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kp-eb0703-011109-7004 | ANDERO, Saint, a seaport town in the Bay of Biscay, in Old Castile, seated on a small peninsula. It is a trading town, and contains about 700 houses, two parish churches, and four monasteries. Here the Spaniards build and lay up some of their men of war. Long. 3. 45. W. Lat. 43. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011110-7004 | ANDERSON, Alexander, a very eminent mathematician, who flourished in the early part of the 17th century. He was born at Aberdeen, but passed over to the Continent, and settled as a private teacher or professor of mathematics at Paris, where he published or edited, between the years 1612 and 1619, various geometrical an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011501-7056 | ANDES. The Andes are distinguished above all. the known mountain chains by their immense extent and their prodigious altitude. They run almost parallel to the west coast of the southern continent of America, at a mean distance of between 100 and 200 miles, rising in some places to the enormous height of 25,000 feet; an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011901-7108 | ANDEUSE, a city of Languedoc in France, situated in long. 3. 40. E. and lat. 43. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011902-7108 | ANDORRE, or Andorra, a valley on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees, of about 190 square miles in extent, containing 6 parishes, and which has ever been considered as neutral. It is a hilly district, with some good pasture for sheep, and several mines of iron, which are worked by the numerous rapid streams that pass thro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011903-7108 | ANDOVER, a market and borough town in the hundred of the same name, in Hampshire. It is on the river Ande, 63 miles from London, on the great road to the west of England. It is a clean, well-built town, carrying on some trade in shalloons, and more in malt. It is connected with the sea by means of a canal, navigable to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011904-7108 | ANDRA, or Andros, a Turkish paschaliac, including the island of that name and the neighbouring islands of Tine, Mitone, Delos, Syra or Syros, Thermia Zea, and Hydra. The inhabitants are estimated at 96,800, almost wholly Greeks; the most industrious, and, exclusive of the effects of the present war, the most flourishin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011905-7108 | ANDRADA, Diego de Payva d’, or Andradius, a learned Portuguese, born at Coimbra in 1528, who distinguished himself at the council of Trent, where King Sebastian sent him as one of his divines. He wrote several volumes of sermons, and other pieces; one of which, De Conciliorum Autoritate, was highly esteemed at Rome [7:... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012001-7121 | ANDRAPODISMUS, in ancient writers, the selling of persons for slaves. Hence also andrapodistes, a dealer in slaves, more particularly a kidnapper, who steals men or children to sell them,—a crime for which the Thessalians were noted. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012002-7121 | ANDRAPODOCAPELI, in Antiquity, a kind of dealers in slaves. The Andrapodoccipeli had a particular process for taking off moles and the like disfigurements on the faces of the slaves they kept for sale, by rubbing them with bran, At Athens, several places in the forum were appointed for the sale of slaves. Upon the firs... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012003-7121 | ANDREAS, John, a celebrated canonist of the 14th century, was born at Magello, near Florence; and was professor of the canon law at Padua, Pisa, and afterwards at Bologna. He had a beautiful daughter, named Novella, whom he is said to have instructed so well in all parts of learning, that when he was engaged in any aff... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012004-7121 | ANDREASBERG, a bailiwick in the province of Grubenhagen, in the kingdom of Hanover. It extends over 87 square miles, or 55,680 acres, containing 4250 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in mining. The soil is very poor, and affords scarcely any produce; but, like the rest of the Hartz forest, it abounds with metallic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012005-7121 | ANDRELINUS, Publius Faustus, born at Forli in Italy. He was a long time professor of poetry and philosophy in the university of Paris. Louis XII. of France made him his poet laureat, and Erasmus tells us that he was likewise poet to the queen. His pen was not wholly employed in making verses, for he wrote also moral an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012006-7121 | ANDRETTA, a town with 4049 inhabitants, in the province Principato Ulteriore of the kingdom of Naples. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012007-7121 | ANDREW, St, the apostle, born at Bethsaida in Galilee, brother to Simon Peter. He had been a disciple of John the Baptist, and followed Jesus upon the testimony given of him by the Baptist. (John i. 35, 40, &c.) This was the first* disciple whom our Saviour received into his train. Andrew introduced his brother Simon, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012008-7121 | ANDREWS, St, a city of Scotland, in the county of Fife, pleasantly situated in a spacious bay of the German Ocean, into which flow the river Eden, the small rivulet of Kinness, and several other streams. It was formerly a place of much greater extent and importance. At present it is only about a mile and a half in circ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012201-7147 | ANDREWS, James Pettit, a late English historian and miscellaneous writer, was the younger son of Joseph Andrews, Esq. of Shaw-house, near Newbury, Berks, where he was born in the year 1737. He was educated privately, and is said to have discovered an early taste for literature and the fine arts. He joined the Berkshire... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012301-7160 | ANDRIA, in Grecian Antiquity, public entertainments first instituted by Minos of Crete, and, after his example, appointed by Lycurgus at Sparta, at which a whole city or a tribe assisted. They were managed with the utmost frugality, and persons of all ages were admitted.
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kp-eb0703-012302-7160 | ANDRISCUS, a man of mean extraction, who, pretending to be the son of Perseus, last king of Macedonia, took upon him the name of Philip, for which reason he was called Pseudo-Philippus, the False Philip. After a complete victory over Juventus, the Roman pretor who was sent against him, he assumed kingly power, but exer... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012303-7160 | ANDROGEUS, in Fabulous History, the son of Minos, king of Crete, was murdered by the Athenian youth and those of Megara, who envied his being always victor at the Attic games. But Minos having taken Athens and Megara, obliged the inhabitants to send him an annual tribute of seven young men and as many virgins, to be de... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012304-7160 | ANDROGYNES, in Ancient Mythology, creatures of whom, according to the fable, each individual possessed the powers and characters of both sexes, having two heads, four arms, and two feet. The word itself is compounded of two Greek radical words; aw1ξ, in the genitive avδξoς, a male ; and γυvη, a female. Many of the rabb... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012305-7160 | ANDROÏDES, in Mechanics, a human figure, which, by certain springs or other movements, is capable of performing some of the natural motions of a living man. The motions of the human body are more complicated, and consequently more difficult to be imitated, than those of any other creature; whence the construction of an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012401-7173 | ANDROLEPSY, in Grecian Antiquity, an action allowed by the Athenians against such as protected persons guilty of murder. The relations of the deceased were empowered to seize three men in the city or house whither the malefactor had fled, till he should be either surrendered, or satisfaction made some way or other for ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012402-7173 | ANDROMACHE, the wife of Hector, the mother of Astyanax, and daughter of Eetion king of Thebes in Cilicia. After the death of Hector and the destruction of Troy she married Pyrrhus, and afterwards PIelenus the son of Priam, with whom she reigned Over part of Epirus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012403-7173 | ANDROMEDA, in Astronomy, a northern constellation, behind Pegasus, Cassiopeia, and Perseus. It represents the figure of a woman chained, and is fabled to have been formed in memory of Andromeda, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, and wife of Perseus, by whom she had been delivered from a sea monster, to which she had ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012404-7173 | ANDRON, in Grecian Antiquity, denotes the apartment in houses designed for the use of men; in which sense it stands opposed to Gynoeceum. — The Greeks also gave their dining-rooms the title of andron, because the women had no admittance to feasts with the men. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012501-7186 | ANDRONA, in ancient writers, denotes a street or public place where people met and conversed together. In some writers androna is more expressly used for the space between two houses; in which sense the Greeks also use the term αv¾wαg for the way or passage between two apartments.
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kp-eb0703-012502-7186 | ANDRONICUS I. Comnenus, emperor of the East, was the son of Isaac, and grandson of Alexius Comnenus. Naturally active, martial, and eloquent, he shines as one of the most conspicuous characters of his age. Following the bent of his inclination, he attended the Roman army in their retreat; but in their march through Asi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012601-7199 | ANDROPHAGI, in Ancient Geography, the name of a nation whose country, according to Herodotus, was adjacent to Scythia. Their name, compounded of two Greek words, signifies man-eaters. See Anthropophagi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012602-7199 | ANDROS, one of the ancient Cyclades, lying between Tenos and Euboea, being one mile distant from the former, and ten from the latter. The ancients gave it various names, viz. Cauros, Lasia, Nonagria, Epagris, Antandros, and Hydrusia. The name of Andros it received from one Andreus, appointed, according to Diodorus Sicu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 37 50' N 24 50' E | ANDROS |
kp-eb0703-012603-7199 | ANDRUM, a kind of hydrocele, to which the people of Malabar are very subject. It is said to be derived from the bad quality of the country waters, impregnated with certain salts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012604-7199 | ANDRYCHO W, a city in the circle of Myslenicze, in the Austrian province of Galizia, on the river Wieprzow-ka, with a castle, and 2805 inhabitants, amongst whom are several manufacturers of fine damask and other table-linen, who produce annually about 30,000 pieces. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012605-7199 | ANDUJAN, a city of Spain, in the province of Jaen, in Andalusia. It is situated on the south side of the Sierra Morena, which defends it from the cold winds of the north, near the sources of the Jandula. There is a very fine bridge over the Guadalquivir at this place. The surrounding country is well watered, and yields... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 1' 32" N 3 28' 25" W | ANDUJAN |
kp-eb0703-012606-7199 | ANDUZE, a town of France, in the department of the Gard, seated on the river Gardon. It carries on a considerable trade in serges and woollen cloth. Long. 3.42. E. Lat. 43. 39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 39' N 3 42' E | ANDUZE |
kp-eb0703-012607-7199 | ANECDOTES (Anecdotd), a term used by some authors for the titles of Secret Histories ; but it more properly denotes a relation of detached and interesting particulars. The word is Greek, avixlorct, signifying things not yet known or hitherto kept secret. Procopius gives this title to a book which he published against J... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012608-7199 | ANEMOMETER, or Anemoscope, machines for measuring the force, and indicating the course, of the wind. See Wind-gage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012609-7199 | ANEMUR, the most southern point of Asia Minor, on the south coast of Caramania. The castle of Anemur stands six miles east of the cape, on the edge of the sea, and extends about 800 feet by 300. Its citadel is placed on a small rocky eminence, and is in a ruinous state. Long. 32. 30. E. Lat. 36. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 15' N 32 30' E | ANEMUR |
kp-eb0703-012610-7199 | ANGAR, Angan, or Hindsham, a barren and uninhabited island on the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf, on the south side of the island of Kishma, about 12 miles in circuit. It must have been formerly inhabited, as it contains the ruins of a considerable town, and many reservoirs of water. It has also two wells, and a str... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012611-7199 | ANGARA, a river of Siberia, which has its rise in the Lake Baikal. It passes the town of Irkutsk with a rapid course, and receiving the Oka, it changes its name to Toungooska, and falls into the Yenesei or Jenesei after a course of 700 miles. It is navigable, and is noted for the clearness of its waters. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012612-7199 | ANGARI, or Angarii, in Antiquity, public couriers, appointed for the carrying of messages. The ancient Persians, Budaeus observes, had their ayyag5∕ov ¾o∕wjμa, which was a set of couriers on horseback, posted at certain stages or distances, always in readiness to receive the dispatches from one, and forward them to ano... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012701-7212 | ANGARIA, in Roman Antiquity, a kind of public 7 service imposed on the provincials, which consisted in providing horses and carriages for the conveyance of military stores and other public burdens. It is sometimes also used for a guard of soldiers, posted for the defence of a place. In a more general sense it is used f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012702-7212 | ANGAZYA, one of the Comora Islands, lying between the north end of Madagascar and the coast of Zanguebar in Africa, from lat. 10. to 15. S. It is inhabited by Moors, who trade with divers parts of the continent, in cattle, fruits, and other commodities of the island, which they exchange for calicoes and other cotton cl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012703-7212 | ANGEIOTOMY, in Surgery, implies the opening of a vein or artery, as in bleeding; and consequently includes both arteriotomy and phlebotomy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012704-7212 | ANGEL, a spiritual intelligent substance, the first in rank and dignity among created beings. The word angel is Greek, and signifies a messenger: the Hebrew qκb□ signifies the same thing. The angels are in Daniel, chap, iv. ver. 13, &c. called tw, or watchers, from their vigilance: for the same reason they are, in the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012705-7212 | ANGELICS, Angelici, in Ecclesiastical History, an ancient sect of heretics, supposed by some to have got this appellation from their excessive veneration of angels; and by others, from their maintaining that the world was created by angels.
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kp-eb0703-012706-7212 | ANGELITES, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of Christian heretics in the reign of the emperor Anastasius, and the pontificate of Symmachus, about the year 494; so called from Angelium, a place in the city of Alexandria where they held their first meetings. They were called likewise Sévérités, from one Severus, who was... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012707-7212 | ANGELO, Michael. See Buonaroti, Michael Angelo. Angelo, St, a small but strong town of Italy, in the Capitanata. There are several other towns and castles of the same name in Italy, and particularly the castle of St Angelo at Rome. Long. 15. 56. E. Lat. 4L 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012708-7212 | ANGELOT, an ancient English gold coin, struck at Paris while under subjection to the English. It was thus called from the figure of an angel supporting the scutcheon of the arms of England and France. There was another coin of the same denomination struck under Philip de Valois.
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kp-eb0703-012709-7212 | ANGER, a painful feeling of the mind, excited by the receipt of an injury or affront, and accompanied with a disposition to retaliate on the author of the injuι∙y. Bishop Butler observes that anger is far from being a selfish passion, since it is produced by injuries offered to others as well as to ourselves, and was d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012801-7225 | ANGERBURG, a circle in the government of Gumbinnen, or province of East Prussia, formerly a part of Poland. It extends over 374 square miles, or 239,360 acres. It is watered by the Angerap, which rises in several lakes, with which the district abounds. The inhabitants are 21,172, who produce some corn and flax, and muc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012802-7225 | ANGERMANLANDS-LAPMARK, or Aesle-Lapmark, a province in the northern part of Sweden, of the vast extent of 6560 square miles. The inhabitants are only 1200, partly Laplanders, with a few Swedes denominated colonists. The chief productions to spare are butter and some iron wares. Aesle is the chief place, and besides it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012803-7225 | ANGERMUNDE, a circle in the government of Potsdam, and province of Brandenburg, in Prussia. It extends over 503 square miles, or 321,920 acres; and comprehends six cities, three market-towns, 109 villages, and 4201 dwellings, with 34,896 inhabitants. The river Oder washes its eastern boundary, and receives the several ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012804-7225 | ANGERONA, in Mythology, the name of a pagan deity whom the Romans prayed to for the cure of the quinsy, in Latin angina. Pliny calls her the goddess of silence and calmness of mind, who banishes all uneasiness and melancholy. She is represented with her mouth covered, to denote patience and refraining from complaints. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012805-7225 | ANGERS, an arrondissement in the department of the Mayenne and Loire, in France, extending over 436 square miles, or 279,040 acres. It is divided into seven cantons, and those again into 59 communes, containing 92,810 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, contains 33,100 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012806-7225 | ANGHIERA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Milan, and capital of a county of the same name. It is seated on the eastern side of the lake Maggiore, in lat. 45. 42. N. long. 8. 40. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-012807-7225 | ANGLE. This term is, owing to the poverty of language, employed to signify very different tilings. In Plane Geometry, it means the opening or separation of two straight lines which meet in a point; but in Solid Geometry, it variously denotes the deviation of a straight line from a plane, the divergence of one plane fro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-013201-7277 | ANGLESEA, or Anglesey, a county in North Wales, comprehending the island of that name. It is divided from the main island of Great Britain by the narrow river, or rather armlet of the sea, called the Straits of Menai. Over this water a most magnificent suspension bridge has been recently completed, which affords a grea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-013202-7277 | ANGLING, or the art of fishing with rod and line, includes those branches of the piscatorial trade which are usually followed, not so much for profit, as for pleasant recreation. That the practice of “casting angles into the brook” had its origin in necessity, the mother of so many inventions, can hardly be doubted; bu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015101-7524 | ANGLO-CALVINISTS, a name given by some writers to the members of the church of England, as agreeing with the other Calvinists in most points except church government.
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kp-eb0703-015102-7524 | ANGLUS, Thomas. See White, Thomas. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015103-7524 | ANGOLA, an extensive coast and territory of Western Africa, extending to the south of the river Congo or Zaire. According to Degrandpré, the name is given to he whole coast, from Cape Lopez Gonsalvo, in 0.44. to St Phelipe de Bengal, in lat. 12.14.S., a range of nearly 12 degrees, or about 800 miles. The country strict... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015301-7550 | ANGON, in the ancient military art, a kind of javelin used by the^ French. They darted it at a considerable distance. The iron head of this weapon resembled a Heur-de-luce. It is the opinion of some writers that the arms of France are not fleurs-de-lucc, but the iron point or the angon or javelin of the ancient French. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015302-7550 | ANGORA, Angura, or Ankora, a city of Asia in Anatolia, the ancient Ancyra, situated on a stream called abana. It is large an ; neatly built, and its streets are causewayed with large blocks of granite, but have no footpaths. Its position is lofty and imposing, surrounded by mountains, with numerous gardens which yield ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015303-7550 | ANGOT, a considerable province in the southern part of the kingdom of Abyssinia, which Alvarez, who visited it in the sixteenth century, describes as an extremely rich and beautiful territory. It has not since been reached by any European traveller, and is entirely in the possession of the Galla, who have overrun all t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015304-7550 | ANGOU, a small province in the kingdom of Congo, of which, nearly two centuries ago, it rendered itself independent. It extends along the northern bank of the Congo or Zaire, from its junction with the sea upwards. A great proportion of the surface is covered with forests and swamps: cultivation has made little progres... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015305-7550 | ANGOULEME, an arrondissement in the department of the Charente in France, extending over 556 square miles, or 355,840 acres. It is divided into nine cantons, and these again into 144 communes, with 118,871 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, contains 2101 houses, 15,011 inhabitants, a cathedral, an hospital,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015306-7550 | ANGOUMOIS, formerly a province of France, now a district, bounded on the north by Poitou, on the east by Limosin and Marche, on the south by Perigord, and on the west by Saintonge. Through this province run the rivers Touvre and Charente. This last is full of excellent fish; and though it often overflows its banks, it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015401-7563 | ANGRA, a city of Tercera, one of the Azores; the capital, not only of that island, but of all the group, and the residence of the governor. It is seated on the southern shore, and the harbour is the only tolerable one in the whole island. It is in the form of a crescent, the extremities of which are defended by two hig... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015402-7563 | ANGRI, a town with 4426 inhabitants, in the province of Principato Citeriore, in the kingdom of Naples. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015403-7563 | ANGUILLIFORM, an appellation given by zoologists, not only to the different species of eels, but to other animals resembling them in shape. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015404-7563 | ANGUINUM Ovum, a fabulous kind of egg, said to be produced by the saliva of a cluster of serpents, and possessed of certain magical virtues. The superstition in respect to these was very prevalent among the ancient Britons, and there still remains a strong tradition of it in Wales. This wondrous egg seems to be nothing... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015405-7563 | ANGUS, a district of the county of Forfar, in Scotland. It was an earldom belonging to the Douglases, now extinct. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015406-7563 | ANGUSTICLAVIA, .in Roman Antiquity, a tunica embroidered with little purple studs. It was worn by the Roman knights, as the laticlavia was by the senators. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015407-7563 | ANHALT-BERNBURG, one of those small independent sovereignties still left in. Germany, and one of, the monuments of its ancient state. The sovereign bears the title of duke. His territories are much scattered between the Hartz forest and the, rivers Saale and Elbe. Their whole extent, is nearly 242 square, miles, or 154... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015408-7563 | ANHALT-DESSAU, an independent sovereignty in Germany, with the title of duchy. It takes the first name from the family that governs it, and the second from the chief place in the territory. The greater part lies in a compact manner on the left bank of the Elbe, and on both sides of the Mulde. The other parts are scatte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015409-7563 | ANHALT-KOTHEN, an independent duchy in Germany. It .consists of four fragments,' intermingled with thelerritories of surrounding princes.· The most compact portion are the three bailiwicks around the capital. The duchy iš on· both sides of the river Elbe, though only one of its towns, Roslau, comes in contact with that... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015501-7576 | ANHOLT, a Danish island in the Cattegat, 32 miles north-east of Greenae, and 36 south-west from Lassoe. It is a barren spot, scarcely affording subsistence to 100 inhabitants, who from their language, which is Erse mixed with a few Danish words, are supposed to be emigrants /rom the Highlands of Scotland. Their chief p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015502-7576 | ANJAR, a fortified town of Hindostan, and capital of a district of the same name, in the province of Cutch, which was ceded to the British government in 1816. The country is dry and sandy, and depends entirely on irrigation by means of wells, the expense of sinking which is great. The town is situated nearly 10 miles f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 3' N 70 11' E | ANJAR |
kp-eb0703-015503-7576 | ANIELLO. See Massaniello. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015504-7576 | ANJENGO, a small seaport town and fortress of Hindostan, in Travancore, nearly encircled by a deep and broad river, at the mouth of which it is situated. The fort was built by the English in 1684, and it was retained till 1813, when the factory was abolished on account of the useless expense attending it. Anjengo is in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015505-7576 | ANIMAL. See Animal Kingdom.
Animal-Flower, a name applied to certain species of the genus Actinia, remarkable for the brilliant colours which ornament their tentacula, and which produce an appearance resembling the variegated corolla of a plant. The name is of vicious construction, and is falling into disuse. See Zoop... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-015506-7576 | ANIMAL KINGDOM.
We embrace the earliest opportunity afforded by our alphabetical arrangement to present a few introductory observations in illustration of a science unrivalled in interest, and not greatly surpassed in importance by any department of human knowledge. Zoology, or the science which treats of the nature a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-018001-7901 | ANIMALCULE.
Animalcule, a diminutive term (from the word animaD, applied by naturalists to those minute beings which become apparent in various fluids when subjected to the microscope. They were named infusory animals (Infusoria) by Müller, one of the most celebrated observers in this department of zoology; and the ap... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019301-8070 | ANIMATED, or Animate, in a general sense, denotes something endowed with animal life. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019302-8070 | ANIMATION signifies the communication of life to an animal body. The different hypotheses of physicians and philosophers concerning the time of animation have had their influence on the penal laws made against artificial abortions; it having been made capital to procure miscarrage in the one state, while in the other i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019303-8070 | ANIME, in Heraldry, a term used when the eyes of a rapacious creature are borne of a different tincture from the creature itself.
Anime, a resin exuding from the trunk of a large American tree, called by the Indians courbaril (a species of Hymenaea). This resin is of a transparent amber colour, a light agreeable smell... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019304-8070 | ANIMETTA, among ecclesiastical writers, denotes the cloth wherewith the cup of the eucharist is covered. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019305-8070 | ANINGA, in Commerce, a root which grows in the Antilles Islands, and is pretty much like the China plant. It is used by sugar-bakers for refining the sugar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019306-8070 | ANJOU, a province and duchy of France before the Revolution, bounded on the east by Touraine, on the south by Poitou, on the west by Bretagne, and on the north by Maine. It is now included under the Maine and Loire and the Sarthe and Mayenne. It is 70 miles in length, and in breadth 60. Through this province run five n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019307-8070 | ANKER, a liquid measure at Amsterdam. It contains about 32 gallons English measure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019308-8070 | ANKLAM, a circle in the government of Stettin and the Prussian province of Pomerania. It extends over 566 square miles, or 363,240 English acres. There are within it 4 cities, 6 towns, and 201 villages. The inhabitants are 30,856. The land is a plain, with extensive woods, and about twenty fresh-water lakes, the larges... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 49' 15" N 24 1' 59" E | ANKLAM |
kp-eb0703-019401-8083 | ANN, or Annat, in Scotish Law, is half a year’s stipend, which the act 1672, c. 13, gives to the executors of ministers of the church of Scotland, over and above what *was due to the minister himself for his incumbency. As it is a mere gratuity given by the law to those whom, it is presumed, the deceased could not suff... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019402-8083 | ANNA, Ana, oγ'Anah, a town of Arabian Irac, or pachalic of Bagdad, which extends five or six miles along the western bank of the Euphrates. It consists of a single street built on both sides. The houses are of stone, two stories high, and separated from each other, as in other eastern towns, by beautiful gardens, fille... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 N 41 15' E | ANNA |
kp-eb0703-019403-8083 | ANNABERG, a city on the mountains in the bailiwick of Wolkenstein, in the circle of Erzgebirg, in the kingdom' of Saxony. It is 2820 feet above the level of the sea, ⅛ the midst of a mining district, which yields silver, tin, and cobalt. It contains 592 houses, and 4500 inhabitants, who are employed in manufacturing ta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019404-8083 | ANNACHNAN, a small island of Ireland, on the southwest coast of the county of Galway, 22 miles from Galway. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019405-8083 | ANNAGH, an island about 5 miles in circumference, on the west coast of Ireland, between the isle of Achil and the mainland of the county of Mayo. Long. 9.39. W« Lat. 53. 58. N. There is a small village of the same name in the county of Cork, 5 miles from Charleville. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 58' N 9 39' W | ANNAGH |
kp-eb0703-019406-8083 | ANNALS, in matters of literature, a species of history which relates events in the chronological order wherein they happened. They differ from perfect history in this, that annals are but a bare relation of what passes every year, as a journal is of what passes every day: whereas history relates not only the transactio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019407-8083 | ANNAN, a royal borough and parish of Scotland, in the county of Dumfries, situated on the river of the same name, about two miles above its junction with the Solway Frith. An elegant new bridge of three arches has been built within these three years. It has a good harbour; the highest tides rise 21 feet; 23 vessels bel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019501-8096 | ANNAND, William, dean of Edinburgh, the son of William Annand, minister of Ayr, was born at Ayr in 1633. Five years after, his father was obliged to quit Scotland with his family, on account of their loyalty to the king, and adherence to the episcopal government established by law in that country. In 1651 young Annand ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019502-8096 | ANNAPOLIS, the chief town in Maryland, in North America. It stands upon a sort of peninsula on the west side of the Chesapeak, and is a small town, but well built. It contained 2260 inhabitants in 1820. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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