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kp-eb0716-073710-6450 | PALE, a little pointed stake or piece of wood used in making enclosures, separations, and the like. The pale was an instrument of punishment and execution amongst the ancient Romans, and still continues so amongst the Turks. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-073711-6450 | PALEMBANG, a district of Sumatra, on the northeastern coast, extending along the river Palembang, which rises within two days’ journey of Bencoolen, and runs nearly across the island. It is upwards of a mile in breadth opposite to the town of Palembang and the Dutch factory, and may be navigated by vessels which do not... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 2 58' 51" S 104 54' E | PALEMBANG |
kp-eb0716-073801-6463 | PALEMERDY, a town of Hindustan, in the Southern Carnatic, district of Madura, thirty-one miles south-east from the town of Madura. Long. 78.23. E. Lat. 9. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 9 26' N 78 23' E | PALEMERDY |
kp-eb0716-073802-6463 | PALENCIA, a province in Spain, forming part of the ancient kingdom of Leon. It extends 145 square leagues, and the number of its inhabitants is 118,064, a density of population much greater than the general average of the kingdom presents. As the province is well watered, the riches and population, which in Spain must ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-073803-6463 | PALENGA, a village of Hindustan, in the province of Sinde, situated in the route from Hyderabad to Luckput Bunder. Lat. 24. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-073804-6463 | PALERMO, a province or intendancy of the island of Sicily, belonging to the kingdom of Naples. It is formed out of the Val di Mazzara, and some portions of the Val di Demona. It is situated on the sea-shore, which is its western boundary, and is bounded on the east by Messina, on the south by Calataniferra and Girgenti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-073805-6463 | PALES, in Pagan worship, the goddess of the shepherds, to whom they offered milk and honey, in order that she might deliver them and their flocks from wild beasts and infectious diseases. This goddess is represented as an old woman. Her festivals, called Palilia, were celebrated on the 21st of April, the day on which R... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-073901-6476 | PALESTINE.
Palestine, though a country of limited extent, has yet 'been the scene of events that will ever be memorable in the history of the world. It was in this fruitful land, flowing with milk and honey, that the chosen people of God, redeemed from Egyptian bondage, and crowned with conquest, were appointed to res... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076001-6753 | PALESTRINA, a town of Austrian Italy, in the province of Milan, and delegation of Venice. It is rather a village than a town, being situated on an island at the mouth of the river that stretches from Porto di Chioggia to Porto di Malomocco, a distance of nearly fourteen miles. It contains 5980 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076002-6753 | PALEY, William, D. D., was born at Peterborough in July 1743, where his father was then minor canon of the cathedral church. His father afterwards removed to Giggleswick, being appointed head master of the school at that place. Here his son was trained under his immediate inspection, and discovered a solidity of unders... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076201-6779 | PALFREY is one of the better sort of horses used by [7:16:763]noblemen or others for state, and sometimes of old taken for a horse fit for a woman to ride. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076301-6792 | PALGUNGE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, and district of Monghir, 122 miles south-east from Patna. Long. 86. 15. E. Lat. 24. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 5' N 86 15' E | PALGUNGE |
kp-eb0716-076302-6792 | PALHAUNPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Dandur. Long. 72. 35. E. Lat. 24. 44. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 44' N 72 35' E | PALHAUNPOOR |
kp-eb0716-076303-6792 | PALICAUDCHERRY, a town of Hindustan, in the province, of Malabar. In the year 1766, Hyder Ali gave orders for building here a strong stone fort, which might serve as a point of communication between his new conquests and his fixed resources in the district of Coimbetoor. It is situated in the middle of the teak forests... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 50' N 76 50' E | PALICAUDCHERRY |
kp-eb0716-076304-6792 | PALIMPSEST, in Greek παλίμψηστος (a word formed from παλιν, again, and ψαω, to wipe, cleanse, or rub), is a term applied to a manuscript, from its having been twice cleaned, or twice written, that is, rescribed.
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kp-eb0716-076801-6858 | PALINDROMUS, a verse or sentence which runs the same when read either backwards or forwards. Such is the verse,
Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.
Some people of leisure have refined upon the palindromus, and composed verses, each word of which is the same read backwards as forwards; for instance, that of Camden:
O... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076802-6858 | PALINGENESIA, amongst divines, the same with regeneration. Amongst the older chemists, it denotes the producing of a body from its principles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076803-6858 | PALINGENIUS, Marcellus, an Italian poet, well known by a poem divided into twelve books, and entitled Zodiacus Vitae, which occupied him several years in composing, and dedicated to Hercules II. of Este, duke of Ferrara. Some say he was a physician to that prince; others rank him amongst the learned Lutherans, to whom ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076804-6858 | PALINODE, a discourse contrary to principles formerly avowed; and thence the phrase of palinodiam cαnere means a recantation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076805-6858 | PALINURUS, in fabulous history, the pilot of Aeneas, whose fate Virgil very pathetically describes. He fell into [7:16:769]the sea when asleep, and was three days exposed to the tempests, but at last got safe ashore, when the cruel inhabitants of the place murdered him to get his clothes. His body was left unburied on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076901-6871 | PALISSE, La, an arrondissement of the department of the Allier, in France, extending over 638 square miles. It comprehends six cantons, divided into seventy-seven communes, and contains 65,200 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated in a fertile spot on the left bank of the river Allier. It cont... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076902-6871 | PALKAH, a small town of the Sikh territories, in the province of Lahore, 112 miles north-east from the city of Lahore. Long. 75. 13. E. Lat. 32. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 58' N 75 13' E | PALKAH |
kp-eb0716-076903-6871 | PALK’S Straits, an arm of the sea, which separates Ceylon from the coast of Coromandel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076904-6871 | PALL, in Heraldry , a figure like a Greek χ, and about the breadth of a pallet. It is by some heralds called a cross pall, on account of its being looked upon as an archiepiscopal bearing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076905-6871 | PALLA, in Roman antiquity, a mantle which women wore over the gown called stola. It was borne on the left shoulder, whence passing to the other side, under the right arm, the two ends were bound under the left arm, leaving the breast and the arm quite bare. It had a great many folds, and derived its name from παλλω, to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 3 5' N 125 30' E | PALLA |
kp-eb0716-076906-6871 | PALLADIO, Andrea, a celebrated Italian architect, was born at Vicenza in 1518, being descended of a family, originally of Friuli. The celebrated Trissino was his friend and Maecenas. He made exact drawings of the principal works of antiquity in Rome, adding commentaries, which went through several impressions. But this... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076907-6871 | PALLADIUM, in Antiquity, a statue of the goddess Pallas, or Minerva. It was about three cubits high, and represented the goddess sitting, with a pike in her right hand, and in her left a distaff and a spindle. However various the opinions of ancient authors be about this celebrated statue, it is universally allowed tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076908-6871 | PALLADIUS, bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia, and next of Aspona. He was a Galatian, and born at Cappadocia. He became an anchorite in the mountain of Nebria in 388, and was consecrated bishop in 401. He was an intimate friend of St John Chrysostom, whom he never forsook during the time of his persecution, nor even in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076909-6871 | PALLANZA, a province of the principality of Piemont, in the continental part of the kingdom of Sardinia. It is bounded on the north by Domo d’Ossola, on the east by Lago Maggiore, on the south by Novara, and on the west by Val di Sesia. It extends over 506 square miles, contains 135 towns and villages, fifty-six hamlet... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-076910-6871 | PALLAS, Simon Peter, a distinguished naturalist and geographer, born on the 22d of September 1741, was the son of Simon Pallas, a surgeon in the Prussian army, and professor of surgery at Berlin.
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kp-eb0716-077101-6897 | PALLAVICINI Ferrante, a noted Italian writer, descended from a noble family in Piacenza, was born about the close of the sixteenth century. He soon gave proofs of an extraordinary genius, and improved rapidly in classical erudition. He was afterwards sent to complete his education in the monastery of Augustinian friars... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077201-6910 | PALLEEANGAN Isle, a small, low, woody island, one of the Sooloo archipelago, having a salt-water lake in the centre. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077202-6910 | PALLET, amongst painters, a little oval table, or piece of wood or ivory, very thin and smooth, upon which the painters place the several colours they have occasion for, to be ready for the pencil. The middle serves to mix the colours on, and to make the tints required in the work. It has no handle, but, instead thereo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077203-6910 | PALLIATAE, a name which the Romans gave to such plays as laid the plot in Greece, and required the performers to appear in Grecian habits. It is used in contradistinction to togatae, in which the scene was laid at Rome, and in which the dresses were Roman. The word ραlliata is derived from pallium, which was a part of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077204-6910 | PALLISER, Cape, on the south coast of Eaheinomau-we, is the most northern island of New Zealand, and the north-east point of Cook’s Strait. Long. 183. 58. W. Lat. 4L 34. S.
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kp-eb0716-077205-6910 | PALLIUM, a word often mentioned in our old historians. Durandus tells us that it is a garment made of white wool, after the following manner, viz. The nuns of [7:16:773]St Agnes offer every year, on the feast day of their saint, two white lambs on the altar of their church, during the time of singing the Agnus Dei, in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077301-6923 | PALM has amongst almost all nations been regarded as an emblem of victory, and assigned as the reward of it. The reason why this tree was adopted and made use of to represent victory, is said to be, because it is so elastic, that if pressed by the greatest weight, it will rise superior to the pressure, and be able to r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 53' S 213 25' W | PALM |
kp-eb0716-077302-6923 | PALMA, one of the Canary Islands, situated off the coast of Western Africa. The soil of this island is more elevated than Teneriffe, being hilly, and full of caverns. It is generally fertile and populous only on its coasts, where are cultivated vegetables, good wine, a great deal of sugar used principally in preserving... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077303-6923 | PALMAS, Las, capital of the Great Canary, one of the group of the Canaries, situated off the coast of Western Africa. It is a large handsome town, and in 1835 contained 18,000 inhabitants. There are a cathedral, an hospital, and a college, with convents for monks and nuns of all orders. The city is well supplied with w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077304-6923 | PALMERSTON Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Captain Cook, and afterwards visited by Captain wilson in the missionary ship Duff. It has the appearance of one island, but consists really of eight or nine. There are no inhabitants on the island, but numerous rats, supposed to have been drifted here on som... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 4' S 163 10' W | PALMERSTON |
kp-eb0716-077305-6923 | PALMI, a city of Italy 7 , in the province of Calabria Ulteriore I., of the kingdom of Naples. It stands on the sea, in a district highly productive of silk, wine, and oil. It contains 6100 inhabitants, many of them employed in woollen and silk manufactures. It was almost wholly destroyed by the earthquake of 1783, but... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077306-6923 | PALMIRAS, a celebrated point of land at the head of the Bay of Bengal, which all vessels bound for Calcutta endeavour to make, and on which the East India Company have erected a lighthouse. Long. 87.5. E. Lat. 20. 44. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077307-6923 | PALMISTRY, a kind of divination, or rather a deceitful art practised by gipsies, who pretend to foretell events by looking upon the lines and marks of the hand. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077308-6923 | PALMUS, a long measure used both by the Greeks and the Romans. The Grecian palmus was of two sorts; the greater, which contained nine finger-breadths, and the less, which contained four. The Roman palmus was also of two sorts; the greater, which contained twelve fingerbreadths, or eight inches and a half English; and t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077309-6923 | PALMYRA, or Tadmor, a noble city of ancient Syria, now in ruins. The origin of this name is uncertain, neither is it well known by whom the city was built; for though, from the identity of the names, it is thought by many to have been the Tadmor in the wilderness built by Solomon,^[1. See 1 Kings, ix. 18; and 2 Chion. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 33 20' N 38 50' E | PALMYRA |
kp-eb0716-077701-6975 | PALNAUD, a district of the south of India, in the Carnatic, situated chiefly between the sixteenth and seventeenth degrees of north latitude, and on the south side of the river Kistnah. It was ceded to the British in 1801, and is now comprehended in the collectorship of Guntoor.
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kp-eb0716-077801-6988 | PALO, a town of Diarbekir, in Asiatic Turkey, situated on the banks of the Euphrates, and near the edge of a mountain, the summit of which is covered with ruins, from which quantities of old coins and metals are occasionally dug up. The inhabitants amount to 8000, consisting of Turks, Armenians, and Koords. Earthquakes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077802-6988 | PALOS, a reef of rocks in the Straits of Macassar, near the west coast of Celebes. Long. 119. 15. E. Lat. 0. 24. S. There is a town of the same name on the western coast of the island of Celebes, in a bay to which it gives name. Long. 119. 39. E. Lat. 0. 56. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077803-6988 | PALPAH, a small district of Northern Hindustan, subject to the Ghoorkali rajah of Nepaul, and situated between the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth degrees of north latitude. To the south it is separated from Oude by extensive woods and forests, and forms one of the numerous principalities subject to Nepaul, called the T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 28 11' N 82 55' E | PALPAH |
kp-eb0716-077804-6988 | PALREE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, situated near the western boundary, between Therah and Theraud. It contains about 250 houses, or rather huts, principally inhabited by Rajpoots. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077805-6988 | PALUDAMENTUM, in Roman antiquity, was a habit which differed but little from the chlamys, except that the latter belonged chiefly to the lower class of people. It was worn by the officers and principal men amongst the Romans in time of war, who were therefore called Paludati; and this distinguished them from the common... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077806-6988 | PALUS Meotis, the ancient name of a gulf between Europe and Asia, to the north of the Black Sea, and now called the Sea of Asoph. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077807-6988 | PALY, or Pale, in Heraldry, is when the shield is divided into four or more equal parts, by perpendicular lines falling from the top to the bottom.
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kp-eb0716-077808-6988 | PAMBOON, a town of Celebes, on the west coast, with an indifferent harbour. It is the residence of a rajah. The inhabitants trade with Macassar and Batavia, and barter the cotton cloth which they manufacture, for gold-dust. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077809-6988 | PAMER, a high table-land of Asia, upon the western limit of Little Thibet, and bounded on the west by a mountain ridge of the same name. This ridge joins at its southern extremity the chain of Hindu Coosh, and stretches on the north into the territories of Cashmere, separating Chinese from Independent Tartary. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077810-6988 | PAMIERS, an arrondissement of the department of Arriège, in France, extending over 521 square miles. It comprehends six cantons, divided into 115 communes, and contains 67,250 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, the see of a bishop, and the seat of the courts of law for the department. It is situated... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 8' N 2 30' E | PAMIERS |
kp-eb0716-077811-6988 | PAMPELUNA, or Pamplona, a city of Spain, the capital of the province or kingdom of Navarre. It was the place in which th⅛ ancient kings of that country held their court, and whence they exercised the mild government of that very limited monarchy. As a strongly fortified frontier town, it has many historical events conn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077812-6988 | PAMPER, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Cashmere, and district of Vehy, being situated on the north side of the Jhylum River. Long. 73.13. E. Lat. 34. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 19' N 73 13' E | PAMPER |
kp-eb0716-077813-6988 | PAMPHILUS, a celebrated painter of Macedonia, in the age of Philip. He was the founder of the school of painting at Sicyon; and he made a law which was observed not only in Sicyon, but all over Greece, that none but children of noble and dignified persons should be permitted to learn painting. Apelles was one of his pu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-077814-6988 | PAMPLONA, a province of Colombia, in the department of Boyaca. It is separated from Socorro on the south by the river Galinazo or Sogamoso; on the west from Mariquita and Rio Hacha by the great Magdalena; on the north it is bounded by Maracaybo, Rio Hacha, and Merida; and on the east by Varinas, at that part of the cou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078001-7014 | PAN, the god of shepherds, of hunters, and of all country exercises. But he bore a higher character amongst the earliest Greeks, as well as amongst the Egyptians, from whom his worship was borrowed by the former people. In Egypt he was known by the name of Mendes, which, according to Jablonski,^[1. Pantheon. Egyptiorir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078101-7027 | PANAGUR, a town or village of Hindustan, in the province of Malwah, and district of Gurrah, 115 miles south from Chatterpoor. Long. 88. 15. E. Lat. 25. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 20' N 88 15' E | PANAGUR |
kp-eb0716-078102-7027 | PANAMA, Isthmus of (also the name of a province of New Grenada), is that extraordinary ligature or neck of land which connects the continents of North and South America. It is also sometimes called the Isthmus of Darien, [7:16:782]a name which, however, is much out of use, and ought to be entirely expunged from geograp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078701-7106 | PANAMAO Isle, one of the Philippine Islands, about fifteen miles in circumference, and of a triangular form. Long. 124. 15. E. Lat. 11. 27. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 27' N 124 15' E | PANAMAO |
kp-eb0716-078702-7106 | PANAON, or Panahan, is one of the Philippine Islands, about forty-five miles in circumference. It is well watered by numerous streams that flow from the mountains. Long. 125. 12. E. Lat. 10. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 7' N 125 12' E | PANAON |
kp-eb0716-078703-7106 | PANARAGA, a town of the island of Java, and capital of a kingdom, situated on the southern side of the island. It is sixty miles east of Mataran. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078704-7106 | PANAROOCAN, a town of Java, in the north-eastern extremity of the island, situated on a river which enters the sea by several mouths. It was formerly the capital of an ancient principality, but is now subject to the Dutch. It has a square fort, built with palisades and planks, and which stands about three quarters of a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078705-7106 | PANATHENAEA, Παναόηναια, in Grecian antiquity, an ancient Athenian festival, in honour of Minerva the protectress of Athens. Harpocration and Suidas refer the institution of this festival to Erichthonius IV. king of Athens, who lived before Theseus. Theodoret alone says that the feast was established by Orpheus. But be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078706-7106 | PANAULON, an enlarged German-flute, with sixteen finger-keys, and descending as low as G in the treble clef, with two ledger lines under the stave. It was invented a few years ago by Trexler of Vienna. To remedy its inconvenient length, the lower end was curved. The quality of its tone is not so good as that of the com... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078707-7106 | PANCARPUS, in Roman antiquity, a kind of show which the Roman emperors frequently exhibited to the people. The word is formed from the Greek <καν, all, and καξyrος, fruit ; and hence the name was also given by the Athenians to a sacrifice, in which all kinds of fruits were offered. In this spectacle, the circus being a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078708-7106 | PANCHBERARAH, a town of Hindustan, and small [7:16:788] district, in the province of Cashmere. Long. 75. E. Lat. 34. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 32' N 75 E | PANCHBERARAH |
kp-eb0716-078801-7119 | PANCO Point, a remarkable cape, situated at the north-eastern extremity of the island of Java, at the mouth of the western entrance of the Straits of Madura. Here are stationed Javanese and European pilots, who, as soon as vessels are seen standing for the channel, go before to pilot them to Gressee and Sourabaya. Long... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 48' S 112 44' E | PANCO |
kp-eb0716-078802-7119 | PANCRAS, a large parish formerly detached from the metropolis by wide and open fields, but now a great portion of the northern side of London. Within the last forty years it has been covered with large houses, composing some of the handsomest squares, and the widest and most uniformly built streets. The parish is very ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078803-7119 | PANCRATIUM (compounded of παν, all, and κ%ατιω, I overcome), amongst the ancients, a kind of intermixed exercise, consisting of wrestling and boxing; but it differs in this, that as the athletae were not to seize the body, their hands were not armed with gauntlets, and gave less dangerous blows.
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kp-eb0716-078804-7119 | PANCSOVA, a city of Hungary, in the province of the Hungarian frontier, the capital of the limits or circle of the German Banat regiment, which extends over 1656 square miles, comprehending the city and sixty villages, with 101,200 inhabitants. The city is situated upon an arm of the Themes, at its influx into the Danu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078805-7119 | PANDA, in Mythology, a goddess who was invoked and honoured as the protectress of travellers and navigators. The goddess of peace was also called Pandar, because she opened the gates of cities which were shut in time of war. According to Varro, Panda is a surname of Ceres, formed a pane dando, because she gave bread to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078806-7119 | PANDAR, a small town of Hindustan, in the Sikh territory, and province of Lahore, 132 miles north-east from the city of Lahore. Long. 75.16. E. Lat. 33. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078807-7119 | PANDECTS, Pandectae, in jurisprudence, the digest or collection, made by Justinian’s order, of 534 decisions or judgments of the ancient lawyers, on as many questions occurring in the civil law; to all which that emperor gave the force and authority of law, by the epistle prefixed to the collection. The word is Greek, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078808-7119 | PANDICULATION is that violent and extensive motion of the solids which usually accompanies the act of yawning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078809-7119 | PANDIWORA, a village of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, near to which flows a stream of clear but salt water. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078810-7119 | PANDORA, in fabulous history, a woman formed by Prometheus, to whom each of the gods gave some perfection. Venus bestowed upon her beauty; Pallas, wisdom; Juno, riches; Apollo, music; and Mercury, eloquence. But Jupiter being displeased at Prometheus for having stolen fire from heaven to animate the mass he had formed,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078811-7119 | PANDURA, a Neapolitan instrument, of a larger size than the mandola, and strung with eight metal wires. It is played with a quill. The pandurina was an instrument of a similar kind, with four strings, but is now disused. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078812-7119 | PANEGYRIC, an oration in praise of some extraordinary person or virtue. The name is Greek, <ιrαwιγvζ ∣ ς, being composed of παv, all, and αγειξω, I assemble ; because anciently in public and solemn assemblies of the Greeks, either at their games, feasts, fairs, or religious meetings, panegyrics were pronounced. To 'ren... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078813-7119 | PANEGYRICUM, in church history, an ecclesiastical book, used by the Greek church, containing the panegyrical orations of various authors, on the solemnities of Jesus Christ and the saints. It is found in manuscript in most churches, but it is not the same in all, each church having its particular saints; indeed the com... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078814-7119 | PANEL (panella, panellum), according to Sir Edward Coke, denotes “a little part ;” but the learned Spelman says that it signifies schedula vel pagina, a schedule or roll, as a panel of parchment, or a counterpane of an indenture; but it is used more particularly for a schedule or roll, containing the names of such juro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078901-7132 | PANELA, or Pannela, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore. It is one of the strongest fortresses in India, which was taken by the celebrated Mahratta chief Sevajee, by stratagem, in the year 1660. It was subsequently besieged in vain by the army of the king of Bejapore; and yielded to the powerf... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 N 74 20' E | PANELA |
kp-eb0716-078902-7132 | PANGANSANE Isle, an island in the Eastern Seas, situated off the south-eastern extremity of Celebes, fifty-two miles in length by sixteen in average breadth. It is low, level, and covered with fine trees. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078903-7132 | PANGOOTARRAN, one of the Sooloo Archipelago Isles, in the Eastern Seas, about ten miles in length by four in average breadth. It is one entire bed of coral rock, with scarcely any appearance of soil on it. It abounds, however, in cocoa-nut trees, and has also plenty of cattle, goats, and fowls. Long. 120. 30. E. Lat. 6... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078904-7132 | PANHA, a village of Hindustan, tributary to the Nepaul rajahs, in the province of Serinagur. It contains forty or fifty huts. Long. 79. 10. E. Lat. 30. 18. N. About six miles to the south of this place are the copper mines of Dhanpoor, and eight miles to the north those of Nagpoor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078905-7132 | PANIANY, a seaport town of the south of India, in the province of Malabar. It is situated on the south bank of the Palicaud River. It consists of about 500 houses belonging to traders, and 1000 huts inhabited by the lower classes of people, and forty mosques. It is very irregularly built; many of the houses are two sto... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078906-7132 | PANIC denotes an ill-grounded terror or fright. Polyaenus says it originated from Pan, one of the captains of Bacchus, who with a few men put a numerous enemy to route, by a noise which his soldiers raised in a rocky valley, favoured with a great number of echoes. This stratagem making their number appear far greater t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078907-7132 | PANIONIA, in Antiquity, a festival celebrated in honour of Neptune, by a concourse of people from all the cities of Ionia. In this festival, if the bull offered in sacrifice happened to bellow, it was accounted an omen of divine favour, because that sound was thought to be acceptable to Neptune. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078908-7132 | PANMELODICON, an instrument invented by Lep-pich at Vienna in 1810. By means of a conical barrel moved by a wheel, rods of metal, bent to a right angle, were made to sound when the finger-keys were pressed down. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078909-7132 | PANNAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, and district of Bundelcund, celebrated for the diamond mines in its neighbourhood, which, during the reign of Akbar, produced L.100,000 a year. It is thirty miles south-east from Chatterpore. Long. 80. 17. E. Lat. 24. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078910-7132 | PANNARIA, one of the group’of the Lipari Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea. It was called Thermissia by the ancients, on account of its natural warm baths. It is about seven miles in circumference, and contains 200 inhabitants, who cultivate a rich volcanic soil. There is a good port on the south side for small vessels... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078911-7132 | PANNIPUT, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi. It is about four miles in circumference, and was formerly surrounded with a brick wall, which partly remains. In the centre of the town is the shrine of a Mahommedan saint, who flourished during the fourteenth century. The surrounding district is fertile in sugar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-078912-7132 | PANORAMA. A panorama is a picture drawn on the interior surface of a large cylinder, representing the objects that can be seen from one station, when the observer directs his eye successively to every point of the horizon. A picture drawn on a vertical plane in the usual way includes only that portion of the sphere of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-079001-7145 | PANORMO, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in Anatolia, on the south coast of the Sea of Marmora. It is sixteen miles south-east of Artaki. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-079002-7145 | PANOU, a river of Asiatic Russia, which falls into the Niznei Tunguska. Long. 102. 24. E. Lat. 64. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-079003-7145 | PANTAENUS, a Stoic philosopher, born in Sicily about the beginning of the reign of Commodus. He presided over the celebrated school of Alexandria, where, from the time of St Mark, the founder of that church, they had always a divine who was eminent for his learning and piety to explain the Holy Scriptures, and to instr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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