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kp-eb0719-061404-0668 | SAIDA, or Seida, a seaport of Syria, celebrated as one of the most ancient Phoenician cities, and supposed to be built on the site of the ancient Sidon. In sacred writ it is often mentioned along with Tyre, and always as a flourishing commercial city. It was occupied by the French during the middle ages, who repaired a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 33 25' N 35 14' E | SAIDA |
kp-eb0719-061405-0668 | SAIL, in Navigation, an assemblage of several breadths of canvass, sew ed together by the lists, and edged round with cord, fastened to the yards of a ship, to make it drive before the wind.
The edges of the cloths or pieces of which a sail is composed, are generally sewed together with a double seam; and the whole is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061406-0668 | SAILING, the movement by which a vessel is wafted along the surface of the water, by the action of the wind upon her sails.
When a ship changes her state of rest into that of motion, as in advancing out of a harbour, or from her station at anchor, she acquires motion very gradually, as a body which arrives not at a ce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061501-0669 | SAINT means a person eminent for piety and virtue, and is generally applied to the apostles and other holy persons mentioned in Scripture. But the Roman Catholics give it an application much more extensive. The canonization of saints, they tell us, is the enrolment of any person in the canon or catalogue of those who a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061502-0669 | SAINTES, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Charente, in France. It is 596 square miles in extent, and comprehends eight cantons, divided into 109 communes, with 104,871 inhabitants in 1836. The capital is the city of the same name situated at the foot of a hill on the navigable river Charente. It is an i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 44' 43" N 0 43' 58" W | SAINTES |
kp-eb0719-061601-0670 | SAIPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, possessed by independent zemindars. It is situated on the north-west side of the Rhair river, fifteen miles from the southern frontier of the Rhotas district, in Bahar. Long. 82. 50. E. Lat. 24. 2. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 2' N 82 50' E | SAIPOOR |
kp-eb0719-061602-0670 | SAJENE, a Russian measure of length, equal to about seven English feet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061603-0670 | SAKERTOL, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, and district of Saharunpore. It was taken by the Mahrattas in 1772. It is situated on the western bank of the Ganges. Long. 77. 0. E. Lat. 29. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 29 25' N 77 0' E | SAKERTOL |
kp-eb0719-061604-0670 | SAKKAR, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, belonging to the nizam, and situated about the seventeenth degree of north latitude. It is well watered, being situated between the rivers Beemah and Krishna, and is extremely fertile. To the north of the Beemah it is somewhat hilly. The principal towns are ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 4' N 76 38' E | SAKKAR |
kp-eb0719-061605-0670 | SAL si Puedes, is the name of some islands in the Gulf of California. They lie in the interior of the gulf, and form a chain, leaving only some very narrow channels, of difficult entrance for vessels. They are of various sizes, the largest bearing the names of Las Animas, San Lorenzo, San Estevan, and San Augustin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061606-0670 | SALA, a city of Italy, in the province of Principato Citra, of the kingdom of Naples, situated on a small river of the same name. It is an inland place, situated on an elevated spot, and has a castle, five parish churches, and 6100 inhabitants. Another place of the same name in Italy is in the duchy of Parma, being sit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061607-0670 | SALAD, or Sallad, a dish of eatable herbs, seasoned with salt, oil, and vinegar. Ménage derives the word from the Latin salata, from sal, salt; but others from salcedo. Ducange derives it from salgama, which is used in Ausonius and Columella in the same sense. Some add mustard, hard eggs, and sugar. The principal salad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061608-0670 | SALADIN, a famous sultan of Egypt, equally renowned as a warrior and a legislator. He supported himself by his valour, and the influence of his amiable character, against the united efforts of the chief Christian potentates of Europe, who carried on wars against him, under the appellation of Holg Wars. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061609-0670 | SALAIBSKOIE, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, situated at the confluence of the small river Salaiba with the Bia, and surrounded with immense forests. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061610-0670 | SALAMANCA, one of the departments into which the kingdom or province of Leon, in Spain, is divided. It is situated between lat. 40° and 41° 38' north. The river Duero forms its limit to the north and north-west, except where it comes in contact with Portugal. Estremadura is on its southern side, and the province of Seg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061701-0671 | SALAME, a small island at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, near Cape Mussendoon. Long. 56. 48. E. Lat. 26. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 20' N 56 48' E | SALAME |
kp-eb0719-061702-0671 | SALAMIS, an island of the Archipelago, situated in long. 34. 0. E. and lat 37. 32. N. It was famous in antiquity for a battle fought there between the Greek and Persian fleets. In this engagement, which was one of the most memorable actions we find recorded in history, the Grecians lost forty ships, and the Persians tw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 37 32' N 34 0' E | SALAMIS |
kp-eb0719-061703-0671 | SALAYR Isle, an island in the Eastern Seas, situated off the southern extremity of Celebes, about the sixth degree of south latitude. This island is about forty miles in length by eight in average breadth; and there are many smaller isles around it, two of which only are inhabited, namely, Bonarutte and Calawe. It is m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061704-0671 | SALE is the exchange of a commodity for money; barter, or permutation, is the exchange of one commodity for another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061705-0671 | SALEMI, a city of the island of Sicily, in the province of Mazzara. It stands on a healthy spot on the summit of a hill, which is the ancient Alicia or Halycus. It is surrounded with walls in a dilapidated state. It is on the decline, but still contains 9200 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in agriculture, especia... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061706-0671 | SALENGORE, a district in the Malay peninsula, extending along the Straits of Malacca, and governed by a Mahommedan chief, who bears the title of rajah. It is situated at no great distance from Prince of Wales’ Island, in which the trade of the place chiefly centres. Pepper, cloves, wild nutmegs, wax, nutmeg-oil, rattan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061707-0671 | SALEP, in the Materia Medica, the dried root of a species of orchis. “The restorative, mucilaginous, and demulcent qualitics of the orchis root, render it of considerable use in various diseases. In the sea-scurvy it powerfully obtunds the acrimony of the fluids, and at the same time is easily assimilated into a mild a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061708-0671 | SALERNO, a city of Italy, the capital of the Neapolitan province Principato Citeriore. It stands on the sea-shore, in the bay of that name, between mountains and the two small rivers called Sele and Larino. It is surrounded with walls, and defended by a castle. An archbishop is situated here, with a fine cathedral, und... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061801-0672 | SALFORD, a township of the parish of Manchester, and a kind of suburb to that place, being separated from it only by a small bridge. It is chiefly inhabited by operatives in the cotton trade. It was created a borough by the law of 1832, for the purpose of returning one member to the House of Commons. The population amo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061802-0672 | SALIANT, in Fortification, denotes projecting. There are two kinds of angles; the one saliant, which have their points outwards; the other re-entering, which have their points inwards.
Saliant, Sament, or Saillant, in Heraldry, is applied to a lion, or other beast, when its tore-legs are raised in a leaping posture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061803-0672 | SALIBABO Isles, a group of islands in the Eastern Seas, situated about the fourth degree of north latitude, and between 126 and 127 of east longitude. The island of Sali-babo is about fifteen miles in circumference, and is situated to the southward of Tulour, from which it is divided by a narrow strait, about one mile ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061804-0672 | SALIC or Salique Law (Lex Saliva), an ancient and fundamental law of the kingdom of France, usually supposed to have been made by Pharamond, or at least by Clovis, in virtue of which males only are to inherit.
Some, as Postellus, would have it to have been called Salic, as if Gallic, because peculiar to the Gauls. Mon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061805-0672 | SALII, in Roman antiquity, priests of Mars, of which there were twelve, instituted by Numa, and wearing painted, parti-coloured garments, and high bonnets, with a steel cuirass on the breast. They were called salii, from sαltαre, to dance; because, after assisting at sacrifices, they went dancing about the streets, wit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061806-0672 | SALIM, a river of Asiatic Russia, which falls into the Obi, sixty miles from Sourgout. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061807-0672 | SALINA, an island in the Mediterranean, belonging to the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. It is divided by a channel three miles across from Lipari to the north-west of that island. It is about fourteen miles in circuit. A valley between two mountains, called Fossa Felice, is extremely fertile, and produces a great revenue... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061808-0672 | SALINES, a city of France, in the department of the Jura, and arrondissement of Poligny. It is situated in a narrow valley on the river Furieuse, and is defended by two forts. In it arc some strong brine springs, from which culinary salt is prepared; but much of the brine is conducted to Arp and Senans to be granulated... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061809-0672 | SALISBURY, or New Sarum, a city in the county of Wilts, and in the hundred of Underditch. It is the shire town of the county, where the assizes and the elections are held, and where, but in the village of Fisherton adjoining, is the county jail. It stands in a narrow valley, in which the small rivers Willy and Nadder u... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061901-0673 | SALIVA is that fluid by which the mouth and tongue are continually moistened in their natural state, and is supplied by glands which form it, and are called salivary glands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061902-0673 | SALIVATION, in Medicine, a promoting of the flux of saliva by means of medicines, chiefly by mercury. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061903-0673 | SALIX, the Willow. Willow trees have been frequently the theme of poetical description, both in ancient and modern times. In Virgil, in Horace, and in Ovid, we have many exquisite allusions to them and their several properties. The Babylonica, Babylonian pendulous salix, commonly called weeping willow, grows to a large... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061904-0673 | SALLAWATTY, one of the Papuan or Oriental Negro Isles, separated from the island of Papua or New Guinea by a narrow strait. It is thirty miles in length by twenty-five in average breadth, and produces abundance of sago of an excellent quality. It is situated about the 13lst degree of east longitude. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061905-0673 | SALLEE, an ancient and considerable town of Africa, in the kingdom of Fez, with a harbour and several forts; but the river, which formerly admitted large vessels, is now-choked up with sand. It was formerly the stronghold of Moorish piracy, from which great depredations were committed upon Europeans; and there may stil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061906-0673 | SALLEEOLAKIT, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the south-west coast of Mindanao. Long. 121. 25. E. Lat. 6. 42. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 42' N 121 25' E | SALLEEOLAKIT |
kp-eb0719-061907-0673 | SALLIAN, a city of Persia, situated on the Caspian, at the mouth of the Kur. It is chiefly inhabited by Russians, who carry on here an extensive fishery of sturgeon, which abounds in the neighbouring seas. It is ninety miles south of Schamachi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061908-0673 | SALLO, Denis De, a French writer, famous for being the projector of a certain class of literary journals, was born at Paris in 1626. He studied the law, and was admitted a counsellor in the parliament of Paris in 1652. It was in 1664 that he formed the plan of the Journal des Savans; and the year following he began to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061909-0673 | SALLUNA, a town of Northern Hindustan, tributary to the Ghoorkhali rajah of Nepaul. Long. 81. 37. E. Lat. 29. 2. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-061910-0673 | SALLUSTIUS, C. Crispus, a celebrated Latin historian, was born of a plebeian family of Amiternum, a city of the Sabines, b. c. 86, the same year that Marius died. We can have no doubt that the cultivation of his mental powers must have been carefully attended to, though this does not seem to have prevented him from fal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062001-0674 | SALLUZZO, a city of the kingdom of Sardinia, in the province of Turin, and the capital of the division of that name. It stands on an elevation not far from the river Po. It is surrounded with walls, is the see of a bishop, and has a cathedral, several churches and monasteries, and 10,150 inhabitants, who carry on much ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062002-0674 | SALLY-PORTS, in Fortification, are those underground passages which lead from the inner to the outward works; such as from the higher flank to the lower, or to the tenailles, or the communication from the middle of the curtain to the ravelin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062003-0674 | SALMASIUS, Claudius, a French writer of uncommon abilities and erudition, descended from an ancient and noble family, and born at or near Samur in the year 1596. His mother, who was a Protestant, infused her notions of religion into him, and he at length converted his father. He settled at Leyden; and in 1650 he paid a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062004-0674 | SALMO, the Salmon. See Ichthyology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062005-0674 | SALMON Fishery. See Fishery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062006-0674 | SALO, a market-town of Italy, in the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy, and in the delegation of Brescia. It is most delightfully situated on a bay in the lake of Garda, and behind it rises the Alpine mountain Pennino. It is the seat of a judicial tribunal, has three churches, an orphan-house, a hospital, and many ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062007-0674 | SALO Bay, on the north coast of the island of Java. Long. 112. 36. E. Lat. 6. 58. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062008-0674 | SALOMBO, a cluster of small islands in the Eastern Seas. Long. 113. 13. E. Lat. 5. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062009-0674 | SALON, a city of France, in the department of the Mouths of the Rhone, and the arrondissement of Aix. It stands partly on the side of a hill and partly on the plain below, through which the canal of Craponne connects it with the river Crau. In 1836 it contained 5987 inhabitants, who cultivate great numbers of olive tre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 40' N 5 5' E | SALON |
kp-eb0719-062010-0674 | SALONA, a seaport town of Dalmatia, situated on a bay of the Gulf of Venice. It was formerly a very considerable place, and its ruins show that it was twelve miles in circumference. In a valuable manuscript relation of Dalmatia, written by the senator Giambattista Giustiniani, about the middle of the sixteenth century,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 10' N 17 29' E | SALONA |
kp-eb0719-062011-0674 | SALONICA, a large city of Turkey in Europe, the capital of a province of the same name, and anciently Thessalonica. It is situated on a bay formed by the two capes of the Great and Little Burnu. It is of a triangular shape, the base of which is on the sea-shore. The walls of brick, on a stone foundation, are of an unus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 40' N 22 25' 25" E | SALONICA |
kp-eb0719-062101-0675 | SALOON, a town of Hindustan, in the nabob’s territories, in the province of Oude, sixty-five miles southsouth-east from Lucknow. Long. 81. 24. E. Lat. 26. 2. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 2' N 81 24' E | SALOON |
kp-eb0719-062102-0675 | SALOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Cir-care, fifty-three miles north-west from Vizagapatam. Long. 83. 19. E. Lat. 18. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062103-0675 | SALOP, or Shropshire, an inland county of England. It is bounded on the north by Cheshire and the Welsh counties of Flint and Denbigh; on the west by the Welsh counties of Denbigh, Montgomery, and Radnor; on the south by Herefordshire and Worcestershire; and on the east by Staffordshire. It is of an oblong figure, exte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062301-0677 | SALOPAR, a town of the island of Ceylon, belonging to the British, eighteen miles north-north-west of Trincomalee. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062302-0677 | SALPINX, σαλitiγξ, the name of an ancient Greek trumpet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062303-0677 | SALSETTE, an island on the western coast of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, about eighteen miles in length by fourteen in average breadth. It was formerly separated from Bombay by a narrow strait about two hundred yards across, opposite to the fort of Tannah, across which, in 1805, a causeway was carried, whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062401-0678 | SALT, one of the great divisions of natural bodies. The characteristic marks of salt have usually been reckoned its power of affecting the organs of taste, and its being soluble in water. But this will not distinguish salt from quicklime, which also affects the sense of taste, and dissolves in water; yet quicklime has ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062701-0681 | SALTASH, a market-town of the county of Cornwall, in the hundred of East, and a part of the parish of St Stephen. It is 220 miles from London, on the banks of the river Tamar, three miles above Plymouth, with which place it is connected by the Crimble Ferry. It is a corporate town, with a charter granting jurisdiction ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062702-0681 | SALTCOATS, a seaport town in Ayrshire, on the Frith of Clyde, thirty miles distant from Glasgow. At the end of the seventeenth century it consisted only of four houses; but it is now a place of considerable trade, and exports large quantities of coals, which are procured from the extensive coal-fields in the neighbourh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062703-0681 | SALTPETRE, or Νιγrε (nitrate of potash), a compound of nitric acid and potash. It is generally obtained in the form of six-sided prismatic crystals, terminated by six-sided pyramids, joined by their bases. Its specific gravity is 1∙933. See CHEMISTRY.
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kp-eb0719-062704-0681 | SALTSKAMMER, a circle in the Austrian province of the Upper Ens, extending over 330 square miles, and containing three market-towns and seventy-two villages, with 15,600 inhabitants. It is a most picturesque district, five sixths of the surface being covered with Alpine mountains, and watered by the romantic river Trau... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062705-0681 | SALVADOR, St, or Βahia, a large and important province of Brazil, extending from the Belmonte, in latitude 15° 25' south, to the Rio Real, which divides it from Seregipe d’el Rey, in latitude 11° 38' south. The river St Francisco separates it from Pernambuco on the west and north-west, while on the south-west it touche... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062801-0682 | SALVATION means the safety or preservation of any thing which is or has been in danger, and is generally used in a religious sense, when it means preservation from eternal death, or reception to the happiness of heaven, which is now offered to all men by the Christian religion upon certain conditions. See Theology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062802-0682 | SALVIANUS, an ancient father of the Christian church, who flourished in the fifth century, and was well skilled in the sciences. He acquired such reputation for his piety and learning, that he was named the Master of the Bishops. He wrote a Treatise on Providence; another on Avarice; and some epistles, of which Baluze ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062901-0683 | SALUTE, in military matters, a discharge of artillery, or small arms, or both, in honour of some person of extraordinary quality. The colours likewise salute royal persons, and generals commanding in chief, which is done by lowering the point to the ground. In the field, when a regiment is to be reviewed by the king or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062902-0683 | SALWATTY, an island in the Pacific Ocean, near the north-west coast of New Guinea, from which it is separated by a narrow channel. It is about ninety miles in circumference. Long. 131. 15. E. Lat. 1. 6. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 1 6' S 131 15' E | SALWATTY |
kp-eb0719-062903-0683 | SALZBURG. At present this district forms a circle of the Austrian province of Upper Ens, extending over 2836 square miles. It was formerly one of the most valuable of the independent ecclesiastical states of Germany, in the circle of Bavaria, under its own archbishop, whose revenues and dignity were of the highest clas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 43' 10" N 13 54' 5" E | SALZBURG |
kp-eb0719-062904-0683 | SALZWEDEL, a city of Prussian Saxony, in the government of Magdeburg, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 454 square miles, and contains a population of 31,600 persons. It is situated on the river Jecke, which is navigable thus far, is surrounded with walls, and contains 930 houses, with 6300 i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062905-0683 | SAMADONG, a large town in the island of Java, situated in a country of luxuriant fertility, 144 miles south-east from Batavia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062906-0683 | SAMAK, an island in the south-western part of the Gulf of Persia, about twelve leagues in circumference. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-062907-0683 | SAMANA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, possessed by native chiefs in alliance with the British, 122 miles north-west from Delhi. Long. 75.48. E. Lat. 30.2. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 2' N 75 48' E | SAMANA |
kp-eb0719-062908-0683 | SAMANAP, a large and populous town on the southeastern coast of the island of Madura, and the residence of a prince. It is situated on a fine bay, which, though rather shallow, will admit of large brigs or country prows lying close to the town. It carries on an extensive commerce, and the country abounds in rice, and t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 7 5' S 114 E | SAMANAP |
kp-eb0719-062909-0683 | SAMAND, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Moultan, and district of Bahar, which is tributary to the Afghans. It is situated on the eastern side of the river Indus. Long. 19. 57. E. Lat. 28. 11. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 28 11' N 19 57' E | SAMAND |
kp-eb0719-062910-0683 | SAMANEANS, in Antiquity, a kind of magicians or philosophers, who have been confounded by some with the Brahmins. They proceeded from Ariana, a province of Persia, and the neighbouring countries, spread themselves in India, and taught new doctrines.
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kp-eb0719-063001-0684 | SAMAR, one of the Philippine Islands, 140 miles in length by sixty in average breadth. It is situated southeast from the large island of Luzon, from which it is separated by a strait five leagues in breadth. It is of an extremely fertile soil, which, besides other grain, produces abundance of rice, that is wholly appro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063002-0684 | SAMARA, a town of Irak Arabi, on the Tigris, revered by Mussulmen as containing the tomb of Mahommed al Mahudi, the twelfth imam. It was known in antiquity, and was in the ninth century the residence of several caliphs of the house of Abbas. It now only contains about four hundred houses. It is sixty miles north of Bag... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063003-0684 | SAMARANG, a fortified town on the north-east coast of the island of Java, and the principal central station in the island, being the capital of a large district. It has a considerable European population, and ranks next in importance to Batavia. The town is defended by a stone parapet, with bastions and a wet ditch; bu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 54' S 110 38' E | SAMARANG |
kp-eb0719-063004-0684 | SAMARCAND. This city, which was once the capital of Independent Tartary, and the favourite residence of the great Timour, is now little better than a mass of ruins. Until the time of Shah Murad, the place was not only ruinous, but desert, the haunt of the wolf and the lion. That sovereign used all his efforts to restor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 37' 23" N 64 9' E | SAMARCAND |
kp-eb0719-063101-0685 | SAMARIA, in Ancient Geography, one of the three larger Cisjordan districts, situated in the middle between Galilee to the north and Judaea to the south, beginning at the village Ginaea, in the Campus Magnus, and ending at the toparchy called Acrobatena. Its soil differs in nothing from that of Judaea, both being equall... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063102-0685 | SAMARITANS. The Samaritans are the people of the city of Samaria, and the inhabitants of the province of which Samaria was the capital city. In this sense, it should seem that we might give the name of Samaritans to the Israelites of the ten tribes, who lived in the city and territory of Samaria. However, the sacred au... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063201-0686 | SAMAVAT, a town of the Syrian desert, to the west of the Euphrates, once a considerable city, but now only containing 300 Arabs, who levy exorbitant contributions on all pilgrims who take this route to the holy city. It is ninety miles west of Meshed Ali. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063202-0686 | SAMBACCA, a town of the island of Sicily, in the province of Mazzara, and fifty miles from Palermo. It is in a healthy situation on a hill, eight miles from the sea-shore, and contains 9600 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063203-0686 | SAMBAH, a town of Hindustan, in the Sikh territories, and province of Lahore, situated on the eastern side of the small river Deeg, fifty-five miles north-north-east from the city of Lahore. Long. 74. 8. E. Lat. 32. 34. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 34' N 74 8' E | SAMBAH |
kp-eb0719-063204-0686 | SAMBAR Point, the south-west point of the large island of Borneo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063205-0686 | SAMBASS, a town and river on the west coast of the island of Borneo. The town is about forty miles up the river. It is built, as the seaport towns in Borneo generally are, of timber and bamboos, and is raised on wooden stalks and piles, on low swampy morasses. The river is wide at its entrance, which is in long. 109. 5... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 1 12' N 109 5' E | SAMBASS |
kp-eb0719-063206-0686 | SAMBAYA, a river on the north coast of the island of Java, which is navigable in the rainy season as far as the residence of the Emperor of Solo; and a recent survey, made by Captain Colebrooke, shows that the impediments to its further navigation might be easily removed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063207-0686 | SAMBELONG Islands, two or three islands among the Nicoar Islands, a little to the north of the Great Nicoar. Long. 100. 36. E. Lat. 41. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 41 20' N 100 36' E | SAMBELONG |
kp-eb0719-063208-0686 | SAMBER, a Rajpoot town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, and district of Jyepoor. It is situated in the vicinity of a salt lake, from which the greater part of Hindustan is supplied with salt, which is a source of great prosperity to the town. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063209-0686 | SAMBHAR Cape, on the south-western coast of the island of Borneo. Long. 109. 50. E. Lat. 2. 52. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 2 52' S 109 50' E | SAMBHAR |
kp-eb0719-063210-0686 | SAMBOANGAN, a Spanish fortress and settlement on the south-west extremity of the island of Magindanao. The town is situated on the banks of a small rivulet which flows into the sea, and contains a thousand inhabitants, including officers, soldiers, and their respective families. Here are erected, on posts twelve feet h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 45' N 122 10' E | SAMBOANGAN |
kp-eb0719-063211-0686 | SAMBOR, a circle of the Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, extending over 2050 square miles, comprising ten cities and towns, and 352 villages, with 250,700 inhabitants, about one fifth of whom are Jews. The capital is the city of the same name, which is situated on the river Dniester. It stands on a fine plain, is tolerabl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 31' 30" N 23 30' 31" E | SAMBOR |
kp-eb0719-063212-0686 | SAMBUCA, σαμξυζυχη, appears to have been an instrument of the harp kind, of a triangular form, and having strings of unequal length and thickness, said to have been invented by Ibycus of Messina, a lyric poet, contemporary with Anacreon; more probably, we think, an oriental instrument adopted by the ancient Greeks. (Co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063213-0686 | SAMGAUM, a town of Hindustan, in the province of the Carnatic, and district of Nelloor, situated on the north bank of the Pennar river. Long. 70. 44. E. Lat. 14. 33. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 33' N 70 44' E | SAMGAUM |
kp-eb0719-063214-0686 | SAMMAN, a town in the interior of Lasha, in Arabia, fifty miles west-north-west of El Katif. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063215-0686 | SAMOGITIA, a province of Poland, bounded on the north by Courland, on the east by Lithuania, on the west by the Baltic Sea, and on the south by Regal Prussia, being a hundred and seventy-five miles in length and a hundred and twenty-five in breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063216-0686 | SAMOIEDA, a country of the Russian empire, between Asiatic Tartary and Archangel, lying along the sea-coast as far as Siberia. The inhabitants are extremely rude and barbarous, travelling on the snow in sledges drawn by an animal like a rein-deer, but with the horns of a stag. Their chief employment consists in hunting... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063217-0686 | SAMON, an island in the Eastern Seas, to the northwest of Timor. It is hilly, and covered with wood. The tides run very strong, and occasion ripplings, which have the appearance of breakers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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