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NEWFOUNDLAND, an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, lying on the north-eastern side of the Gulf of St Lawrence, between the parallels of 46. 40. and 51. 31. north latitude, and the meridians of 52. 44. and 59. 31. longitude west of Greenwich. It is separated on the northwest from Canada by the Gulf of St Lawrence; on ...
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NEWFOUNDLAND
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NEW GALLOWAY, a small royal burgh of Scotland, in the centre of the stewartry of Kircudbright. It is pleasantly situated on the western bank of the Ken. The town is formed of a single street, stretching along the public road. The parish church is about half a mile from the town, on the north side. There is attached to ...
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NEW GALLOWAY
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NEW HAMPSHIRE, one of the United States of North America, is bounded on the north by the mountainous ridges which separate Canada from the states of the union, on the east and south-east by Maine and the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Massachusetts, and on the west by Vermont. It is situated between 42. 4L and 45. 11....
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NEW HAMPSHIRE
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NEW HAVEN, a city of Connecticut, one of the United States of North America. It lies round the head of a bay, which stretches inwards about four miles from Long Island Sound, seventy-six miles north-east from New York, and stands on a large and beautiful plain, which is bordered on the north partly by eminences called ...
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NEW HAVEN
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NEW HOLLAND. See Australasia.
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NEW HOLLAND
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NEWINGTON, a parish of the county of Surrey, in the hundred of Brixton. It is nearly adjacent to London, or rather to Southwark, and by the reform act contributes to the election of two members of parliament along with Lambeth and Camberwell It is frequently called Newington-Butts, from having formerly been the place w...
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NEWINGTON
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NEW LONDON, a city and port of entry in Connecticut, North America, situated on the western bank of the river Thames, about three miles from its mouth. The town is irregularly laid out, but has convenient public buildings, and several churches for various denominations of Christians. The harbour is the best in the stat...
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NEW LONDON
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NEWMILLS, a considerable burgh of barony, situated on the right bank of the river Irvine, in the parish of Loudon, Ayrshire. It was erected by royal charter in 1490. The inhabitants are generally weavers. There are about 140 burgesses, who pay a small sum at admission, which is applied in keeping the streets in repair....
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NEWMILLS
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NEW ORLEANS. See the article Louisiana.
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NEW ORLEANS
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NEWPORT, a small town, or rather village, of Cornwall, in the parish of St Stephen, near to Launceston, which had long the privilege of sending two members to the House of Commons; but it has been disfranchised. The parish in which it stands contains 1084 inhabitants, few of whom live within the limits of the borough. ...
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NEWPORT
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NEW ROSS (anciently Roseponte) is not, as its name might import, a new town, but one of considerable antiquity, and is called new only to distinguish it from an older place in the neighbourhood, also called Ross, but now of no importance. New Ross is denominated an ancient borough in the charter which was granted to it...
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NEW ROSS
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NEWSPAPERS are publications issued in numbers, consisting generally of single sheets, which, appearing at short and regular intervals, convey intelligence of passing events, and at the same time advocate certain principles in politics, literature, and religion, but chiefly in the first of these departments. One of the...
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NEWSPAPERS
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NEWTON, a town of the county of Lancaster, in the parish ofWinwick, and the hundred of West Derby, distant 179 miles from London. It is a borough, and was a market-town, and it had the right of electing two members to the House of Commons, but has been disfranchised. It has some trade in cotton goods. The population am...
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NEWTON
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NEWTON, Sir Isaac, a distinguished mathematician and natural philosopher, was born at Woolsthorpe, a picturesque hamlet about half a mile to the west of Colster-worth, in Lincolnshire, and some six miles to the south of Grantham. His birth, which was premature, took place on the 25th of December, O. S. 1642. His father...
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NEWTON
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NEWTON-STEWART, a small town in the county of Wigtön, and parish of Penninghame, Scotland. It extends about a mile on the right bank of the river Cree, and consists of one long street, in which is the tolbooth, and a very short one along the old road to Glenluce. It is connected with Creebridge, a village of about 220 ...
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NEWTON-STEWART
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NEWTY FORT, a small fortress of Hindustan, on the western coast of the province of Concan, situated on the southern bank of a small river. Long. 73.40. E. Lat 15. 56. N.
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NEWTY FORT
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NEW YEAR’S GIFTS, presents made on the first day of the new year. Nonius Marcellus refers the origin of this custom amongst the Romans to Tatius king of the Sabines, who reigned at Rome conjointly with Romulus, and who having considered as a good omen a present of some branches that had been cut in a wood consecrated t...
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NEW YEAR’S GIFTS
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NEW YORK, one of the thirteen original states of the North American confederacy, and the most populous and important in the Union. It is bounded on the north by Upper and Lower Canada; on the east by the states of Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut; on the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by New Jerse...
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NEW YORK
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NEXI, amongst the Romans, were free-born persons who had been reduced to a state of slavery for debt. By the laws of the twelve tables it was ordained, that insolvent debtors should be giv,en up to their creditors, to be bound in fetters and cords; and though they did not entirely lose the rights of freemen, yet they w...
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NEXI
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NEY, Michel, a marshal of the French empire, and one of the distinguished generals produced by the French Revolution, was born at Sarrelouis, on the 17th of January 1769. His father had been a soldier, but, after the Seven Years’ War, had retired to his native village, where he exercised the humble trade of a cooper. Y...
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NEY
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NEYER, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Cutch, situated about the twenty-fourth degree of north latitude, and bounded on the south-east by the fenny tract called the Runn. The country has been but imperfectly explored, and is of an arid and sandy nature, being intersected by no streams or rivers. Water is pr...
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NEYER
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NGANCHAN, a city of the first rank, in Koeitchoo, being situated in a mountainous country, which, owing to the rudeness of the inhabitants, is in an unimproved state. Long. 105. 31. E. Lat. 26. 12. N.
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NGANCHAN
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NGANLO, a town of China, of the first rank, in Houquang, being situated on the river Han, in an extensive and fruitful plain. It carries on a considerable trade. Long. 111. 24. E. Lat 31. 14. N,
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NGANLO
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NHING-KOUE, a city of China, of the first rank, in the western part of the province of Kiangnan, being situated in a mountainous and woody country, abounding in medicinal plants. It has considerable manufactures of paper. Long. 118. 24. E. Lat. 31. 2. N.
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NHING-KOUE
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NIAGARA, a large river of North America, to which belong the most magnificent water-falls in the world. The river, forming part of the boundary line between New York and Upper Canada, runs from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, thus connecting the St Lawrence and Lake Ontario with the upper lakes. It is thirty-five miles in...
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NIAGARA
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NIAGUR, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the Nagpoor Mahrattas, and situated in the province of Gundwana, twenty-eight miles north-north-west from Ruttunpoor. Long. 82. IL E. Lat. 22. 22. N.
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NIAGUR
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NIAS ISLE. See Neas Isle.
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NIAS ISLE
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NICANDER, a Greek physician of the empirical sect, and also a poet and grammarian, was a native of Colophon, and, according to some authors, had been a priest of Apollo at Claros in Ionia. The date of his birth is uncertain; but it is probable that he died about a century before the commencement of our era. His father’...
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NICANDER
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NICANDRO, St, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the province of Capitanata. It stands on the river Gargano, and contains 7090 inhabitants.
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NICANDRO
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NICARAGUA, one of the five states which compose the republican confederation of Central America. It is bounded on the south by Costa Rica and by the Pacific Ocean; on the north by Honduras; on the west by the Pacific Ocean; and on the east by the Mosquito shore, which is washed by the Carribbean Sea. From north to sout...
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NICARAGUA
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NICARIA, an island of the archipelago, between Samos and Tine, about fifty miles in circumference. A chain of high mountains, covered with wood, runs through the middle, and supplies the country with springs. It produces wheat, barley, figs, honey, and wax.
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NICARIA
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NICASTRO, a city of the province of Calabria Ulteriore, in the kingdom of Naples, being situated on the river Polito, in a district abounding in‘olives, and yielding rice, wheat, and other corn, with excellent wine. It is surrounded with walls, and contains 6100 inhabitants.
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NICASTRO
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NICE, a part of the continental dominions of the king of Sardinia, and usually distinguished as a countship. It extends in east longitude from 6. 27. to 7. 51. and in north latitude from 43. 45. to 44. 28., and contains 1430 square miles. It is divided into four provinces, viz. Nice, Sospello, Oneglia, and Monaco; and ...
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43 41' N 7 10' E
NICE
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NICEPHORUS, Gregoras, a Greek historian, was born about the close of the thirteenth century, and flourished in the fourteenth, under the Emperors Andronicus, John Palaeologus, and John Cantacuzenus. He was a great favourite of the elder Andronicus, who made him librarian of the church of Constantinople, and sent him as...
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NICEPHORUS
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NICERON, John Francis, a French mathematician, was born at Paris in the year 1613. Having finished his academical studies, he entered into the order of the Minims, and took the habit in 1632; and, as is usual, he changed the name given him at his baptism for that of Francis, the name of his paternal uncle, who was also...
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NICERON
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NICETAS, David, a Greek historian, a native, as some relate, of Paphlagonia, who lived about the end of the ninth century. He wrote the Life of St Ignatius, patriarch of Constantinople, which was translated into Latin by Frederic Mutius, bishop of Termoli; and he also composed several panegyrics in honour of the apostl...
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NICETAS
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NICHOLS, Frank, doctor of physic, was born in London in the year 1699. His father was a barrister at law, and both his parents were of good families in Cornwall. After receiving the first rudiments of his education at a private school in the country, where his docility and sweetness of temper endeared him equally to hi...
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NICHOLS
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NICHOLSBURG, a city in the circle of Brunn, in the Austrian province of Moravia. It is the municipal city of a majorat belonging to Prince Dietrichstein, which comprehends four market-towns and eight villages. There is a most magnificent palace, in a most picturesque situation, belonging to the noble proprietor, in whi...
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NICHOLSBURG
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NICIAS, an Athenian statesman, was son of Niceratus, a person of great wealth, but who seems to have taken no part in the political transactions of his country. Nicias was possessed of considerable abilities, both political and military; but he was by no means fitted to occupy the commanding position which Pericles had...
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NICIAS
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NICGBAR ISLANDS, a group of islands situated in the Bay of Bengal, between the sixth and tenth degrees of north latitude, and between the ninety-third and ninetyfifth degrees of east longitude. They occupy the space from the north-west point of Sumatra to the most southerly of the Andaman Islands. There are seven large...
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NICGBAR ISLANDS
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NICODEMUS, a disciple of Jesus Christ, one who was a Jew by nation, and by sect a Pharisee. The Scripture calls him a ruler of the Jews, and our Saviour gives him the name of a master of Israel. When our Saviour began to manifest himself by his miracles at Jerusalem, at the first passover which he celebrated there afte...
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NICOLAIEV, or Nicoaief, a city of Russia, in the province of Cherson. It stands on the river Bug, at about eight leagues from the entrance of that river into the Black Sea, and at the point where the river Ingoul falls into it. From the entrance of the Bug at Oczakow, up to this city, its depth in the mid-channel is fr...
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NICOLAITANS, in ecclesiastical history, Christian heretics, who assumed this name from Nicholas of Antioch, who, being a Gentile by birth, first embraced Judaism, and then Christianity, when his zeal and devotion recommended him to the church of Jerusalem, by whom he was chosen one of the first deacons. Many of the pri...
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NICOLAS, St, a large market-town of the Netherlands, situated in the province of East Flanders, and arrondissement of the Dender, It is well built, has a fine marketplace, and is in one of the richest agricultural districts of that rich country, where husbandry is better conducted than in almost any part of Europe. It ...
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NICOLAS
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NICOLE, Peter, a celebrated French moralist and theologian, the nephew of Claude Nicoe, a French poet, and one of the most illustrious writers of the Port-Royal, was born at Chartres in October 1625. His father, John Nicoe, having a perfect knowledge of the ancient languages, instructed him in the elements of grammar, ...
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NICOMEDES, the name of several kings of the ancient Bithynia. See the article Bithynia.
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NICOMEDES
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NICOMEDIA, the metropolis of Bithynia, which was built by Nicoedes, the grandfather of Prusias. Nicoedia was famous, not only under its own kings, but also under the Romans; it was the royal residence of Diocletian, and also, if we may credit Nicephorus, that of Constantine whilst Constantinople was building. It is sit...
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NICOMEDIA
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NICOMEDUS, a geometrician, celebrated on account of the invention of the curve called conchoid, which is equally useful in resolving the two famous problems of doubling the cube and trisecting the angle. It appears that he lived soon after Eratosthenes, for he rallied that philosopher on the mechanism of his mesolabe. ...
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NICOMEDUS
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NICOPOLIS, a province of European Turkey, which extends in north latitude from 42. 44. to 43. 46. and in east longitude from 23. 30. to 26. 4. This district is naturally fertile; but agriculture is in a neglected state, and the chief product is cattle. The capital, of the same name, is situated on the Lower Danube. It ...
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NICOPOLIS
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NICOSIA, a city of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples, and in the province of Demone, eighty miles from Palermo. It stands on the ridge of a rocky mountain, the Herbita of antiquity. It is an ill-built city, and suffers from a scarcity of water; but as the situation is more healthy than that of many of the ...
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NICOSIA
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NICOT, John, seigneur of Villemain, and master of the French king’s household, was born at Nismes, and sent in 1559 as ambassador to Portugal, whence he brought the plant which, from his name, was called Nicoiana, but is now more generally known by the name of tobacco. He died at Paris in the year 1603. Nico wrote a Fr...
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NICOT
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NICOTERA, a city of the province of Calabria Ulteriore, in the kingdom of Naples. It stands on the sea-coast, at the mouth of the river Mesina, is the seat of a bishop, and has a cathedral, with several other churches. It suffered by the earthquake of 1783; but has been since restored, and now contains 6250 inhabitants...
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NICOTERA
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NICOTIANA, or Tobacco, a plant so called from Nico above mentioned. There are seven species of nicoiana, of which the most remarkable is the tabacum, or common tobacco plant. This was first discovered in America by the Spaniards about the year 1560, and by them imported into Europe. It had been used by the inhabitants ...
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NICOTIANA
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NIDDUI, in the Jewish customs, is used to signify separated or excommunicated. This, according to some, was to be understood only of the lesser sort of excommunication in use amongst the Hebrews. He who had incurred it was obliged to withdraw himself from his relations, at least to the distance of four cubits; and it c...
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NIDEGH, a considerable town of Caramania, in Asiatic 1urkey, being the ancient Cadyna. Some parts of the old walls are still standing, composed of large stones decayed with age; and the streets contain many ruined fragments of columns. It is inhabited by about 5000 Greeks and Turks, who are very poor, and is the reside...
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NIDEGH
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NIDJIGUL, a fortress of the south of India, in the province of Mysore. It was taken in 1770 by the Mahrattas, afterwards recovered from them by Hyder, and now belongs to the rajah of Mysore. Long. 77. 16. E. Lat. 13. 15. N.
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NIDJIGUL
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NIDIFICATION, a term generally applied to the formation of a bird’s nest, and its hatching or bringing forth its young. See Ornithology.
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NIDIFICATION
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NIDUS, amongst naturalists, signifies a nest or proper repository for the eggs of birds, insects, &c. where the young of these animals are hatched and nursed.
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NIDUS
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NIDYCAVIL, a small village in the south of India, in North Coimbetoor, being situated in the tract between the Karnata and Chera countries. Long. 77. 42. E. Lat. 11. 51. N.
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NIDYCAVIL
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NIEBUHR, Bertholdt-George, son of Carsten Niebuhr the celebrated Arabian traveller, was born at Copenhagen on the 27th of April 1776. The father, on his return from his travels in the East, had married the daughter of the celebrated physician Blumenberg, and would probably have established himself in the Danish capital...
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NIECE, a brother’s or sister’s daughter, which in the civil law is reckoned the third degree of consanguinity.
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NIECE
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NIEMEN, a large river of Poland, which rises in Lithuania, where it passes by Bielicka, Grodno, and Kowno; it afterwards runs through part of Samogitia and Prussia, where it falls into the lake called the Knrisch-haff, by several mouths, of which the most northern is called the Russ. This lake communicates with the Bal...
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NIEMEN
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NIEPER, or Dnieper, a large river of Europe, and one of the most considerable of the north, formerly called the Borysthenes. Its source is in the middle of Muscovy, and it runs westward by Smolensko as far as Orsa; it then turns south, and passing by Mohilow, Bohaczo, Kiow, Czyrkassy, the fortress of Kudak, Dessau, and...
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NIEPER
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NIESTER, or Dneister, a large river of Polish Russia, having its source in the lake Niester, in the palatinate of Lemburg, where it passes by Halicz. It then separates Podolia and Oczakow from Moldavia and Budziac Tartary, and falls into the Black Sea at Belgorod, between the mouths of the Dnieper and the Danube.
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NIESTER
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NIEUPORT, a fortified city of the Netherlands, in the province of West Flanders, and arrondissement of Fumes. [7:16:218] The environs are unhealthy, from the low situation, which, by the facility of inundation, forms one of the chief means of defence. It is situated at the mouth of the Iser, by which it has water comm...
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NIEUPORT
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NIEVRE, a department of France, formed out of the ancient duchy of Nivernois. It extends in north latitude from 46. 52. to 47. 36. and in east longitude from 2. 39. to 4. 6. It is bounded on the north by the departments of the Loiret and of the Yonne, on the east by the Côte d’Or and Saone-Loire, on the south by the Sa...
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NIEVRE
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NIGER, or, more properly, Quorra, a great river of Central Africa, the course and termination of which, for upwards of forty years, excited an interest beyond any other question connected with the geography of the globe, excepting perhaps that of the north-west passage. This arose not only from the importance which nat...
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NIGER
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NIGHT, that part of the natural day during which the sun is underneath the horizon; or that time when it is dark or dusky. Night was originally divided by the Hebrews and other eastern nations into three parts or watches. But the Romans, and after them the Jews, divided the night into four parts or watches; the first o...
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NIGHT
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NIGIDIUS FIGULUS, Publius, one of the most learned men of ancient Rome, who flourished at the same time with Cicero. He wrote on various subjects, but his pieces appeared so refined and difficult that they were not regarded. He assisted Cicero, with great prudence, in defeating Catiline’s conspiracy, and did him many s...
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NIGIDIUS FIGULUS
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NIGRITIA, Negroland, or Soudan, a general name for a considerable portion of the interior of Africa, some parts of which are as yet unknown, while some have been only recently explored by Clapperton, De Caille, Lander, and others. It comprises a great number of kingdoms, large and small, each of which will be found des...
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NIGRITIA
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NIJIBABAD, or Nijibgur, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bareilly. It was built by a Rohilla chieftain, as a mart for the Cashmere trade, and is situated on the north branch of a small river which runs into the Ganges. Long. 78. 4L E. Lat. 29. 35. N.
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NIKOLAJEW. See Nicoaiev.
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NIKOLAJEW
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NIKOLSK, a circle in the Russian province of Wologda, extending from east longitude 43. 45. to 47.59., and from north latitude 58. 10. to 60. 25., being 13,156 square miles in extent. It is an elevated district, sloping both to the north and the south, and is the source of several rivers running in both directions. It ...
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NIKOLSK
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NIKOLSKO1, a small town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Oufa, on the Oural. It is eighty miles eastsouth-east of Orenburg.
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NILCUND, a town of Northern Hindustan, and one of the celebrated places of Hindu pilgrimage, situated among the Himalaya Mountains, on the frontiers of Thibet. The cold at this place is intense; and at the end of June or beginning of August, when it is chiefly visited, the road is nearly impassable on account of the de...
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NILCUND
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NILCUNDAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Hyderabad, forty-two miles south-east from Hyderabad, and the capital of a district of the same name. Long. 79. 15. E. Lat. 16. 55. N. [7:16:225]
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NILCUNDAH
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NILE, a large and celebrated river of Africa, which flows through Nubia and Egypt. A general account of this celebrated stream has already been given in the article Egypt, and more particularly of its course below Assouan, where it enters the long valley of Egypt; but important information having been obtained from rec...
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NILE
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NILOMETER, aninstrumentused amongst the ancients to measure the height of the water of the river Nile during the periodical inundation. The word comes from Nε∕λoς, Nile, and μετξον, measure. The Greeks more commonly called it Ns∕λoo ’ x<wnov. The nilometer is said, by several Arabian writers, to have been first set up,...
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NILOMETER
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NIMBUS, in Antiquity, a circle observed upon certain medals, or around the heads of some emperors, answering to the circles of light drawn round the images of saints.
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NIMBUS
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NIMETULAHITES, a description of Turkish monks, so called from their founder Nimetulahi, famous for his doctrines and the austerity of his life.
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NIMROD, the sixth son of Cush, and to all appearance much younger than any of his brothers, since Moses mentions the sons of Raamah, his fourth brother, before he speaks of him. What the sacred historian says of him is short; and yet he says more than of any other of the posterity of Noah, till he comes to Abraham. He ...
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NIMWEGEN, a city of the province of Guelderland, in the circle of the same name, in the Netherlands, comprehending six cantons, and 51,100 inhabitants. Of this circle Nimwegen is the capital. It stands on the left bank of the river Waal, over which there is an excellent flying bridge. It is situated on five hills, in a...
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NINE, the last of the radical numbers or characters, from the combination of which any definite number, however large, may be produced. “It is observed by arithmeticians,” says Hume, “that the products of 9 compose always either 9 or some lesser products of 9, if you add together all the characters of which any of the ...
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NINE ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands in the Pacific Ocean, which were so called by Captain Carteret. Long. 154. 30. E. Lat. 4. 40. S.
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NINEVEH, the capital city of Assyria, which was founded by Ashur the son of Shem (Gen. x. 11); or, as others read the text, by Nimrod the son of Cush. However this may have been, it must be owned that Nineveh was one of the largest and most ancient cities of the world. It is very difficult to assign exactly the time of...
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NINGPO, a city of the first rank, and a great seaport, of China, in the province of Tchekiang, known to the early Portuguese navigators under the appellation of Siampoo. It is five miles in circumference, is situated in a fertile plain surrounded by hills, and is watered by numerous canals. It is much resorted to by th...
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NINIA, or Ninian, commonly called St Ninian, a holy man amongst the ancient Britons. He resided at or near a place called by Ptolemy Leucopibia, and by Bede Candida Casa; but the English and Scotch called it White-borne. He is said to have been the first who converted the Scots and Picts to the Christian faith, which h...
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NINIA
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NINIANS, St, a large village in the parish of the same name in Scotland, about one mile and a quarter distant from Stirling. It has an ancient appearance, and consists of one large narrow street. Many of the houses are of considerable antiquity, and on them are carved the implements employed in the trade of the origina...
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NINON de l’Enclos, a lady of a noble family, born at Paris in the year 1615, and famous for her wit and her gallantries. Her mother was a person of exemplary piety, but her father early inspired her with the love of pleasure. Having lost her parents at fourteen years of age, and finding herself mistress of her own acti...
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NINON
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NINUS, the first king of the Assyrians, is said to have been the son of Belus. It is added, that he enlarged Nineveh and Babylon; conquered Zoroaster, king of the Bactrians; married Semiramis of Ascalon; subdued almost all Asia; and died after a glorious reign of fifty-two years,, about 1150 before Christ-But all these...
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NINUS
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NIO, an island of the Archipelago, situated between Naxi on the north, Armago on the east, Santerino on the south, and Sikino on the west, and about thirty-five miles in circumference. It is remarkable for nothing but Homer’s tomb, which it is pretended is in this island, where he is said to have died in his passage fr...
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NIOBE, according to the fictions of the ancient poets, was the daughter of Tantalus, and the wife of Amphion, king of Thebes, by whom she had seven sons and as many daughters. Having become so proud of her fertility and high birth, as to prefer herself before Latona, and to slight the sacrifices offered up by the Theba...
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NIONS, an arrondissement of the department of the Dome, in France, 470 square miles in extent. It comprehends four cantons, divided into seventy-five communes, and containing a population of 33,800 persons. The capital is the city of the same name situated on the river Aigues. It contains only 2850 inhabitants, who car...
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NIONS
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NIORT, an arrondissement of the department of the Two Sèvres, in France, extending over 594 square miles. It contains ten cantons, which are divided into ninety-four communes, and inhabited by 87,500 persons. The capital, both of the arrondissement and the department, is the city of the same name situated on the naviga...
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NIPHON, an extensive island in the east of Asia, forming by much the largest portion of the empire of Japan. It is of an irregular form, with numerous windings, and is 800 or 900 miles in length, but in average breadth it does not exceed 100. The spiritual and temporal capitals of Jedo and Macao are situated in this is...
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NIPPERS, in the manège, are four teeth in the fore part of a horse’s mouth, two in the upper and two in the lower jaw. The horse puts them forth between the second and third year.
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NIRGUA, a town of Colombia, in South America. It is situated upon a low mountain ridge, which extends from the Sierra Nevada of Merida to the north-east, separating the head waters of the Apure and Orinoco from the streams which fall into the Carribbean Sea, or the Lake of Maracaybo. The climate is very hot, and not at...
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NIRMUL, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berat', and district of Nandere, belonging to the nizam. It is situated four miles north of the river Godavery. Long. 79. 33. E. Lat. 19. 18. N.
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NISAN, a month of the Hebrews, corresponding to our March, but which sometimes takes from February or April, according to the course of the moon. It was the first month of the sacred year at the period of the exod from Egypt (Exod. xii. 2), and it was the seventh month of the civil year. By Moses it is called Abib. The...
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NISHAPOUR, an ancient city of Persia, formerly one of the richest and greatest in the extensive province of Khorassan, is situated in a fine plain, about eighty miles in length by fifty or sixty in breadth, well studded with fine villages, and plentiful gardens full of trees, which bear fruits of the highest flavour. A...
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