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kp-eb0715-065102-7672 | MYCONDAH, a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the rajah of Mysore. It is of some importance, as it is placed at the entrance of a pass from the north-westward into the valley of Chitteldroog, which it is intended to defend. It is 138 miles N. N. W. from Seringapatam. Long. 76. 10. E. Lat. 14. 16. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065103-7672 | MYCONE, an island of the Archipelago, situated in long. 25. 51. E., lat. 37. 28. N. It is about thirty-six miles in circuit, and has a town of the same name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 37 28' N 25 51' E | MYCONE |
kp-eb0715-065104-7672 | MYCONUS, in Ancient Geography, one of the islands called Cyclades, near Delos, under which the last of the centaurs slain by Hercules are feigned to lie buried. Hence the proverb, Omnia sub unam Myconum congerere, applied to an injudicious or unnatural farrago.
Μ YDAN, a small district in the Afghan province of Cabul,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065105-7672 | MYER, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, fifty miles south-south-east from Callinger. Long. 80. 50. E. Lat. 24. 21. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065106-7672 | MYIAGRUS Deus, in the heathen mythology, a name sometimes given to Jupiter, and sometimes to Hercules, on occasion of sacrifices being offered to them for driving away the vast numbers of flies which infested the victims on certain public occasions. The word is usually spelt Myagrus ; but this must be an error, as the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065107-7672 | MYIODES Deus, in the heathen mythology, a name sometimes given to Hercules, but more frequently to Jupiter, to whom a bull was sacrificed, in order to render him propitious in driving away the flies which infested the Olympic games. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065108-7672 | MYLASA, or Mylassa, in√4nc⅛n< Geography, a noble city of Caria, in Asia Minor, situated about three leagues from the Sinus Ceramicus. It was the capital of Hecatomnus, king of Caria, and father of Mausolus. Pliny, speaking of Menander king of Caria, says that the Rhodians preserved with the greatest care his portrait p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065109-7672 | MYLAU, a town of the circle of Voightland, in the kingdom of Saxony, on the river Golzsch. It contains 240 houses, and 1790 inhabitants, who are chiefly employedin making muslins and cotton goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065110-7672 | MYMUNSING, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, situated between the 24th and 28th degrees of north latitude. The boundaries of this territory are the Garrow Mountains and the district of Rungpoor on the north, Dacca Jelalpoor on the south, Silket and Tipperah on the east, and Ranjeshy and Dinagepoor on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065201-7685 | MYO Isle, a small island situated in the Eastern Seas, in the Molucca passage, which separates Celebes and Gilolo. The inhabitants, by whom it was occupied whilst the Portuguese held the Moluccas, were expelled by the Dutch, lest it should become a place for the smuggling of spices. Long. 126. 15. E. Lat. 1. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065202-7685 | MYOLOGY (formed of μυς, μυoς, a muscle, and λo∕oς, discourse), in anatomy, signifies a description of the muscles, or the knowledge of what relates to the muscles of the human body. See Anatomy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065203-7685 | ΜYOMANCY, a kind of divination, or method of foretelling future events by means of mice. Some authors hold myomancy to be one of the most ancient kinds of divination, and think it is on this account that Isaiah (lxvi. 17) reckons mice amongst the abominable things of the idolaters. But besides that it is by no means ce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065204-7685 | MYOPIA, Short-sightedness, a species of vision in which objects are seen only at small distances. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065205-7685 | MYRIAD, a term sometimes employed to denote ten thousand. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065206-7685 | MYRIAPODA,
A wingless tribe of insects, formerly so called, of which centipedes (the genus Scolopendra of Linnaeus) form the most characteristic example, are now regarded as a separate class of the articulated tribes, in conformity with the views of Dr Leach and other writers who have studied their structure and econo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065501-7724 | MYRISTICA, the Nutmeg Tree.. The seeds or kernels called nutmegs are well known, as they have long been used both for culinary and medicinal purposes. Distilled with water, they yield a large quantity of essential oil, resembling in flavour the spice itself; after the distillation an insipid sebaceous matter is found s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065502-7724 | MYRMIDONS, Myrmidones, in Antiquity, a people in the southern borders of Thessaly, who accompanied Achilles to the Trojan war. They received their name from Myrmidon, a son of Jupiter and Eurymedusa, who married one of the daughters of Aeolus, son of Helen. His son Actor married Aegina, the daughter of Aesopus, and gav... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065503-7724 | MYRMILLONES were gladiators of a certain kind at Rome, who fought against the Retiarii. Their arms were a sword, head-piece, and shield. On the top of the headpiece they wore a fish embossed, called μοξμυζος, whence their name is by some supposed to be derived. The Retiarii, in their engagements, made use of a net, in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065601-7737 | MYROBALANS, a species of medicinal fruit brought from the Indies, of which there are five kinds, viz. the citrine of a yellowish red colour, hard, oblong, and the size of an olive; the black or Indian myrobalan, of the size of an acorn, wrinkled and without a stone; chebulic myrobalans, of the size of a date, pointed a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065602-7737 | MYRON, an excellent Grecian statuary, who flourished 442 years before Christ. The cow he represented in brass was an admirable piece of workmanship, and proved the occasion of many fine epigrams in Greek. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065603-7737 | MYRRH, a gummy, resinous, concrete juice, which is brought from the East Indies or from Abyssinia. It is affirmed by some that the myrrh we have at present is not equal in quality to that of the ancients, and has not that exquisite smell which all authors ascribe to the latter. With it they aromatized their most delici... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065604-7737 | MYRTOUM Mare, a part of theAEgean Sea, lying between Euboea, Peloponnesus, and Attica. It receives this name from Myrto, a woman; or from Myrtus, a small island in the neighbourhood; or from Myrtilus the son of Mercury, who was drowned therein. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065605-7737 | MYRTUS, in Ancient Geography, a small island near Carystus,in Euboea, which gave name to the MarcMyrtoum. Strabo extends this sea between Crete, Argia, and Attica. Pausanias, making it commence at Euboea, joins it at Helena, a desert island, with the Aegean Sea; but Ptolemy carries it to the coast of Caria; and Pliny s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065606-7737 | MYSCHKIN, a circle of the Russian province Jaroslow, between 37. 33. and 38.46. east longitude, and 57. 25. and 58. 4. north latitude. It contains one city, and 701 villages, distributed into fifty-five parishes. It is watered by the rivers Wolga, Karasitschna, Kadka, and Sudka, and is moderately fertile, maintaining a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065607-7737 | MYSIA, a country of Asia Minor, generally divided into Major and Minor. Mysia Minor was bounded on the north and west by the Propontis and Bithynia, and on the southern and eastern borders by Phrygia. Mysia Major had Aeolia on the south, the Aegean Sea on the west, and Phrygia on the north and east. Its chief cities we... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065608-7737 | MYSLENICZER, a circle of the Austrian province of Gallicia, extending over 825 square miles, and comprehending twelve cities and towns, and 339 villages, with 37,145 houses, and 144,077 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the river Raba, with 286 houses, and 2075 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065609-7737 | MYSOL Isle. This island is situated in the Eastern Seas, about the second degree of south latitude, midway between the large islands of Ceram and Papua. It is fifty miles in length by fifteen in breadth, and is inhabited on the sea coast chiefly by Mahommedans, and in the interior by the natives. On the east coast is a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065610-7737 | MYSON, a native of Sparta, one of the seven wise men of Greece. When Anacharsis consulted the oracle of Apollo, to know which was the wisest man in Greece, he received for answer, he who is now ploughing his fields. This was Myson. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065611-7737 | MYSORE, Mahesvra, or Maisoor, a large province in the south of India, situated principally between the eleventh and fifteenth degrees of north latitude, and now-surrounded by the British territories subject to the Madras presidency. Its length is estimated at 210 miles, and its average breadth at 140. The country consi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-065701-7750 | MYSTERIES.
Religion, in its "original form, was simple and intelligible. It was intended for the instruction and education of all ranks of men, and of consequence its doctrines were on a level with vulgar capacities. The Jewish dispensation was openly practised; nothing was performed in secret; every article was plain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-067401-7971 | MYSTICAL, something mysteriousor allegorical. Some of the commentators on the sacred writings, besides a literal, discover also a mystical meaning. The sense of Scripture, say they, is either that immediately signified by the words and expressions in the common use of language; or it is mediate, sublime, typical, and m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-067402-7971 | MYSTICS, mystici, a kind of religious sect, distinguished by their professing pure, sublime, and perfect devotion, with an entire disinterested love of God, free from all selfish considerations. The mystics, to excuse their fanatical ecstacies, appeal to that passage of St Paul, where he says, “The spirit prays in us b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-067501-7984 | MYSTRUM, a liquid measure amongst the ancients, containing the fourth part of the cyathus, and weighing two drachms and a half of oil, or two drachms and two scruples of water or wine. It answers nearly to a spoonful with us. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-067502-7984 | MYTHOLOGY
Is a term compounded of two Greek words, and in its original import it signifies any kind of fabulous doctrine. In its more appropriated sense, it means those fabulous details concerning the objects of worship which were invented and propagated by men who lived in the early ages of the world, and by them tra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068401-8101 | MZENSK, a circle of the Russian province of Orel, extending in north latitude from 53. 8. to 53. 39. and in east longitude from 36. 24. to 37. 3. The capital is a city of the same name, 696 miles distant from St Petersburg, and situated on the river Sudsha. It contains twelve churches, 1100 houses, and 6400 inhabitants... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068402-8101 | N, A liquid consonant, and the thirteenth letter of the 9 Greek, Latin, and English alphabets.
The n is a nasal consonant, its sound being that of a <Z, passed through the nose; so that when the nose is stopped by a cold, or the like, it is usual to pronounce d for n. The Abbé de Dangeau observes, that in the French, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068403-8101 | NAAS, a borough town of Ireland, in the county of Kildare. It was anciently the residence of the kings of Leinster. A charter granted by Henry V. establishes beyond controversy the fact of the existence of the corporation as long ago as the year 1414. Its name signifies “the place of elders;” for here the states of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068404-8101 | NABATENE, or Regio Nabataeorum, according to Jerome, comprehended all the country lying between the Euphrates and the Red Sea, and thus contained Arabia Deserta, with a part of Arabia Petraea. It was so called from Nabaioth, the first-born of Ismael. According to Diodorus, it was situated between Syria and Egypt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068405-8101 | NABIS, tyrant of Sparta, reigned about 204 years before Christ, and is reported to have so far exceeded all other tyrants, that, upon comparison, he left the epithets of gracious and merciful to Dionysius and Phalaris. He is said to have contrived an instrument of torture in the form of a statue of a beautiful woman, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068501-8114 | NABLUM, in Hebrew Nebel, was an instrument of music amongst the Jews. It had strings like the harp, was played upon by both hands, and in form resembled that of a Greek A. In the Septuagint and Vulgate it is called noblum, psalterion, lyra, and sometimes cithara. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068502-8114 | NABO, or Nebo, in Mythology, a deity of the Babylonians, who possessed the next rank to Bel or Belus. Vossius apprehends that Nabo was the moon, and Bel the sun; but Grotius supposes that Nabo was some celebrated prophet of the country; and this opinion is confirmed by the etymology of the name, signifying, according t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068503-8114 | NABOB, properly Nawab, the plural of Naib, a deputy. As used in Bengal, this title is the same as Nazim. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068504-8114 | NABONASSAR, first king of the Chaldaeans or Babylonians, memorable on account of the Jewish era which bears his name, and which is generally fixed in 3257, beginning on Wednesday, February 26th, in the 3967th of the Julian period, 747 years before Christ. The Babylonians having revolted from the Medes, who had overthro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068505-8114 | NABOPOLASSAR, king of Babylon, who joined with Astyages the Mede, to destroy the empire of Assyria; which having accomplished, they founded the two empires of the Medes under Astyages, and the Chaldaeans under Nabopolassar, 627 years before Christ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068506-8114 | NABUCHADNEZZAR, or Nabuchadonosor II. king of Assyria, son of Nabopolassar, and styled the Great, was associated with his father in the empire, 607 years before Christ. The following year he took Jehoiakim king of Judah prisoner, and proposed to carry him and his subjects in captivity into Babylon; but upon his submiss... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068507-8114 | NACHELO, or Nakhilo, a sea-port of Persia, in Laristan, defended by a square fort, flanked by four towers. It is situated at the mouth of a river which falls into the Persian Gulf, where the anchorage would be good if it were not exposed to the north-west winds. This place was for a time under the dominion of the Wahab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068508-8114 | NACHITSCHEVAN, a city of Russia in Europe, in the eastern division of the circle of Rostow, in the province of Katerinoslaw. It stands on the river Don, which here frequently overflows its banks. Its inhabitants are almost exclusively of the Armenian race and religion; and, by their eastern costume and manners, they ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068509-8114 | NACKSHIEVAN, or Nuckshievan, a town of Persian Armenia, formerly one of the most magnificent cities of Persia, supposed to have been the ancient Artaxata, now only famous for its magnificent ruins, and containing not above 400 inhabitants. Its ruin was completed by Abbas I. who, in the plenitude of his tyrannical power... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068510-8114 | NADED, a town in the south of India, situated on the Cavery River, 100 miles above Hyderabad. It is celebrated as the burial-place of Gooroo Govend, the Sikh high-priest, who died a. d. 1708. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068511-8114 | NADEGADOO, a well-watered district on the east side of the island of Ceylon, through which rims the Sin-gepetto River. It lies between the seventh and eighth degrees of N. lat. and produces chiefly cinnamon and rice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068512-8114 | NADIM, a river of Asiatic Russia, which rises in Lake Toromlar, and falls into the Gulf of Obi. There is a small town of the name of Nadimskoi at its mouth. Long. 73. 44. E. Lat. 66. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 66 25' N 73 44' E | NADIM |
kp-eb0715-068513-8114 | NADIR, in Astronomy, that point of the heavens which is diametrically opposite to the zenith or point directly above our heads. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068514-8114 | NADONE, or Nadoun, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, being the principal one of the Kangrah country, is situated on the eastern bank of the Beyah river. This place was considered as a respectable fortress in the year 1014, and was taken from the Hindus by Sultan Mahmoud of Ghizni. The Nadone district bord... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068515-8114 | NAENIA, the goddess of funerals at Rome. Her temple was without the gates of the city. The songs which were sung at funerals were also called naenia. They were generally filled with the praises of the deceased; but sometimes they were so unmeaning and improper, that the word became proverbial to signify nonsense. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068516-8114 | NAERDEN, a strong town of Holland, situated at the head of the canals of the province. The foundations of it were laid by William of Bavaria, in 1350. It was taken by the Spaniards in 1572, and by the French in 1672; but it was retaken by the Prince of Orange the next year. It stands at the south end of the Zuyder Zee,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 22' N 5 3' E | NAERDEN |
kp-eb0715-068517-8114 | NAEVIUS, Cneius, a tragic and comic poet, was a native of Campania, and flourished about the year 235 b. c. having served in the first Punic war (264-241 B. c.), which he celebrated in an epic poem (Gell, xvii. 21, 45; V. 12, 7). He wrote a little before the time of Ennius, who was born in 239 b. c. and died in 169. He... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068601-8127 | NAFELS, a town of Switzerland, of the canton of Glaris, the capital of the Catholic division of that canton. It stands on the river Linth, in a fruitful and pleasant district. The small river Rautibach, on its fall into the Linth, forms a fine, and at times a most copious cascade. A great victory was gained here by the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068602-8127 | NAFF, a considerable river of Hindustan, forming the boundary between Bengal and Arracan. Its banks are rugged and woody, interspersed with spots of cultivation, and a few villages inhabited by a race of herdsmen, whose principal occupation consists in hunting the wild elephants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068603-8127 | NAGAL, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, situated on the east side of the river Ganges. Long. 78. 10. E. Lat. 29. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 29 43' N 78 10' E | NAGAL |
kp-eb0715-068604-8127 | NAGAMANGATAM, a large square mud fort in the south of India, and province of Mysore. It contains a square citadel in its centre, in which are two Hindu temples, and all the public granaries and store-rooms. The town is said to be 600 years old, having been erected by a prince named Jagadeva Raya, of the same family wit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 49' N 76 57' E | NAGAMANGATAM |
kp-eb0715-068605-8127 | NAGHERY, a town of the south of India, in the Carnatic, forty-eight miles north-west by west from Madras. Long. 79. 45. E. Lat. 13. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 19' N 79 45' E | NAGHERY |
kp-eb0715-068606-8127 | NAGJERY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Khandesh, 32 miles west by north from Boorhanpoor. Long. 75. 50. E. Lat. 21. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 25' N 75 50' E | NAGJERY |
kp-eb0715-068607-8127 | NAGNE, a small river in the Gujerat peninsula, which rises in a range of hills, fourteen miles to the south-east of Lawria, and, after passing the city of Noanagur, falls into the Runn, in the Gulf of Cutch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068608-8127 | NAGY-BANYA, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, of the circle of the Farther Theiss, and the capital of a district of the same name. It is situated in the centre of a mining country, from which much gold, silver, and lead are extracted; and it has an institution for the education of the miners. There is a mint, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 37' N 23 29' E | NAGY-BANYA |
kp-eb0715-068609-8127 | NAGY-ENYED, a city of the Austrian province of §ie-
benbcrgen, the ancient Transylvania, and the capital of a circle of the same name, near the great river Marosch. It contains a mixed population of 6400 persons, composed of Hungarians, Armenians, Wallachians, and Saxons. It has a Catholic, a Lutheran, and a Calvinist... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068610-8127 | NAGY-KAROLI, alarge town of the circle of Szathmar, in the province of Farther Theiss, in Hungary. It is situated on a fruitful spot, and has a splendid palace and gardens belonging to Count Karoli, a Catholic, a Calvinist, and a Unitarian church, a college of philosophy, and a Catholic gymnasium. It contains 943 house... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 40' 10" N 22 22' 40" E | NAGY-KAROLI |
kp-eb0715-068611-8127 | NAGY-KOBESCH, a city of Hungary, in the district of Pesth. It is composed of 12,000 inhabitants, almost wholly of the original Magyar or Hungarian race, who adhere to the Calvinist church, and are chiefly occupied in agriculture, producing good wine, and rearing large flocks of sheep. Long. 19. 47. E. Lat. 47. 1. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 1' N 19 47' E | NAGY-KOBESCH |
kp-eb0715-068612-8127 | NAHN, a district of Hindustan, partly situated in the province of Delhi, on its north-eastern frontier, and partly in Serinagur. It is between the thirtieth and thirty-second degrees of north latitude, and is bounded on the east by the river Jumna. The country is in general woody and mountainous; but is interspersed in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068613-8127 | NAHR EL BERD, a river of Syria, in the pachalik of Tripoli, which falls into the Mediterranean, about nine miles north of Tripoli. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068614-8127 | NAHR ELTEMASIEH, a river of Syria, which falls into the Mediterranean, six miles south of Tortosa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068615-8127 | NAHR GEBAIL, a river of Syria, which falls into the Mediterranean, four miles south of Latakich. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068616-8127 | NAHR EL HOUALI, a river of Irak Arabi, the ancient Hermes, which rises in Mount Marius, passes by the ruins of Nisibis, and, after a short course, falls into the Khabour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068617-8127 | NAHR EL KEBIR, a considerable river of Syria, which rises in Mount Libanus, and, after a winding course, falls into the Mediterranean, twenty miles north-east of Tripoli. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068618-8127 | NAIADES, in fabulous history, certain inferior deities who presided over rivers, springs, wells, and fountains. The Naiades generally inhabited the country, and resorted to the woods or meadows near the stream over which they presided. They are represented as young and beautiful virgins, each leaning upon an urn, from ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068619-8127 | NAIANT, in Heraldry i a term used in blazoning fishes, when borne in a horizontal posture, as if swimming. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068620-8127 | NAIN, Lewis Sebastian de, a French critic and historian, was son of a master of the requests, and was born at Paris in 1637. At ten years old he went to school at Port-Royal, and became one of the best writers of that institution[7:15:687]. Sacy, his intimate friend and counsellor, prevailed with him in 1676 to receive... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068701-8140 | NAIRNSHIRE, a small county in Scotland. It is situated between 57° 22' and 57° 40' north latitude, and 3° 47' west longitude, having the Moray Frith on the north, Morayshire on the east and south, and the county of Inverness on the west. Its extent from north to south is from twelve to twenty miles, and from east to we... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068801-8153 | NAISSANT, in Heraldry, is usually applied to any animal issuing out of the midst of some ordinary, and showing only his head, shoulders, fore feet, and legs, with the tip of his tail, the rest of his body being hid in the shield, or some charge upon it. In this it differs from issuant, which denotes a living creature a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068802-8153 | NAJOO, a small island in the Eastern Seaε, near to the west coast of the island of Celebes. Long. 124. 25. E. Lat. 129. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 129 S 124 25' E | NAJOO |
kp-eb0715-068803-8153 | NAMACUL, a town of the south of India, and district of Baramahl, subject to the British. It has a strong fort, situated on a rock of granite. Long. 78. 5. E. Lat. 11. 22. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 22' N 78 5' E | NAMACUL |
kp-eb0715-068804-8153 | NAMAGANG, a small island in the Eastern Seas, situated in long. 123. E. and lat. 6. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 45' N 123 E | NAMAGANG |
kp-eb0715-068805-8153 | NAMBOODY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad. It belongs to the Mahrattas, and is sixteen miles north from Ahmednuggur. Long. 73. 3. E. Lat. 19. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 15' N 73 3' E | NAMBOODY |
kp-eb0715-068806-8153 | NAME denotes a word by which men have agreed to expresse some idea, or which serves to denote or signify a thing or a subject spoken of. This the grammarians usually call a noun, nomen, though their noun is not of quite so much extent as our name. Seneca lde Beneficiis, lib. ii.) observes, that there are a great number... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068901-8166 | NAMPTWICH, or Nantwich, a market-town of the hundred of its own name, in the county of Chester, an hundred and sixty-five miles from London. It is situated on the banks of the river We ver, and has by canals good water communication in all directions. It is one of the largest and best-built towns in the county, with re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-068902-8166 | NAMUR, a province of the Netherlands. It is formed out of a large portion of the French department of the Sambre and the Meuse, of parts of the ancient duchy of Namur, of some parcels of Liège, Luxemburg, and Brabant, and of the cantons of Philipville and Couvin, ceded to the Netherlands by the peace of 1815. It extend... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 28' 3" N 4 45' 7" E | NAMUR |
kp-eb0715-069001-8179 | NANCOWRY, one of the Nicoar Islands, situated in the Bay of Bengal. It is about twenty-five miles in circumference, and has a rich soil, which, however, is but little cultivated. Between this, the island of Cornarty, and another island, is a very capacious bay, in which ships may lie in the most perfect security. The b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 7 57' N 93 43' E | NANCOWRY |
kp-eb0715-069002-8179 | NANCY, an arrondissement of the department of the Meurthe, in France, extending over 420 square miles. It is divided into six cantons, and subdivided into 137 communes, containing 115,500 inhabitants. The city of Nancy, the capital of the arrondissement, is also the capital of the department of the Meurthe, and the sea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 41' 55" N 7 5' 11" E | NANCY |
kp-eb0715-069003-8179 | NANDAPRAYAGA, a celebrated place of Hindu worship in Northern Hindustan, being situated in the province of Serinagur, at the confluence of the Alcananda with the Nandacni. This is one of the most northerly places of Hindu worship. Long. 79. 22. E. Lat. 30. 22. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 22' N 79 22' E | NANDAPRAYAGA |
kp-eb0715-069004-8179 | NANDERE, a district of Hindustan, in the Deccan, 150 miles in length, and about 35 in breadth, being intersected by the river Godavery. The soil is fertile, well watered, and capable of being much improved. The capital is of the same name, and contains a good fortress built of stone, which is garrisoned by the nizam’s ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 6' N 77 35' E | NANDERE |
kp-eb0715-069005-8179 | NANDOOR, a town of the south of India, in the Northern Circars, seventy-four miles south-west by south from Vizagapatam. Long. 82. 25. E. Lat. 17. 27. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 27' N 82 25' E | NANDOOR |
kp-eb0715-069006-8179 | NANGA, a sea-port of the island of Niphon, situated on a bay on the south coast, fifty-five miles south-west from Jedo. Long. 139. 16. E. Lat. 35. 52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 35 52' N 139 16' E | NANGA |
kp-eb0715-069007-8179 | NANGASAKI, one of the sea-ports of Japan, at the south-western extremity of the island of Ximo, and one of the largest commercial sea-ports in the island. It is the only point of the empire at which Europeans are permitted to trade; and this permission is confined to the Dutch. The island of Ximo is separated from Nang... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 48' N 130 12' E | NANGASAKI |
kp-eb0715-069008-8179 | NAN-HIUNG, or Nan-yong, a large and populous city of China, in the province of Quangtong, on the northern side of a mountain, which crosses the great road between Pekin and Canton. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-069009-8179 | NANI, John Baptist, was born in 1616. His father was procurator of St Mark, and ambassador from Venice to Rome. He was educated with attention, and made considerable improvement. Urban VIII. a good judge of merit, soon perceived that of young Nani. He was admitted into the college of senators in 1641, and was shortly a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-069101-8192 | NANKA Islands are three in number, and are situated near the west coast of Banca. They produce wood for fuel, and excellent water. Long. 105. 4L E. Lat. 2. 22. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-069102-8192 | NANKANG, a city of China, of the first rank, in Kiangsee. It is situated on a branch of the Poyang Lake. Long. 115. 39. E. Lat. 29. 33. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 29 33' N 115 39' E | NANKANG |
kp-eb0715-069103-8192 | NANKING, a large city of China, and at one time the capital of the southern division of the empire; but, since Pekin became the seat of government, it has lost its former importance, and its population has also diminished. Nanking is situated on the southern bank of the river Yang-tse-Kiang; it was formerly visited by ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 4' N 118 34' E | NANKING |
kp-eb0715-069104-8192 | NAN-NING, a city of China, in Quangsee, situated in the midst of rivers and small lakes, and of mountains containing iron mines. Long. 107. 44. E. Lat. 22. 44. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 44' N 107 44' E | NAN-NING |
kp-eb0715-069105-8192 | NANPAREH, a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the Nabob of Oude, eighty miles north-north-east from Lucknow. Long. 81. 30. E. Lat. 27. 52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 52' N 81 30' E | NANPAREH |
kp-eb0715-069106-8192 | NANTES, a city of France, the capital of the arrondissement of the same name, in the department of the Lower Loire. It is one of the principal sea-ports of the kingdom, and owes much of its importance to its local situation. It stands in a fine country on the right bank of the river Loire, about thirty miles from its m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 13' N 1 22' 44" W | NANTES |
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