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kp-eb0719-001102-0021 | RADNOR, NEW, a market and borough town in the county of Radnor, in South Wales, 159 miles from London. It was formerly defended by a strong castle at the entrance of the pass between the two hills in which it is built, but that was destroyed by Owen Glendower in the reign of Henry IV. It is still a borough, and has a m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001103-0021 | RADNORSHIRE, an inland county of South Walcs, bounded on the north by Montgomeryshire, on the west by the counties of Cardigan and Brecon, on the south-east by Herefordshire, and on the north-east by Shropshire. Its extremities from east to west are twenty miles, and from north to south twenty-four miles, as under. Its... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001201-0022 | RAFT, a sort of float, formed by an assemblage of various planks or pieces of timber, fastened together side by side, so as to be conveyed more commodiously to any short distance in a harbour or road than if they were separate. The timber and plank with which merchant-ships are laden, in the different parts of the Balt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001202-0022 | RAFTERS, in building, are pieces of timber, which, standing by pairs on the reason or railing piece, meet in an angle at the top, and form the roof of a building. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001203-0022 | RAFUR, a town of Hindustan in the Mahratta territories, and province of Aurungabad, forty-three miles S.S.E. from Ahmednuggur. Long. 75. 20. E. Lat.18. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 26' N 75 20' E | RAFUR |
kp-eb0719-001204-0022 | RAGECS, a market town of Hungary, in the province of Hither Danube, and circle of Trentsin. It contains two churches, a synagogue, 490 houses, and 4560 inhabitants, who carry on the trades of sadlers and paper-makers. Near to it are warm baths, much frequented by invalids. Lat. 49. 5. 35. Long. 18. 32. 25. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001205-0022 | RAGMAN’S, Roll, so called, as some think, from one Ragimund a legate in Scotland, who calling before him all the beneficed clergyman in that kingdom, caused them on oath to give in the true value of their benefices, according to which they were afterwards taxed by the court of Rome; and this roll, amongst other records... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001206-0022 | RAGNIT, a town of the province of East Prussia, in the district of Gumbinnen. It is the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 466 square miles, and comprehends one city and six parishes, with 23,100 inhabitants. The town is on the river Memel, where that stream enters the Prussian from the Russian do... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001207-0022 | RAGSTONE, a coarse kind of sandstone which is used as a whetstone for coarse cutting tools. It is found in the hills about Newcastle, and in many other parts of England, where there are large rocks of it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001208-0022 | RAGULED or Ragged, in Heraldry, jagged or knotted. This term is applied to a cross formed of the trunks of two trees without their branches, of which they show only the stumps. Raguled differs from indented in this that the latter is regular, and the former not. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001209-0022 | RAGUSA,. A circle in the Austrian province of Dalmatia, composed of what was formerly the independent state of that name, of the peninsula of Sabioncello, and of several islands on the shores of the Adriatic. It was formerly an aristocratical republic, with the peasants feudatories to the nobles; and its constitution w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001210-0022 | RAHABEK, a village in the desert part of Irak Arabia, near the Euphrates, on the road frequented by the caravans from Syria to Irak Arabia, 110 miles south-west of Mosul. Also a village of Diarbekir in Asiatic Turkey, on the Euphrates, fifty miles south of Kerkesich. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001211-0022 | RAHALY, a town of Irak Arabia, ten miles distant from the Euphrates, and seventy miles N. W. of Meshed Ali. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001212-0022 | RAHAPA, a small island in the eastern seas, near the east coast of Borneo. Long. 119∙ 4. E. Lat. 4. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001213-0022 | RAHAT, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, and district of Bemdelarnel, forty’ miles N.N.E. from Chakerpoor. Long. 80. E. Lat. 25. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001214-0022 | RAHDUNPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Werrear, belonging to a Mahom-mcdan chief, who formerly possessed a much more extensive territory. It contains 6000 houses, 1400 of which are inhabited by shroffs or bankers, some of whom are possessed of property, and carry on an extensive co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 N 71 45' E | RAHDUNPOOR |
kp-eb0719-001215-0022 | RAHOON, a town of Hindustan in the Sikh territories, and province of Lahore. It is situated about four miles west of the Sutlege river, and has a considerable manufacture of cotton cloths. During the height of the rains, the river here is above One and a half mile broad. From Rahoon, buffas and piece goods are carried ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 53' N 75 35' E | RAHOON |
kp-eb0719-001216-0022 | RAIE, a small town of Diarbekir in Asiatic Turkey, 118 miles south-west of Diarbekir. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001217-0022 | RAILLERY, according to Dr. Johnson, means slight satire, or satirical merriment; and a beautiful writer of the last century compares it to a light which dazzles, but does not burn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-001301-0023 | RAILWAYS,.
In treating of the construction and mode of working railways, we shall confine ourselves principally to those which are intended for the transit of passengers and goods, and which are now opening so vast a field for the improvement of the human race; an improvement, in fact, entering into all the relations ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-005901-0069 | RAIN, the descent of water from the atmosphere in the form of drops of considerable size. By this circumstance it is distinguished from dew and from fog. In the former the drops are so small that they are quite invisible; in the latter, although their size be larger, they seem to have very little more specific gravity ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006001-0070 | RAINBOW,. See Meteorology and Optics.
Lunar RainBow. The moon sometimes exhibits the phenomenon of an iris or rainbow by the refraction of her rays in drops of rain during the night-time. But this phenomenon is very rare. In the Philosophical Transactions for 1783, however, we have an account of three which were seen ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006101-0071 | RAISEEN, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Malwah 1 situated between the 23d and 24th degrees of north latitude, belonging to the Mahrattas. It is bounded on the south by the Vindhaya Mountains, and is intersected by the river Betwah. The principal towns are Raiseen, Bil-sah, and Choonpore. This district is p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006102-0071 | RAISEN-MARKET, a town of the county of Lincoln, in the hundred of Walshcroft, and in Lindsey division. It is situated near the navigable river Anklom 1 and has a market, which is held on Saturday. The population amounted in 1801 to 774, in 1811 to 964, in 1821 to 1166, and in 1831 to 1428. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006103-0071 | RAISINS, grapes prepared by suffering them to remain on the vine until they are perfectly ripe, and then drying them in the sun, or by the heat of an oven. The difference between raisins dried in the sun and those dried in ovens is very obvious. The former are sweet and pleasant, but the latter have a latent acidity mi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006104-0071 | RAJAH, the title of the Indian princes, the remains of those who ruled there before the Moguls. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006105-0071 | RAJAH CHOHANS, a wild, rugged, and mountainous country, very little cultivated, in the province of Gundwa-na, and situated between the 23d and 24th degrees of north latitude. The principal town is Sonehut, the usual residence of the Corair rajah. This tract of country is inhabited by the wildest tribes of India, and pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006106-0071 | RAJABARY, a considerable trading town of Bengal, in the district of Dacca, situated on the western bank of the river Megna. Long. 96. 21. E. Lat. 23. 25. N. Rajah, signifying prince, is the praenomen of numerous towns in Hindustan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 25' N 96 21' E | RAJABARY |
kp-eb0719-006107-0071 | RAJAHNAGUR, a town of Bengal, in the district of Dacca, situated on the eastern bank of the Ganges. Long. 93. 14. E. Lat. 23. 22. N. There is another place of this name in the Northern Circars, 12 miles north-east of Raja-mundry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006108-0071 | RAJAMUNDROOG, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore, and district of Concan. It was taken by General Matthews in 1783, but afterwards ceded to Tippoo. It commands the entrance into the estuary and river Mirjee. Long. 73. 30. E. Lat. 14. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006109-0071 | RAJAMUNDRY, an extensive district of Hindustan, in the province of the Northern Circars, bounded on the north by Cicacole, and on the south by Ellore; on the west by the territories of the Nizam, and on the east by the Bay of Bengal. This district is intersected by the Godavery 1 and lies chiefly to the north of that r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 59' N 81 54' E | RAJAMUNDRY |
kp-eb0719-006201-0072 | RAJEGHUR, a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the Mahrattas, and province of Malwah, situated on the western bank of the Sopra River, sixty-seven miles north-east from Oojain. Long. 76. 27. E. Lat. 23. 56. N. There is another town of the same name in the province of Allahabad, situated on the river Cane, eightee... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006202-0072 | RAJEMAL or Rajemahal, an extensive but unproductive district of Bengal, situated about the twenty-fifth degree of north latitude. It has on the north Purneah and Dinagepoor, on the south the large zemindary of Raujeshy, on the east Dinagepoor and Raujeshy, and on the west Monghir and Purneah. It is situated on the west... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 2' N 87 43' E | RAJEMAL |
kp-eb0719-006301-0073 | RAJOORAH, a tow-n of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, forty miles south-west from Nandere. Long. 77. 15. E. Lat. 18. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006302-0073 | RAJPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Be-japoor, and situated on the sea-coast of the Concan district. This was formerly a much-frequented port, and was taken from the king of Bejapoor by the Mahratta chief Sevajee in 1670. It was also of considerable importance during the wars between Aurungzebe and the Mah... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006303-0073 | RAKAN, a river on the north-eastern coast of Sumatra, and the largest in the island, or rather it should be considered as an inlet of the sea. It has its rise in the interior, in the Rau country, and is navigable for sloops to a great distance from the sea. Vessels are deterred from entering it by the rapidity of the c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006304-0073 | RAKE, is a well-known instrument with teeth, by which the ground is divided. See Agriculture .
Rake of a Ship is all that part of her hull which hangs over both ends of her keel. That which is before is called the fore-rake or rake forward, and that part which is at the setting on of the stem-post is called the rake-a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006305-0073 | RAKONITZ, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 896 square miles, comprehending eleven cities, eighteen towns, and 517 villages, with 144,600 inhabitants, mostly of the Sclavonian race. The city is situated on two streams, the Gelden and the Rakonitz, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006306-0073 | RALEIGH, Sir Walter, fourth son of Mr Walter Raleigh of Fardel, in the parish of Cornw-bod, in Devonshire, was born in 1552, at Hayes, in the parish of Budley, a farm belonging to his father. About the year 1568 he was sent to Oriel College in Oxford, where he continued but a short time; for he became one of the hundre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006401-0074 | RALPH, James, an ingenious historical and political writer, of whose birth and country nothing has been ascertained. He was first known as a schoolmaster in Philadelphia, in North America. He came to England about the beginning of the reign of George I. and wrote some things in the dramatic way, which were not received... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006402-0074 | RAMA or Ramla, a considerable town of Palestine, situated in one of the most fertile and extensive districts of the Holy Land; though at the time when Dr Clarke visited the country it was almost deserted, in consequence of the ravages of the plague. It seems doubtful, however, whether this was the ancient city describe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006403-0074 | RAMAGIRY, a town and fortress of the south of India, and province of Mysore. The fort is situated upon a rock, and is of considerable strength, although it surrendered to the British in 1791 without any resistance. The country in the vicinity is very wild, being overrun with woods, deep jungle, and dreadfully infested ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 44' N 77 33' E | RAMAGIRY |
kp-eb0719-006404-0074 | RAMBERT, St, a town of France, in the department of the Loire, and arrondissement of Montbrison. It is situated on the river Loire, near to its source, but where it is navigable. It has a hospital, and contains 430 houses, with 2600 inhabitants. It has a very extensive trade in wine: and in the vicinity there are sever... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006405-0074 | RAMBERVILLERS, a large market-town of France, in the department of the Vosges, and the arrondissement of Epinal. It stands on a mountain, at the foot of which runs the river Mortagne. It has a considerable number of iron forges in the vicinity, and much woollen and linen cloth is manufactured; and there are mills for m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006406-0074 | RAMBOUILLET, an arrondissement of the department of the Seine and Oise, in France, extending over 518 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these into 119 communes, containing 66,514 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is situated between two woods, has a royal palace and park, and in 1836 containe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006407-0074 | RAMAZZINI, Bernardin, an Italian physician, born at Carpi, near Modena, in 1633. He was professor of physic in the university of Modena during eighteen years; in 1700 he accepted an invitation from Padua, where he was made rector of the college; and in 1714hedied. His works were collected and published in London in 171... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006408-0074 | RAMDROOG, a hill-fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, situated on the north side of the Mal-purba river. It was taken from the Mahrattas 1 in 1785, by Tippoo Sultan, but w>as restored to them after the war of 1793. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006409-0074 | RAMERGH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Hyderabad, belonging to the Nizam. Long. 79. 32. E. Lat. 18. 31. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 31' N 79 32' E | RAMERGH |
kp-eb0719-006410-0074 | RAMESES, in Ancient Geography, a tow-n built by the Israelites during their bondage in Egypt, and whence the Exodus took place. It must have been towards and not far from the Arabian Gulf, seeing that in their third station the Israelites arrived on its shore.
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kp-eb0719-006501-0075 | RAMGERRY, a town and fortress of the south of India, in the province of Malabar, situated on the Paniany river, and taken by the British in 1782. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006502-0075 | RAMGHAUT, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, pleasantly situated on the western bank of the Ganges, and carrying on a considerable traffic. Long. 78. 22. E. Lat. 28. 12. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006503-0075 | RAMGONGA, a river of Hindustan, which rises in the mountains of Thibet, and falls into the Ganges ten miles north of the ancient city of Canonge. In some places it is fordable; but from quagmires and quicksands the fords are dangerous. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006504-0075 | RAMGUNGE, a town of Hindustan, in the nabob of Oude’s territories, twenty· five miles south-west from Lucknow. Long. 80. 35. E. Lat. 26. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 37' N 80 35' E | RAMGUNGE |
kp-eb0719-006505-0075 | RAMGUR, an extensive district and town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar. The district is situated about the 24th degree of north latitude, and is one of the most unproductive in India. Its boundaries on the north are the district of Bahar proper; on the south, Nagpoor and Pachete; on the east, Monghir and Pachete... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006506-0075 | RAMGURRY, one of the innumerable hill-forts with which the face of the country in India is in many parts studded. It is situated in the province of Mysore, on a very steep rock, and is well fortified by art. It is twenty miles south-west of Chitteldroog. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006507-0075 | RAMILLIES, a small village of Brabant, in the Netherlands, twelve miles north of Namur, and twenty-two southeast of Brussels. Long. 4.48. E. Lat. 50.51. N. Itisfamous for the battle fought by the allies commanded by the Duke of Marlborough and M. d’Auverquerque, against that of the two crowns, commanded by the Duke of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 51' N 4 48' E | RAMILLIES |
kp-eb0719-006508-0075 | RAMKEWRA, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the peshwa of the Mahrattas, in the province of Bejapore, twenty-seven miles north-east from Poonah. Long. 74. 20. E. Lat. 18.41. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 41' N 74 20' E | RAMKEWRA |
kp-eb0719-006509-0075 | RAMLEAH, the name of a ridge of mountains in Arabia, crossing the division of Nedsjed, extending 250 miles from south-west to north-east, and terminating within eighty miles of Kalaat el Moilah. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006510-0075 | RAMMISSER, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Khandeish, belonging to the Mahrattas, and situated at the confluence of the rivers Ghirah and Tuptee. Long. 75. 21. E. Lat. 21. 4. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006511-0075 | RAMMISSERAM, Isle, an island situated in the straits between the island of Ceylon and the continent; it is eleven miles in length, by six in breadth, and separated from the latter by a narrow strait. It is low, sandy, and uncultivated, and is of little value, except as a seat of Hindu superstition. It possesses a celeb... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006512-0075 | RAMNAD, a town and capital of a district of the same name, in the south of India, and province of Marawar. This pollam or zemindary was granted to the ancestors of the present family, on condition of their granting protection to the pilgrims on their road to Rammisseram, and for which protection they were also to pay a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006513-0075 | RAMNAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, and district of Benares, which stands on the eastern bank of the Ganges, opposite the city of Benares, and is esteemed one of the neatest towns of its size in India; the houses are of stone, and the streets of a good breadth. It contains also the palace of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 30' N 83 1' E | RAMNAGUR |
kp-eb0719-006514-0075 | RAMNODE, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and province of Malwah 1 forty miles south-east from Narwar. Long. 78. 5. E. Lat. 25. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006515-0075 | RAMPANT, in Heraldry, a term applied to a lion, leopard, or other beast that stands on its hind-legs, and rears up his fore-feet in the posture of climbing, thus showing only half his face. It is different from salient, in which the beast seems springing forward as if making a sally. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006516-0075 | RAMPART, in Fortification, is an elevation of the earth thrown out of a ditch round a place, and capable of resisting the cannon of an enemy. It is formed into bastions, curtains, and other defences | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006517-0075 | RAMPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta province of Malwah, thirteen miles east from Bopal. Long. 77. 42. E. Lat. 23. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006518-0075 | RAMPOOR, a town and district of Hindustan, province of Delhi, in the district of Bareily, situated on the banks of the Corilla river. This town and district was, by the peace of Lahdong, in 1774, secured to Fyzoola Khan, a Rohilla chief. His eldest son succeeded at his death. He was afterwards assassinated by his secon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006601-0076 | RAMPOORA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Chalawara. This place had formerly a respectable fort, which was destroyed in 1805. In the neighbourhood are many pallias or stones, erected to the memory of persons who have fallen in defence of the village. These monuments are also erected in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006602-0076 | RAMSAY, Allan, a Scottish poet, was born at Lead-hills in Lanarkshire, in October 1686. His father was employed in the management of Lord Hopetoun’s mines at that place; but died whilst the poet was yet in his infancy, in consequence of which, and the marriage of his mother soon after his father’s death, it seems proba... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006701-0077 | RAMSBURY, a town of the county of Wilts, in the hundred of its own name, and 70 miles from London, is situated on the river Kennet-It once had a market, which, however, has declined. The population amounted in 1801 to 1963, in 1811 to 2095, in 1821 to 2335, and in 1831 to 2290. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006702-0077 | RAMSEY, a market-town of the county of Huntingdon, and hundred of Hurstingtone, sixty-eight miles from London. Near to it is the lake or mere of the same name, which abounds with fish, chiefly eels and perch. There are the remains bf an abbey, once distinguished for its extent and wealth, which is said to have been fou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006801-0078 | RAMSGATE, a large town and port, originally a hamlet, in the parish of St Lawrence, in the Isle of Thanet, in Kent, seventy-three miles from London, and seventeen from Canterbury. It is situated in a pleasant valley on the shore, with extensive views of the sea from the North and South Foreland, and of the shipping in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006802-0078 | RAMTRUT, a deity worshipped by the Ranazins of Hindustan, where he has a celebrated temple at Onor. He is represented as more resembling a monkey than a man. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006803-0078 | RAMUS, Peter, was one of the most celebrated professors of the sixteenth century. He was born in Picardy in 1515. A thirst for learning prompted him, when very young, to repair to Paris, and he was admitted as a servant in the college of Navarre. Spending the day in waiting on his masters, and the greater part of the n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006804-0078 | RAN, in the old English writers, means open or public robbery, so manifest as not to be denied. Ran dicitur aperta rapina quoe negari non potest. (Lamb. 125, Leg. Canut. cap. 58.) Hence it is now commonly said of one who takes the goods of another injuriously and violently, that he has snatched or taken all that he cou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006805-0078 | RANAI, or Oranai, one of the Sandwich Islands, in the North Pacific Ocean, about nine miles from Mowee. The population is estimated at 20,000. The island produces few plantains or bread-fruit trees; but abounds in yams, sweet potatoes, and other esculent roots and vegetables. Long. 185. 23. E. Lat. 20. 51. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 51' N 185 23' E | RANAI |
kp-eb0719-006806-0078 | RANDAZZO, a city of the district Demone, in the intendency of Messina, in Sicily. It stands on the side of Mount Aetna, looking over a rich and extensive plain, near a curious lake abounding in spunges, the collecting of which forms a part of the employment of the inhabitants. It is 120 miles from Palermo, and moderate... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006807-0078 | RANDERS, a city of Denmark, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, in the province Aarhuus. It is situated at the mouth of the river Guden, and was once larger, and fortified. It now contains 515 houses and 4570 inhabitants, who make some cloths, and have breweries and distilleries. Long. 9. 58. 22. E. Lat. 56. 2... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 56 27' 48" N 9 58' 22" E | RANDERS |
kp-eb0719-006808-0078 | RANDIER, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Broach, which is said to have been in ancient times a large city. It is situated opposite to Surat, on the north side of the Tuptee river. Long. 73. 3. E. Lat. 21. 16. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 16' N 73 3' E | RANDIER |
kp-eb0719-006809-0078 | RANDOLPH, Thomas, an English poet in the seventeenth century, was born in Ndi thamptonshire in 1605. He was educated a. Westminster and Cambridge, and very early distinguished by his excellent genius; for about the age of nine or ten years he wrote the History of the Incarnation of our Saviour in verse. His subsequent ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006901-0079 | RANDOM, Shot, in Gunnery, is a shot made when the muzzle of a gun is raised above the horizontal line, and is not designed to shoot directly or point black. The utmost random of any piece is about ten times as far as the bullet will go point blank. The bullet will go farthest when the piece is mounted at an angle of ab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006902-0079 | RANGALORE, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of the Northern Circars, and district of Cica-cole. Long. 83. 20. E. Lat. 18. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 20' N 83 20' E | RANGALORE |
kp-eb0719-006903-0079 | RANGAMUTTY, a town and district of Hindustan, in the north-western extremity of Bengal, situated about the twenty-sixth degree of north latitude, and formerly included in the extensive kingdom of Kamroop. After its subjugation by the Mahommedans, about the middle of the seventeenth century, it was annexed to the collec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 9' N 90 E | RANGAMUTTY |
kp-eb0719-006904-0079 | RANGE, in Gunnery, the path of a bullet, or the line it describes from the mouth of the piece to the point where it lodges. If the piece lie in a line parallel to the horizon, it is called the right or level range; if it be mounted to 45°, it is said to have the utmost range; and all others between 0° and 45° are calle... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006905-0079 | RANGER, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king’s letters patent, and whose proper business it is to walk through his charge, to drive back the deer out of the purlieus, and to present all trespasses within his jurisdiction at the next forest court. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-006906-0079 | RANGOON, a city and principal sea-port of the Bur-man empire, in the province of Pegu. It is situated on the Rangoon river, one of the mouths of the great Irrawaddy, about twenty-four miles from its mouth. The river is broad, deep, and navigable. At its entrance it is nearly a mile in width, and is distinguished by a c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 47' N 96 9' E | RANGOON |
kp-eb0719-007001-0080 | RANK, the order or place assigned to a person, suitably to his quality or merit.
Rank is a straight line formed by the soldiers of a battalion or squadron, drawn up side by side. This order was established for the marches, and for regulating the different bodies of troops and officers which compose an army. Rank and P... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007002-0080 | RANNY BEDNORE, a port and town of Hindustan, in the Balaghaut ceded territories. It is sixty miles northeast from Chitteldroog. Long. 75. 42. E. Lat. 14. 33. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 33' N 75 42' E | RANNY BEDNORE |
kp-eb0719-007003-0080 | RANNYPOOR, a town of Hindustan, province of Mal-wah, in the Mahratta territories. It is forty-four miles north-west from Chatterpoor. Long. 79. 16. E. Lat. 25. 13. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 13' N 79 16' E | RANNYPOOR |
kp-eb0719-007004-0080 | RANS DES VACHES or Raas des Vaches, a celebrated melody of the cow-herds in Switzerland. There seem to be several melodies of that name, employed to assemble the cows in the evening, and to lead them home from their Alpine pastures. The great violinist Viotti wrote down one of these, which he heard amongst the valleys ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007101-0081 | RANSOM, a sum of money paid for the redemption of a slave, or the liberty of a prisoner of war. In our lawbooks, ransom also means a sum paid for the pardon of some great offence, and to obtain the offender’s liberty. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007102-0081 | RANTAMPORE, a fortress of Hindustan, and the capital of a district of the same name, in the province of Ajmeer, and in the middle of the Arrabarne Hills. It is said to have been built in the thirteenth century, and is esteemed one of the largest and strongest fortresses in India; but as it has never been visited by any... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 2' N 76 25' E | RANTAMPORE |
kp-eb0719-007103-0081 | RAPE, in Law, the carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will. This, by the Jewish law, was punished with death, in case the damsel was betrothed to another man; and in case she was not betrothed, then a heavy fine of fifty shekels was to be paid to the damsel’s father, and she was to be the wife of the r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007104-0081 | RAPHAEL or Raffaelle, d’Urbino, the greatest, most sublime, and most excellent painter that has appeared since the revival of the fine arts, was the son of an indifferent painter named Sanzio, and was born at Urbino on Good Friday 1482. The popes Julius II. and Leo X., who employed him, loaded him with wealth and honou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007201-0082 | RAPHAIM or Rephaim, a name signifying Giants, as they really were, and an actual people too, situated in Ba-san or Batanea, beyond Jordan, and separated from the Zan-zummim by the river Jabbok. Thià is also the name of a valley near Jemsalem. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007202-0082 | RAPHANIDOSIS, a particular kind of punishment inflicted at Athens upon adulterers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007203-0082 | RAPIER, formerly signified a long old-fashioned sword, such as those worn by the common soldiers; but it now denotes a small sword, as contradistinguished to a back-sword. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007204-0082 | RAPIN, Rene, a Jesuit and eminent French writer, was born at Tours in 1621. He taught polite literature in the society of the Jesuits with great applause, and was justly esteemed one of the best Latin poets and greatest wits of his time. He died at Paris in the year 1687. His principal works were, 1. A great number of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007205-0082 | RAPPERSCHWEIL, a small city of Switzerland, in the canton of St Gall. It is fortified, and has a citadel, but the defences are at present in bad repair. It is situated near the head of the lake of Zurich, over an arm of which there is perhaps the longest bridge in the world, being 4800 feet in length, and only twelve f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-007206-0082 | RAPPOLSTEIN, a town of France, in the department of the Upper Rhine, which, before the revolution, had the title of a barony. Long. 7. 28. E. Lat. 48. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 15' N 7 28' E | RAPPOLSTEIN |
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