of Mizpeh, and the son of one Gilead by a woman of indifferent reputation. This Gilead having married a lawful wife, and had children by her, drove Jephthah from his father’s house, saying that he should not be heir with them... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054103-4835 | JERBOA, a species of quadruped belonging to the genus dipus, and resembling, in some of its characters, the mouse tribe. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054104-4835 | JEREMIAH (the Prophecy off a canonical book of the Old Testament. This divine writer was of the race of the priests, the son of Hilkiah of Anathoth, of the tribe of Benjamin. He was called to the prophetic office when very young, about the thirteenth year of Josiah, and continued in the discharge of it for about forty ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054105-4835 | JERICHO, or Hierichus, in Ancierit Geography, a city of Judaea, situated between Jordan and Jerusalem, at the distance of 150 stadia from the latter, and sixty 7 from the former. Josephus says, “The whole space from Jerusalem is desert and rocky, and equally barren and uncultivated from Jericho to the Lake Asphaltites;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054106-4835 | JEROME, St, in Latin Hieronymus, a celebrated doctor of the church, and the most learned of all the Latin fathers, was the son of Eusebius, and was born at Stridon, a city of the ancient Pannonia, about the year 340. He studied at Rome under Donatus, the learned grammarian. After having received baptism, he proceeded i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054201-4848 | JERONYMITES, Hieronymites, a denomination given to various orders or congregations of religious persons, other wise called Hermits of St Jerome. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054202-4848 | JERSEY, one of a group of islands, forming part of the ancient duchy of Normandy, but now considered as a portion of the county of Hampshire in England, for some few legal purposes. It is about six leagues from the French, and twenty-three from the English coast. It is nearly twelve miles in length from east to west, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054203-4848 | JERSEY, New, one of the thirteen original states of the American union, is bounded on the north and northeast by New York, on the east and south-east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south-west by Delaware Bay, and on the west by Pennsylvania. The extreme length directly' from north to south is one hundred and seventy mil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-054401-4874 | JERUSALEM.
Jerusalem, one of the most ancient and renowned cities of which we have any account, formerly the capital of the Jewish empire, and now that of modern Palestine. It is situated on unequal ground, on a range of high hills, some few eminences of which overtop those on which the city stands, and the adjacent c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-055201-4978 | JESI, a city of Italy, in the province of Ancona, in the papal dominions, řt is the see of a bishop, and contains a cathedral, five churches, seven monasteries, and five nunneries, and has 5000 inhabitants, whose chief occupation is making woollen and silk stockings. It is situated on the river Esino, about five miles ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-055202-4978 | JESSES, ribbons which hang down from garlands or crowns in falconry; also short straps of leather fastened to the hawk’s legs, and so to vervels. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-055203-4978 | JESTING, or concise wit, as distinguished from continued wit or humour, lies either in the thought or the language, or both. In the first case it does not depend upon any particular words or turn of the expression. But the greatest fund of jests lies in the language, that is, in tropes or verbal figures; those afforded... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-055204-4978 | JESUITS, or the Society of Jesus, a famous religious order of the Roman Catholic church, founded by Inigo de Loyola, called also Ignatius Loyola. The plan which this fanatic formed of its constitution and laws was suggested, as he gave out, and as his followers still teach, by the immediate inspiration of heaven. But, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-055701-5043 | JESUS.
JESUS, the Divine Author of the Christian religion, was born at Bethlehem, a city of the tribe of Judah, about six miles south-east from Jerusalem. His mother was a Jewish virgin named Mary, the betrothed wife of Joseph, both in the humblest rank of life, though both of the royal race of David. The date of his ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-056501-5147 | JESUS, the Sωι of Sirach, a native of Jerusalem, composed, about 200 B. c. the Book of Ecclesiasticus, called by the Greeks ∏avageroζ, “ replenished with virtue.” They also quote it under the title of the Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirah. His grandson, who was also of the same name, and a native of Jerusalem, translate... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-056502-5147 | JESROTCH, a town belonging to the Sikhs, in the province of Lahore, fifty-three miles east from Lahore. Long. 74. 19. E. Lat. 32. 28. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-056503-5147 | JESSELMERE, a large district of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, situated about the twenty-eighth degree of north latitude, and extending to the sandy desert, which constitutes the western boundary of that province. It is a barren country, being for the most part an uninterrupted tract of sand, without rivers, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-056504-5147 | JESSORE, a district of the province of Bengal, to the north-east of Calcutta, bounded on the north by the Ganges, and on the west by Dacca, Jelalpoor, and Buckcr-gunge; on the south by the sea, and on the east by Kishenagur. In the Ayeen Akberry it is called Khalafabad. The northern part of this district is very fertil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-056505-5147 | JET, a black, inflammable substance of the bituminous kind, harder than asphaltum, and susceptible of a good polish. It becomes electrical by rubbing, attracting light bodies like yellow amber. It swims on water, so that its specific gravity must be less than 1000; notwithstanding which it has been frequently confounde... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-056506-5147 | JETTEE ', the border made round the stilts under a pier, in certain old bridges, being the same with starling; consisting of a strong framing of timber filled with stones, chalk, or other materials, to preserve the foundations of the piers from injury.
•JETTY-HEAD, a name usually given in the royal dockyards to that p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-056507-5147 | JEVER, a circle of the grand duchy of Oldenburg, in Germany, extending over 165 square miles, and containing, in twenty-four parishes, 4140 houses and 20,105 inhabitants. It is a level country, on the sea shore, and preserved from inundation by powerful dykes and sluices.
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The capital, of the same name, is a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-056601-5160 | JEWEL, any precious stone, or ornament set with precious stones.
Jewels formed part of the ornaments with which the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, especially their ladies of distinction, adorned themselves. So great was the extravagance of the Roman ladies in this respect, that Pliny the Elder says he saw Lollia Paulina wi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-056701-5173 | JEWS.
The character and fate of this singular people, in their relation to the Christian faith, belong to other departments of this work. In the present article we shall confine ourselves to a brief outline of the leading events in their annals, as a part of general history. They derive their origin from Abraham, a na... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058401-5394 | JEZIDES, amongst the Mahommedans, a term of similar import with heretics amongst Christians. The Jezides are a numerous.sect inhabiting Turkey and Persia, and so called from their head, Jezid, an Arabian prince, who slew the sons of Ali, Mahommed’s father-in-law; for which reason he is reckoned a parricide, and his fol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058402-5394 | JEZIRA-UL-OMAR, a town of Koordistan, situated on a low sandy island in the Tigris, about three miles in circumference, and environed with mountains. It covers the greater part of the island, and is defended by a stone wall now fallen into decay. It occupies the site of the ancient Roman fortress of Bezabde. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058403-5394 | JEZRAEL, or Jezreel, a town in the north of Samaria, towards Mount Carmel, where stood a palace of the kings of Israel, and upon the borders of Galilee. It was said to be one of the towns of Issachar. The valley of Jezreel, situated to the north of the town, runs from west to east for ten miles, between two mountains, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058404-5394 | JHALAWAN, a territory in the western part of Persia, forming the most southerly province of Beloochistan, and bordering on Mekran and Sinde. It is a very mountainous tract, divided into districts, which furnish each its quota of troops to the chief, Mahommed Khan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058405-5394 | JIIANSI, a considerable town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, district of Bundelcund. It has a strong citadel, situated on a hill which commands the town. It has a manufactory of bows, arrows, and spears, the weapons still in use among the barbarous tribes of the country. The surrounding district is valued a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058406-5394 | JHANSU-JEUNG, a castle in Thibet, standing on a perpendicular rock, which, from its height, seems to be nearly impregnable. It is surrounded by a populous and well-cultivated valley, which is famous for the manufacture of woollens. Long. 89. 23. E. Lat. 28. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058407-5394 | JHINGWARA, a Coolee state in the province ofGnjerat, and district of Chalawar, containing between 5000 and 6000 houses. It is chiefly ruled by different branches of the same family, of which that of Virajee is the most powerful. The inhabitants are mostly Coolees, who have been degraded from their original rank of rajp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058408-5394 | JHURJHOORY, a village in the dominions of Nepaul, to the south of which lies the Jhurjhoory Forest, which is about ten miles in breadth, and contains all the finest woods. It is a wretched village, consisting of a few herdsmen’s huts, scattered on the south bank of the Bukkia, the bed of which is here of considerable b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058409-5394 | JHYLUM, Jelum, Behüt, or Vidusta, the ancient Hydaspes, a large river of Hindustan, which has its rise in the south-east corner of the valley of Cashmere, in the great Himalaya ridge of mountains. It isthere called Vidusta, and passes through two lakes east and west of the town of Cashmere. It is joined, ten miles belo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058501-5407 | JIB, the foremost sail of a ship, being a large stay-sail, extended from the outer end of the boltsprit, and prolonged by the jib-boom, towards the fore-top mast head. See Sail. Jin-Loom, a boom run out from the extremity of the boltsprit, parallel to its length, and serving to extend the bottom of the jib, and the sta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058502-5407 | JIDDA, or D Jidda, a considerable commercial town, the port of Mecca, situated on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. It is built on a slightly rising ground, the lowest side of which is washed by the sea, and extends along the shore, in its greatest length, about 1500 paces, and is about half that space in breadth. It w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 29' N 39 15' E | JIDDA |
kp-eb0712-058601-5420 | JIGAT Point, a town and promontory'atthe south-west extremity of Gujerat, situated on the Goomty, which is an asylum for pirates, the people of this country being much addicted to piracy, in which they are encouraged by their chiefs. It has a Hindu temple dedicated to Krishna. Long. 69. 7. E. Lat. 22. 12. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058602-5420 | JIHON. See Oxus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058603-5420 | JILLIFREY, a town of Africa, situated on the southern bank of the Gambia, near the mouth of that river. Although not the capital, it is the chief place of trade of the flourishing little kingdom of Barra; and the kin«· has here a custom-house, by which duties on vessels passing up and down the river are levied. Long. 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058604-5420 | JIN. See Genii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058605-5420 | JIONPOOR, or Joanpore, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, included principally between the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth degrees of north latitude. It is situated between the river Gogra on the east, and the Ganges on the south; to the north it is bounded by the Gogra and part of Oude; and on the we... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 45' N 82 39' E | JIONPOOR |
kp-eb0712-058606-5420 | JOAB, general of the army of King David, who defeated the Syrians and the other enemies of David, and took from the Jebusites the fort of Zion, considered by them as impregnable. He also signalized himself in all David’s wars, but was guilty of basely murdering Abner and Amasa. He procured a reconciliation between Absa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058701-5433 | JOACHIMITES, in Ecclesiastical History, the disciples of Joachim, a Cistertian monk, who was abbot of Flora in Calabria, and a great pretender to inspiration.
The Joachimites were particularly enamoured of certain ternaries. The Father, they said, operated from the beginning till the coming of the Son; the Son, from t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058702-5433 | JOAG, a town of Western Africa, and capital of the kingdom of Kajaago. See Kajaago. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058703-5433 | JOAL, a sea-port on the western coast of Africa, in the small kingdom of Bar-Sin. Formerly a considerable slave trade was carried on here; but cattle, poultry, and other provisions are what it now chiefly supplies. Very large vessels, however, cannot enter the port, on account of a sand-bank which stretches across the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058704-5433 | JOAN, Pope, called by Platina, John VIII., a woman said to have occupied the holy see between Leo IV. who died in 855, and Benedict III. who died in 858. Marianus Scotus says that she occupied the pontifical chair two years five months and four days. Numberless have been the controversies, fables, and conjectures, resp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058705-5433 | JOANA, a town on the northern coast of the island of Java, formerly fortified. It is situated a few miles inland, on the river Joana, along which it extends about a mile. The surrounding country yields rice, timber, and the natives are employed in spinning cotton. The river on which the town is situated is the longest ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058706-5433 | JOANES, Dos, a large island of South America, situated at the mouth of the river Amazons, in the province of Para. It is separated from the mainland west of the river Toccantins by the Strait of Tagyparu on the south, and extends ninety miles from north to south, and one hundred and twenty from east to west. It is one ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058707-5433 | JOAO del Rey, a town of Brazil, in the extensive country of Minas Geraes. It is surrounded by mountains, and lies partly on the side of an eminence and partly on a plain, being divided into two by the small river Tijuco. The town is compact, of a circular form, and has the general appearance of all Portuguese towns of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058801-5446 | JOB, or Booh of Job, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing a narrative of a series of misfortunes which happened to a man whose name was Job, as a trial of his virtue and patience; together with the conferences which he had with [his friends on the subject of his misfortunes, and the manner in which he was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058802-5446 | JOBBER, a person who undertakes jobs, or small pieces of work. In some statutes, jobber is used to signify a person who buys and sells for others. See Broker. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058803-5446 | JOBBING, the business of a jobber.
Stock- Jobbing denotes the practice of trafficking in the public funds, or of buying and selling stock with a view to its rise or fall. The term is commonly applied to the illegal practice of buying and selling stock for time, or of accounting for the differences in the rise or fall ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058804-5446 | JOCKEY, in the management of horses, the person who grooms or rides them. See, on this subject, Horse and Horsemanship. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058805-5446 | JOEL, or the Prophecy of Joel, a canonical book of the Old Testament. Joel was the son of Pethuel, and the second of the twelve lesser prophets. The style of this prophet is bold, figurative, and expressive. He upbraids the Israelites for their idolatry, and foretells the calamities which they should suffer as the puni... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058806-5446 | JOGHIS, a sect of religious persons in the East Indies, who never marry, nor hold any private property, but live on alms, and practise strange severities or mortifications. They are subject to a general, who sends them from one country to another to preach. They are, properly, a kind of penitent pilgrims, and supposed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058807-5446 | JOGUES, or Yugs, certain ages, eras, or periods of extraordinary length in the fabulous chronology of the Hindus. They are (see Halhed’s Preface to the Code of Gentoo Laws, p. xxxvi.) four in number, viz.
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kp-eb0712-058901-5459 | JOHANNA, or Anjouan, more properly Hinzouan. See Hinzouan. JOHANN-Georgenstadt, a city of the mining district of the kingdom of Saxony, in the circle of Freyburg, upon the frontiers of Bohemia. It contains 396 houses, and 3000 inhabitants, who are employed in extracting silver, tin, vitriol, sulphur, iron, and manganes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058902-5459 | JOHANNISBERG, a town of the duchy of Nassau, in Germany, near the Rhine, containing about 700 inhabitants. It is celebrated for its wine. The most famous of the vineyards belonged formerly to the prince-bishop of Fulda, but now to Prince Metternich, who has a castle at the town, and is said to derive from his wine an i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-058903-5459 | JOHN, St, the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus Christ, was the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth. He retired into a desert, where he lived on locusts and wild honey; and about the year 29 began to preach repentance, and to declare the coming of the Messiah. He baptized his disciples, and the following year Christ himself ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-059001-5472 | JOHN’S Island, an island on the southern coast of Carolina, a little to the south -west of Charleston harbour. It is thirty miles in circumference, and is divided from James’ Island by Stono River, which forms a convenient and safe harbour. Long. 80. 10. W. Lat. 32. 42. N.
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... | 32 42' N 80 10' W | JOHN’S |
kp-eb0712-059401-5524 | JOHN’S, St, one of the Virgin Islands in the West Indies, belonging to Denmark. It is five miles in length by one in breadth, and is situated about thirty-six miles to the east of Porto Rico and six miles south of the island of St Thomas. It is well watered, and possesses an excellent harbour; but the land in general i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 7' N 64 32' W | JOHN’S |
kp-eb0712-059402-5524 | JOHNSON, or Jonson, Ben, one of the most distinguished dramatic poets of the Elizabethan age, whether we consider the number or the merit of his productions. He was born at Westminster in 1574, and was educated at the public school there, under the great Camden. He was descended from a Scottish family; but as his fathe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-059901-5589 | JOHNSTON, Arthur, a very eminent Latin poet, was the fifth son of George Johnston of Caskieben, by Christian the daughter of Lord Forbes.^[1. Douglas’s Baronage of Scotland, p. 36. Johnston’s Genealogical Account of the Family of Johnston of that ilk, formerly of Caskieben, p. 7. Edinb. 1832, 4to. ] The father, who was... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-060301-5641 | JOHNSTONE, Robert, is a Scotish historian of considerable reputation, but his personal history is very imperfectly known. We are however informed that he was the son of an honest burgess of Edinburgh, and that he was educated in the university of his native city.^[1. Crawford’s History of the University of Edinburgh, p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-060401-5654 | JOHNSTON’S Isle, a small island in the Eastern Seas, surrounded by a cluster of others. It is covered with verdure and cocoa-nut trees. Long. 131. 12. E. Lat. 3. 11. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 3 11' N 131 12' E | JOHNSTON’S |
kp-eb0712-060402-5654 | JOHORE, a town of Malacca, and capital of an independent Malay principality, situated near the southern extremity of the peninsula of Malacca, twenty miles up a river of the same name. It was founded in 1511 by the inhabitants of Malacca, who fled thither on the capture of their city by the Portuguese. In 1603 Johore w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 1 40' N 104 5' E | JOHORE |
kp-eb0712-060403-5654 | JOIGNY, an arrondissement of the department of the Yonne, in France. It extends over 774 square miles, is divided into nine cantons, and these into 110 communes, having a population of 78,687 persons. The capital, from which the circle takes its name, is a city on a hill, rising from the banks of the river Yonne. It is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 50' N 3 55' E | JOIGNY |
kp-eb0712-060501-5667 | JOINERY.
Is one of the useful arts which contributes most materially to the comfort and convenience of man. As the arts of joinery and carpentry are often followed by the same individual, it appears, at first view, natural to conclude, that the same principles are common to both these arts. But a closer examination of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-061801-5836 | JOINT, in general, denotes the juncture of two or more things. The joints of the human body are called by anatomists articulations. See Anatomy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-061802-5836 | JOINTURE, in Scotch Law, signifies generally a settlement of lands and tenements, made on a woman in consideration of marriage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-061803-5836 | JOINVILLE, a city of the department of the Upper Marne, in France, in the arrondissement of Vassy. It stands on the left bank of the Marne, at the foot of a lofty hill, on which there remains an ancient castle, where the association of the League was formed in 1584. It contains 845 houses, and 3100 inhabitants. There a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 26' N 5 1' E | JOINVILLE |
kp-eb0712-061804-5836 | JOISTS, or Joysts, in Architecture, those pieces of timber framed into the girders and summers, upon which the boards of the floor are laid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-061805-5836 | JOKAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, in the province of Khandesh, seventy-four miles south-east from Oojain. Long. 76. 46. E. Lat. 22. 31. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-061806-5836 | JOKES. See Jesting. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-061807-5836 | JOLLOXOCHITL, an Indian word, signifying “flower of the heart,” is the name of a plant, bearing a large, beautiful flower, which grows in Mexico where it is much esteemed for its beauty and odour; the latter being so powerful, that a single flower is sufficient to fill a house with the most pleasing fragrance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-061808-5836 | JONAH, or the Prophecy of Jonah, a canonical book of the Old Testament, in which it is related, that Jonah, about 771 before Christ, was ordered to go and prophecy the destruction of Nineveh, on account of the wickedness of its inhabitants. But the prophet, instead of obeying the divine command, embarked for Tarshish, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-061809-5836 | JONATHAN, the son of Saul, celebrated in sacred history for his valour, and his friendship for David against [7:12:619]the interest of his own house. He was slain in battle in the year 1055 before Christ.
Jonathan, or Jonas, Maccabaeus, brother of Judas, a renowned general of the Jews. He forced Bacchides, the Syrian ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-061901-5849 | JONES, Inigo, a celebrated English architect, the son of a cloth-worker of London, was born in 1572. He was at first put as apprentice to a joiner; but having early distinguished himself by his inclination for drawing or designing, he was particularly noticed for his skill in landscape-painting. This afterwards recomme... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062101-5875 | JONK, Jonque, or Junk, in naval affairs, is a kind of small ship, very common in the East Indies. These vessels are of various dimensions; and differ in the form of their building, according to the different methods of naval architecture used by the nations to which they belong. Their sails are frequently made of mats,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062102-5875 | JONKOPING, a province in the south of Sweden, extending over 4804square miles, and situated between 56. 56. and 58. 9. of north latitude, and 13. 9. and 15. 36. of east longitude. It is a mountainous and rocky district; but in the cultivated parts produces corn sufficient for food, and tolerable crops of potatoes, hemp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062103-5875 | JONSAC, an arrondissement of the department of the Vendee, in France, extending over 622 square miles. It is divided into seven cantons, and these into 120 communes, and contains 78,528 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, stands on the river Sengne, and has 610 houses, with 2590 inhabitants, whose chief ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062104-5875 | JOORIA, a populous and thriving sea-port of Hindustan, in the Gujerat peninsula, belonging to the rajah of Amram. It is situated on the Gulf of Cutch, twenty miles below Wowamia, and carries on a considerable traffic with Mandavee and other places in the Gulf of Cutch, and on the western coasts of India, Persia, and Ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 40' N 70 40' E | JOORIA |
kp-eb0712-062105-5875 | JOR, the Hebrew for a river, which, joined with Dan, concurs to form the term Jordan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062106-5875 | JORDAN, a celebrated river of Palestine, which has its rise in a mountain called Jebel Sheik, and passing by Caesarea Philippi, now called Panias, is increased by other tributary streams from the adjacent mountains, when it becomes a considerable river. It rolls on for ten miles through rocky and wooded banks, when it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062107-5875 | JORDANO, Lucca, an eminent Italian painter, was born at Naples in the year 1632. He became early a disciple of Ribera; but going afterwards to Rome, he attached himself to the manner of Pietro da Cortona, whom he assisted in his great works. Some of his pictures being seen by Charles II. king of Spain, he engaged him t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062201-5888 | JORJAN, a town of Persia, in the province of Astrabad, situated to the east of the Caspian. It is considered as one of the strongest fortresses in the kingdom, and is frequently mentioned in Persian history. It is 100 miles west of Meshid, and 300 north-north-east of Ispahan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062202-5888 | JOSEPH, the son of Jacob, memorable for his chastity, and the honours conferred on him at the court of Egypt. He died in the year 1635 before Christ, aged a hundred and ten. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062203-5888 | JOSEPHUS, the celebrated historian of the Jews, was of noble birth, being by his father Mattathias descended from the high priests, and by his mother of the blood-royal of the Maccabees. He was born a. d. 37, under Caligula, and lived under Domitian. At sixteen years of age he betook himself to the sect of the Essenes,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062204-5888 | JOSHUA, the renowned general of the Jews, who conducted them through the wilderness, and died in 1424 before Christ, aged a hundred and ten years.
Joshua, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing a history of the wars and transactions of the person whose name it bears. This book may be divided into three part... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062205-5888 | JOSIAH, king of Judah, the destroyer of idolatry, and the restorer of the true worship, an excellent magistrate and a valiant general, was slain in battle, 609 before Christ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062206-5888 | JOSSELIN, a town of the arrondissement of Ploermel, in the department of Finisterre, in France. It· stands on the river Oust, contains 2692 inhabitants, and has some manufactures of coarse woollen cloths. It is visited in summer on account of celebrated mineral springs. Near to it is a curious cavern called the Pertuis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062207-5888 | JOTAPATA, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Lower Galilee, distant forty stadia from Gabara; a strong place, situated on a rock, walled round, and encompassed on all hands with mountains, so as not to be seen except by those who approach very near. It was taken with difficulty by Vespasian. When it surrendered, it wa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062208-5888 | JOUDPOOR, an extensive rajpoot principality of Hindustan, in the province of Ajracer, of which the proper and ancient name was Marwar, and its sovereign was called the Rhatore rajah. The boundaries of this territory are not very exactly defined, being intermixed with that of Odeypoor and Jyepoor. They are said, however... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062209-5888 | JOURNAL, a day-book, register, or account of what passes daily. See Diary. Journal, in merchants’ accounts, is a book in which every particular article is posted out of the waste-book, and made debtor. This is to be very clearly worded, and fairly engrossed. See Book-Keeping. Journal, in Navigation, a sort of diary or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062301-5901 | JOURNEY, a tract of ground passed over in travelling by land, properly as much as may be passed in one day. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-062302-5901 | JOURNEYMAN, properly one who works by the day only; but the word is now used for any one who works under a master, either by the day, the year, or the piece. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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