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kp-eb0719-048101-0493 | ROSEHEARTY, a burgh of barony in the county of
Aberdeen, situated on the shores of the Moray Frith, and eighteen miles from Banff. The inhabitants, who amount to about 800, are mostly employed in fishing. It possesses a harbour, which may eventually become of importance, situated as it is on an exposed part of the coa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048102-0493 | ROSENAU, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Hither Theiss, and circle of Gom∂r. It is situated on the river Sajo, and is the seat of a bishop, and of an episcopal seminary. It contains several churches, 680 houses, and 5400 inhabitants, trading in linen, paper, wood-ware, and ironmongery,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048103-0493 | ROSENGYN, one of the Banda Isles, about seven miles south-east of Lantore. Convicts were sent here when the island was in possession of the Dutch. The productions are nutmegs, mace, and yams; and here a few cattle are also fed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048104-0493 | ROSETO, a small city of Italy, of the province of Prin-cipato Ulteriore, and of the kingdom of Naples. It was long celebrated from possessing in its church an image of the Virgin Mary, brought there, according to a legend, in a miraculous manner, which induced many pilgrims from all parts of Europe to resort to it for ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048105-0493 | ROSETTA, a town of Africa, in Egypt, is pleasantly situated on the west side of that branch of the Nile called by the ancients Bolbitinum, affirmed by Herodotus to have been formed by art; the town and castle being on the right hand as you enter the river. Any one who sees the hills about Rosetta would judge that they ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 31 30' N 30 45' E | ROSETTA |
kp-eb0719-048106-0493 | ROSICRUCIANS, the name of a sect of philosophers, called hermetical philosophers, who arose, as it has been said, or at least became first conspicuous, in Germany, in the beginning of the fourteenth century. They bound themselves together by a solemn secret, which they all swore inviolably to preserve; and obliged them... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048201-0494 | ROSLIN or Rosslyn, a village in the county of Mid-Lothian, Scotland, about seven miles south from Edinburgh, celebrated for the picturesque ruins of its castle, the architectural grace of its chapel, and the sequestered but variegated scenery of the vale in which they are placed. Roslin was formerly a place of some not... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048202-0494 | ROSS, a market-town of the county of Hereford, in the hundred of Greytree, 115 miles from London. It is finely situated on a hill rising from the river Wye. Its chief trade is in the sale of cider. Pope has immortalized the place by his laudatory description of one of its residents, John [7:19:483]Kyrle, who died in 17... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048301-0495 | ROSSIANO, a city of Italy, in the province of Calabria Citeriore, and the kingdom of Naples. It stands on the sea-shore, between the rivers Lucena and Celano. It is the see of a bishop, and has a cathedral, and twenty-three other churches, of which nine belong to the same number of monasteries or nunneries. The inhabit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048302-0495 | ROSS-SHIRE, a county of Scotland, having that of Cromarty so curiously intermixed with it, that the description of both under one head is a matter not only of convenience, but of necessity. Ross-shire, comprising the districts of Ar-dross, Easter Ross, Ardmeanach or the Black Isle, Kintail, Strathearron, and the island... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048901-0501 | ROSTAK, a city of Arabia, in the district of Ommon. It is the residence of the imaum; but Muskat is the chief town through which the intercourse with the Europeans is carried on. It is situated near Jebel Akdar, the largest and highest mountain in Ommon, and is celebrated for its fine grapes. It is seventy miles west f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048902-0501 | ROSTOCK, a city of the grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, which was formerly the capital of the two duchies of Mecklenburg, but since 1695 it has become the sole possession of the present branch. It is situated on the navigable river Wornow, about eight miles from the Baltic Sea. It is strongly fortified, and contain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 10' N 12 32' E | ROSTOCK |
kp-eb0719-048903-0501 | ROSTOW, a city of Russia, in the province of Jaros-low, the capital of a circle of its own name, situated on the lake of Nero or Rostow. It contains twenty-four churches, six hospitals, 1016 houses, and 6500 inhabitants; and has extensive trade in corn, hemp, linen, tallow, leather, honey, and wax, and some in salt. It... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 58 57' N 39 35' E | ROSTOW |
kp-eb0719-048904-0501 | ROSTRA, a part of the Roman forum, in which orations, pleadings, and funeral harangues, were delivered. It derived its name from the circumstance of its exhibiting the beaks of ships taken from the Antiates. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048905-0501 | ROSTRUM, literally denotes the beak or bill of a bird; and hence it has been figuratively applied to the beak or head of a ship. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048906-0501 | ROT, a very fatal disease incident to sheep, arising from wet seasons, and too moist pasture. It is very difficult of cure, and is attended with the singular circumstance of a kind of animals being found in the blood-vessels. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-048907-0501 | ROTA, a city of Spain, in the province of Seville, and the district of St Lucar. It stands on the bay of Cadiz, and being strongly fortified, forms one of the means of defence to that important estuary. It is situated on an elevation, and, like most Spanish towns, has a beautiful appearance when viewed at a distance. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-049001-0502 | ROTATION.
Rotation, in mechanical philosophy, denotes the motion of the different parts of a solid body about an axis, in contradistinction to t!fe progressive motion of the body in a straight line, or in an orbit about a distant centre, of which the rotation is absolutely independent, although both motions may take p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050501-0517 | ROTHBURY, a small market-town in the county of Northumberland, pleasantly situated on the northern side of the river Coquet, over which there is a handsome stone bridge. The town consists of three wide and airy streets; and as the situation, from being screened by lofty hills from the north and east winds, is favourabl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050502-0517 | ROTHENBURG, a city of the kingdom of Bavaria, and the capital of the bailiwick of the same name, in the circle of the Rezat. It is situated on the river Tauber, and is surrounded by ancient walls and thirty-three towers. It is built in the antique German style, comprehends a fine council-house, with eight churches, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 30' N 11 43' E | ROTHENBURG |
kp-eb0719-050503-0517 | ROTHENFELS, a town of the kingdom of Bavaria, in the circle of the Lower Maine, and in a patrimonial bailiwick of the mediatized prince Lowenstein. It extends over eighty-four square miles, inhabited by 8500 persons. The town is situated on the river Maine, and contains 240 houses, with 1520 inhabitants, who are chiefl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050504-0517 | ROTHERHAM, a market-town of the west riding of the county of York, in the wapentake of Stratforth and Tickhill, 158 miles from London, and six from Sheffield. It is situated at the conflux of the rivers Rother and Don, which are navigable to Hull. There is a good market, which is held on Thursday. It is a considerable ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050505-0517 | ROTHSAY, a town in the island and county of Bute, in Scotland. See Bute. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050506-0517 | ROTHWELL or sometimes called Rowell, a town of the county of Northampton, in the hundred of the same name, seventy-nine miles from London. It has lost its market. The population amounted in 1801 to 1409, in 1811 to 1451, in 1821 to 1742, and in 1831 to 1875. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050507-0517 | ROTONDO or Rotundo, in Architecture, an appellation given to any building that is round both within and without, whether it be a church, a saloon, or the like. The most celebrated rotundo of the ancients is the Pantheon at Rome. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050508-0517 | ROTTERDAM, a city of the kingdom of Holland, and the capital of the circle of its own name. It is situated on the right bank of the river Maese, which here receives the waters of the river Rotte. It is a well-built city, in an antique style, with abundance of fine and large houses, many of them five or six stories in h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 55' 9" N 4 29' 14" E | ROTTERDAM |
kp-eb0719-050509-0517 | ROTTINGDEAN, a village of the county of Sussex, in the hundred of Youngsmere, and rape of Lewes, fifty-six miles from London, and four from Brighton. It is situated on the sea-shore, between two cliffs, and is much resorted to in the summer season by bathing visitors who wish for retirement. The population amounted in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050510-0517 | ROUBAIX, a large market-town of France, in the department of the North, and the arrondissement of Lisle. It is a place of extensive manufactories, formerly of woollens, but of late years almost exclusively of cottons. There are several mills for spinning; and a great quantity of quiltings, dimities, nankeens, and other... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050511-0517 | ROUEN, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Seine, in France. It extends over 506 square miles, and comprehends fifteen cantons, divided into 155 communes, which, in 1836, contained 238,805 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated in a valley on the banks of the Seine, over which ther... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 26' 27" N 1 0' 39" E | ROUEN |
kp-eb0719-050601-0518 | ROUNDA, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and the province of Kandeish. It is situated on the east side of the Ghirah river, forty-six miles south-west from Burhampoor. Long. 75. 47. E. Lat. 20. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 54' N 75 47' E | ROUNDA |
kp-eb0719-050602-0518 | ROUNDELAY or Rondo, a sort of ancient poem, deriving its name, according to Ménage, from its form, and because it still turns back again to the first verse, and thus goes round. The common roundelay consists of thirteen verses, eight of which are in one rhyme and five in another. It is divided into couplets, at the end... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050603-0518 | ROUND-HOUSE, a kind of prison for the nightly watch in London, to secure disorderly persons till they can be carried before a magistrate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050604-0518 | ROUNDS, in military matters, a detachment from the main-guard, of an officer or a non-commissioned officer and six men, who go round the rampart of a garrison, to listen if any thing be stirring without the place, and to see that the sentinels be diligent upon their duty, and all in order. In strict garrisons the round... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050605-0518 | ROUSSEAU, James, an eminent French painter, was born at Paris in the year 1630. He studied first under Swanevelt, who had married one of his relations; after which he improved himself by travelling into Italy, practising solely perspective, architecture, and landscape. On his return home, he was employed at Marly. He d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050901-0521 | ROUSSELAER, or Roclers, a city of Belgium, in the province of West Flanders, and the circle of Courtray. It is situated on the river Mandelbeke, and has a royal college, with eight professors. It contains 1100 houses, with 8840 inhabitants, who are occupied in making linen goods of various kinds, in refining salt, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050902-0521 | ROVEREDO, a city of the Austrian province of Tyrol, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 748 square miles, and contains, in three cities and towns, and 355 villages, 95,600 inhabitants. It is an open place, situated on the river Etsch, is well built, and defended by a strong fortress, and contai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 55' 36" N 10 55' 5" E | ROVEREDO |
kp-eb0719-050903-0521 | ROVIGNO, a city of the Austrian government of Trieste, and the capital of a district of the same name, which extends over 399 square miles, and contains 26,900 inhabitants. It is situated on a promontory running into the sea, and is well built, containing ten churches, 1150 houses, and 10,650 inhabitants. It has two ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 1' 30" N 13 43' 15" E | ROVIGNO |
kp-eb0719-050904-0521 | ROVIGO, a city of Austrian Italy, in the province of Milan, and the capital of the delegation of Polesina. It is situated on the river Adigetto, over which are four bridges, by which it is connected with its suburbs. It is fortified, and is the seat of the bishop of Adria, who has a palace and an ecclesiastical seminar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-050905-0521 | ROWE, Nicholas, was descended of an ancient family in Devonshire, and born in 1673. He acquired a complete taste for the classical authors under Dr Busby in Westminster school; but poetry was his early and darling study. His father, who was a lawyer, entered him a student in the Middle Temple, and he made remarkable ad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051001-0522 | ROWEL, amongst farriers, a kind of issue, answering to what in surgery is called a seton. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051002-0522 | ROWLEY, a monk who is said to have flourished at Bristol in the fifteenth century. Of the poems attributed to him various opinions have been entertained, which we have noticed under the article on Chatterton.
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kp-eb0719-051003-0522 | ROWNING, John, an English mathematician and philosopher of considerable ingenuity, was fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge, and afterwards rector of Anderby in Lincolnshire, in the gift of that society. He constantly attended the meetings of the Spalding Society, and was a man of an extraordinary philosophical habit ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051004-0522 | ROXBURGHSHIRE, a county in Scotland, on its south-eastern extremity, where it joins England, situated between 55. 6. and 55. 43. north latitude, and between 2. 12. and 3. 7. west longitude from Greenwich. It is sometimes called Teviotdale, from its principal river the Teviot, but improperly, as it also includes a tract... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051301-0525 | ROY BAREILLY, a town of Hindustan, in the nabob of Oude’s territories, situated on the Sye river, forty-five miles south-east by south from Lucknow. Long. 81.12. E. Lat. 26. 16. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051302-0525 | ROYAL, something belonging to a king. Thus we say royal family, royal assent, royal exchange, and so forth.
RoyalFamily. The first and most considerable branch of the king’s royal family, regarded by the laws of England, is the queen.
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kp-eb0719-051401-0526 | ROYMUNGUL, a river of Bengal, which falls into the Sunderbunds, and is strongly affected by the tides. The East India Company have an extensive salt manufactory on its banks. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051402-0526 | ROYSTON, a market-town on the northern border of the county of Hertford, and partly within the county of Cambridge, thirty-eight miles from London. There was here an ancient priory, said to have been founded in the reign of Henry II. by a lady of the name of Roysia, from whom the town takes its name. The chapel of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051403-0526 | RSHOW, Waldimirow, a city of Russia, in the province of Twer, and the capital of a circle of the same name. It is situated on the river Volga, where it receives the waters of the Ryolenka. It contains twelve churches, 1252 houses, and 7500 inhabitants. It has considerable trade by the river in the productions of the la... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051404-0526 | RUABON, a large village or town of the county of Denbigh, in North Wales, 192 miles from London, and four from Wrexham. It is pleasantly situated on an elevation, and has a neat church, with some elegant monuments to the family of Sir Watkins William Wynn, whose magnificent seat of Wynnstay is near to it. The agricultu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051405-0526 | RUANELLI, a valley in the island of Ceylon, famed for its precious stones. The river on which Columbo, the capital, is situated, is navigable to this place by boats. The precious stones and other metallic substances are found in the environs of Ruanelli, amongst the sand and gravel of the river. They consist chiefly of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051406-0526 | RUBBER, India. See Caoutchouc. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051407-0526 | RUBENS, Sir Peter Paul, the most eminent of the Flemish painters, was born in the year 1577, but whether at Antwerp or Cologne is uncertain. His father, who was a counsellor in the senate of Antwerp, had been forced by the civil wars to seek refuge in Cologne; and during his residence there Rubens is commonly said to h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051601-0528 | RUBIN or ROBOAN, a small island in the Red Sea, at the Straits of Bahelmandel, separated from the continent by a channel not above a stone-cast in breadth, which may be forded at low water. Here pilots are taken in for the voyage up the Red Sea, and to its different ports. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051602-0528 | RUBRIC, in the canon law, signifies a title or article in certain ancient law-books, and which was so called because written, as the titles of the chapters in our ancient bibles are, in red letters. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051603-0528 | RUBY, a species of precious stone, belonging to the siliceous genus. The ruby is of various colours, as, of a deep red colour inclining a little to purple, or the carbuncle of Pliny; the spinell, of the colour of a bright corn poppy flower; and the balass or pale red inclining to violet. Tavernier and Dutens inform us ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051604-0528 | RUCTATION, a ventosity arising from indigestion, and discharging itself at the mouth with a very disagreeable noise. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051605-0528 | RUDBECK, Olaus, a learned Swedish physician, was born of an ancient and noble family in 1630. He became professor of medicine at Upsal, where he acquired great applause by his extensive knowledge, and died in 1702. His principal works are twofold, 1. Exercitatio Anatomica, ex-hibens ductus novos hepatico aquosos, et va... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051606-0528 | RUDDER, in Navigation, a piece of timber turning on hinges in the Stem of the ship, and which, opposing sometimes one side in the water and sometimes another, turns or directs the vessel this way or that. See the article Shipbuilding. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051607-0528 | RUDGELEY, a market-town in the county of Stafford, of the hundred of Cuttlestone, 131 miles from London, and seven from Lichfield. It is a well-built place, and contains many manufacturers of hats and of other articles; and being, by meansof canals, favoured with water communication with the whole of the interior of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051608-0528 | RUDOLSTADT, a city, the capital of the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, in Germany. It is situated on the river Saale, over which there is a stone bridge. It is surrounded with walls, is well built and paved, and contains 1 the palace of the prince, two churches, a theological seminary, and two hospitals, with 5... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051609-0528 | RUDDIMAN, Thomas, one of the most eminent grammarians which Scotland has produced, was born in October 1674, at Raggel, in the parish of Boyndie and county of Banff’. His father, James Ruddiman, was a farmer, and strongly attached to the house of Stuart.
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kp-eb0719-051901-0531 | RUDIMENTS, the first principles or grounds of any art or science. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051902-0531 | RUDRAPRAYAGA, a celebrated place of Hindu pilgrimage, in the province of Serinagur. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Alcananda and Calyganga, a large stream which rises in the mountains of Kedar. The confluence of these rivers is esteemed one of the sacred places of ablution, and is annually visited by an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051903-0531 | RUE, Charles de la, a French orator and poet, was born at Paris in the year 1643. He was educated at the college of the Jesuits, where he afterwards became professor of humanity and rhetoric. At an early age his talent for poetry disclosed itself. In 1667, when he was only twenty-four years old, he composed a Latin poe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051904-0531 | RUFFHEAD, Dr Owen, was the son of his majesty’s baker in Piccadilly. His father having bought a lottery ticket for him in his infancy, which happened to be drawn a prize of L.500, this sum was applied to educate him for the law. He accordingly entered in the Middle Temple, and seconded so well the views of his father, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-051905-0531 | RUFINUS, was born about the middle of the fourth century, at Concordia, an inconsiderable town in Italy. At first he applied himself to the belles lettres, and particularly to the study of eloquence. To accomplish himself in this elegant art, he removed to Aquileia, a town at that time so celebrated that it was called ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052001-0532 | RUGBY, a market-town of the county of Warwick, in the hundred of Knightlow, eighty-four miles from London. It is situated on the Grand Junction Canal, and has a good market on Saturday. The free-school here is celebrated, and has educated many youths of the first families of the kingdom. The population amounted in 1801... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052002-0532 | RUGENWALD, a city of Prussia, in the government of Stralsund, and the capital of the circle of Schlawe-Pollnow. It is situated on the river Wipper, about a mile distant from the Baltic Sea. It is a fortified place, containing 460 houses, with 4100 inhabitants, who have some foreign trade, some ship-building, and manufa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052003-0532 | RUHNKENIUS, David, a classical critic of great eminence, was born at Stolpen, in Prussian Pomerania, in the year 1723. Of the early part of his studies little is known, but it appears that he was some time at Schlaff, from which he removed to Königsberg, where he met with the celebrated Kant, whose system has so much e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052004-0532 | RUIB ISLE, a small island in the Eastern Seas, about six leagues from Waygoo, and surrounded by a multitude of smaller islands, with very deep waters between them. Long. 129. 55. E. Lat. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052005-0532 | RULE, in matters of literature, a maxim, canon, or precept, to be observed in any art or science.
Rule, in a monastic sense, a system of laws or regulations, according to which religious houses are governed, and which the religious make a vow, at their entrance, to observe. Rules of Court, in Law, are certain orders m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052006-0532 | RUM, a species of brandy or vinous spirits, which is distilled from sugar-canes.
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kp-eb0719-052007-0532 | RUMBO, a Malay kingdom, in the peninsula, about sixty miles from the city of Malacca. The sultan and all the principal officers of this state hold their authority immediately from Menangcabow in Sumatra, and have commissions for their respective offices. They have a peculiar dialect, called by the inhabitants of Malacc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052008-0532 | RUMFORD, Count. See Thompson, Sir Benjamin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052009-0532 | RUMINANT, in Natural History, is applied to an animal which chews over again what it has eaten before, and which is popularly called chewing the cud. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052010-0532 | RUN, a very extensive salt morass in Hindustan, which bounds the western frontier of the province of Gujerat, and communicates with the Gulf of Cutch. It is several hundred miles in length, and exhibits a variety of appearances, being in some places a widely expanded sheet of shallow water, only a few inches deep, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052101-0533 | RUNALA, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and the province of Kandesh, eighty-four miles east from Surat. Long. 74. 30. E. Lat. 21. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052102-0533 | RUNCIMAN, Alexander, an eminent Scottish painter, was born in Edinburgh in the year 1736. He was the son of an architect, a profession which has a strong affinity to that of painting. The opportunity he thus enjoyed of examining his father’s drawings gave him an early propensity to the art in general, which he very soo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052201-0534 | RUNGPOOR, a town and district of Hindustan, in the north-eastern extremity of Bengal, situated about the twentieth degree of north latitude. The district is bounded on the north by the Bootan Hills, on the south by Mymunsing, on the east by the Brahmapootra, and on the west by Dinagepore. The river Durlah separates it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052202-0534 | RUNGPORE, an extensive fortress of Hindustan, which is sometimes, but erroneously, called the capital of Assam. Gergong is the real capital, of which Rungpore is only the fort. It is situated on an island, and can only be approached by a bridge, which was built centuries ago, and remains a monument of the abilities of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052203-0534 | RUNIC, a term applied to the language and letters of the ancient Goths, Danes, and other northern nations. See Scotland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052204-0534 | RUNNER, in nautical language, a rope belonging to the garnet and the two bolt-tackles. It is received in a single block joined to the end of a pendant; it has at one end a hook to hitch into any thing, and at the other a double block, into which is reeved the fall of the tackle, or the garnet, by which means it purchas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052205-0534 | RUNNET or Rennet, is the concreted milk found in the stomachs of sucking quadrupeds, which have as yet received no other nourishment than their mother’s milk. In ruminating animals, which have several stomachs, it is generally found in the last, though sometimes in the next to it. If the runnet is dried in the sun, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052206-0534 | RUPEE, a silver coin current in the East Indies, equal to about two shillings and sixpence sterling. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052207-0534 | RUPERT, Prince palatine of the Rhine, son of Frederick prince elector palatine of the Rhine, and Elizabeth daughter of James I. of England, was born in 1619. He gave proofs of his bravery at the age of thirteen; and in 1642 came over into England, and offered Iris service to
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kp-eb0719-052208-0534 | RUPNAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, belonging to Dowlet Row Scindia. It is thirteen miles north-east from the city of Ajmeer. Long 74. 58. E. Lat. 26. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052209-0534 | RUPPIN, a city of Prussia, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the government of Potsdam, which extends over 725 square miles, and comprehends five cities, 97 villages, 84 hamlets, and 54,600 inhabitants. The city is situated on the lake Rhin, whence, by sluices, a stream is carried through it. Although ancien... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052301-0535 | RUSCIUD, a small river of Persia, which falls into the Persian Gulf, forty-eight miles west of Ormus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052302-0535 | RUSCSUK or Rusdschuk, a city of Turkey in Europe, and of the district of Silistria. It is situated on the river Danube, at the point where the Kara Lom falls into that great stream. It is fortified, and has extensive suburbs, a fortress, nine mosques, several Greek and Armenian churches, some Jewish synagogues, and a g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052303-0535 | RUSH, Benjamin, a celebrated American physician, born on the 5th of January 1745, near Bristol, in Pennsylvania, was descended from a family who were originally Quakers, and who had accompanied Penn, in 1683, to his infant colony.
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kp-eb0719-052401-0536 | RUSHWORTH, John, the compiler of some very useful historical collections, was born in Northumberland about the year 1607, being descended of honourable ancestors. After attending the university of Oxford for some time, he removed to Lincoln’s Inn; but the study of the law not suiting his genius, he soon deserted it, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052501-0537 | RUSS, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the west coast of Nassau. Long. 99. 48. E. Lat. 2. 53. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052502-0537 | RUSSELL, William, a very popular historian, the eldest son of Alexander Russell and Christian Ballantyne, was born in the year 1741 at Windydoors, a farm-house in the parish of Stowe and county of Selkirk. Most of the parish is within the limits of the county of Edinburgh. At an early age he was sent to school in the n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-052701-0539 | RUSSIA.
About the fifth century, a horde of those nations that roved at large on the banks of the Dnieper and the Volkhof, established themselves in that part of the region bordering on the Dnieper, where is now situated the government of Kief or Kiow. These people were called Slavi, or Slavonians, and had advanced ea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-059001-0602 | RUSSOOA, a village of Thibet, on the northern face of the Himalaya Mountains, which marks the frontier of the Nepaul dominions in this direction. Long. 85. 40. E. Lat. 28. 3. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-059002-0602 | RUSSOOLPOOR, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the nabob of Oude, in the province of Allahabad, forty miles north-west from the city and fortress of Allahabad. Long. 81. 25. E. Lat. 25. 57. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-059003-0602 | RUST, the calx or oxide of a metal, iron, for instance, formed by exposure to the air, or by corroding and dissolving its superficial parts by some menstruum. Water is the great instrument or agent in producing rust; and hence oils and other fatty bodies secure metals from rust, water being no menstruum for oil, and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-059004-0602 | RUSTIC, in Architecture, implies a manner of building in imitation of nature, rather than according to the rules of art.
Rustic Gods, or dii rustici, in Antiquity, were the gods of the country, or those who presided over agriculture. Varro invokes the twelve dii consentes, as the principal amongst the rustic gods, viz... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-059101-0603 | RUSTRE, in Heraldry, a bearing of a diamond shape, pierced through in the middle with a round hole. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-059102-0603 | RUTH, a canonical book of the Old Testament, being ∣ a kind of appendage to the book of Judges, and an intro-: duction to those of Samuel, and having its title from the person whose story is there principally related. In this story are observable the ancient rights of kindred and redemption; and the manner of buying th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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