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kp-eb0719-063218-0686 | SAMOS, a Greek island on the shore of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by a very narrow and crooked channel called the Little Boghaz, near to which are the ruins of Ephesus and the celebrated Cape Mycale. It is celebrated as the birthplace of Pythagoras, and was the most powerful and important of the Ionian Islan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063301-0687 | SAMOYEDES, one of those barbarous tribes who range over the vast and frozen deserts of Asia, which are bounded by the Northern Ocean. They cover a space along the shores of that ocean which extends east and west about two thousand miles, nearly as far as the river Mesen on the west, which falls into the White Sea; and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063401-0688 | SAMPANMANGO Cape, the north-west point of the island of Borneo. Long. 116. 52. E. Lat. 7. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 7 0' N 116 52' E | SAMPANMANGO |
kp-eb0719-063402-0688 | SAMPIT, a town of the island of Borneo, on the south coast, near a river of the same name, 140 miles west of Banjar Massam. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063403-0688 | SAMPOO, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the south coast of Java. Long. 112. 26. E. Lat. 8. 23. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 8 23' S 112 26' E | SAMPOO |
kp-eb0719-063404-0688 | SAMRONGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the district of Ncpaul. It has a large artificial reservoir in the vicinity, which shows the country to have been better cultivated than at present. Long. 85. 30. E. Lat. 26. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 45' N 85 30' E | SAMRONGUR |
kp-eb0719-063405-0688 | SAMSOE, an island belonging to the kingdom of Denmark, in the Cattegat, between Zealand and Jutland. It is forty-five square miles, or 28,800 acres, in extent, and is divided into six parishes, containing 2400 inhabitants. It is of moderate fertility, producing both corn, butter, and cheese, and occupying a part of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063406-0688 | SAMSON, one of the judges of Israel, memorable for his supernatural strength, his victories over the Philistines, and his tragical end, as related in the book of Judges.
Samson’s Post, a sort of pillar erected in a ship’s hold, between the lower deck and the kelson, under the edge of a hatchway, and furnished with sev... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063407-0688 | SAMSOON, a port on the southern shore of the Black Sea, to the westward of Trebisond. It contains many well-built houses, seven mosques, one Armenian church, and 500 Ma-hommedan and 200 Christian families. The vicinity has long been noted for silver and copper mines, two of which, lying between Samsoon and Kabback, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063408-0688 | SAMUEL, Books of, two canonical books of the Old Testament, being usually ascribed to the prophet Samuel. The books of Samuel and the books of Kings are a continued history of the reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah; for which reason the books of Samuel are likewise styled the first and second books of Kings. Since... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063409-0688 | SAMULCOTTA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of the Circars, and district of Rajamundry. Pepper grows wild on the neighbouring hills. It is situated on the north bank of a small river, a few miles from the sea. Long. 82. 30. E. Lat. 17. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 5' N 82 30' E | SAMULCOTTA |
kp-eb0719-063410-0688 | SAMUR. a river of Persia, in the province of Shirvan, which rises in the mountains of Lesghistan, and falls into the Caspian. At its mouth there is a small town of the same name, fifteen miles south of Derbend. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063411-0688 | SAN, a river of China, which rises on the frontier of Tartary, and falls into the Gulf of Leatong. Long. 117. 28. E Lat. 39. 9. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 9' N 117 28' E | SAN |
kp-eb0719-063412-0688 | SAN del Bose, an elevated island in the Eastern Seas. Long. 120. 31. E. Lat. 10. 27. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 27' S 120 31' E | SAN |
kp-eb0719-063413-0688 | SAN Paloi, a small island near the west coast of Luzon. Long. 120. 10. E. Lat. 14. 45. N.
San Juan de Puerto Rico . See Porto Rico . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 45' N 120 10' E | SAN |
kp-eb0719-063414-0688 | SAN Lucar de Barrameda, a city of Spain, in the province of Andalusia. It is a good port, at the entrance of the river Guadalquivir, and the city is built on its eastern bank. The trade of Seville in a great degree centres here, as the larger vessels belonging to that city cannot ascend higher up the river. It is well ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063415-0688 | SANA, the capital of the province of Yemen, in Arabia, and the residence of the Imam. It is situated in a barren and stony valley amidst lofty hills, and is surrounded in its immediate vicinity with fine gardens and luxuriant woods. It contains many handsome stone houses, and others substantially built of brick, and is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 21' N 44 9' E | SANA |
kp-eb0719-063416-0688 | SANADON, Noel Εtienne, a Jesuit, and a distinguished professor of humanity at Caen, was born at Rouen in 1676. He there became acquainted with Huet, bishop of Avranches, whose taste for literature and poetry was similar to his own. Sanadon afterwards taught rhetoric at the university of Paris, and upon the death of Du ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063501-0689 | SANASHYGOTTA, a flourishing town of Bengal, in the district of Purneah, on the Mahanuddy river, much frequented by Hindu pilgrims on their route to the places of ablution in the Northern Mountains, from which circumstance it takes its name. Long. 88. 32. E. Lat. 26. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063502-0689 | SANBALLAT, the chief or governor of the Cuthites or Samaritans, was always a great enemy to the Jews. He was a native of Horon, or Horonaim, a city beyond Jordan, in the country of the Moabites. He lived in the time of Nehemiah, who was his great opponent, and from whose book we learn his history. There is one circumst... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063503-0689 | SANCERRE, an arrondissement of the department of the Cher, in France, extending over 209,684 hectares, equal to 819 square miles. It comprehends eight cantons, and seventy-six communes, and in 1836 the inhabitants amounted to 70,907. The capital is the city of the same name, upon an elevation rising from the river Loir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 16' 53" N 2 45' 15" E | SANCERRE |
kp-eb0719-063504-0689 | SANCHEZ, François, called in Latin Sanctius, was a native of Las Brocas, in Spain, and has been dignified by his own countrymen with the pompous titles of father of the Latin language and doctor of all kinds of letters. He wrote, 1. An excellent treatise entitled Minerva, or Be causis Linguae Latinae, which was publish... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063505-0689 | SANCHONIATHO, a Phoenician philosopher and historian, who is said to have flourished before the Trojan war, and about the time of Semiramis. Of this most ancient writer the only remains extant are various fragments of cosmogony, and of the history of the gods and first mortals, preserved by Eusebius and Theodoret, both... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063701-0691 | SANCOT, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Serinagur, situated in a well-cultivated and fertile country. It is tributary to the Ghoorkali rajah of Nepaul. Many of the inhabitants are affected with tumours in their neck. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063702-0691 | SANCROFT, WILLIAM, archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Fresingfield in Suffolk in 1616, and admitted into Emanuel College, Cambridge, in 1633. In 1642 he was elected a fellow; but was ejected from his fellowship for refusing to take the covenant. In 1660 he was chosen one of the university preachers, and in 1663 was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063801-0692 | SANCTIFICATION, the act of sanctifying, or rendering a thing holy. The reformed divines define sanctification to be an act of God’s grace, by which a person’s desires and affections are alienated from the world; and by which he is made to die to sin, and to live to righteousness, or, in other words, to feel an abhorren... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063802-0692 | SANCTION, the authority given to a judicial act, by which it becomes legal and authentic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063803-0692 | SANCTORIUS, or Sanctorio, an ingenious and learned physician, was professor in the university of Padua in the beginning of the seventeenth century. He contrived a kind of statical chair, by means of which, after estimating the aliments received, and the sensible discharges, he was enabled to determine with great exactn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063804-0692 | SANCTUARY, among the Jews, called also Sanctum Sanctorum, or Holy of Holies, was the holiest and most retired part of the temple of Jerusalem, in which the ark of the covenant was preserved, and into which none but the high priest was allowed to enter, and that only once a year, to intercede for the people.
Some disti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063805-0692 | SAND, in Natural History, properly denotes small particles of siliceous stones. Sands are subject to be variously blended with different substances, as that of talcs, &c. Hence, as well as from their various colours, they are subdivided into, 1. white sands, whether pure, or mixed with other arenaceous or heterogeneous... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063806-0692 | SANDA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Sinde, situated on the south bank of the Goonee river, which is there a hundred yards broad, on the route from Hyderabad, the capital of Sinde, to Luckput Bunder, and afterwards to Mandavee, on the Gulf of Cutch. Lat. 25. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063807-0692 | SANDAL, in Antiquity, a rich kind of slipper worn on the feet by the Greek and Roman ladies. It was made of gold, silk, or other precious stuff, and consisted of a sole, with an hollow at one extreme to embrace the ancle, but leaving the upper part of the foot bare.
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kp-eb0719-063808-0692 | SANDANAH Cape, the point of the high land that forms the north-eastern end of the island of Java, and the northern entrance of Baly Straits, on the west and northwest side. Long. 114. 35. E. Lat. 7. 46. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 7 46' S 114 35' E | SANDANAH |
kp-eb0719-063809-0692 | SANDARLIE, a small place on the western coast of Asia Minor, near the head of a bay called the Gulf of San-darlie, fifty miles north-north-west of Smyrna. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063810-0692 | SANDBACH, a market-town of the county of Chester, in the hundred of Northwich, 162 miles from London. It is situated on a small brook, which runs into the river Dane and into the navigable canal. It has a fine large church with a lofty tower, a good market which is held on Thursday, and is in a district of considerable... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063811-0692 | SANDEC, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, extending over 1147 square miles. It contains eight cities, five market-towns, and 386 villages, with 198,750 inhabitants. The capital is the city of New Sandec, situated on the river Dunajec, and contains 490 houses, with 3840 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063812-0692 | SANDEL, or Sundana, Island, in the Eastern Seas, about eighty miles in length, and from fifteen to thirty-six in breadth. Long. 119. 33. to 120. E. Lat. 9. 35. to 10. 15. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063813-0692 | SANDELWOOD Isle, an island in the Eastern Seas, a hundred miles in length by thirty in average breadth. It is situated to the south of the island of Flores, about the tenth degree of north latitude. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063814-0692 | SANDEMANIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect that originated in Scotland about the year 1728, and was afterwards distinguished by the name of Glossites, from its founder Mr John Glass, who was a minister of the established church of that kingdom. Being charged with a design of subverting the national covenant, and s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063901-0693 | SANDING Isles, Pulo Sanding, or Sandiang, two small islands, which are both inhabited, and are situated off the south-west coast of Sumatra, near the south-eastern extremity of the Nassau or Poggy Isles, in which group they are sometimes included. They produce the wild nutmeg and some good timber. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063902-0693 | SANDOMIR, one of the provinces into which the kingdom of Poland is divided. It extends in north latitude from 50° 25' to 51° 52', and in east longitude from 19° 43' to 21° 52', consisting of 5590 square miles; and it contains 378,000 inhabitants, mostly adhering to the Catholic church, except the Jews, who form the maj... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063903-0693 | SANDPU, or Sanpoo, the vulgar name of a river in the East Indies, which is one of the largest in the world. It is better known by that of Brahmaputra, or Burrampooter, to which the reader is referred. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-063904-0693 | SANDWICH, a town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of Eastry, and lathe of St Augustine, sixty-eight miles from London. It is situated on the river Stour, two miles from its entrance into the sea. It was once accessible by ships, but the sand has nearly choked the passage, though some plans are at present in contem... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064001-0694 | SANDY, a town of Hindustan, in the district of Khyra-bad, belonging to the nabob of Oude, situated in a bleak and desolate country, without a tree or a shrub to shade the arid soil. In the vicinity is an extensive lake. Sandy is twenty-five miles south-east from Furruckabad. Long. 70. 58. E. Lat. 27. 18. N.
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kp-eb0719-064002-0694 | SANDYS, Sir Ediwn, second son of Dr Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York, was born about 1561, and educated at Oxford under Mr Richard Hooker, author of the Ecclesiastical Polity. In 1581 he was collated to a prebend in the cathedral of York. He travelled into foreign countries; and, upon his return, became famous for lear... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064003-0694 | SANGA, a regularly-built seaport of Japan, in the island of Ximo, with wide streets, and defended by a citadel. It is forty miles north-east of Nangasaki. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064004-0694 | SANGAMSERE, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore, and district of the Concan, situated on the banks of the Jaigur river. Long. 73. 15. E. Lat. 17. 11. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064005-0694 | SANGANEER, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, and district of Kotah, fortified by a strong stonewall and ditch, and garrisoned by the troops of the rajah of Kotah. It is situated on the Upper Chumbul river. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064006-0694 | SANGAR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of[7:19:641] Malwah, situated on a plain surrounded by a range of low hills. Long. 78. 50. E. Lat. 23. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064101-0695 | SANGARA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Nandere, belonging to the nizam. It is situated at the junction of the Manzora with the river Godavery, forty-three miles from the town of Nandere. Long. 78. 12. E. Lat. 18.49. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064102-0695 | SANGBARAH, a town of Hindustan, tributary to the Mahrattas, in the province of Gujerat, 112 miles north-west from Ahmedabad. Long. 74.13. E. Lat. 23. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064103-0695 | SANGIR, an island in the Eastern Seas, thirty miles in length by ten in average breadth. It is high land, well wooded, and the coast has better harbours, and is less dangerous from hidden rocks and shoals, than most of the eastern islands. The country is populous, and affords refreshments of various kinds to ships, suc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064104-0695 | SANGUR, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, and district of Bundelcund. It is tributary to the Mahrattas. It is a hundred miles south-west from Chatterpoor. Long. 78. 50. E. Lat. 23. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064105-0695 | SANHEDRIM, or Sanhedrin, from the Greek word Σ υvεδϑιov , which signifies a council or assembly of persons sitting together, was the name by which the Jews called the great council of the nation, assembled in an apartment of the temple of Jerusalem to determine the most important affairs of their church and state. This... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064201-0696 | SANJORE, a Rajpoot town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer and district of Saroway, situated on the east side of the river Bah, 115 miles west-south-west from Odeypoor. It is surrounded with the Beloochee plunderers, so that the road to it is impassable without a large escort. It is subject to the rajah of Joudpoo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064202-0696 | SANKAN, a town of Arabia, in the province of Yemen, near the coast of the Red Sea, thirty-five miles north-northwest of Abu-Arisch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064203-0696 | SANNAZARIUS, James, a celebrated Latin and Italian poet, born at Naples in 1458. He by his wit ingratiated himself into the favour of King Frederick; and when that prince was dethroned, he attended him into France, where he staid with him until his death, which happened in 1504. Sannazarius then returned into Italy, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064204-0696 | SANOK, a circle of the Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, extending over 2151 square miles, containing ten cities, ten market-towns, and 431 villages, with 230,600 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river San. It is a poor place, with but little trade, containing a castle, and 220 houses,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064205-0696 | SANQUHAR, a royal burgh in Scotland, on the left bank of the Nith, between the counties of Dumfries and Ayr. The town most probably owes its origin to a castle of some note, the ruins of which are still extant, on a high bank overlooking the river Nith. This castle was the chief residence of the Queensberry family, bef... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064206-0696 | SANTA Catalina, one of the Solomon Islands, in long. 162. 31. 80. E. and lat. 10. 53. 50. S.
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kp-eb0719-064301-0697 | SANTANDER, a city of Spain, in the province of Old Castille. It is situated on the northern coast, on the Bay of Biscay, and is one of the best ports on that shore. It carries on considerable commerce in fine wools, and imports large quantities of the salted fish of Newfoundland. The commerce with the interior has indu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064302-0697 | SANTAREM, a city of Portugal, in the province of Estremadura. It is situated on a hill, which is washed by the river Tagus, and from it, such is the gradual declivity of the country, that the towers of Lisbon, though at fifty miles distance, are visible through the translucent atmosphere. The prospects from the heights... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064303-0697 | SANTEUIL, or Santeul, Jean Baptiste de, an excellent Latin poet, was born at Paris in the year 1630. Having finished his studies, he applied himself entirely to poetry, and celebrated in his verse the praises of several great men, by which he acquired universal applause. He enriched Paris with a great number of inscrip... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064304-0697 | SANTIAGO, a large city of Spain, in the province of[7:19:644] Galicia, of which it is the capital. It is about six leagues from the sea, on a little river not navigable, called the Sar, which unites with another called the Sancta, and then flows into the Ulla, and joins the river Arosa, which has at its entrance to the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064401-0698 | SANTIPONTE, or Santiponce, a town of Spain, in the division of Andalusia and government of Seville, about five miles from that city, situated on the right bank of the river Guadiana. It is celebrated for its antiquity, having been the seat of the old Roman Italica, the city of which the Emperor Trajan was a native. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064402-0698 | SANTIPORE, a town of Bengal, in the district of Kishenagur, situated on a sandy soil, two miles east of the Bhagurutty river. Long. 28. 34. E. Lat. 23. 13. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064403-0698 | SANTORIN, one of the Greek islands in the AEgean Sea, and among the richest and best peopled of their number. It is about seventy-eight square miles in extent. Its appearance is that of a mountain perpendicularly cut downwards from the sea, composed of various volcanic matters, such as basalt, puzzolana, and pumice. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064404-0698 | SANTUR, a Turkish stringed instrument, resembling that kind of German psaltery which is especially used in Hungary in the dances of the common people. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064405-0698 | SAONE, a considerable river of France, which has its source in the Vosges, near Darney, and falls into the Rhone at Lyons.
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kp-eb0719-064501-0699 | SAP, the juice found in vegetables. See Vegetable Physiology. Sap, in sieges, is a trench, or an approach made under cover, of ten or twelve feet in breadth, when the besiegers come near the place, and the fire from the garrison grows so dangerous that they are not able to approach uncovered. There are several sorts of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064502-0699 | SAPAROUA, one of the Amboyna Isles, about twenty miles in circumference. It formerly yielded to the Dutch East India Company one half of the cloves exported from the Amboyna government. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064503-0699 | SAPATA, a small island in the Eastern Seas, elevated and barren, and white like the cliffs of Dover, with innumerable flocks of sea-fowl screaming over it. Long 109. 10. E. Lat. 10. 4. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064504-0699 | SAPPAN, a river in the peninsula of Malacca, which falls into the straits, in long. 101. 47. E. and lat. 2. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064505-0699 | SAPPERS are soldiers belonging to the royal artillery, whose business is to work at the saps. A brigade of sappers generally consists of eight men, divided equally into parties; and whilst one of these is advancing the sap, the other is furnishing the gabions, fascines, and other necessary implements. They relieve each... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064506-0699 | SAPPHIRA was the wife of a rich merchant in Gueldres, and equally distinguished for her beauty and her virtue. Rhinsauld, a German officer, and governor of the town of Gueldres, fell in love with her; and not being able, either by promises or presents, to seduce her, he imprisoned her husband, pretending that he kept u... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064507-0699 | SAPPHO, a celebrated poetess of antiquity, who for her excellence in the art has been called the Tenth Muse, was born at Mitylene, in the isle of Lesbos, about 610 years before Christ. She was contemporary with Stesichorus and Alcaeus.
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kp-eb0719-064508-0699 | SAPY Straits. These are between the east end of the island Sumbawa, and the west side of Commodo or Rotten Island. The southern entrance is in long. 119. 20. E. and lat. 8. 40. S. Numerous small islands are found in this strait, which by contracting, increase the rapidity of the current, and render navigation dangerous... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064509-0699 | SARABAND, in Spanish zarabanda, a Spanish dance
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kp-eb0719-064510-0699 | SARABAT, a considerable river of Asia Minor, which rises in the Morad Dag, and passing by Sart and Magnesia, falls into the Gulf of Smyrna, in latitude 38. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064511-0699 | SARACENS, the inhabitants of Arabia, so called from the word saru, which signifies a desert, as the greater part of Arabia is; and this being the country of Mahommed, his disciples were called Saracens. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064512-0699 | SARAGOSSA. See Zaragoza. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064513-0699 | SARANGPOOR, a town and district of the Mahratta territories, in the province of Malwah, situated about the twelfth degree of north latitude. It is hilly, yet being watered by numerous branches of the Sopra and Gilly Sinde rivers, it is fertile and productive. The chief towns are Sarangpoor, Rajegur, and Sher.
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... | 23 38' N 76 30' E | SARANGPOOR |
kp-eb0719-064514-0699 | SARANGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, possessed by independent Goand chiefs, fourteen miles south-west from Bustar. Long. 82. 26. E. Lat, 19. 40. N.[7:19:646] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064601-0700 | SARATOV, a large province or government, partly in the south-east of Europe, and partly in Asia. Its form is that of a triangle on both sides of the Volga, having on the one side the country of the Don Cossacks, and on the other that of Astracan. It is very thinly peopled, containing an area of 91,000 square miles, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 31' N 46 0' E | SARATOV |
kp-eb0719-064602-0700 | SARATOV, a large province or government, partly in the south-east of Europe, and partly in Asia. Its form is that of a triangle on both sides of the Volga, having on the one side the country of the Don Cossacks, and on the other that of Astracan. It is very thinly peopled, containing an area of 91,000 square miles, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 31' N 46 0' E | SARATOV |
kp-eb0719-064603-0700 | SARAWAN, the most northerly division of Beloochistan, composed entirely of vast mountains and deserts, and divided into districts, each of which furnishes its military quota to the Mahommedan armies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064604-0700 | SARBATCHOU SAHA, a small island in the Sea of Japan, near the coast of Corea. Long. 131. 37. E. Lat. 42. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064605-0700 | SARBO, an island in the Red Sea, near the coast of Abyssinia. Lat. 15. 8. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064606-0700 | SARCASM, in Rhetoric, a keen and bitter expression, which has the true point of satire, by which the orator scoffs and insults his enemy. Such was that which the Jews said to our Saviour: “He saved others, himself he cannot save.” | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064607-0700 | SARCHAD, a town of Syria, in the district beyond Jordan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064608-0700 | SARCOPHAGUS, in Antiquity, a sort of stone coffin or grave, in which the ancients deposited the bodies of the dead which were not intended to be burned. The word, as derived from the Greek, literally signifies flesh-eater, because originally a kind of stone was used for tombs, which quickly consumed the bodies. One of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064609-0700 | SARDANAPALUS, the last king of the Assyrians, was the thirtieth from Ninus, of whom Herodotus merely mentions that he concealed his treasure in subterranean vaults. The character usually ascribed to him is that of a luxurious and slothful prince, who spent the greater part of his time in the harem among his women. But ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-064610-0700 | SARDINIA. This kingdom is composed of two portions. One is the island bearing that name, which has long been entitled to the distinctive title of a kingdom; and the other consists of portions of the north-west of Italy, which at different periods had been distinguished as feudal or independent sovereignties under vario... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065101-0705 | SARDIS, or Sardes. See Sart. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065102-0705 | SARDONIUS Risus, Sardonian Laughter, a convulsive involuntary laughter, so named from the herba sardonia, which is a species of ranunculus, and is said to produce such convulsive motions in the cheeks as resemble those motions which are observed in the face during a fit of laughter. This complaint is sometimes speedily... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065103-0705 | SARDONYX, a precious stone, consisting of a mixture of the calcedony and carnelian, sometimes in strata, but at other times blended together. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065104-0705 | SARFEND, supposed to be the ancient Sarepta, a village of Palestine, eight miles south of Saida. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065105-0705 | SARHAUT, a town of Bengal, in the district of Birbhoom, eighty-five miles west from Moorshedabad. Long. 86. 51. E. Lat. 24. 14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 14' N 86 51' E | SARHAUT |
kp-eb0719-065106-0705 | SARI, a town of Persia, and capital of the province of Mazanderan, once the seat of Aga Mahommed Khan, and still the residence of one of the Persian princes. It is a very ancient city, and frequently alluded to by Ferdousi. It is small, but well fortified, being surrounded by a good wall and a deep ditch. It is crowded... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 35 35' N 52 58' E | SARI |
kp-eb0719-065107-0705 | SARLAT, an arrondissement of the department of the Dordogne, in France. It extends over 683 square miles, and comprehends ten cantons, divided into 133 communes, with 110,447 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It stands in a low situation, on every side surrounded with naked rocks. In the neighbourh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 3' N 1 9' E | SARLAT |
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