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kp-eb0718-032902-6600 | POLYPLECTRON, from the Greek πoλυ, much, and πλ5jr rga ’, a musical instrument invented by Dietz about ten years ago, and played upon in the manner of a piano-forte. Its sounds are produced by the friction of numerous narrow slips of leather made to revolve upon a cylinder and over pullies, and brought into contact wit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-032903-6600 | POLYPUS, a species of fresh-water insects. The name of hydra was given to them by Linnaeus, on account of the property they have of reproducing themselves when cut in pieces, every part soon becoming a perfect animal. Dr Hill called them biota, on account of the strong principle of life with which every part of them is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-033001-6613 | POLYSEMASIA, from the Greek πoλu and σημασια, a term applied to such intervals and chords in harmony, as produce upon the ear the same effect, although they may differ from each other in notation; for example, b B G ♯ A G; BDFbA, BD ft E ♯ G, &c. Also such chords as, although expressed by the same notes, are yet referr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-033002-6613 | POLYSPERMOUS, from τrοKυ,much, and σπεζμα,seed, in Eotany, is applied to such plants as have more than four seeds succeeding each flower, without any certain order or number. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-033003-6613 | POLYSYLLABLE, in Grammars a word consisting of more than three syllables. When a word consists of one, two, or three syllables, it is called a monosyllable, a dissyllable, or a trisyllable. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-033004-6613 | POLYTHEISM.
Polytheism is the doctrine of a plurality of gods, or invisible powers superior to man.
“That there exist beings, one or many, powerful above the human race, is a proposition,” says Lord Kames,^[1. Sketches of the History of Man. ] “universally admitted as true in all ages and among all nations. I boldly ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034201-6769 | POMBAL, a city of Portugal, in the province of Estremadura, and the corregimiento of Leiria. It stands on a hill, near to which are the striking ruins of an ancient castle. It contains but one church, which is much frequented by pilgrims as well as by inhabitants, on account of a supposed holy image to which miraculous... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034202-6769 | POMERANIA, a province of Prussia, extending along the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, from long. 12. 29. to 17. 51. It is bounded on the east by West Prussia, on the south by Brandenburg, and on the west by the duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. It extends over 12,450 square miles, but in it ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034203-6769 | POMFRET, John, an English poet, son of the rector of Luton, in Bedfordshire, was born in 1667, and educated at Cambridge; after which he took orders, and was presented to the living of Malden, in Bedfordshire. About 1703 he went to London for institution to a larger and more considerable living; but he was stopped for ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034204-6769 | POMME, or Pommette, in Heraldry, is a cross having one or more balls or knobs at each of the ends. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034205-6769 | POMMEL, or Pummel, in the Manège, a piece of brass or other matter at the top and in the middle of the saddlebow. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034206-6769 | POMOERIUM, in Roman antiquity, was, according to Livy, that space of ground, both within and without the walls, which the augurs, at the first building of cities, solemnly consecrated, and on which no edifices were allowed to be raised. Plutarch gives this account of the ceremony of drawing the pomoerium: “They dug a t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034301-6782 | POMPEII, an ancient city of Italy, situated in that part of the country to which the ancients gave the name of Campania. It lies at the bottom of the Gulf of Cumae, known in modern times as the Bay of Naples, five miles from the volcanic mountain of Vesuvius, and thirteen miles southeast of the city of Naples. Pompeii ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034601-6821 | POMPEY the Great, Cneius Pompeius Magnus, the renowned rival of Julius Caesar. Being defeated at the battle of Pharsalia, owing to the defection of his cavalry, Pompey fled by sea to Egypt, where he was basely assassinated by order of Theodotus, prime minister to Ptolemy the younger, then a minor, 48 b. c. See Rome. Po... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034602-6821 | POMPONATIUS, Peter, an eminent Italian philosopher, was born at Mantua in 1462. He was of so small a stature that he was little better than a dwarf; yet he possessed an exalted genius, and was considered as one of the greatest philosophers of the age in which he lived. He taught philosophy with the highest reputation, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034603-6821 | PONARUM, a town of the south of India, in the Carnatic, fifty-five miles south-west from Pondicherry. Long. 79. 20. E. Lat. 11. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 26' N 79 20' E | PONARUM |
kp-eb0718-034604-6821 | PONDAH, a town and celebrated fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore, which stands at the foot of the Western Ghauts, and commands the most frequented pass into the interior from Goa and Soondah. It was taken by the Mahrattas under Sevajec in 1673; and being afterwards, in 1683, besieged by the Portuguese, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034605-6821 | PONDI, a small island in the Eastern Seas, separated from Madura by a channel a mile in width, with a small bay which affords a safe anchorage for shipping. It is well cultivated, and has a pleasant appearance. Long. 114. 23. E. Lat. 6. 57. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 57' S 114 23' E | PONDI |
kp-eb0718-034606-6821 | PONDICHERRY, a city on the sea-coast of the south of India, in the province of the Carnatic, and once the most splendid city in the East. But it has never recovered from the destruction inflicted on it by the British in 1761. It stands on a sandy plain, not far from the sea-shore, which produces only palm-trees, millet... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 30' N 74 0' E | PONDICHERRY |
kp-eb0718-034701-6834 | PONDIMARKA, a seaport of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, and district of Cicacole, which contains a small bay, only capable of receiving small boats. Long 83. 0. E. Lat. 17. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 37' N 83 0' E | PONDIMARKA |
kp-eb0718-034702-6834 | PONDONG, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the south-east coast of Siao. Long. 125.10. E. Lat. 2.40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 2 40' N 125 10' E | PONDONG |
kp-eb0718-034703-6834 | PONIARD, a little pointed sharp-edged dagger, borne in the hand or at the girdle, or hidden in the pocket. The word is formed from the French poignard, and that from poignée, handful. The poniard was anciently in constant use; but it is now laid aside, except amongst assassins. Sword and poniard were the ancient arms o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034704-6834 | PONS, St, an arrondissement of the department of Hérault, in France, extending over 488 square miles. It comprises five cantons, and is divided into forty-four communes, containing 40,160 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, usually distinguished as Saint Pons de Thomiers. It is situated in a valley s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 32' N 2 53' E | PONS |
kp-eb0718-034705-6834 | PONT-A-MOUSSON, a city of France, in the department of the Meurthe, and the arrondissement of Nancy. It is a neat place, situated in a charming valley, through which flows the river Moselle. It is fortified, and contains four churches, 925 houses, and 6680 inhabitants, who carry on the trades of spinning cotton by mach... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 54' 19" N 5 57' 1" E | PONT-A-MOUSSON |
kp-eb0718-034706-6834 | PONTARLIER, an arrondissement of the department of the Doubs, in France, extending over 531 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these into ninety communes, containing 43,100 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated in a mountainous district on the banks of the river Doubs. It conta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034707-6834 | PONT AUDEMER, an arrondissement of the department of the Eure, in France. It is 390 square miles in extent, and comprehends eight cantons, divided into 143 communes, and has a population of 94,650 persons. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the river Nille. It is surrounded with walls, stands in a fert... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034708-6834 | PONT DE BAUX, a city of France, in the department of the Ain, and arrondissement of Bourg. It is situated on the river Reyssouse, is well built, and contains a hospital, a fine corn-hall, 320 houses, and 3050 inhabitants, who carry on a brisk trade in hemp, flax, corn, and wine, by means of the canal, which leads to th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 25' N 4 47' E | PONT DE BAUX |
kp-eb0718-034709-6834 | PONTE-CORVO, a city of Italy, in the papal territory, and province of Frosinone, the see of a bishop, and situated on the banks of the river Garigliano. It contains six churches, and, including a small district, 5600 inhabitants. Bonaparte created Bernadotte prince of Ponte-Corvo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034710-6834 | PONTEFRACT, a market and borough town of the west riding of Yorkshire, in the wapentake of Osgoldeross, and 178 miles from London. It is a corporate town, now governed by a mayor, a recorder, four aldermen, and twelve councillors, and it returns two members to the House of Commons. The soil around it is remarkably fert... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034711-6834 | PONTEVICO, a city of Austrian Italy, in the delegation of Brescia, and province of Milan. It is situated on the river Oglio, at the place where the Strone falls into it. It is fortified, and has a castle near it. The inhabitants amount to 5268, | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034712-6834 | PONTIANA, a Dutch settlement, on a river of the same name, on the western coast of the island of Borneo. It carries on a considerable trade. The imports are piece-goods and opium; the exports diamonds, gold-dust, pepper, and birds’ nests. It is situated upon a fine navigable river, nearly under the equator. Long. 109. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 3 S 109 30' E | PONTIANA |
kp-eb0718-034713-6834 | PONTIFEX, Pontiff, or High Priest, a person who has the superintendence and direction of divine worship, as the offering of sacrifices and the celebration of other religious solemnities. The Romans had a college of pontiffs, over which was a sovereign pontiff, or pontifex maximus, instituted by Numa, whose function it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034714-6834 | PONTIFICATE is used to signify the state or dignity of a pontiff or high priest; but by modern writers it is chiefly applied to the reign of a pope. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034715-6834 | PONTIVY, an arrondissement of the department of Morbihan, in France, extending over 632 square miles. It is divided into seven cantons and forty-six communes, and has a population of 90,600 persons. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Blavet, and contains 5100 inhabitants, whose chief trade ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034801-6847 | PONT L’EVEQUE, an arrondissement of the department of Calvados, in France, extending over 301 square miles, containing five cantons and 135 communes, with 64,350 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, is situated on the river Touques, has a good trade, and contains 510 houses, with 2520 inhabitants. Long. 0... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 17' N 0 3' E | PONT L’EVEQUE |
kp-eb0718-034802-6847 | PONTOISE, an arrondissement of the department of the Seine and Oise, in France, extending over 478 square miles, divided into seven cantons and 175 communes, with 87,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated at the junction of the river Biorne with the Oise. It contains 800 houses, and 5400 in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 3' N 12 1' E | PONTOISE |
kp-eb0718-034803-6847 | PONTOON, in War, a kind of flat-bottomed boat, the body of which is composed of wood lined without and within with tin. Pontoons serve for the construction of bridges over rivers, to facilitate military operations. The French pontoons, and those of most other powers, are made of copper on the outside; and though these ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-034804-6847 | PONTUS, the name of an ancient kingdom of Asia, originally a part of Cappadocia, and which was bounded on the east by Colchis, on the west by the river Halys, on the north by the Euxine Sea, and on the south by Armenia Minor. Some derive the name of Pontus from the neighbouring sea, commonly called by the ancients Pont... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-036201-7029 | PONTYPOOL, a market-town of the county of Monmouth, in the parish of Trevethan, and hundred of Abergavenny, 150 miles from London. It is situated at the foot of a range of hills profusely rich in coal and iron. It was formerly celebrated for its japan ware; but that trade has been in some degree superseded by similar m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-036202-7029 | PONZA, or Pontia, is the name of a small island of the Tuscan Sea, well known as·the place to which many illustrious Romans were banished. It is situated on the coast of Italy, near Tcrracina, and in the neighbourhood of other small islands or rocks. All these islands were visited by Sir William Hamilton in the year 17... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-036203-7029 | POOGUL, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Mooltan and district of Bikaneer, in the midst of a sandy desert. It has several brackish wells, and some reservoirs of good rain-water vaulted over with brick, from the sale of which to travellers parched with thirst the inhabitants derive a precarious income. They... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-036204-7029 | POOL, a seaport of the county of Dorset, within the hundred of Cogdean, and a county of itself, 106 miles from London. It is situated on a peninsula stretching into a large estuary at the mouth of the river Froome; and vessels drawing sixteen feet water can approach the quays. Themouth of the estuary is defended by a c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-036301-7042 | POOLE, Matthew, a very learned writer in the seventeenth century, was born at York in 1624. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and afterwards incorporated in the university of Oxford. He succeeded Dr Anthony Tuckney in the rectory of St Michael de Quern, in London, about 1648. In 1658 he set on foot a proj... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-036302-7042 | POONAH, a city of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore, and capital of the peshwa, the chief of the Mahratta state. Situated about thirty miles to the east of the Ghauts, it is an open and defenceless town, covering little more than two square miles, and indifferently built, so that it has rather the appearance of a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 30' N 74 E | POONAH |
kp-eb0718-036401-7055 | POONAKHA, a town of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Bootan, and situated on the Chantchieu River. It is the winter residence of the Deb rajah, and the warmest part of Bootan, and is therefore selected for the cultivation of exotics. The palace is adorned with a handsome gilt canopy. Long. 89. 45. E. Lat. 27. 56.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 56' N 89 45' E | POONAKHA |
kp-eb0718-036402-7055 | POONAR, a town and district of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, and territory of the nizam. The district is mountainous and woody, and is situated between the twenty-first and twenty-second degrees of north latitude. The town is seventy-five miles south from Gluckpoor. Long. 78. 13. E. Lat. 20. 9. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-036403-7055 | POONDY, a seaport town of Hindustan, in the province of the Northern Circars, and district of Cicacole, situated on a small river capable of being entered by boats, which thereby escape the surf so dangerous along this coast. Long. 84. 27. E. Lat. 18. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-036404-7055 | POOR, in law, an appellation given to all those who are in such a low and mean condition that they either are or may become a burden to the parish. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-036405-7055 | POORBUNDER, a town of Hindustan, on the southwest coast of the Gujerat peninsula. An agreement was concluded in 1808, between the Bombay government and the Rana Sertanjee and Coer Hallajee of Poorbunder, not to connive at any act of piracy committed by any person under their authority. Long. 69. 50. E. Lat. 21. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 37' N 69 50' E | POORBUNDER |
kp-eb0718-036406-7055 | POOR KNIGHTS, a cluster of islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean, near the north-eastern coast of New Zealand. Long. 174. 42. E. Lat. 35. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-036407-7055 | POOR-LAWS.
Until very recently, the great interest felt in the body of laws comprehended under the above title, was derived from the consciousness of the danger with which the manner of their administration in England threatened the property of the rich, and the morality of the whole people. As the law continues funda... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-038801-7367 | POORNAH, a river of Hindustan, which rises in the Injardy Hills, whence it flows westward through Berar, and falls into the Tuptee about twenty miles below Boorhanpoor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-038802-7367 | POORPOOROO, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the north-eastern coast of Borneo. Long. 117. 54. E. Lat. 6. 18. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-038803-7367 | POORUNDER, a celebrated town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore. It belonged till lately to the peshwa. It was in this fortress that the widow of Narrain Row took refuge after the murder of her husband, and where she brought forth her posthumous child, who succeeded to the dignity of peshwa. It is s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-038804-7367 | POORWAH, a town of Hindustan, in the nabob of Oude’s territories, twenty-eight miles south-south-west from Lucknow. Long. 80. 44. E. Lat. 20. 28. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-038805-7367 | POOSHKUR, or Phokur, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, and situated on the shore of a romantic lake. It contains a remarkable temple dedicated to Brahma, with an image that has four heads and as many arms, besides other temples dedicated to Vishnu and Seva. The town contains about 700 houses, the inhabita... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-038806-7367 | POOTELLAM, a town of Hindustan, on the western coast of Ceylon, celebrated for an extensive manufactory of sea-salt, which formerly supplied Candy and the interior. Long. 79. 51. E. Lat. 8. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-038807-7367 | POOTI, a river on the east coast of Sumatra, which Falls into the Sea of Java. Long. 105. 45. E. Lat. 4. 38. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-038808-7367 | POPAYAN, a province included in the republic of New Grenada, in South America. It is situated in the department of Cauca, and is bounded on the south by Pasto, on the west by Buenaventura and Choco, on the east by Neiva and Bogota, and on the north by Antioquia. This province is somewhat rugged and mountainous, but wit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-038809-7367 | POPE, a name which comes from the Greek word ∏απα, and signifies Father. In the East this appellation is given to all Christian priests, and in the West bishops were called by it in ancient times; but for many centuries it has been appropriated to the bishop of Rome, whom the Roman Catholics look upon as the common Fat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-039101-7406 | POPE.
Pope, Alexander, the most brilliant of all wits who have at any period applied themselves to the poetic treatment of human manners, to the selecting from the play of human character what is picturesque, or the arresting what is fugitive, was born in the city of London on the 21 st^[1. Dr Johnson, however, and Jo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-040501-7588 | POPERINGHEN, a large market-town of Belgium, in the province of West Flanders and circle of Ypres. It stands on the river Schipuor, and contains two churches, 1400 houses, and 9080 inhabitants, who are employed in making linen and woollen cloths, and thread-lace, and have several oil mills. It is celebrated for the gro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-040502-7588 | POPERY, in Ecclesiastical History, is regarded by Roman Catholics as a term of reproach, but having been generally received amongst Protestants, now comprehends the religious doctrines and practices adopted and maintained by the church of Rome. The following summary, extracted chiefly from the decrees of the council of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-040601-7601 | POPHAM, Sir John, lord chief justice of the common pleas in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was the eldest son of Mr Edward Popham of Huntworth, in Somersetshire, and born in the year 1531. He was some time a student of Baliol College, Oxford; “being then,” as Anthony Wood says, “given at leisure hours to many sports and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-040602-7601 | POPILIUS, Laenas, Roman ambassador to Antiochus, king of Syria: He was commissioned to order that monarch to desist from hostilities against Ptolemy, king of Egypt, ally of Rome. Antiochus attempted to elude him by evasive answers; but Popilius, with a stick in his hand, made a circle round him in the sand, and charged... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-040603-7601 | POPLAR, a parish of the county of Middlesex, in the hundred of Ossulton. It stands on the banks of the river Thames, and was formerly a hamlet in the parish of Stepney. It is extensive, and comprehends the Isle of Dogs, which was formerly a rich marsh, but is now in part converted into docks and canals. The constructio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-040701-7614 | POPO is the name of one of the states comprised in what is denominated the Slave Coast, on the western shores of Africa. In the strictest acceptation, the Slave Coast includes the states of Coto, Popo, Widah, and Ardra, the whole being subject to the king of Dahomey. The maritime flat country here is broader than that ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-040702-7614 | POPOCA, Mount, one of the volcanoes on the summits of the American Cordilleras. Its crater is said to be half a league in circumference. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-040703-7614 | POPPAEA, Sabina, a Roman matron, daughter of Titus Ollius. She was married and had a son to Rufus Crispinus, a Roman knight. Her beauty captivated Otho, one of Nero’s favourites, who carried her off and married her; but he was not long permitted to retain her, for Nero, having heard her extolled for her accomplishments... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-040704-7614 | POPULATION.
The population of the principal states, of which an account has been given in the course of this work, will be found under their proper heads. The object of this article is to explain the general laws which regulate the increase or decrease of population, and the manner in which they affect the state and c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-042901-7952 | PORCELAIN.
Porcelain, in its more general signification, comprehends all kinds of earthen ware, which are white, semitransparent, and have some degree of a vitreous texture· Hence, in this extensive meaning of the term, it includes all kinds of pottery, stoneware, delft ware, &c. But in a more limited sense, the word ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044101-8108 | PORCH, in Architecture, a kind of vestibule supported by columns, and much used at the entrance of temples, halls, and other edifices.
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kp-eb0718-044102-8108 | PORCHESTER, a village of the county of Hants and in the hundred of Portsdown. It is on the north side of Portsmouth harbour, and is remarkable for its extensive and ancient castle, in which, during the war, some thousands of French prisoners were confined. The walls inclose a square of four acres. It formerly belonged ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044103-8108 | PORCO, a province of Bolivia in South America, to the west of the city of Potosi. The region is elevated, and the climate is consequently cold, so that although in the valleys the soil is productive, there is a scarcity of grains and fruit. It is properly a pastoral country, and here are reared vast numbers of sheep, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044104-8108 | PORCU, atown on the sea-coast of Hindustan, situated in the province of Travancore. It is populous, and carries on a considerable trade. The adjacent country is fertile, and produces abundance of rice. The inhabitants consist of Mahommedan, Hindu, and Christian merchants. The Dutch had formerly a factory here for procu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044105-8108 | PORDENONE, a city of Austrian Italy, in the province of Milan, and delegation of Bclluno. It stands on the river Roncello, and contains 650 houses, with 4230 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in making linen goods and paper. Lat. 45. 56. 42. Long. 12. 34. 54. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044106-8108 | PORETSCIIIE, a city of the Russian empire, in the province of Smolensko, the capital of a circle of the same name. It is situated on the river Kasplea, which is navigable thusfar, but no farther. It is 478 miles from St. Petersburg, and favourably situated asa depot for the trade between Smolensko and Riga. It contains... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044107-8108 | PORISM, in Geometry, is a name given by the ancient geometers to two classes of mathematical propositions. Euclid applies this name to propositions, which are involved in others which he is professedly investigating, and which, although they do not form his principal object, are obtained along with it, as is expressed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044701-8186 | PORK, the flcsh of swine killed for the purposes of food. The hog is the only domestic animal that we know which is of no use to man when alive, and therefore seems properly designed for food. Besides being loathsome and ugly to every eye, it is killed without reluctance. The Pythagoreans, whether to preserve health, o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044702-8186 | PORLOCK, a small market town of Somersetshire, in the hundred of Carhampton, 170 miles from London. It stands at the foot of a lofty range of mountains, on a beautiful bay of its own name, on the Bristol channel. The inhabitants were, in 1801, 600; in 1811, 633; in 1821, 769; and in 1831, 830. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044703-8186 | PORO-ISLE, commonly called Porto-Sipora or the island of Good Fortune. It contains four villages, in each of which there are about a thousand inhabitants. It is thirty-three miles in length, by eight in average breadth, and is almost wholly covered with wood. It is situated on the southwestern coast of the Poggy Island... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044704-8186 | PORONNISHIR, one of the Kurile islands in the North Pacific Ocean, about 44 miles in length and 12 in breadth. It is unequal in its surface; the northern part being mountainous, but the north-west less so, though it is still diversified by hills and valleys, one chain of hills rising to a great height, and being never ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044705-8186 | PORPHYRIUS, a famous Platonic philosopher, was bornât Tyre in 233, in the rcign of Alexander Severus. He was the disciple of Longinus, and became the ornament of his school at Athens, whence he went to Rome, and attended Plotinus, with whom he lived six years. After Plotinus’s death he taught philosophy at Rome with gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044706-8186 | PORPHYRY, a compound rock. The art of cutting porphyry, practised by the ancients, appears to have been lost. Indeed it is difficult to conceive what tools they used for fashioning those huge columns and other porphyritic works in some of the ancient buildings in Rome. Modern tools will scarcely touch porphyry. Dr. Lis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-044707-8186 | PORSON (Richard), the greatest of the verbal critics and classical scholars of modern times, born on the 25th of [7:18:448]December 1759, was the son of Mr. Huggin Porson, parish clerk of East Ruston, near North Walsham, in Norfolk.
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kp-eb0718-045201-8251 | PORT, a harbour, river, or haven, formed either by nature or art to receive and shelter shipping from the storms and waves of the open sea.
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kp-eb0718-045202-8251 | PORTADOWN, a thriving post-town, in the county of Armagh, Ireland, 66 miles from Dublin. It is situated on the Upper Bann, navigable here for vessels of 60 tons burden, and is by it connected with the Newry Canal. It has of late years been much improved, and its appearance is now highly respectable. The principal trade... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045203-8251 | PORTAFERRY, a sea-port town, on the eastern shore of the entrance into Strangford Lough, county of Down, Ireland, 80 miles from Dublin. It consists of a small square, a few streets, a range of houses on the quay, and several places for public worship. The principal trade is carried on [7:18:453]with the Liverpool and G... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045301-8264 | PORTAL, in Architecture, a little gate where there are two gates of a different size; also a little square corner of a room cut off from the rest by the wainscot, and forming a short passage into the room. The same name is also sometimes given to a kind of arch of joiners’ work before a door. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045302-8264 | PORTALEGRE, a city of Portugal, in the province of Alentejo, the capital of a corregimiento of the same name. It is situated on a hill about seven miles from the frontiers, and strongly fortified, being defended by a citadel and many extensive outworks. It is the see of a Bishop, who has a fine cathedral, and under his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045303-8264 | PORT ANNA MARIA, a bay or harbour on the south coast of Sir II. Mertin’s island, in the South Pacific Ocean, seven miles west of Point Mertin. Long, of the entrance 139, 39. W. Lat. 8. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045304-8264 | PORTARLINGTON, a borough town, situated in King’s County and Queen’s County, Leinster, Ireland. It is 44 miles from Dublin, and is situated on the river Barrow, which divides it into two parts, and it consists principally of one long street, about two miles in length. The houses are generally large, and regularly built... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045305-8264 | PORTATE, or a Cross Portate, in Heraldry, a cross which does not stand upright, as crosses generally do, but lies across the escutcheon in bend, as if it were earned on a man’s shoulder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045306-8264 | PORT-AU-PRINCE, the capital and seat of govern- , ment of the republic of Hayti, formerly called St. Domingo or Española, one of the West India Islands. It stands at the bottom of the large bay of the same name, in a situation so low and marshy as to render the climate very unhealthy. It is mostly built of wood; the st... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045307-8264 | PORTCULLIS, in Fortification, is an assemblage of several large pieces of wood, joined across one another like a harrow, and each pointed with iron at the bottom. They are sometimes hung over the gate-way of old fortified towns, ready to be let down in the case of surprise, when the gates cannot be shut. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045308-8264 | PORT-DALRYMPLE, aharbouror estuaryon thenorth coast of Van Dieman’s Land, in which the Tamar discharges itself, after receiving the North and the South Esk. At the union of the latter it is navigable for vessels of 150 tons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045309-8264 | PORTER, a kind of malt-liquor which differs from ale and pale beer, in its being made with high-dried malt. See Brewing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045310-8264 | PORT-GLASGOW, asea-port town of Scotland, is situated on the south bank of the Frith of Clyde, in the shire of Renfrew, about nineteen miles below Glasgow, and three above Greenock. This place originally formed part of the adjoining parish of Kilmalcolm, and consisted of the small village of Newark, so called from the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045401-8277 | PORTGREVE, or Portgkave, was anciently the principal magistrate in ports and other maritime towns. The word is formed from the Saxon port, a port or other town, and geref, a governor. It is sometimes also written port-reve. Camden observes, that the chief magistrate of London was anciently called portgreve ; but instea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045402-8277 | PORTICI, a palace of the king of Naples, six miles from the capital, and charmingly situated on the sea-shore, near Mount Vesuvius. It is enriched with a vast number of fine statues, and other remains of antiquity, taken out of the ruins of Herculanum. See Pompeii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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