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kp-eb0714-005709-0563 | MALLEABLE, a property of metals, whereby they are capable of being extended under the hammer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005710-0563 | MALLEOLI, in the ancient art of war, were bundles of combustible materials, set on fire in order to give light in the night, or to annoy the enemy. Pitch was always a principal ingredient in the composition. The malleoli had also the name of pyroboli. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005711-0563 | MALLET, or Malloch, David, a poet and miscellaneous writer, was born at Crieff, in Scotland, about 1700. By the penury of his parents, he was compelled to act as janitor of the High School at Edinburgh; but he surmounted the disadvantages of his birth and fortune; and when the Duke of Montrose applied to the College of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005712-0563 | MALLIA, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, situated on the banks of the river Muchoo, which empties itself into the Runn, two miles and a half below this place. It was formerly possessed by a band of notorious plunderers, who preyed upon the surrounding country. It 1809 it was stormed by a Br... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005713-0563 | MALLICOLLO, or Manicoa, one of the largest of the New Hebrides Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is about eighteen leagues in length, and from five to seven in breadth. It was discovered by Quiros in the year 1606. Long, of the harbour on the north-east side, 167. 57. E. Lat. 16. 25. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005714-0563 | MALLING, distinguished by the name of Town-Mailing, or sometimes West Mailing, is a market-town in the county of Kent, in the hundred of Larkfield and the lathe of Aylesford. It is twenty-nine miles from London and six from Maidstone, being situated on a small stream which falls into the river Medway. In this place the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005715-0563 | MALLISON’S Island is situated on the north coast of New Holland, near the entrance into the Gulf of Carpentaria, on the west side. It is of considerable elevation. Long, of the south-east head of the island, 136. 8. E. Lat. 12. 11. S.
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kp-eb0714-005801-0576 | MALLOODOO, a district of Borneo, in the southeastern extremity of the island. It i s populous, and supplies ratans of an excellent quality, and from twenty to thirty feet in length; as also clove-bark. Numerous rivers fall into the bay of Malloodoo. Long, of the bay 117 2. E. Lat. 6. 45. N. j | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005802-0576 | MALLONI, a town of the kingdom of Naples, in the pr “™ŋ\ 0 r IJ™ cipato citeriore > witl > 2216 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005803-0576 | MALMEDY, a city, the capital of a circle of that name, in the Prussian government of Cologne. It is situated on the river Warge, and contains 808 houses, with 3920 inhabitants. It is a manufacturing place of great celebrity, producing annually more than 100,000 hides for sole leather from its tanneries, much cotton twi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 28' N 5 25' E | MALMEDY |
kp-eb0714-005804-0576 | MALMO, a province of Sweden, in the south-western part of the kingdom, which extends in east longitude from 12. 22. to 13. 54., and in north latitude from 55. 21. to 56. 18., having a superficies of 1804 square miles. It is generally a level district, with a soil resembling that of the Danish province of Zealand, which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 36' 37" N 12 33' 59" E | MALMO |
kp-eb0714-005805-0576 | MALMSBURY, an ancient town of the county of Wilts, in the hundred of its own name, ninety-five miles from London. It is said to have had, as early as the year 600, a monastic institution for females, which was afterwards converted into a stately abbey, and was richly endowed till the suppression of the religious houses... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005806-0576 | MALNORE, a town of Hindustan, in the Sikh territories, and province of Delhi, 160 miles north-west by north from the city of Delhi. Long. 75. 18. E. Lat. 30. 22. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 22' N 75 18' E | MALNORE |
kp-eb0714-005807-0576 | MALO, St, a city of France, in the department of the Ille-et-Vilaine, the capital of an arrondissement, to which it gives the name, containing 9981 communes or parishes, with 120,560 inhabitants. The city is forty-six posts or 220 miles distant from Paris. It is a sea-port, having the best harbour on this part of the c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005808-0576 | MALOI-ARCHANGELSK, a circle of the Russian province of Orel, extending in east longitude from 36. 21. to 37. 23. and in north latitude from 52. 36. to 52. 47. The chief town, of the same name, is situated on the river Ko-limkeiska, and contains 229 houses, with 1680 inhabitants. It is 758 miles from St Petersburg. Long... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 27' N 36 29' E | MALOI-ARCHANGELSK |
kp-eb0714-005809-0576 | MALOI-JAROSLAWETZ, a circle of Russia, in the province of Kaluga, extending over 478 square miles, with 46,800 inhabitants. The chief town, of the same name, is situated on the Luscha, 560 miles from St Petersburg. It contains six churches, 280 houses, and 1940 inhabitants. The French suffered a check here on the 12th ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 59' N 37 5' E | MALOI-JAROSLAWETZ |
kp-eb0714-005810-0576 | MALOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the Mysore rajah, twenty-seven miles east by north from Bangalore. Long. 78. 9. E. Lat. 13. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 N 78 9' E | MALOOR |
kp-eb0714-005811-0576 | MALPOORAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, belonging to the Sikhs. Long. 75. 45. E. Lat. 31. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 31 26' N 75 45' E | MALPOORAH |
kp-eb0714-005812-0576 | MALPURBA, a river of the south of India, which falls into the Krishna, and is considered, along with that river, as the southern boundary of the Deccan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005813-0576 | MALPAS, a town of the count}' of Chester, in the hundred of Broxton, 166 miles from London. It stands on a hill overlooking the river Dee, is well built, consisting of three streets well paved, and had a castle belonging to the family or Cholmondeley, now gone to decay. It has a market, which is held on Monday. The pop... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005814-0576 | MALPLAQUET, a town in the department of the North, and arrondissement of Avesnes, in France, not far from Maubeuge, containing 1250 inhabitants. It is celebrated for the victory gained near it, in 1709, by the allies under the command of the Duke of Marlborough. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005815-0576 | MALSCH, a market-town of the duchy of Baden, in Germany, in the circle of the Neckar and bailiwick of Wisloch. It contains 362 houses, and 1996 inhabitants, who are occupied chiefly in the linen manufacture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005816-0576 | MALT. See Brewing and Distillation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-005817-0576 | MALTA, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, forming the chief of a group, now a portion of the dominions of [7:14:59]Great Britain. In ancient times it was known by the 'name of Melite, and is by some supposed to be the island upon which St Paul was shipwrecked. It afterwards bore the name of Maltache, which name was ch... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-006601-0680 | MALTE-BRUN, or rather, as he was called in his native country, Malthe-Conrad Bruun, was born at Thister, in the province of Jutland, in Denmark, on the 12th of August 1775. His father, formerly a captain of dragoons, was counsellor of justice and commissioner of domains.
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kp-eb0714-006701-0693 | MALTHUS, Thomas Robert, was born in 1766, at the Rookery, in the county of Surrey, a small but beautiful estate, at that time in the possession of his family. His father, Daniel Malthus, was a gentleman of good family and independent fortune, attached to a country life, and much occupied in classical and philosophical ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-007001-0732 | MALTON, a town of the north riding of Yorkshire, in the wapentake of Rydall, 214 miles from London. It is situated on the navigable river Derwent, is well built, and contains three parish churches. At this place are some remains of an ancient castle, with its chapel. There is a house of correction; and the sessions are... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-007002-0732 | MALUS, Stephen Louis, the discoverer of the laws of the polarisation of light, born at Paris on the 23d of June 1775, was the son of Anne Louis Malus du Mitry, and of Louisa Charlotte Desboves, his wife.
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kp-eb0714-007101-0745 | MALVERN, a parish in the county of Worcester and hundred of Pershore. It is situated on the range of hills of that name, which contains mineral springs, owing to which, together with the purity of the air and the beauty of the prospects, it is much visited. There are in the two parts excellent accommodations, both in p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-007102-0745 | MALVOISIN, William de, some time chancellor of Scotland, was bred in France, and has been thought by some to have been a native Frenchman. Soon after his coming to this country, he was made one of the clerici regis, and archdeacon of St Andrews, in which latter capacity we find him present at the christening of the you... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-007201-0758 | MALWAH, an extensive province of Hindustan, situated principally between the 22d and 23d degrees of N. lat. On the north it is bounded by the provinces of Ajmeer and Agra, on the cast by Allahabad and Gundwanch, on the south by Khandesh and Berar, and on the west by Ajmeer and Gujerat, being in length about 220 miles, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-007202-0758 | MAMALUKES. See Egypt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-007203-0758 | MAMBRUN, Peter, an ingenious and learned French Jesuit, born in the diocese of Clermont, in the year 1581. He was one of the most perfect imitators of Virgil in Latin poetry, and his poems are of the same species with those of the Mantuan bards. Thus he wrote Eclogues, Georgies, or four books on the culture of the soul... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-007204-0758 | MAMERS, an arrondissement of the department of the Sarthe, in France, extending over 654 square miles. It is divided into ten cantons and 145 communes, which contain 120,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name situated on the river Dive, and has within it 800 houses, and 5550 inhabitants, who make hem... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 20' N 0 16' E | MAMERS |
kp-eb0714-007301-0771 | MAMMALIA.
Mammalia (from Mamma, breast) is a term in natural history applied to those animals which give suck to their young; and it consequently includes not only all quadrupeds, commonly so called, but also the cetaceous tribes, or whales. The Mammalia form the first class of the Animal Kingdom, and may be defined a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-019301-2331 | MAN. Of all the objects which nature presents to our observation, there is none that so powerfully demands our attention, none indeed with which it so much concerns us to be intimately acquainted, as man. If we admit that he is the only being possessed of reason, there is no other creature which can for a moment be bro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-020901-2539 | MAN, Isle of, lies between 54° and 55° N. lat., and 4° and 5° W. long., in the middle of the Irish Sea, and nearly equidistant from the shores of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It is about thirty miles in extreme length, and eleven miles at its greatest breadth; but the latter varies considerably, as its coasts are in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-021401-2604 | MANAAR, an island situated on the north-west coast of Ceylon, giving name to ι the gulf which separates Hindustan from Ceylon. The island, which is about fifteen miles in length by three in average breadth, is separated from Ceylon by an arm of the sea about two miles broad, and at low water almost dry, excepting a sma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 9 6' N 79 58' E | MANAAR |
kp-eb0714-021402-2604 | MANADO, the northernmost of the Dutch settlements on the island of Celebes. From this place gold was procured in exchange for opium and Hindustan piece-goods, chiefly blue cloth, fine Bengal stuffs, iron, and steel. The place surrendered to Captain Tucker in 1810. The bay and town are situated on the west end of the no... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-021403-2604 | MANAH, a town of Northern Hindustan, in the district of Serinagur, on the north-eastern frontier. It contains 150 or 200 houses, with from fourteen to fifteen hundred inhabitants, who are above the middle size, stout, and well formed, and seem to be of a race between those of Tartary and Hindustan. The houses are two s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 20' N 79 40' E | MANAH |
kp-eb0714-021404-2604 | MANAPAR, a town in the south of India, being situated on a promontory in the district of Tinevelly, projecting into the Gulf of Manaar, sixty miles north-east from Cape Comorin. Long. 78. 17. E. Lat. 8. 39. N. It is also the name of a town in the Polygar territory, fifty miles west by south from Tanjore. Long. 78. 30. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-021405-2604 | MANASSEH, in Scripture history, the eldest son of Joseph, and grandson of the patriarch Jacob (Genesis, xli. 50, 51), was born in the year of the world 2290, and before Jesus Christ 1714. The tribe descended from him came out of Egypt in number thirty-two thousand two hundred men fit for battle, being upwards of twenty... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-021406-2604 | MANATOULIN Islands, an extensive range of islands, which stretch in an easterly direction from the western shore of Lake Superior, in North America. Many of them measure from twenty to thirty miles in length, by from ten to fifteen in breadth, and on some of these the land swells into considerable elevations. Long. 81.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-021407-2604 | MANCAP, a small island in the Eastern Seas, situated at the extremity of a sand bank, which extends about six leagues from the south-western extremity of Borneo. Long. 102. 57. E. Lat. 3. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 3 S 102 57' E | MANCAP |
kp-eb0714-021408-2604 | MANCHA, La, a district of Spain, being the southernmost division of New Castille. It produces wheat and barley, but in quantities insufficient to feed its inhabitants. Wine is its most abundant production, with which it principally supplies Madrid. The wines are of both colours, and of various qualities: some of them, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-021501-2617 | MANCHESTER, The second town of the empire in point of population, and the most important on account of its manufactures, is situated almost at the south-eastern extremity of the county of Lancaster, and is distant 186 miles north-west by north from London. The site of the original town was early occupied by a fort, whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-022801-2786 | MANCIPLE (manceps) i a clerk of the kitchen, or caterer. This officer still remains in some universities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-022802-2786 | MANCOTE, a village of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, now possessed by the Sikhs. It is situated seventy-four miles from the city of Lahore. Long. 74. 28. E. Lat. 32. 44. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 44' N 74 28' E | MANCOTE |
kp-eb0714-022803-2786 | MANDANES, an Indian prince and philosopher, who for the renown of his wisdom was invited by the ambassadors of Alexander the Great to the banquet of the son of Jupiter. A reward was promised him if he obeyed, but he was threatened with punishment in the event of refusal. Unmoved by promises and threats, the philosopher... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-022804-2786 | MANDARA, an independent kingdom of Western Africa, situated to the south of Bornou. It is overlooked by the central range of the Mountains of the Moon, which attain their greatest elevation to the southward of this territory. Those parts of the mountains examined by Major Denham consist of enormous blocks of granite, b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-022901-2799 | MANDARINS, a name given to the magistrates and governors of provinces in China, who are chosen out of the most learned men, and whose government is always at a great distance from the place of their birth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-022902-2799 | MANDAVEE, a large and fortified sea-port of Hindustan, in the province of Cutch, situated on the Gulf of Cutch. It trades to a considerable extent with Bombay, Arabia, &c. and its chief articles of export consist of butter, grain, and cotton, for which it receives sugar, pepper, spices, raw silk, piece-goods, &c. Long.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 50' N 69 34' E | MANDAVEE |
kp-eb0714-022903-2799 | ΜANDAWEE Islands, a cluster of small islands in the Eastern Seas, near the south coast of Borneo. Long. 113. 30. E. Lat. 3. 20. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 3 20' S 113 30' E | ΜANDAWEE |
kp-eb0714-022904-2799 | MANDELIQUE, or Mandaltg, a small island, about half a league from the north coast of Java, called the Devil’s Rock, because ships are so long detained here by the contrary winds of the east monsoon, and by currents. The strait between this and the coast is too narrow to be safe. Long. 110. 56. E. Lat. 6. 27. S∙ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 27' S 110 56' E | MANDELIQUE |
kp-eb0714-022905-2799 | MANDEVILLE, Sir John, a physician celebrated on account of his travels, was born at St Alban’s, about the beginning of the fourteenth century. He received a liberal education, and applied himself to the study of physic; but being at length seized with an invincible desire of visiting distant parts of the globe, he left... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023001-2812 | MANDINGO, or Manding, an elevated region in Western Africa, is situated, according to Golberry, between the sources of the Gambia and the town of Kong, about 700 miles eastward from the coast of Guinea. Little or nothing is known of the country except from the travels of Park, who traversed it during his first journey.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023101-2825 | MANDIOLY Isle, one of the Gilolo Islands, situated between the firstand second degrees of south latitude, and about the 127th degree of east longitude. It is supposed to be twenty miles in length by four in breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023102-2825 | MANDOW, a city and capital of a district of the same name, in the province of Malwah, situated among the Vindhaya Mountains, between the twenty-second and twenty-third degrees of north latitude. The city was formerly the capital of an Afghan dynasty, the princes of which were the sovereigns of Malwah during a part of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023103-2825 | MANDOWEE, a city of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, possessed by the chiefs of the Sikhs, and situated on the east side of the Beyah River, 140 miles northeast from Lahore. Long. 75. 48. E. Lat. 32.54. N. Also a town in the province of Gujerat and district of Broach, on the river Tuptee, twenty-five miles east fr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023104-2825 | MANEGE, the exercise of riding the great horse, or the ground set apart for that purpose, which is sometimes covered for continuing the exercise in bad weather, and sometimes open in order to give more liberty and freedom both to the horseman and horse. The word is borrowed from the French manège, and that from the Ita... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023105-2825 | MANES, a poetical term, signifying the shades or souls of the deceased.
Dii Manes were the same with the inferi, or infernal gods, who tormented men; and to these the heathens offered sacrifices to assuage their indignation. The heathen mythology is a little obscure respecting these gods’ manes. Some hold that they we... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023106-2825 | MANETHO, or Manethos, an ancient Egyptian historian, who pretended to have derived all his materials from the sacred inscriptions upon the pillars of Hermes Trismegistus. He was high priest of Heliopolis in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus, at whose request he wrote his history in Greek, beginning with the gods of Egyp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023201-2838 | MANFREDONIA, a city and sea-port of the kingdom of Naples, in the province of Capitanata, situated on the bay of the same name in the Adriatic. The harbour is protected by a mole, but is fit only for small vessels. It is the seat of an archbishop, whose cathedral is near the city, upon the site of the ancient Sipontum.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023202-2838 | MANGALORE, a sea-port town and fortress of Hindustan, situated on the eastern shore of the Indian Ocean, in the province of Canara. It is large and well built, and is situated on a salt-water lake, which is separated from the sea by a beach of sand, but which communicates with a river. At high water and in fine weather... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 49' N 75 E | MANGALORE |
kp-eb0714-023203-2838 | MANGAPET, a large village of Hindustan, in the nizam’s territories, in the province of Hyderabad, situated near to the south-west bank of the Godavery. Long. 81. 5. E. Lat. 18. 14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 14' N 81 5' E | MANGAPET |
kp-eb0714-023204-2838 | MANGEART, Dom Thomas, a Benedictine of the congregation of St Vanne and St Hidulphe, whose knowledge was an ornament to his order, and gained him the titles of antiquarian, librarian, and counsellor to Charles duke of Lorraine. He was preparing a very considerable work when he died, in the year 1763, before he had put ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023205-2838 | MANGEE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, situated at the confluence of the Gogra with the Ganges. Long. 84. 35. E. Lat. 25. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 50' N 84 35' E | MANGEE |
kp-eb0714-023206-2838 | MANGEEA, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Captain Cook, the natives of which resembled the Otaheitans in the beauty of their persons. Long. 201. 53. E. Lat. 21. 57. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 57' S 201 53' E | MANGEEA |
kp-eb0714-023207-2838 | MANGEEDARA, a district in the most eastern quarter of Borneo, extending towards the Sooloo archipelago, in a long narrow point. This peninsula, which is named Unsang, terminates eastward in a bluff point. On the northeast is a small island named Tambeesan, which forms a harbour capable of admitting ships of a considera... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023208-2838 | MANGERAY, Straits of. The straits which separate the island of Flores or Ende from that of Comodo, in general possess a depth of water exceeding thirty fathoms, though they are full of islands and small rocks. There are many good harbours and bays on the Flores side, where vessels may anchor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023209-2838 | MANGHELLY, a town in the Afghan territories, in the district of Puckholi. Long. 72. E. Lat. 33. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 33 32' N 72 E | MANGHELLY |
kp-eb0714-023210-2838 | ΜANIAGO, a town of Italy, the capital of a district in the Austrian delegation of Friuli. It stands at the foot of the mountains, and contains 3715 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023211-2838 | MANICA, a district of Mocaranga, in Eastern Africa, celebrated as the country chiefly affording the gold for which this part of Africa is famous. It is mountainous, but fertile, and abounds in honey, wax, senna, dye-stuffs, and the like. A Portuguese expedition penetrated thither in 1569. They found the mines by no mea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023212-2838 | MANICHEES, or Manicheans (JManichoeT), a sect of ancient heretics, who asserted two principles, and were so called from their author, Manes or Manichaeus, a Persian by nation, and educated amongst the Magi, having been one of that number before he embraced Christianity. This heresy took its first rise about the year 27... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023301-2851 | MANICORDON, or Maniciiord, a musical instrument in the form of a spinet; the strings of which, like those of the clarichord, were covered with little pieces of cloth, to deaden as well as to soften their sound, whence it is also called the dumb spinet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023302-2851 | MANICPOOR, a district of Hindustan, in the nabob of Oude’s territories, and in the province of Allahabad, situated about the twenty-sixth degree of north latitude. The soil is here fertile, and the country tolerably supplied with water. It produces cotton, tobacco, sugar, and all the grains of India. The principal town... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 47' N 81 25' E | MANICPOOR |
kp-eb0714-023303-2851 | MANIFESTO, a public declaration made by a prince in writing, showing his intentions in undertaking a war or other enterprise, with the motives which induce him thereto, and the reasons upon which he founds his rights and pretensions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023304-2851 | MANIFOLD Cape, on the east coast of New Holland, is formed of several rocky heads and intermediate beaches. An island which lies off is in long. 150. 50. E. and lat. 22. 42. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 42' S 150 50' E | MANIFOLD |
kp-eb0714-023305-2851 | MANILLA, the capital of the Spanish settlements in the Philippines, on the island of Lucon, situated on a bay of the same name, which is seventy-five miles in circumference, and into which several rivers pour their waters. At its entrance are several small islands, on one of which, called the Corregidor, an officer wit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 38' N 120 54' E | MANILLA |
kp-eb0714-023401-2864 | MANILIUS, Marcus, a Latin poet, who flourished towards the end of the reign of Augustus, but respecting whose private history we are entirely ignorant. Even the place of his birth is unknown. Vossius imagines that he is the same as Manilius Antiochus, who was brought as a slave to Rome along with his cousin Publius Syr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023402-2864 | MANIPA, one of the smaller Molucea Isles, about twelve miles in length by six in breadth, and five or six leagues west from the island of Ceram. It is well cultivated and inhabited. Long. 127. 51. E. Lat. 3. 21. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 3 21' N 127 51' E | MANIPA |
kp-eb0714-023403-2864 | MANIPULUS, Manipule, amongst the Romans, was a small body of infantry, which in the time of Romulus consisted of one hundred men, and in the time of the consuls, and first Caesars, of two hundred. See the article Army. Manipulus is also an ecclesiastical ornament, worn by the priests, deaeons, and subdeacons in the Rom... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023404-2864 | MANKIAM Isle, a small island in the Eastern Seas, about thirty miles in circumference, off the west coast of Gilolo. Long. 127. 30. E. Lat. 0. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 0 20' N 127 30' E | MANKIAM |
kp-eb0714-023405-2864 | MANNA, a Scripture term, signifying a miraculous kind of food which fell from heaven for the support of the Israelites in their passage through the wilderness.
The critics are divided respecting the original of the word manna. Some think that man is put instead of the Hebrew word mah, which signifies What is this? and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023501-2877 | MANNEDORF, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of Zurich, standing on the eastern side of the lake of that name, in a beautiful situation. It contains 2360 inhabitants, who prosper by agriculture, and by considerable manufactures of silk and cotton goods; and the place is celebrated for the abundance and excellence of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023502-2877 | MANNHEIM, a city in the grand duchy of Baden, in the circle of the Neckar. It stands at the influx of that river into the Rhine, and has a bridge of boats over the latter river, the joint property of the states of Bavaria and Baden. It was formerly fortified, but the walls and ditches have, since 1796, been converted i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 29' N 8 27' 34" E | MANNHEIM |
kp-eb0714-023503-2877 | MANNINGTREE, a town of Essex, in the parish of Mistley and hundred of Tendring. It stands in a beautiful situation upon the south bank of the river Stour, which is navigable to it. It is sixty-one miles from London, and has a good market, which is held on Thursday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1016, in 1811 to 10... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023504-2877 | MANOMETER, or Manoscope, an instrument to show or measure the alterations in the rarity or density of the air. The manometer differs from the barometer in this, that the latter only serves to measure the weight of the atmosphere, or of the column of air over it; whereas the former serves to measure the density of the a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | MANOMETER | |
kp-eb0714-023505-2877 | MANOR, Maneri um (a manendo, because it was the usual residence of the owner), seems to have been a district of ground held by lords or great personages, who kept in their own hands as much land as was necessary for the use of their families; and this was called terra dominicalis, or demesne land, being occupied by the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023506-2877 | MANOWLY, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and province of Bejapoor, twenty-two miles north-east from the fortress of Darwar. It was taken by General Wellesley in 1799. Long. 75.10. E. Lat. 15.58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 58' N 75 10' E | MANOWLY |
kp-eb0714-023507-2877 | MANRESA, a city of Spain, in the province of Catalonia. It is built on the banks of the river Llobregat, near its confluence with the Cardonero. Its inhabitants are enriched by extensive manufactures of silk goods; and near it are several mills for making gunpowder, which is produced in great quantities. It was in this... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023508-2877 | MANS, Le, an arrondissement of the department of the Sarthe, in France, extending over 845 square miles, and divided into ten cantons and 128 communes, with 140,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Sarthe. It is one of the few cities of France which have increased considerabl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 9' 35" N 0 3' 16" W | MANS |
kp-eb0714-023509-2877 | MANSAROWAR, or Mansahror, a lake situated on the northern side of the Himalaya Mountains, which divide Hindustan from Thibet and Tartary. It is considered by the Hindus as the most sacred of all the various places of pilgrimage, and they evince their zeal by the hardships and dangers which they endure in reaching it. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023510-2877 | MANSE, Mansus, Mansa, or Mansum, in ancient law-books, denotes a house, or habitation, either with or without land. The word is formed a manendo, abiding, as being the place of dwelling or residence. Mansus presbyteri, is a parsonage or vicarage house for the incumbent to reside in. This was originally, and still remai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023511-2877 | MANSFIELD, a market-town of the county of Nottingham and hundred of Broxton, 139 miles from London. It stands on the border of the forest of Sherwood, on which formerly stood a hunting seat of the ancient kings. It was till lately a place merely for making hosiery, but of late considerable factories have been establish... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023601-2890 | MANSIR, a village of Hindustan, in the Sikh territories, and province of Lahore, situated on the margin of a beautiful sheet of water. Long. 74. 20. E. Lat. 32. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 50' N 74 20' E | MANSIR |
kp-eb0714-023602-2890 | MANSLAUGHTER, the unlawful killing of another, without malice either express or implied. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023603-2890 | MANSOURIA, a small town of the pachalik of Bagdad, situated on the Euphrates, about twenty miles above its junction with the Tigris. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023604-2890 | MANSOURA, a large town of Lower Egypt, built by the Saracens as a bulwark against the invasion of the Christians during the wars of the Crusades. Dr Pococke supposes it to be the Zoan or Tanis of the ancients. It is celebrated in the history of the Crusades for two great battles fought near it, in one of which St Louis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-023605-2890 | MANTANANE, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the north-west coast of the island of Borneo. Long. 116. 27. E. Lat. 6. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 38' N 116 27' E | MANTANANE |
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