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NANTUA, an arrondissement of the department of the Ain, in France, 310 square miles in extent. It comprehends six cantons, divided into sixty-one communes, and contains 51,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated in a narrow valley between two mountains, on the border of the lake of Nantua. I...
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46 8' N 5 33' E
NANTUA
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NANYANG, a town of China, of the first rank, in Honan. It is situated in a mountainous country, where provisions are cheap. Long. 112. 14. E. Lat. 33. 36. N.
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33 36' N 112 14' E
NANYANG
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NAPAKIANG, the principal sea-port in the great Loochoo Island, situated about five miles from the capital. The ships Lyra and Alceste lay here for some time, in a roadstead which afforded good anchorage. Long. 127.37. E. Lat. 26. 13. N.
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26 13' N 127 37' E
NAPAKIANG
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NAPHTHALI, or Nephthali (Josh, xix.), one of the tribes of Israel, having Zabulon on the south, Asher on the west, the Jordan on the east, and on the north the Anti-Libanus.
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NAPHTHALI
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NAPIER, John, Baron of Merchiston in Scotland, and the inventor of the Logarithms, was the eldest son of Sir Archibald Napier of Edinbellie and Merchiston, by his first wife Janet Bothwell, and was born near Edinburgh, in the year 1550. Having given early indications of great natural parts, his father was careful to ha...
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NAPIER
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NAPLES. This whole kingdom is frequently denominated the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, being situated on both sides of the Straits of Messina, and divided into two portions, commonly distinguished by the natives, Naples, or the continental part, as Domin, al di qud del Faro ; and Sicily, or the island part, as Domin, a...
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NAPLES
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NAPLOUS, the ancient Sechem, a populous and flourishing city of Palestine, and the chief city of the Samaritans. In the time of Vespasian it was called Neapolis, or the New City; and it is mentioned by Pliny and by Josephus under the name of Neapolis. It continued long afterwards to be known chiefly by its Greek name, ...
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NAPLOUS
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NAPOLEON’S LAND, a tract of land on the southern coast of New Holland, which extends about fifty leagues, from long. 138. 58. to 140.10. E., and from lat. 35. 40. to 37. 36. S., in the course of which there is no river nor inlet. It was discovered by Captain Baudin in the year 1802. The French, who also sent a squadron...
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NAPOLI DI ROMANIA, a city of the Morea. It is situated near the upper end of the fine gulf of Napoli, at the distance of seven leagues from the north-west end of the island of Pezza, or Spezzia. The gulf is irregularly formed, and has in it several islands. It was at one period the seat of the Greek government, having ...
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NAPOLI DI ROMANIA
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NAPPAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, thirty miles east by north from Cambay. Long. 73. 15. E. Lat. 22. 27. N.
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22 27' N 73 15' E
NAPPAH
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NARAINGUNGE, a considerable trading town of Bengal, in the district of Dacca, pleasantly situated on the western branch of the river Brahmapootra, denominated the Luckia. It is a place of great trade and industry; its principal commodities being grain, salt, tobacco, and lime. A considerable quantity of fine muslin is ...
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23 37' N 90 35' E
NARAINGUNGE
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NARAINGUR, a town of Bengal, in the province of Orissa, and district of Midnapoor. It was formerly surrounded by a thick wood, defended by batteries at the entrances; but during the contests between the Afghans and the Moguls such defences were found available against the incursions of cavalry. It is sixty-six miles so...
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22 11' N 87 35' E
NARAINGUR
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NARANGABAD, a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the nabob of Oude, seventy miles north-northwest from Lucknow. Long. 80. 30. E. Lat. 27. 45. N.
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27 45' N 80 30' E
NARANGABAD
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NARANJOS, a cluster of small islands amongst the Philippines, twelve miles north-east of Masbate. Long. 123. 54. E. Lat. 12. 29. N.
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12 29' N 123 54' E
NARANJOS
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NARASINGHAPOOR, a town of the south of India, in the province of Mysore, situated on the banks of the Cavery, immediately below its junction with the Capini. It contains about 300 houses, and the surrounding country is productive. The only ferry-boats here are what are called donies, which are circular baskets, eight o...
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12 8' N 77 5' E
NARASINGHAPOOR
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NARBERTH, a town of South Wales, in the hundred of its own name, in Pembrokeshire, 254 miles from London. It is situated on a hill, contains two townships, and has a market, which is held on Wednesday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1531, in 1811 to 1779, in 1821 to 2395, and in 1831 to 2589.
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NARBERTH
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NARBONNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Aude, in France, 610 square miles in extent. It is divided into six cantons, and these into seventy communes, containing 51,200 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, which is the seat of an archbishop. It is situated in a deep valley, surrounded with...
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43 10' N 2 54' E
NARBONNE
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NARCISSUS, in fabulous history, the son of the river Cephisus, and of Liriope the daughter of Oceanus. He was a youth of great beauty; and Tiresias foretold that he would live until he should see himself. He despised all the nymphs of the country, and made Echo languish till she became a mere sound, by refusing to retu...
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NARCISSUS
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NARCONDAM, a small uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal, but so high that its peak may be seen at a great distance, and, in fact, serves as a land-mark. It is twenty-seven leagues to the eastward of the Great Andaman, and is covered with wood. Long. 94.12. E. Lat. 13. 25. N.
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13 25' N 94 12' E
NARCONDAM
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NARIAD, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, formerly belonging to the Guicowar Mahratta chief. This town, with the adjoining district, was ceded by the Guicowar to the British in 1803, in part payment of the subsidiary force; and at that time the territory was estimated at 175,000 rupees. It is twenty-five...
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22 42' N 72 59' E
NARIAD
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NARIKEE, a town of Hindustan, situated in the province of Agra. It is twenty-eight miles east-north-ea[7:15:735]≡ t ^fr°m the cit y of A g ra · Lon g· 78 ∙ 2 °. e ∙ Lat. 27.
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NARIKEE
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NARLAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Orissa, possessed by independent native chiefs. It is thirty miles east from the town of Bustar. Long. 83. 5. E. Lat. 19. 50. N. 0
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19 50' N 83 5' E
NARLAH
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NARNALLAH, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, belonging to the rajah of Nagpoor. It is a place of considerable strength, being built of stone, and situated upon the top of a mountain. Long. 77. 30. E. Lat. 21. 40. N.
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21 40' N 77 30' E
NARNALLAH
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NARNOUL, a town and district of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, being situated principally between the 28th and 29th degrees of north latitude. It belongs to several independent chiefs. The principal towns are Narnoul and Rewary. Narnoul, the capital, and the residence of an independent chief, is situated in long. ...
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28 4' N 76 8' E
NARNOUL
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NARNI, a city of Italy, in the delegation of Spoleto, in the ecclesiastical territory. It is beautifully situated on the side of a hill, at the foot of which the river Nera runs through a valley of great fertility, producing abundance of figs, raisins, and currants. The town is neat, but not well peopled, the inhabitan...
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NARNI
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NARO, a city of Sicily, in the province of Mazzara, about seventy-five miles from Palermo. It stands on a height at the mouth of the small river of its own name, known to the ancients as the Hypsa. Articles of commerce from this place are shipped at the mole of Girgenti, a work constructed with large blocks of marine e...
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NARO
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NARRATION, in oratory, poetry, and history, a recital or rehearsal of facts as they occurred, or as it is supposed they occurred. Lord Kames, in his Elements of Criticism, has detailed and illustrated, at great length, the rules and directions which appeared to him necessary to be observed in the use of narration; and,...
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NARRATION
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NARSES, an eunuch, who emerged from obscurity, and rivalled Belisarius in heroism, under the reign of the Emperor Justinian. From the domestic service of the palace, and the administration of the private revenue, he was suddenly advanced to the head of an army; and he is ranked amongst the few eunuchs who have rescued ...
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NARSES
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NARSINGAH, a town of Hindustan, province of Orissa, belonging to an independent Hindu chief, fifty-eight miles west by north from the town of Cuttack. Long. 85. 20. E. Lat. 20. 4L N.
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NARSINGAH
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NARSINGUR, a town of Bengal, in the district of Midnapore. It formerly possessed a good fortress, which has been allowed to fall into decay; but the town continues to flourish, being favourably situated for inland trade. Long. 86. 40. E. Lat. 22. 34. N.
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22 34' N 86 40' E
NARSINGUR
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NARSIPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, and in the district of Ellore. It is situated on the southern branch of the Godavery, and is forty-eight miles north-east from Masulipatam. Long. 81. 50. E. Lat. 16. 21. N.
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16 21' N 81 50' E
NARSIPOOR
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NARUNGPORE, a town of Hindustan, province of Allahabad and district of Ghazypore, being delightfully si∙ j tuated on the western bank of the Ganges, opposite Buxar.
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NARUNGPORE
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NARVA, a city of the government of St Petersburg, in Russia. It is the capital of the circle of the same same, which is extensive, but it contains only 16,000 inhabitants. The city is situated on the river Narowa, is surrounded with walls, and divided into the old and the new town. It contains three Greek and two Luthe...
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NARVA
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NARWAR, a town and district of Hindustan, 'in the province of Agra. The town is situated on the south-eastern side of the Sinde river, and is of considerable antiquity, having been conquered by the Mahommedans as early as 1251. It afterwards recovered its independence, and in 1509 was again under the government of a Hi...
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NARWAR
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NARYM, the chief town of a district of the same name in Asiatic Russia, traversed by the small river Narymka. It is situated on the Obi, near its confluence with the Ket. It was originally a simple ostrog or palisadoed fort, but now contains a church and 100 inhabitants. It is 200 miles north of Tomsk. Lat. 59. 13. N.
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NARYM
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NASEBY, a parish of the county of Northampton, in the hundred of Guilsborough. It is situated in an agricultural part of the county, containing, in 1801, 538 inhabitants; in 1811, 598; in 1821, 697; and in 1831, 707. It is remarkable from the decisive victory obtained near it by Cromwell over the army of Charles I. in ...
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NASEBY
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NASO, a town of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples and province of Demone, situated on a river of the same name, 110 miles from Palermo. It is in a healthy and lofty situation, on the site of the ancient city of Aga-thynum, and contains 8000 inhabitants.
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NASO
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NASSAU, a sovereign dukedom in Germany, the reigning family of which is distinguished by its antiquity, and the number of eminent men it produced at the most interesting period of European history. The founder of the sovereignty of this family was Waltram of Laurenburg, the ruins of whose castle stand on the banks of t...
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NASSAU
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NASSUCK, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, ninety miles north from Poonah. Long. 73. 50. E. Lat. 19. 49. N.
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NASSUCK
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NATAANA, a small village of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Serinagur, situated amongst mountains, and enjoying, in consequence of its elevation, a delightful climate during the summer months. The surrounding country has a naked appearance. Long. 78.48. E. Lat. 20.7. N.
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NATAANA
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NATAL, or Natar, a Malay settlement on the southwestern coast of the island of Sumatra, several miles south of the island of Tabuyong. It carries on a pretty considerable commerce; and, besides the English, who have had a settlement here since the year 1752, it is inhabited by settlers from the countries of Achin, Rau,...
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NATAL
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NATHDORAH is a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, where there is a celebrated Hindu temple, supported by considerable grants of villages, which are considered so sacred that the contending armies of the Rajpoots and Mahrattas have commonly respected them. The temple is occupied by innumerable Brahmins and de...
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NATION, a collective term, used for a considerable number of people inhabiting a certain extent of land, confined within fixed limits, and under the same government.
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NATION
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NATIONAL DEBT, the money owing by government. See the articles England, Funding System, Political Economy, and Taxation. National Education. In the hope that we shall be able, at a more advanced stage of the work, to record the introduction by the legislature of a system of education for the people, we shall defer the ...
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NATIONAL DEBT
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NATIVIDAD, a small island, situated in the North Pacific Ocean, about fourteen miles south-east of the island of Cerros. It is of a moderate elevation, about four miles in length, and of a dreary and barren aspect. Long. 244. 60. E. Lat. 27. 57. N.
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NATIVIDAD
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NATIVITY, or Natal Day, is the day of a person’s birth. The word nativity is chiefly employed in speaking of the saints; as, the nativity of St John the Baptist, &c. But when we say the Nativity, it is understood of that of Jesus Christ, or the feast of Christmas. Nativity, nativùas, a term in ancient law-books, which...
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NATIVITY
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NATOLIA, the modern name of Asia Minor, the most westerly part of Turkey in Asia, and consisting of a large peninsula, which extends from the river Euphrates as far as the Archipelago, the Sea of Marmora, and the Straits of Gallipoli and of Constantinople, by which it is separated from Europe on the west. It is bounded...
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NATOLIA
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NATTRADACOTTA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Tin∏evelly. Long. 78. 10. E. Lat. 8. 46. N∕
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NATRUM, or Natron, the nitre of the ancients, is one of the fixed alkalies. It is found in great abundance in many parts of Asia, where the natives sweep it up from the surface of the ground, and call it “soap-earth.” The earliest account we have of it is in the Scriptures, where we find that the salt called nitre in t...
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NATRUM
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NATTAM, a town of Southern India, in the Polygar territory, fifteen miles east by south from Dindigul. Long. 78. 10. E. Lat. 8. 46. N.
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NATTAM
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NATTORE, a town of Bengal, in the district of Rau-jeshahy, [7:15:738]advantageously situated on .the northern bank of the Attri River. Mulberry trees abound in the surrounding country, and on them are reared numerous silk-worms. Between Nattore and Jaffiergunge there is a very extensive morass, supposed to be the old b...
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NATTORE
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NATUNA Isle, Great, an island in the China Sea, thirty-four miles in length by thirteen in average breadth. •It is mountainous, and surrounded by numerous small rocky isles. It is situated in the 4th degree of N. lat. off the north-east coast of Borneo.
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NATUNA
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NATUNAS Isles, North, a cluster of very small islands in the China Sea. The best track for ships bound .to China from October to December is past these islands 1 to the north. Long. 109. E. Lat. 4. 45. N. Natunas Isles, South, a cluster of small islands off the north-western coast of the island of Borneo, about long. ...
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NATUNAS
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NATURAL, in general, is something which relates to or concerns nature. Natural, in Heraldry, is a term used where animals, fruits, flowers, and the like, are blazoned with the colours they naturally possess, though different from the common colours of heraldry; and this is done to prevent armories being accused of fal...
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NATURAL
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NATURAL HISTORY. The objects of nature may be considered under two points of view; first, with respect to their form, structure, habits, and individual properties, when viewed in a state of inactivity; and secondly, with respect to the mutual changes which they produce when made to act upon each other. Hence the study ...
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NATURAL HISTORY
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NATURAL PHILOSOPHY is commonly defined to be that branch of knowledge which considers the powers and properties of natural bodies, and their mutual actions on one another. This term serves to indicate, not one, but a cluster of sciences. Those generally comprehended under it are the following, viz. 1. Mechanics; 2. Hyd...
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NATURALISATION, in Law, the act of naturalising an alien, or putting him into the condition of a natural-born subject, and entitling him to the rights and privileges of that condition.
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NATURALISATION
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NATURE, according to Mr Boyle, has eight different significations. It is used to signify the author of nature, whom the schoolmen call natura naturans, being the same with God. By the nature of a thing we sometimes mean its essence; that is, the attributes which make it what it is, whether the thing be corporeal or not...
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NATURE
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NAUCRARI, amongst the Athenians, was the name given to the chief magistrates of the δημοι, that is, of the boroughs or townships, called ναuκ^αζιαι ; because each was obliged, besides equipping two horsemen, to furnish one ship for the public service.
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NAUCRARI
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NAULUM, in Roman antiquity, a piece of money put into the mouth of a person deceased, to enable him to pay Charon, the ferryman, for his passage. It required to be of the current coin of the reigning emperor; and hence from this money the time of the person’s death may be known. The sum for poor men was about a farthin...
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NAULUM
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NAUMACHIA, in Antiquity, a public show or spectacle amongst the ancient Romans, representing a sea-fight. These mock fights are supposed to have originated at the time of the first Punic war, when the Romans first instructed their men in the knowledge of naval affairs; but afterwards they were intended to entertain the...
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NAUMACHIA
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NAUMBURG, a city of Prussia, in the government of Merseburg, the capital of a circle of its own name. It stands on the river Saale, in a fertile district, contains a castle and six churches, a fine market-place, and (including the suburbs) 1130 houses, with 9320 inhabitants. It has several institutions for the educatio...
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NAUMBURG
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NAUPACTUS, or Naupactum, in Ancient Geography, a city of Aetolia, at the mouth of the Evenus. The word is derived from vαuς and πηγwμι i because it was there that the Heraclidae built the first ship which carried them to Peloponnesus. It originally belonged to the Locri Ozolae, and afterwards fell into thehands of the ...
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NAUPACTUS
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NAUPLIUS, in fabulous history, a son of Neptune and Amymone, was king of Euboea, and the father of the famous Palamedes, who, by the artifice and resentment of Ulysses, was so unjustly sacrificed by the Greeks at the Trojan war. The death of Palamedes highly enraged Nauplius; and, to revenge the injustice of the Grecia...
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NAUPLIUS
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NAUSCOPY, the art of discovering the approach of ships or the neighbourhood of land at a considerable distance. This pretended art was discovered by Μ. Bottineau, who was employed in the Isle of France from the year 1782 to 1784. The account given of it is as follows: “This knowledge is not derived either from the undu...
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NAUSCOPY
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NAUTPOOR, a town of Bengal, in the district of Purneah, on the Cosah river, forty-two miles north-north-west of Purneah. Long. 16. 58. E. Lat. 26. 17. N.
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NAUTPOOR
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NAVACOTT, a town of Northern Hindustan, subject to the Ghoorkah rajah of Nepaul, 105 miles north-east from Catmandoo. Long. 83. 37. E. Lat. 28. 57. N.
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NAVACOTT
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NAVAL means something relating to a ship (navis). Naval Camp, in Antiquity, a fortification, consisting of a ditch and parapet on the land side, or of a wall built in the form of a semicircle, and extended from one point of the sea to another. This was sometimes defended with towers, and beautified with gates, through ...
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NAVAL
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NAVAN, a borough-town of Ireland, in the county of Meath and province of Leinster, about thirty miles northwest of Dublin, situated at the junction of the Boyne and Blackwater, near the canal called the Boyne Navigation. The situation of the town, in the centre of a great corn country, produces an excellent corn marke...
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NAVAN
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NAVARINO, Navarin, or Neo Castro, is a town of Greece, in the Morea, celebrated for the excellence of the harbour on which it stands. This harbour is formed in front by the narrow island Sphagia, the ancient Sphacteria, which is three miles in length. The entrance, which is at the south end of the island, is less than ...
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NAVARINO
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NAVARRE, an ancient kingdom, which has long existed under this name, and is divided into two portions; one on the south side of the Pyrenees, distinguished by the name of Upper Navarre; and the other on the north side of the same range of mountains, called Lower Navarre. They remained one kingdom, with a common languag...
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NAVARRE
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NAVE, in Architecture, is the body of a church, where the people are disposed, reaching from the baluster, or rail of the door, to the chief choir. Some derive the word from the Greek ναος, a temple, and others from ναυς, a ship, by reason that the vault or roof of a church bears some resemblance to a ship. [7:15:745] ...
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NAVE
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NAVIGATION, INLAND. INLAND WATERS, suitable for navigation, form a medium of conveyance, upon which can be transported, at a very small expense, and with a smooth or easy motion, all sorts of articles; but it is especially adapted for those which are very heavy, very bulky, or which could not well bear any rough carri...
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NAVIGATION, INLAND. INLAND WATERS
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NORTH AMERICA. United States. The advantages resulting to the United States from their separation from the mother country, and the great and rapid improvement which has taken place in the condition and circumstances of that republic since the American revolution, are in nothing more strikingly displayed than in the i...
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NORTH AMERICA
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NAVIGATORS ’ Islands, a group of islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean, remarkable for their extent, fertility, and population. They are about ten in number, and are situated between 169. and 172. 30. west longitude, and from latitude 13. 25. to an uncertain boundary southward. When seen from the ocean they present a l...
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NAVIGATORS ’
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NAVY. An insular empire, like that of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which is so much indebted, and always must be, for that power, prosperity, and renown which she enjoys, to the glorious deeds of her navy, cannot but take a peculiar degree of interest in every thing that concerns it. This vast mach...
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NAVY
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NAXIA, the anxient Naxos, is one of the largest and most fertile of the islands in the Archipelago, known as the Cyclades. Its greatest length from north to south is seventeen miles, and its greatest breadth about twelve miles. The north point is in latitude 37. 12. Although the rocks are of a most repulsive appearance...
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NAXIA
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NAXOS, or Naxia, a considerable town, and capital of the Isle of Naxos, opposite the Isle of Paros, with a castle and two archbishops’ sees, the one Greek and the other Latin. The greater part of the inhabitants are Greeks. Long. 25. 51. E. Lat. 37. 8. N.
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NAXOS
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NAYO, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near to the north coast of Celebes. Long. 124. 24. E. Lat. 1. 24. N.
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NAYO
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NAYRES are the nobility of the Malabar coast. We may with truth affirm that they are the oldest nobility in the world; for the most ancient writers mention them, and quote the Iaw which permits the Nayre ladies to have several husbands, every one being allowed four.
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NAYRES
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NAZARETH, a town or village of Palestine, celebrated in holy writ as the residence of our Saviour. It is situated in a deep valley, on the side of a high hill, nearer to its summit than its base, and having a rocky eminence along it. It contains about 250 buildings of stone, a material always at hand. They are flat-roo...
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NAZARETH
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NAZARITE, or Nazarean, or Nazarene, a term which signifies one who is of Nazareth, or any native of the city of Nazareth. It was given to Jesus Christ and his disciples, and is commonly employed in a sense of derision and contempt by those authors who have written against Christianity. It has also been applied to a sec...
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NAZIM, a river of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tobolsk and district of Berezof, which falls into the Obi, after a course of 160 miles.
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NAZOOK, a large lake of Armenia, situated amongst the mountains, in a bare and desolate country, being thirteen miles in length and five in breadth.
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NEALING, or rather Annealing, a term used to signify the preparing of several matters, by heating or baking them in the oven, or otherwise. See Annealing.
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NEAMUTSERAI, a fortified village of Afghanistan, in the district of Puckoli, on the north-eastern border of Lahore. It has a caravanserai, which is placed in a break of the great range of mountains, which extends from the Punjab to the Indus. Long. 71. 50. E. Lat. 33. 30. N.
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NEAMUTSERAI
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NEAP or Neep Tides are those tides which happen when the moon is in the middle of the second and fourth quarters. The neap tides are low tides in respect of their opposites the spring tides. As the highest of the spring tides is three days after the full or change, so the lowest of the neap tides is four days before th...
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NEAPED. When a ship wants water, so that she cannot get out of the harbour, off the ground, or out of the dock, the seamen say she is neaped, or beneaped.
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NEAPED
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NEARCHUS, the admiral of Alexander the Great, was the son of Androtinus, a native of Crete, and flourished 330 before Christ. He was the personal friend of Alexander before the death of his father, and was obliged to fly from Macedonia when Philip began to be suspicious of the intentions of his son. Nearchus attended A...
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NEARCHUS
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NEAS, or Nias Isle. This island is situated on the west coast of Sumatra, from which it is separated by a strait sixty miles in breadth, and is fifty miles in length by twenty in average breadth. It is a large and productive island, and is divided into about fifty small districts, under chiefs or rajahs, who live in a ...
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NEAS
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NEATH, a market-town of the hundred of the same name, in the county of Glamorgan, in South Wales, and distant 197 miles from London. The neighbourhood abounds in good coal, which is brought by canals from the pits to the navigable river Neath, and which forms an important branch of its commerce. There are, besides, sev...
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NEBULY, or Nebulee, in Heraldry, is when a coat is charged with several little figures, in form of words running within one another, or when the outline of a bordure, ordinary, or the like, is indented or waved.
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NECESSITY, whatever is done by a cause or power that is irresistible. In this sense it is opposed to freedom. Man is a necessary agent, if all his actions be so determined by the causes preceding each action, that not one past action could possibly not have come to pass, or have been otherwise than it has been; or if i...
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NECHO, a king of Egypt, who began his reign 690 before Christ, and was killed eight years afterwards by Sabacon king of Ethiopia. Psammeticus his son succeeded him, and was the father, as Herodotus informs us, of Necho II. who reigned about 616 before Christ. This Necho II. is celebrated in history for attempting, thou...
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NECHO
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NECKER, James, a well-known statesman and financier of France. He was born on the 30th of September 1732, at Geneva, being descended of a respectable family, originally from the north of Germany. At the age of fifteen be quitted Geneva, and proceeded to Paris with a view to push his fortune in that city. He entered fir...
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NECROLIUM, a word used by some of the alchemist writers to express a remedy almost always capable of averting death, and continuing life to its utmost period.
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NECROLIUM
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NECROLOGY (necrologium, formed of vεxeος, dead, and aoyβj, discourse), a book anciently kept in churches and monasteries, in which were registered the benefactors of the same, the time of their deaths, and the days of their commemoration; as also the deaths of the priors, abbots, religious, canons, and other persons. T...
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NECROLOGY
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NECROMANCY, the art of revealing or foretelling future events by a pretended communication with the dead. This most superstitious and impious imposture appears to have had its origin at an early period in Egypt, and to have been thence propagated in every nation with the manners of which history has made us acquainted...
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NECROMANCY
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NECROPOLIS, a suburb of Alexandria, in Egypt. It signifies the City of the Dead, and was the place where temples, gardens, and superb mausoleums were erected. Here Cleopatra is said to have applied the asp to her breast, to prevent her being led in triumph by Augustus, who endeavoured to save her.
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NECROPOLIS
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NECROSIS, νεκoωσις, in Medicine, a complete mortification of any part. It is also called sideratio and sphacelus.
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