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kp-eb0719-024901-0259 | RIOSECO, a partido, in the province of Valladolid, in Spain, the capital of which, of the same name, but with the prefix sometimes of Medina del, is a large city. There is a canal from it which unites the canal of Campo with that of Castille. It contains three churches, five monasteries, two hospitals, 1200 houses, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024902-0259 | RIOU’S, Island, or Rooahoooa, in the Pacific Ocean, about twenty-four miles in circumference, discovered in 1792 by Lieutenant Hergest. It is barren and rocky. Long. 139. 9. W. Lat. 8. 54. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024903-0259 | RIPEN or more properly Ribe, is a sea-port town and capital of the district of Ribe, in the province of North Jutland, Denmark, and is situated on the river Nipsaae,which here falls into the North Sea. The harbour is difficult of access, and admits only of small vessels. There is a castlc, two colleges, and a public li... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024904-0259 | RIPHOEAN, Mountains are a chain of high mountains in Russia, to the north-east of the river Oby, where there are said to be the finest sables of the whole empire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024905-0259 | RIPLEY, a market-town of the west riding of the county of York, 215 miles from London and four from Knaresborough, in the wapentake of Claro. It is situated on the river Nyd, over which is a stone bridge. It was formerly a place of some importance, having a large castle, the ruins of which still exist. The church is an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024906-0259 | RIPON, a city of the west riding of Yorkshire, 222 miles from London. It is situated between two small streams, the Ure and the Skell. A new diocese has been erected, and the first bishop of Ripon, Dr Longley, was consecrated in 1836. The cathedral, formerly the collegiate church, has a dean, a subdean, four prebendari... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024907-0259 | RISIBLE, any thing capable of exciting laughter. Ludicrous is a general term, signifying, as may appear from its derivation, what is playsome, sportive, or jocular. Ludi- crous therefore seems the genus, of which risible is a species, limited to what makes us laugh.
However easy it may be, concerning any particular ob... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024908-0259 | RITE, among divines, denotes the particular manner of celebrating divine service. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024909-0259 | RITORNELLO or Repeat, in Music, the burden of a song, or the repetition of the first or other verses of a song at the end of each couplet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-024910-0259 | RITUAL, a book directing the order and manner to be observed in performing divine service in a particular church, diocese, or the like. The ancient heathens had also their rituals, which contained their rites and ceremonies to be observed in building a city, consecrating a temple or altar,
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kp-eb0719-025001-0260 | RIVA, a city of the Austrian province of Trieste, in the circle of Roveredo. It is placed on the lake of Garda, in a beautiful situation, and has a good haven, from which a considerable trade is carried on between Italy and Germany. Here many vessels are built. The inhabitants amount to 3350, and some of them are emplo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-025002-0260 | RIVER,.
A river is a current of fresh water, flowing in a bed or channel from its source to the sea.
The term is appropriated to a considerable collection of waters, formed by the conflux of two or more brooks, which deliver into its channel the united streams of several rivulets, which have collected the supplies of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-029401-0304 | RIVERHEAD, a town of the county of Kent, in the lathe of Sutton and hundred of Codsheath, twenty-two miles from London. The river Darent, which rises within the parish, has given its name to it. In this parish is the elegant seat of Lord Amherst, called Montreal. A new church in the Gothic style has been lately erected... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-029402-0304 | RIVOLI, a city of the kingdom of Sardinia, in Italy, in the province of Piedmont. It is situated at the south foot of the Alps, on the great road over those mountains by way of Mount Cenis. A remarkable castle near it was long the place of residence of King Victor Amadeus, after his abdication of the throne, and he die... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-029403-0304 | ROAD, in Navigation, a bay or place of anchorage, at some distance from the shore, whither vessels occasionally repair to receive intelligence, orders, or necessary supplies, or to wait for a fair wind. The excellence of a road consists chiefly in its being protected from the reigning winds and the swell of the sea, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-029404-0304 | ROAD-MAKING. There are few departments of practical mechanics in which every individual, at some period or other of his life, is more immediately interested than in the management of roads and pavements. The mechanical theory of the motions of wheel-carriages, and of the nature of the frictions and resistances that the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030001-0310 | ROAN, in the manège. A roan horse is one of a bay, sorrel, or black colour, with gray or white spots interspersed very thick. When this party-cbloured coat is accompanied with a black head and black extremities, he is called α roan horse with a blackamoor’s head; and if the same mixture is predominant upon a deep sorre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030002-0310 | ROANNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Loire, in France, which extends over 697 square miles. It comprehends ten cantons, divided into 108communes, with, in 1836, 124,871 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name on the left bank of the Loire, which is so far navigable. It is a well-built city, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030003-0310 | ROANOAK, an island of North America, near the coast of North Carolina. Here the English first attempted to settle in 1585, but were obliged to leave it for want of provisions. Long. 75. 0. E. Lat. 35. 40. N.
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... | 35 40' N 75 0' E | ROANOAK |
kp-eb0719-030004-0310 | ROBERT’S Isi.es, two large islands in the Pacific Ocean, with several smaller islets in their neighbourhood, discovered by Lieutenant Hergest in 1792. Long. 219. 47. E. Lat. 7. 53. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030005-0310 | ROBERTSON, William, one of the greatest historians of modern times, was the son of the Rev. William Robertson, minister of Borthwick, in the county of Edinburgh, and of Eleanor, the daughter of David Pitcairne, Esq. of Dreghorn. He was descended from the Robertsons of Gladney, a branch of the family which for many fene... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030201-0312 | ROBERVALLIAN Lines, a name given to certain lines used for the transformation of figures, so called from Roberval, the inventor of them. These lines are the boundaries of lines infinitely extended in length, yet equal to other spaces which are terminated on all sides. It is observed by the Abbé Gallois, that the method... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030202-0312 | ROBIGUS and ROBIGO, a Roman god and goddess, who joined in the preservation of corn from blight. Their festival was kept on the 25th of April. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030203-0312 | ROBINS, Benjamin, an ingenious mathematician, was born at Bath in 1707. His parents were Quakers of low condition, and consequently were unable to have him much instructed in human learning; but his own propensity to science having procured him a recommendation to Dr Pemberton at London, by his assistance, while he att... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030301-0313 | ROBINSON, Sir Richard, Lord Rokeby and archbishop of Armagh, was immediately descended from the Robinsons of Rokeby in the north riding of the county of York, and was born in 1709. He was educated at Westminster school, from whence he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1726. In 1783 he took the degree of A. M., a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030302-0313 | ROBISON, John, a distinguished professor of natural philosophy, born in 1739 at Boghall, in the parish of Bal-dernock and county of Stirling, was a younger son of John Robison, Esq. who had formerly been a merchant at Glasgow, and had retired to live in considerable affluence on bis estate at Boghall, not far from that... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030701-0317 | ROBORANTS, in Pharmacy, medicines which strengthen the parts, and give new vigour to the constitution. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030702-0317 | ROCAB, a small seaport of Hadramaut, in Arabia, on the Indian Ocean, thirty miles south-south-west of Sahar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030703-0317 | ROCHDALE, a market-town of the county of Lancaster, in the hundred of Salford, 197 miles from London and twelve from Manchester. It is situated in a fine valley on the river Roche, and is overlooked by the church, which stands on an eminence ascended by 118 steps. The hills around it abound in excellent coal. The chief... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030704-0317 | ROCHE-BERNARD, a town of France, in the department of Morbihan, and arrondissement of Vannes. It is situated on the river Vilaine, and contains 1380 inhabitants; but within the parish are 6670 persons, who are chiefly employed in making flaxen thread and linen goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030705-0317 | ROCHECHOUART, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Vienne, in France. It extends over 237 square miles, comprehends five cantons, divided into twenty-nine communes, and in 1836 contained 48,818 inhabitants. The capital is the town of the same name, on the banks of the river Grenne. It contains 4123 inhabita... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 43' N 0 45' E | ROCHECHOUART |
kp-eb0719-030706-0317 | ROCHEFORT, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Charente, in France, which extends over 295 square miles. It comprises four cantons, divided into forty-two communes, and in 1836 contained 51,727 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, about six miles from the mouth of the river Charente. The ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030707-0317 | ROCHEFOUCAULT, Francis Duke de la, prince of Marsillac, governor of Poitou, was born in 1603. He was the son of Francis, the first duke of Rochefoucault, and was distinguished equally by his courage and his wit. These shining qualities endeared him to all the nobility at court, who were ambitious of decorating themselv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030708-0317 | ROCHELLE, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Charente, in France, extending over 310 square miles. It comprehends seven cantons, divided into fifty-five communes, and in 1836 contained 78,797 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, the seat of the departmental government and of the courts o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 9' 33" N 1 14' 17" W | ROCHELLE |
kp-eb0719-030709-0317 | ROCHESTER, an ancient city in the county of Kent, thirty miles from London. It is commonly supposed to have been founded by the ancient Britons. In the time of the Romans it was one of their military stations, but did not attain any great celebrity until more than a century after the arrival of the Saxons, who in the r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030801-0318 | ROCHFORD, a market-town of the county of Essex, in the hundred of the same name, thirty-nine miles from London. It is situated on a small river that empties itself into the Crouch. It has a good market on Thursday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1228, in 1811 to 1214, in 1821 to 1382, and in 1831 to 1256. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030802-0318 | ROCKET, an artificial fire-work, consisting of a cylindrical case of paper, filled with a composition of certain combustible ingredients; which, being tied to a stick, mounts into the air, and then bursts. See Pyrotechny. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030803-0318 | ROCKY Mountains, a great mountain chain which traverses the western part of North America, extending from about latitude 70° north to Mexico where it is continued by the Cordilleras of the Andes. These ranges are considered as forming part of one vast chain, which in South America, near the equator, attains its greates... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030901-0319 | ROCROY, an arrondissement of France, in the department of the Ardennes, which extends over 482 square miles. It comprehends five cantons and sixty-eight communes, and the population in 1836 amounted to 46,156. The capital is a fortified city of the same name, situated in the midst of a wood. It contains 600 houses, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-030902-0319 | RODEZ, an arrondissement of the department of the Aveyron, in France, which extends over 883 square miles. It comprehends eleven cantons, divided into sixty-nine communes, and in 1836 contained 99,704 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, and the seat of the departmental government and courts of law. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 21' N 2 29' 5" E | RODEZ |
kp-eb0719-030903-0319 | RODNEY, George Brydges, Lord Rodney, was born on the 19th of February 1718. He was the descendant of an ancient family, and was related to the duke of Chandos. His father Henry Rodney obtained, at the age of fourteen, a commission as cornet of horse; but having quitted the army after a short period of service, he settl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031001-0320 | RODOSTO, a city of Turkey in Europe, in the province of Galipoli. It is situated on a small gulf of the same name, on the Sea of Marmora. It is strongly fortified, and well built, having, for a Turkish town, broad streets. It is the seat of a Greek archbishop, has five Greek and two Armenian churches, many mosques, bat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031002-0320 | ROE, the seed or spawn of fish. See Ichthyology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031003-0320 | ROEBUCK, John, was born at Sheffield in Yorkshire in the year 1718. His father was a manufacturer of Sheffield goods, and by his ability and industry acquired a considerable fortune. He intended John to follow his own lucrative employment; but he was powerfully attached to other pursuits, and his father did not discour... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031101-0321 | ROEMER, Olaus, a celebrated Danish mathematician and astronomer, was born at Arhusen in Jutland, in the year 1644, and was sent to the university of Copenhagen at the age of eighteen. By his assiduous application to the study of astronomy and mathematics, he became so eminent in those sciences, that Picard was astonish... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031102-0321 | ROERMOND or Ruremonde, one of the circles into which the province of Limburg is divided. It contains six cantons. The capital is the city of the same name, which stands on the left bank of the Maas, where the river Roer falls into it. It is fortified, but not strongly, and contains 4480 inhabitants, who make woollen cl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 11' 48" N 5 53' 54" E | ROERMOND |
kp-eb0719-031103-0321 | ROGA, in Antiquity, a present which the emperors made to the senators, magistrates, and even to the people; and the popes and patriarchs to their clergy. These rogae were distributed by the emperors on the first day of the year, on their birthday, or on the natalis dies of the cities; and by the popes and patriarchs in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031104-0321 | ROGATION, Rogatio, in Roman jurisprudence, a demand made by the consuls or tribunes of the Roman people, when a law was proposed to be passed. Rogatio is also used for the decree itself made in consequence of the people’s giving their assent to this demand; to distinguish it from a senatus consultum, or decree of the s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031105-0321 | ROGER, de Hoveden, a learned man of the thirteenth century, was born in Yorkshire, most probably at the town of that name, now called Howden, some time in the reign of Henry I. After he had received the first parts of education in his native country, he studied the civil and canon laws, which were then become the most ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031201-0322 | ROGONATGUNGE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, district of Pachete, 136 miles west-northwest from Calcutta. Long. 86. 20. E. Lat. 23. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 15' N 86 20' E | ROGONATGUNGE |
kp-eb0719-031202-0322 | ROGONATPOOR, a town of Hindustan, province of Bengal, district of Pachete, 130 miles north-west from Calcutta. Long. 86. 44. E. Lat. 23. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031203-0322 | ROHAN, Henry Duke of, peer of France, and prince of Leon, was born at the Chateau de Blein, in Brittany, in 1579. Henry IV. under whose eye he gave distinguished proofs of his bravery at the siege of Amiens, when only sixteen years of age, loved him with as much affection as if he had been his own son. After the death ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031204-0322 | ROHAULT, James, a celebrated Cartesian philosopher, was the son of a merchant of Amiens, where be was born in 1620. He became well skilled in the mathematics, and taught them at Paris. He died at Paris in 1675. He wrote in French, 1. A Treatise on Natural Philosophy; 2. The Elements of Mathematics; 3. A Treatise on Mec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031205-0322 | ROHILCUND, in Sanscrit Kuttair or Kuttaher, an extensive and valuable district of Hindustan, situated between the rivers Ganges and Goggra, and between the twenty-eighth and thirtieth degrees of north latitude, and from seventy-eight to eighty east longitude. It is extremely well watered by the rivers Ganges and Ramgun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031301-0323 | ROLL or Roller, is a piece of wood, iron, brass, &c. of a cylindrical form, used in the construction of several machines, and in several works and manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031302-0323 | ROLLAND, an island in the Southern Ocean, discovered by Kerguelen in 1773, about nine miles in circumference. Long. 68. 43. E. Lat. 48. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 37' N 68 43' E | ROLLAND |
kp-eb0719-031303-0323 | ROLLI, Paul, an Italian poet, was born at Rome in 1687. He was the son of an architect, and a pupil of the celebrated Gravina, who inspired him with a taste for learning and poetry. An intelligent and learned English peer, having brought him to London, introduced him to the royal family as a master of the Tuscan langua... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031304-0323 | ROLLIN, Charles, a celebrated French writer, was the son of a cutler at Paris, and was born there on the 30th of January 1661. He studied at the College du Plessis, in which he obtained an exhibition through the interest of a Benedictine monk whom he had served at table, and who discovered in him some marks of genius. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031401-0324 | ROLLING, the motion by which a ship rocks from side to side like a cradle, by the agitation of the waves. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031402-0324 | ROLLO, the conqueror of Normandy, was a Norwegian duke, banished from his country by Harold Harfager (who conquered Norway in 870) on account of the piracies he exercised. He first retired with his fleet among the islands of the Hebrides to the north-west of Scotland, whither the flower of the Norwegian nobility had fl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031403-0324 | ROLLOCK, Robert, the first principal of the university of Edinburgh, was the son of David Bollock of Powis, in the vicinity of Stirling. He was born in the year 1555, and was taught the rudiments of the Latin tongue by a per[7:19:315]son then eminent in his profession. From school he was sent to the university of St An... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031501-0325 | ROLPAH, a town of Northern Hindustan, and capital of a district of the same name, in the province of Nepaul. It is a woody country, governed by a chief, who pays an annual tribute to the rajah of Nepaul. Long. 82. 5. E. Lat. 29. 22. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 29 22' N 82 5' E | ROLPAH |
kp-eb0719-031502-0325 | ROMA Isle, in the Eastern Seas, about forty miles in circumference. Long. 127. 30. E. Lat. 7. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 7 35' N 127 30' E | ROMA |
kp-eb0719-031503-0325 | ROMAN CATHOLICS. Under the head History (Ecclesiastical) will be found an account of the rise and progress of that religious system which, before the sixteenth century, held undisputed sway in what was called the Christian world. Under the head Reformation is given a history of the successful struggles made by several ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-031801-0328 | ROMANCE.
Dr. Johnson has defined Romance, in its primary sense, to be “a military fable of the middle ages; a tale of wild adventures in love and chivalry.” But although this definition expresses correctly the ordinary idea of the word, it is not sufficiently comprehensive to answer our present purpose. A composition ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-035901-0369 | ROMAGNA, a province of Italy, in the pope’s territories, bounded on the north by the Ferrarese, on the south by Tuscany and the duchy of Urbino, on the east by the gulf of Venice, and on the west by the Bolognese and a part of Tuscany. It is fertile in corn, wine, oil, fine fruits, and pastures. It has also mines, mine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-035902-0369 | ROMANIA or Rumelia, an extensive province of the Turkish empire in Europe, called by the Turks the Ejelat Rumili, or the land of the Romans. In the more extended sense it comprehends the whole countries to the west and the north of the Bosphorus, but in a more peculiar sense it included the ancient Thrace; Bulgaria, Se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-035903-0369 | ROMANO, Giulio, a famous painter of the Roman school, was born at Rome in 1492. He was the favourite pupil of Raphael, who had such an affection for him, that he appointed him, with John Francis Penni, his heir. He first signalised himself by his Battle of Constantine, which he painted from a design of Raphael’s, and w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-035904-0369 | ROMBLON or Romblino, one of the smaller Philippine islands, about 30 miles in circumference. Long. 121. 58. E. Lat. 12. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-036001-0370 | ROMAN HISTORY.
Rome, a city of Italy, formerly the capital of the greatest empire in the world, and still remarkable as the chief seat of the papal power, is situated on the river Tiber, in east long. 13°, and north lat. 41° 45'.
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kp-eb0719-042401-0434 | STATISTICS OF ROME.
Having thus related at length the rise and progress, decline and fall, of the empire of Rome, we now proceed to give a topographical and statistical description of that famous city.
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kp-eb0719-043701-0449 | ROMFORD, a market-town of the county of Essex, in the parish of Hornehurch and hundred of Havering, eleven miles from London. The population was, in 1801, 3179; in 1811, 3244; in 1821, 3777; and in 1831, 4294. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-043702-0449 | ROMILLY, Samuel, one of the most enlightened and virtuous public men whom England has ever possessed, was, as his family-name indicates, the descendant of a French family. He was the son of a jeweller in London, and was born there on the 1st of March 1757.
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kp-eb0719-043901-0451 | ROMNEY, NEW, a town in the county of Kent, in the Lathe of Sheepway, seventy-two miles from London. It was once a place of much more importance than it is at present. It is surrounded with rich but unhealthy marshes, and is defended against the sea by a strong dyke, called Dunchurch Wall, on which is a good carriage ro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-043902-0451 | ROMORANTIN, an arrondisement of the department of the Loire and Cher, in France, eight hundred and eleven square miles in extent. It comprehends six cantons, divided into forty-eight communes, containing, in 1836, 47,722 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name at the junction of the Romorantin and the Sau... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-043903-0451 | ROMSEY or Rumsey, a large market and borough town of the county of Hants, seventy-three miles from London. It is in the division of Andover, of the hundred of King’s Sombome, and stands on the river Test, on the road between Southampton and Salisbury, and is surrounded by pleasant meadows, which, by irrigation, are ren... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-043904-0451 | ROMPEE or Rompu, in Heraldry, is applied to ordinaries that are represented as broken; and to chevrons, bends, or the like, whose upper points are cut off. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-043905-0451 | RONA, one of the Hebrides, is reckoned about twenty leagues distant from the north-east point of Ness in Lewis, and is about a mile long, and half a mile broad. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-043906-0451 | RONCESVALLES, a valley in Spain, in the province ofNavarne, and district ofSanguessa. It stands at the foot of the Pyrenees, and is the largest valley in the province, but covered with wood. The town of the name is small, but on the great road from France to Madrid, having a church, an Augustin monastery, and an hospit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-043907-0451 | RONDA, a city of Spain, in the kingdom of Granada, and province of Andalusia. Ronda is about four thousand five hιmdred feet above the level of the sea, but being surrounded with mountains of vast elevation, it is, in fact, with regard to them, a largely extended valley. The mountains that surround it are more or less ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-043908-0451 | ROORTERPOOR, a considerable town of Hindustan, province of Delhi, district of Morabad, forty-two miles north by east from Bareilly. Long. 79. 20. E. Lat. 29. 1. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-043909-0451 | RONSARD, Peter de, a French poet, was born at the castle of Poissoniere in Vendomois in 1524. He was descended of a noble family, and was educated at Paris in the college of Navarre. Academical pursuits not suiting his genius, he left college, and became page to the duke of Orleans, who resigned him to James Stuart, ki... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-043910-0451 | ROOD, a quantity of land equal to forty square perches, the fourth part of an acre. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-044001-0452 | ROOF.
Roof expresses the covering of a house or building, by which its inhabitants or contents are protected from the injuries of the weather. It is perhaps the essential part of a house, and is frequently used to express the whole. To come under a person’s roof is to enjoy his protection and society, to dwell with hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-045701-0469 | ROOK. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-045702-0469 | ROOKE, Sir George, a gallant naval commander, was born of an ancient and honourable family in Kent in 1650. His merit raised him by regular steps to be vice-admiral of the blue, in which station he served in the battle of La Hogue, on the 22d of May 1692, when it was owing to his vigorous behaviour that the last stroke... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-045801-0470 | ROONAY, a town of Bengal, in the district of Birbhoom, which formerly possessed a small fort that commanded the high road. Long. 87. 0. E. Lat 24. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-045802-0470 | ROOPNAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, belonging to the rajah of Jyenagur. Long. 75. 52. E. Lat. 26. 39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-045803-0470 | ROOPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, belonging to the Sikhs, and situated on the south-east bank of the river Sutlege. Long. 75.50. E. Lat. 31.7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-045804-0470 | ROOT. See Algebra, Arithmetic, and Equations. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-045805-0470 | ROPE, a general name for all kinds of cordage, but more correctly applied to such as is above one inch in circumference, the smaller sorts being distinguished by the names of twines, cords, and lines.
The art of twisting into lines and ropes various materials, such as thongs of animal hide, the hairs of animals, ∣ough... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-047101-0483 | ROQUE, St, a city of Spain, in the province of Seville, and the partido of Gibraltar. It is about six miles from the latter fortress, and the first place beyond the Spanish lines. It stands on an elevated spot, commanding a view of the rock of Gibraltar. It contains about 1800 inhabitants, exclusive of the troops. Ther... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-047102-0483 | ROSA, the Rose. See the article Botany.
Rosa, Salvator, an admirable painter, was born at Naples in 1614. He was first instructed by Francesco Francazano, a kinsman; but the death of his father reduced him to sell drawings sketched upon paper for any thing he could get. One of these happening to fall into the hands of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-047103-0483 | ROSALGATE, the most eastern point of Arabia. The coast turns to the north-west, till it joins the Persian Gulf. Long. 60. 10. E. Lat. 22. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-047104-0483 | ROSAMOND, daughter of Walter Lord Clifford, was a young lady of exquisite beauty. The popular story of her is as follows. Henry II. saw her, loved her, declared his passion, and triumphed over her honour. To avoid the jealousy of his queen Elinor, he kept her in a wonderful labyrinth at Woodstock; and by his connection... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-047105-0483 | ROSAS, a fortified city of Spain, in the province of Catalonia, and district of Gerona. It stands on an elevation on Cape de Creus, on the Mediterranean Sea, and commands the celebrated bay of that name where so much [7:19:472]valour was displayed by our ships of war, whose boats’ crews boarded and captured or destroye... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 42 16' 6" N 3 31' 2" W | ROSAS |
kp-eb0719-047201-0484 | ROSCIUS, Q, a celebrated comic actor, who is spoken of in terms of the highest commendation by Cicero. The exact period of his birth is unknown; but he must have been somewhat older than Cicero (born b. c. 106), as he had already earned a high reputation before the death of Sulla, B. c. 78. His subsequent career was sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-047202-0484 | ROSCOE, William, a distinguished writer, was born at Liverpool on the 8th of March 1753. He was the only son of William Roscoe, who then kept a public-house called the Bowling Green, and who is described as a man below the middle stature, but of remarkable bodily strength and activity; of much vivacity of temperament, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-047701-0489 | ROSCOMMON, an inland county in the province of Connaught, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by the county of Sligo, on the east by those of Leitrim, Longford, and Westmeath, on the south-east by the King’s County, on the south-west by Galway, and on the west by the same county and by Mayo. It extends over a surface o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048001-0492 | ROSE. See Rosa.
RosΕ of Jericho, so called because it grow s in the plain of Jericho, though it did not originally flourish there. It has perhaps been so named by travellers who did not know that it was brought from Arabia Petraea. Rose-bushes are frequently found in the fields about Jericho; but they are of a specics... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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