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kp-eb0719-065108-0705 | SARMATTA Isle, a small island in the Eastern Seas, about thirty miles in circumference. Long. 129. 15. E. Lat. 8. 10. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 8 10' S 129 15' E | SARMATTA |
kp-eb0719-065109-0705 | SARNO, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Principato Citeriore. It is situated on a river of the same name, is the see of a bishop, with a cathedral, three parish and five conventual churches, and contains 11,930 inhabitants, who grow much good wine and oil, and make paper of various kinds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065110-0705 | SAROS, in chronology, a period of 223 lunar months. The etymology of the word is said to be Chaldaean, signifying restitution or return of eclipses; that is, conjunctions of the sun and moon in nearly the same place of the ecliptic. The Saros was a cycle like that of Meto. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065111-0705 | SAROS-PATAK, a city of Hungary, in the province of the Hither Theiss, and the circle of Tokay. It stands on the river Bodrog, and is well built, being the seat of a Calvinist university, which has nine professors and 1240 students, with a library of 20,000 volumes, a museum, and physical laboratory. It has manufactures... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 18' 50" N 21 29' 57" E | SAROS-PATAK |
kp-eb0719-065112-0705 | SAROWY, a Rajpoot town and district of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer. The district is situated principally between the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth degrees of north latitude. The country, which is occupied by Rajpoot chiefs, is hilly and unproductive, although watered by the Bah and Banass rivers. The town is f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 32' N 73 20' E | SAROWY |
kp-eb0719-065113-0705 | SARRASIN, a city of the department of the Tarn and Garonne, and in the arrondissement of the same name, of which it is the capital. It is sometimes distinguished as Castel-Sarrasin. The arrondissement in extent is 267,723 acres, or 418 square miles, and contains seven cantons and eighty communes, with 72,650 inhabitant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065114-0705 | SARREBOURG, an arrondissement of the department of the Meurthe, in France, extending over 418 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these into 116 communes, which have a population of 75,499 persons. The capital is the city of the same name situated on the river Saar; but it contained only 2340 inhabitants... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065115-0705 | SARREGUEMINES, an arrondissement of the department of the Moselle, in France, 524 square miles in extent. It is divided into eight cantons, and these into 143 communes, containing, in 1836, 125,973 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, situated at the junction of the river Bise with the Saar. There is so... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 8' N 7 5' E | SARREGUEMINES |
kp-eb0719-065116-0705 | SART, a village of Asia Minor, small and insignificant; now chiefly distinguished by the ruins of Sardis, once the splendid capital of Lydia. These ruins are found confusedly scattered over a verdant plain, and consist of bricks so strongly cemented together that it is scarcely possible for any violence to disjoin them... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065117-0705 | SARTENE, one of the arrondissements into which the island of Corsica has been divided. It extends over 648 square miles, and comprehends eight cantons, divided into forty-three communes, with 25,739 inhabitants. The chief place is the city of the same name, with 2682 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065118-0705 | SARTHE, a department of the north-west of France, formed out of parts of the ancient province of the Upper Maine, of Anjou, and Perche-Gouet. It is bounded on the north by the department of the Ome, on the east by those of the Eure-Loire and the Loire-Cher, on the south by the Indre-Loire and Maine-Loire, and on the we... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065201-0706 | SARTINE Islands, a cluster of small islands in the
Northern Pacific Ocean, so named by Pérouse. Long. 129. 18. W. Lat. 50. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 56' N 129 18' W | SARTINE |
kp-eb0719-065202-0706 | SARUM, Old, a place in the county of Wilts, only remarkable from the proprietor of it having retained the ancient right of returning two members to the House of Commons till 1832. Some of the most distinguished statesmen have sat for this place, among the rest Lord Chatham. There is at present but one house in it, thou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065203-0706 | SARUN, an extensive and valuable district in the province of Bahar, situated about the twenty-sixth degree of north latitude. Its boundaries on the north are Gorakpoor and Bettiah, on the south it has the Ganges, on the east Bettiah and Hajypoor, and on the west the Dewah or the Goggrah River. It contained, according t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065204-0706 | SARZEAU, a city of France, in the department of Morbihan, and the arrondissement of Vannes. It depends chiefly on the fishery, and contains, including the parish, 6126 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065205-0706 | SASERAM, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, and district of Rhotas. This was the favourite residence of Shere Khan, the Afghan, who, after having defeated the Moguls, and expelled the Emperor Humayoon, the father of Akbar, from Hindustan, mounted the throne and reigned five years. He was killed at the siege... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 N 84 5' E | SASERAM |
kp-eb0719-065206-0706 | SASHES, in military dress, are badges of distinction, worn by the officers of most nations, either round their waist or over their shoulders. Those for the British army are made of crimson silk; for the imperial army, of crimson and gold; for the Prussian army, of black silk and silver; for the Hanoverians, of yellow s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065207-0706 | SASNEE, a town and fort of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, from which the zemindar was expelled, after a desperate resistance, by the British in 1803. It is thirtyeight miles north-north-east from the city of Agra. Long. 78. 4. E. Lat. 27. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 45' N 78 4' E | SASNEE |
kp-eb0719-065208-0706 | SASRAM, a small island in the Gulf of Siam, near the coast of Cambodia. Long. 103. 48. E. Lat. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 N 103 48' E | SASRAM |
kp-eb0719-065209-0706 | SASSARI, a city of the island of Sardinia. It stands on the plain of Fulmenaria, in the northern part, about nine miles from Porto Torres. The situation is pleasing and healthy, and the vicinity produces abundance of wine, oil, corn, fruit, and tobac∞, and is distinguished by the excellence of its cultivation. The city... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065210-0706 | SATALIA, Antalia, or, according to others, Adalia, a city of Asia Minor, in Caramania, beautifully situated at the head of a gulf to which it gives name. The site is a rising ground, on which the streets are placed above each other, and form a succession of terraces. On the level summit of the hill the city is enclosed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 50' N 30 45' E | SATALIA |
kp-eb0719-065211-0706 | SATANAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the nizam’s territories, and the province of Hyderabad. It is fifty-five miles north by east from the city of Hyderabad. Long. 78. 16. E. Lat. 17. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 56' N 78 16' E | SATANAGUR |
kp-eb0719-065212-0706 | SATARAH, a well-known town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, and the Mahratta territories. Its foundation is on a rock, which stands on the westernmost point of a hill, rising from a base of from seven to eight miles in length from east to west. The passage to it is very narrow, only admitting one... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | SATARAH | |
kp-eb0719-065301-0707 | SATELLITE, an island in D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Van Diemen’s Land, partly covered with an impenetrable thicket. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | SATELLITE | |
kp-eb0719-065302-0707 | SATGONG, formerly a large trading city, in which the Europeans had their factories; but it is now an inconsiderable village, on a small creek of the river Hooghly, about four miles to the north-west of the town of Hooghly, in Bengal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065303-0707 | SATIMANGALUM, a town of Hindustan, in the northern district of Coimbetoor, situated on the river Bhawani. The fort is said to have been built about two hundred years ago. The town, which formerly contained eight hundred, but has now only six hundred houses, is scattered over the plain. Here is a temple of some repute d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 28' N 77 20' E | SATIMANGALUM |
kp-eb0719-065304-0707 | SATTERAM, a town of Hindustan, in the Mysore rajah’s territories, situated twenty miles south from Seringapatam. Long. 76. 53. E. Lat. 12. 9. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 9' N 76 53' E | SATTERAM |
kp-eb0719-065305-0707 | SATTIAVERAM, a town of Hindustan, on the sea-coast of the Northern Circars. It is fifty-six miles south-west from Vizagapatam. Long. 82. 45. E. Lat. 17. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 15' N 82 45' E | SATTIAVERAM |
kp-eb0719-065306-0707 | SATURDAY, the seventh and last day of the week, so called from the idol Seater, worshipped on this day by the ancient Saxons, and thought to be the same as the Saturn of the Latins. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065307-0707 | SATURN, in Astronomy, one of the planets of our solar system, revolving at the distance of more than nine hundred millions of miles from the sun.
Saturn, in chemistry, is an appellation which was formerly given to lead.
Sλturn, in Heraldry, denotes the black colour in blazoning the arms of sovereign princes.
Saturn,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065308-0707 | SATURNALIA, in Roman antiquity, a festival observed about the middle of December, in honour of the god Saturn, whom Lucan introduces giving an account of the ceremonies observed upon this occasion. “During my whole reign,” says he, “which lasts but for one week, no public business is done; there is nothing but drinking... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065309-0707 | SATURNINE, an appellation given to persons of a melancholy disposition, as being supposed to be under the influence of the planet Saturn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065310-0707 | SATYAVRATA, or MeNü, in Indian mythology, is believed by the Hindus to have reigned over the whole world in the earliest age of their chronology, and to have resided in the country of Dravira, on the coast of the eastern Indian peninsula. His patronymic name was Vaivaswata, or Child of the Sun. Sir William Jones has sh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065311-0707 | SATYRS, in ancient mythology, a species of demi-gods, who dwelt in the woods. They are represented as monsters, half men and half goats; having horns on their heads, and a hairy body, with the feet and tail of a goat. They are generally delineated in the train that follows Bacchus. As the poets supposed that they were ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065312-0707 | SAUL, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, was the first king of the Israelites. On account of his disobedient conduct, the kingdom was taken from his family and given to David. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065313-0707 | SAUMUR, an arrondissement of the department of the Maine et Loire, in France, extending over 516 square miles. It is divided into eight cantons and ninety-three communes, and, in 1836, contained 91,159 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated at the influx of the Thouet into the Loire, which here... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 15' 24" N 0 9' 55" W | SAUMUR |
kp-eb0719-065314-0707 | SAUNDERS' Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, ten leagues in circumference, and discovered by Captain Cook in 1775. Long. 26. 44. W. Lat. 57. 49. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 57 49' S 26 44' W | SAUNDERS' Island |
kp-eb0719-065315-0707 | SAUNDERSON, Dr Robert, an eminent casuist, was[7:19:654] born at Rotherham, in Yorkshire, on the 19th of September 1587. He was descended of an ancient family, and attended the grammar-school at Rotherham, where he made such wonderful proficiency in the languages, that at thirteen it was judged proper to send him to Li... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065501-0709 | SAURIN, James, a celebrated preacher, was born at Nismes in 1677, being the son of a Protestant lawyer of considerable eminence. He applied to his studies with great success; but at length being captivated with a military life,[7:19:656] he relinquished them for the profession of arms. In 1694 he made a campaign as a c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065701-0711 | SAUSSURE, Horace Benedict de, a celebrated naturalist, was a native of Geneva, and born in the year 1740. His father was an intelligent farmer, who lived at Conches, about half a league from Geneva, which no doubt contributed, in addition to his active education, to increase the physical strength of young Saussure, so ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065801-0712 | SAUTGUR, a town of the south of India, in the province of Barramahal, among the Eastern Ghauts, thirty miles west from Vellore. Long. 78. 54. E. Lat. 12. 58. N. The pass in the Ghaut beyond this place, approaching the Mysore, has been levelled and improved since the conquest of the country by the British. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065802-0712 | SAUVEUR, Joseph, an eminent French mathematician, born at La Flèche in 1653. He was absolutely dumb until he was seven years of age; and even then his organs of speech were not evolved so fully as to permit him to speak without great deliberation. Mathematics were the only studies he had any relish for, and these he cu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065803-0712 | SAVA, a town of Persia, now in ruins, in the northern part of the province of Irak. It is still the capital of a district which yields excellent pasture, though strongly impregnated with salt. It is one hundred and eighty miles north-west from Ispahan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-065804-0712 | SAVAGE is a word so well understood as scarcely to require explanation. When applied to inferior animals, it denotes that they are wild, untamed, and cruel; when applied to man, it is of much the same import with barbarian, and means a person that is untaught and uncivilized, or who is in the rudest state of uncultivat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 1' S 169 37' W | SAVAGE |
kp-eb0719-066001-0714 | SAVANNAH, formerly the capital of Georgia, in North America. This city is advantageously situated for a commercial town, being accessible to large vessels from the sea, and communicating with the interior by the noble river of the same name. It is built on a high bank rising about forty feet above the water; and its sp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066002-0714 | SAVARY, James, an eminent French writer on the subject of trade, was born at Done, in Anjou, in 1622. Being bred to merchandise, he continued in trade until 1658, when he left off the practice, to cultivate the theory. He had married in 1650; and in 1660, when the king declared his purpose of assigning privileges and p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066003-0714 | SAVE, a river of Germany, which has its source in Upper Carniola, on the frontiers of Carinthia. It runs through Carniola from west to east, afterwards separates Sclavonia from Croatia, Bosnia, and part of Servia, and then falls into the Danube at Belgrade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066004-0714 | SAVENAY, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Loire, in France, extending over 210,279 hectares, which, in English measure, is equal to 739 1 /4 square miles. It is divided into eleven cantons, and these into fifty-one communes, with (in 1836) 114,256 inhabitants. The capital is a town of the same name, whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066005-0714 | SAVENDROOG, a celebrated fortress of the south of India, in Mysore. It is strongly situated on the summit of an immense rock, half a mile in nearly perpendicular height, and surrounded by a thick wood. It was taken by the British in 1791, without the loss of a man. Long. 77. 29. E. Lat. 12. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066006-0714 | SAVERNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Rhine, in France. Its extent is 297,104 acres, equal to 464 square miles; and is divided into seven cantons, and these into 165 communes, with a population, in the year 1836, of 112,260 persons. The capital, a city of the same name, stands on the river Zorn, at ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066007-0714 | SAVIGLIANO, a city of Italy, in the kingdom of Sardinia and province of Turin. It stands on a fine plain watered by the river Maira. It is well built, and has a fine market-place, magnificcnt palaces, several churches and monasteries, and 18,750 inhabitants, among whom are many of the nobility. It has some considerable... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066008-0714 | SAVIGNANO, a town of Italy, in the papal delegation[7:19:661] of Forli. It contains 5100 inhabitants, mostly very poor, who are chiefly occupied in winding silk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066101-0715 | SAVILE, Sir George, afterwards Marquis of Halifax, and one of the greatest statesmen of his time, was born about the year 1630; and some time after his return from his travels was created a peer, in consideration of his own and his father’s merits. He was a strenuous opposer of the bill of exclusion, but proposed such ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066102-0715 | SAVILLE, Sir Henry, a learned Englishman, was the second son of Henry Saville, and was born at Bradley, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, on the 30th of November 1549. He entered of Merton College, Oxford, in 1561, where he took the degrees in arts, and was chosen fellow. When he proceeded master of arts in 1570, he read for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066201-0716 | SAVINGS BANKS are institutions established by act of parliament, for the safe custody of small sums deposited by the industrious classes, and for the accumulation of such sums at compound interest. The origin of savings banks is comparatively recent. Attempts at instituting such banks were made, on a small scale, at va... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066201-0718 | SAVIOUR, an appellation which is peculiarly given to Jesus Christ, as being the Messiah and Saviour of the world. See Jesus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066202-0718 | SAVONA, a city of Italy, in the kingdom of Sardinia, and the province, formerly the state, of Geno. It stands on the river Ponente, near the sea, where the Egabona falls into that stream. It has a small harbour, fit only for coasting vessels, but by which trade and the fisheries are carried on in it It is the seat of a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 16' N 9 25' E | SAVONA |
kp-eb0719-066203-0718 | SAVONAROLA, Jerome, a famous Italian monk, was born at Ferrara in 1452, being descended of a noble family. At the age of twenty-two he assumed the habit of a Dominican friar, without the knowledge of his parents, and distinguished himself in that order by his piety and ability as a preacher. Florence was the theatre wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066204-0718 | SAVOY. See Sardinia . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066205-0718 | SAVU, an island in the Eastern Seas, about twenty miles in length, low at the sea-coast, but towards the middle rising into considerable hills. According to Captain Cook and other navigators, it presents a delightful prospect from the sea. The inhabitants have made some approaches to civilization, and the island is div... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 35' S 122 30' E | SAVU |
kp-eb0719-066206-0718 | SAW, an instrument which serves to cut into pieces several solid matters, as wood, stone, ivory, and the like.
The best saws are of tempered steel ground bright and smooth; those of iron are only hammer-hardened. Hence the first, besides their being stiffer, are likewise found smoother than the last. They are known to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066401-0720 | SAWARDIN, a Kalmuck melody, sung while dancing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066402-0720 | SAWBRIDGEWORTH, a town of the hundred of Braughin, in the county of Hertford, twenty-six miles from London. It had once a market, but it has totally declined. The population amounted in 1801 to 1687, in 1811 to 1827, in 1821 to 2071, and in 1831 to 2231. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066403-0720 | SAXE, Maurice, Count of, was born on the 13th of October 1696. He was the natural son of Frederick Augustus II. elector of Saxony and king of Poland, and of the Countess of Konigsmarc, a Swedish lady, celebrated both for her wit and her beauty. He was educated along with Frederick Augustus, the electoral prince, afterw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066501-0721 | SAXE-ALTENBURG, a duchy in Germany, recently become an independent though a small sovereignty. It was united with Saxe-Gotha till the decease without issue of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Gotha Altenburg, when a dispute arose between the several branches of the family, which was terminated by a treaty in 1826, Gotha being tr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066601-0722 | SAXMUNDHAM, a town and parish of the hundred of Plomsgate, in the county of Suffolk, eighty-nine miles from London. It is situated on a hill, with good prospects around it, and is not well built, but has a large church. It has very little trade, but a market is held on Thursday. The population amounted in 1801 to 855, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066602-0722 | SAXO-GRAMMATICUS, descended from an illustrious Danish family, was born about the middle of the twelfth century. Stephens, in his edition of Saxo-Grammaticus, printed at Soroë, indubitably proves that he must have been alive in 1156; but he cannot ascertain the exact place and time of his birth. On account of his uncom... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-066701-0723 | SAXONY, one of the provinces of the kingdom of Prussia. It has been formed out of several of the hereditary states of the monarchy, and also by the addition of the territory of some mediatized princes, and in a great measure by extensive parts of the kingdom of Saxony which were transferred to Prussia by the negotiatio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067101-0727 | SAYANSKIE, a chain of mountains in Siberia, forming a prolongation of the Altai chain, and, like them, separating Siberia from Chinese Tartary. They extend between the river Yenisei and Lake Baikal, and consist of naked rocks of red granite. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067102-0727 | SAYMBRUMBACUM, a small town of India, in the province of the Carnatic. Near it is a remarkably fine reservoir of water, eight miles in length by three in average breadth, which in the dry season is rendered subservient to the purposes of cultivation, and being let out in small streams, serves to irrigate the lands of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 2' N 80 5' E | SAYMBRUMBACUM |
kp-eb0719-067103-0727 | SAYPAN, one of the Ladrone Isles, in the Eastern Seas, about twenty miles in circumference. It was once the best peopled island of the Ladrones, but is now uninhabited; and very opposite accounts are given of its productiveness by different voyagers. Anson mentions that it presents as pleasant an aspect as Tinian; and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 13' N 145 55' E | SAYPAN |
kp-eb0719-067104-0727 | SCALDS, in the history of literature, a name given by the ancient inhabitants of the northern countries to their poets, in whose writings their history is recorded. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067105-0727 | SCALE, a mathematical instrument, consisting of several lines drawn on wood, brass, or silver, and variously divided, according to the purposes it is intended to serve; whence it acquires various denominations, as the plain scale, diagonal scale, plotting scale, and the like.
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kp-eb0719-067106-0727 | SCALENE, or Scalenous Triangle, scalenum, in Geometry, a triangle the sides and angles of which are unequal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067107-0727 | SCALIGER, Julius Caesar, a learned critic, poet, physician, and philosopher, was born at the castle of Ripa, in the territories of Verona, in 1484; and is said to have been descended from the ancient princes of Verona, though this[7:19:672] is not mentioned in the letters of naturalization which he obtained in France i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067201-0728 | SCALPING, in military history, a barbarous custom, in practice among the Indian warriors, of taking off the tops of the scalps of the enemies’ skulls with their hair on. They preserve them as trophies of their victories, and are rewarded by their chiefs according to the number of scalps which they bring in. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067202-0728 | SCANDARIEH, a village of Irak Arabi, situated on a canal which forms a communication between the Tigris and Euphrates, 120 miles north-west of Bassorah. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067203-0728 | SCANDERBEG, the surname of George Castriot, king of Albania, a province of Turkey in Europe, dependent upon the Ottoman empire. He was delivered up with his three elder brothers as hostages, by their father, to Amurath II. sultan of the Turks, who poisoned his brothers, but spared him on account of his youth, being lik... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067204-0728 | SCANDEROON, a seaport of Syria, on a bay in the south-eastern part of the Mediterranean. About half a mile south is an octagonal castle, well built of hewn stone, called the Castle of Scanderberg, or Alexander. It is surround< a d by walls, which are now low; but each side is defended by a tower. To the north is an old... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067205-0728 | SCANDINAVIA, a general name for the countries of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, anciently under the dominion of one prince. The inhabitants of these countries, in former times, were excessively addicted to war. From their earliest years they applied themselves to the military art, and accustomed themselves to cold, fatig... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067401-0730 | SCANNING, in Poetry, the measuring of verse by feet, in order to see whether or not the quantities be duly observed. The term is chiefly used in Greek and in Latin verses. Thus an hexameter verse is scanned by resolving it into six feet; a pentamcter, by resolving it into five feet; and so of the rest. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067402-0730 | SCANTLING, a measure, size, or standard, by which the dimensions of things are to be determined. The term is particularly applied to the dimensions of any piece of timber, with regard to its breadth and thickness. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067403-0730 | SCAPE-GOAT, in Jewish antiquities, the goat which was set at liberty on the day of solemn expiation. Some say that a piece of scarlet cloth, in form of a tongue, was tied upon the forehead of the scape-goat. (Hoffmann, Lex. Univ. in voc. Lingua.) Many have been the disputes among the interpreters concerning the meaning... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067404-0730 | SCAPEMENT, in clock-work, a general terra for the manner of communicating the impulse of the wheels to the pendulum. See Clock and Watch Work. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067405-0730 | SCAPULA, John, the reputed author of a Greek lexico, studied at Lausanne. His name is recorded in the annals of literature, neither on account of his talents, nor learning, nor virtuous industry, but for a gross act of disingenuity and fraud which he committed against an eminent literary character of the sixteenth cent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067406-0730 | SCAPULAR, or Scapulary, a part of the habit of several religious orders in the Church of Rome, worn over the gown as a badge of peculiar veneration for the blessed Virgin. It consists of two narrow slips or breadths of cloth covering the back and the breast, and hanging down to the feet. The devotees of the scapulary c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067407-0730 | SCARBOROUGH, a town on the shore of the German Ocean, in the lathe of Pickering, in the north riding of the county of York, and 216 miles from London. This town is distant about five leagues north-west from Flamborough Head. It has a harbour, which is dry at low water, and of late has been so improved as to afford shel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067501-0731 | SCARDONA, a seaport town of Dalmatia, situated on the eastern bank of the river Cherca. It has been taken and retaken several times by the Turks and Venetians, the latter of whom ruined the fortifications and its principal buildings in 1537. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067502-0731 | SCARIFICATION, in Surgery, the operation of making several incisions in the skin by means of lances or other instruments, particularly the cupping instrument. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067503-0731 | SCARP, in Fortification, is the interior talus or slope of the ditch next the place, at the foot of the rampart.
Scarp, in Heraldry, the scarf which military commanders wear for ornament. It is borne somewhat like a battoon sinister, but is broader and continued out to the edges of the field, whereas the battoon is cu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067504-0731 | SCARPA, Αντονιο, was born in Lombardy between the years 1746 and 1750. He early distinguished himself as an anatomist and surgeon, and his works, in both these branches of science, have spread his reputation throughout all Europe. For many years he occupied the chairs of clinical and operative surgery in the school of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067505-0731 | SCARRON, Paul, a famous burlesque writer, was the son of a counsellor in parliament, and born at Paris about the end of the year 1610, or in the beginning of the succeeding year. His father having married a second time, he was compelled to assume the ecclesiastical profession. At the age of twenty-four he visited Italy... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067601-0732 | SCEAUX, an arrondissement of the department of the Seine, in France, to the south of Paris. It extends over 23,909 hectares, equal to 53,796 acres, or eighty-four square miles, and is divided into four cantons, and these into forty-
three communes, which, in 1836, contained 87,708 inhabitants. The chief town, which is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067602-0732 | SCENE, in its primary sense, denotes a theatre, or the place where dramatic pieces and other public shows are exhibited. It does not appear that the ancient poets were at all acquainted with the modern way of changing the scenes in the different parts of the play, in order to raise the idea of the persons represented b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067603-0732 | SCENOGRAPHY, from the Greek σχηvη, scene, and γϑαοη, description, in perspective, is a representation of a body on a perspective plane; or a description of it in all its dimensions, such as it appears to the eye. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067604-0732 | SCEPTIC, σχηπτχος, from σχεπτομαι, I consider, look about, or deliberare, properly signifies considerative and inquisitive, or one who is always weighing reasons on one side and the other, without ever deciding between them. It is chiefly applied to an ancient sect of philosophers founded by Pyrrho, who, according to L... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067701-0733 | SCEPTRE, a kind of royal staff, borne on solemn occasions by kings, as a badge of their command and authority. Nico derives the word from the Greek σχηπτϑov, which, he says, originally signified a javelin, which the ancient kings usually bore as a badge of their authority, that instrument being in very great veneration... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0719-067702-0733 | SCHAFFHAUSEN, one of the cantons of Switzerland. It is bounded on the north, east, and west, by the grand duchy of Baden; and on the south by the Rhine, which divides it from the cantons of Thurgau and Zurich. It is only 120 square miles in extent, in which are comprehended three cities, four market-towns, and thirty-f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 42' N 8 32' E | SCHAFFHAUSEN |
kp-eb0719-067801-0734 | SCHAMACHI, the capital of the province of Shirvan, in Persia, once large, populous, and commercial, but now ruined, and its remains entirely covered with thick brushwood. The modern city is called New Schamachi, and is situated in a plain on the river Aksisi, about thirty miles from the Kur, and nearly the same distanc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 27' N 48 45' E | SCHAMACHI |
kp-eb0719-067802-0734 | SCHANCK, Cape, a rocky point, with three rocky islets lying off it, on the south coast of New Holland. It is the west point of the principal entrance into Western Port. Long. 144. 53. E. Lat. 38. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 30' S 144 53' E | SCHANCK |
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