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kp-eb0720-080803-0954 | SUMBHULPORE, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, situated between the twenty-first and twenty-second degrees of north latitude. It is of an unwholesome atmosphere, especially to foreigners, owing to the mountainous and woody nature of the country, to the sudden vicissitudes of heat and cold, and to th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 33' N 83 47' E | SUMBHULPORE |
kp-eb0720-080804-0954 | SUMBOONHAUT, a town and temple in the Ghoorkha country, in Nepaul. It is celebrated for a temple containing. from time immemorial the sacred fire, and is annually resorted to by innumerable pilgrims from Bootan and Thibet, and is a source of considerable revenue to the Nepaul government. Long. 85. 38. E. Lat. 27. 33. N... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 33' N 85 38' E | SUMBOONHAUT |
kp-eb0720-080805-0954 | SUMBUL, a town of Hindustan, province of Delhi, and district of Bareilly, situated on the Yarvufadur river. It is fifty-two miles west-north-west from Bareilly. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-080806-0954 | SUMISHORE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar. It is forty-six miles west-north-west from Bettiah. Long. 84.15. E. Lat. 27. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 15' N 84 15' E | SUMISHORE |
kp-eb0720-080807-0954 | SUMMER, the name of one of the seasons of the year, being one of the quarters when the year is divided into four quarters, or one half when the year is divided only into two, summer and winter. In the former case, summer is the quarter during which, in northern climates, the sun is passing through the three signs Cance... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-080808-0954 | SUMNUM, a small town of Persia, in the province of Khorassan. It is the capital of a rich district containing filly villages, and bounded on the north by Mount Elburz, and on the south by the Great Salt Desert. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-080809-0954 | SUMY, a city of Russia, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the province Slobod-Ukraine, 911 miles from St Petersburg. It stands on the river Psiol, where the Sumy falls into it. It is surrounded with walls and ditches, contains two stone and eight wooden churches, 1230 houses, with 13,600 inhabitants, who dis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 50' N 28 1' E | SUMY |
kp-eb0720-080810-0954 | SUMPTUARY Laws ( Leges Sumptuaria), are laws made to restrain luxury. Most ages and nations have had some such laws. Political writers have been much divided in opinion with respect to their utility. Montesquieu observes that luxury is necessary in monarchies, as in France, but ruinous to democracies, as in Holland. Wi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-080811-0954 | SUN, Sol, in Astronomy, the great luminary which enlightens the world, and by its presence constitutes day. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-080812-0954 | SUNBURY, a town of the county of Middlesex, in the hundred of Spelthorne, eighteen miles from London. It is finely situated on the left bank of the Thames, between Hampton Court and Shepperton, and is much resorted to by the lovers of angling in the summer season. The population amounted in 1811 to 1655, in 1821 to 177... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-080813-0954 | SUNDA, Straits of. The arm of the sea which separates the large islands of Sumatra and Java is so called by the Europeans, and by the Malays Sunda Kalapa. The length of this channel, taken from the flat point to Varkens or Hog Point, is about seventy miles; and on the opposite coast, from Java Head to Bantam Point, abo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-080901-0955 | SUNDAY, or the Lord’s Day, a solemn festival observed by Christians on the first day of every week, in memory of our Saviour’s resurrection. In the Breviary and other offices, we meet with Sundays of the first and second class. Those of the first class are, Palm, Easter, Advent, and Whitsunday, those of Quasimodo and Q... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-080902-0955 | SUNDEEP Isle, an island of Bengal, in the district of Chittagong, about twenty miles in length by ten in breadth. It is the seat of a salt manufacture by the government, subordinate to the Bulwa and Chittagong agency. The soil is fertile and affords excellent pasture for cattle, and might be easily rendered of much mor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-080903-0955 | SUNDELLA, a town of Hindustan, in the nabob of Oude’s territories. It is thirty miles north-west from Lucknow. Long. 80. 30. E. Lat. 27. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 5' N 80 30' E | SUNDELLA |
kp-eb0720-080904-0955 | SUNDERBUNDS, an extensive and woody district of Bengal, situated at the mouth of the eastern or great branch of the river Ganges. It is a dreary region, consisting of a labyrinth of rivers and creeks, all of salt, except those that communicate immediately with the principal arm of the Ganges, these numerous natural can... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-080905-0955 | SUNDERLAND, a large and important seaport town on the east coast of England, in the county of Durham, 268 miles from London by way of Stockton. The municipal boundary includes the townships of Monkwearmouth, Bishopwearmouth, and Southwick, which form an area of 5095 acres. The river Wear, after running through the cent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081001-0956 | SUNDRABORN, a small state and town on the island of Celebes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081002-0956 | SUNERAMPORE, a town of Bengal, district of Dacca, situated on the Megna river. Long. 91. E. Lat. 24. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 5' N 91 E | SUNERAMPORE |
kp-eb0720-081003-0956 | SUNGEI Tenang, a country in the interior of Sumatra, between the second and third degrees of south latitude. It is mountainous, and the access to it is extremely difficult, from high ranges of mountains, and thick forests which intervene. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081004-0956 | SUNNINGHILL, a parish in Berkshire, in the hundred of Cookham, twenty-two miles from London, and five miles from Staines. It is finely situated in the most delightful part of Windsor forest. It chiefly consists of elegant villas, and was once much visited on account of some mineral springs, which had great reputation i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081005-0956 | SUPEREROGATION, in Theology, what a man does beyond his duty, or more than he is commanded to do. The Romanists strenuously contend for works of supererogation, and maintain that a stock of merit is accumulated, of which the church has the disposal, and which she distributes in indulgences according to her own pleasure... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081006-0956 | SUPERFICIES, or Surface, in Geometry, the outside or exterior face of any body. This is considered as having the two dimensions of length and breadth only, but no thickness; and therefore it makes no part of the substance, or solid content, or matter, of the body. The terms, or bounds, or extremities, of a superficies,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081007-0956 | SUPERFLUOUS Interval. See Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081008-0956 | SUPERINTENDENT, which is equivalent to bishop, denotes an ecclesiastical superior in several reformed churches, particularly among the Lutherans of Germany. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081009-0956 | SUPERLATIVE, in Grammar, one of the degrees of[7:20:811] comparison, being that inflection of adjective nouns that serves to augment and heighten their signification, and shows the quality of the thing denoted to be in the highest degree. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081101-0957 | SUPERPARTICULAR Proportion, or Ratio, is that in which the greater term exceeds the less by unit or 1: as the ratio of 1 to 2, or 2 to 3, or 3 to 4. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081102-0957 | SUPERPARTIENT Proportion, or Ratio, is when the greater term contains the less terra once, and leaves some number greater than 1 remaining: as the ratio of 3 to 5, which is equal to that of 1 to 1 2 / 3 ; of 7 to 10, which is equal to that of 1 to 1 3 / 7 . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081103-0957 | SUPERSTITION, a word that has been used so indefinitely that it is difficult to determine its precise meaning. From its resemblance in sound to the Latin word superstes, a survivor, it is evidently derived from it, and different attempts have been made to trace their connection in signification. In the dialogue of Cice... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081301-0959 | SUPINE, in Latin grammar, part of the conjugation of a verb, being a verbal substantive of the singular number and the fourth declension. There are two kinds of supines; one, called the first supine, ending in urn of the accusative case, which is always of an active signification, and follows a verb of motion, as abiit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081302-0959 | SUPPER, the evening repast. Suppers that are heavy should be avoided, because the stomach is more oppressed with the same quantity of food in a horizontal posture than in an erect one, and because digestion proceeds more slowly when we sleep than when we are awake. They should be eaten long enough before bed-time, that... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081901-0965 | SUPPORTERS, in Heraldry, figures in an achievement, placed by the side of the shield, and seeming to support or hold up the same. Supporters are chiefly figures of beasts: figures of human creatures for the like purpose are called tenants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081902-0965 | SUPPOSITORY, a kind of medicated cone or ball, which is introduced into the anus for opening the belly. It is usually composed of common honey mixed up with soap or oil, and formed into pieces of the length and thickness of the little finger, only pyramidal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081903-0965 | SUPRALAPSARIANS, in Theology, persons who hold that God, without any regard to the good or evil works of men. has resolved, by an eternal decree, supra lapsum, antecedently to any knowledge of the fall of Adam, and independently of it, to save some and to condemn others; or, in other words, that God intended to glorify... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081904-0965 | SURAJEGHUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, district of Monghier, sixty-eight miles east-southeast of Patna. Long 86. 15. E. Lat. 25. 14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 14' N 86 15' E | SURAJEGHUR |
kp-eb0720-081905-0965 | SURAJEPOOR, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, fifty-one miles south-west by south from Lucknow, pleasantly situated on the west side of the Ganges. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081906-0965 | SURAT, a large and populous city of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, situated on the south side of the Taptee river, about twenty miles above its junction with the sea. It is one of the largest cities in Hindustan; and is termed by Bishop Heber a very large and ugly city, with narrow winding streets, and high hou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 13' N 73 3' E | SURAT |
kp-eb0720-081907-0965 | SURCINGLE, a girdle with which the clergy of the Church of England usually tie their cassocks. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081908-0965 | SURCOAT, a coat of arms, to be worn over body armour. The surcoat is properly a loose thin taftety coat, with arms embroidered or painted on it; such as is worn by heralds, and anciently used by military men over their armour to distinguish themselves by. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081909-0965 | SURD, in Arithmetic and Algebra, denotes any number or quantity that is incommensurable to unity: it is otherwise called an irrational number or quantity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081910-0965 | SURDASTRUM, the ancient name of a drum used as an accompaniment to a pastoral pipe in a dance which was supposed to have the virtue of rendering harmless the bite of the tarantula. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081911-0965 | SURDY, a small uninhabited island in the Persian Gulf, situated to the south of Kishme. Lat. 25. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-081912-0965 | SURF is a term used by seamen to express a peculiar swell and breaking of the sea upon the shore. It sometimes forms but a single range along the shore, and at others three or four behind one another, extending perhaps half a mile out to sea.[7:20:820] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-082001-0966 | SURGERY.
The term Surgery, or Chirurgery, from χειg, the hand, and εϑγοv, work, originally signified, as its derivation implies, the manual procedure, by means of instruments or not, directed towards the repair of injury and the cure of disease; in contradistinction to the practice of medicine, denoting the treatment ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-084601-0992 | SURINAM. See Guiana. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-084602-0992 | SURNAME, that which is added to the proper name, for distinguishing persons and families. It signifies some name superadded to the proper name to distinguish the individual, as Artaxerxes Longimanus, Harold Harefoot, Malcolm Canmore. Surnames were introduced among all nations at an early period, and seem to have been f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-084603-0992 | SURPLICE, the habit of the officiating clergy in the Church of England. By Can. 58, every minister saying the public prayers, or ministering the sacrament or other rites of the church, shall wear a decent and comely surplice with sleeves, to be provided at the charge of the parish. But by 1 Eliz. c. 2, and 13 and 14 Ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-084701-0993 | SURREY, an inland English county, on the banks of the Thames, by which, on its northern side, it is separated from Middlesex. On the west it is bounded by Berkshire and Hampshire, on the south by Sussex, and on the east by Kent. Its shape is an oblong, of moderate regularity, except on its northern side, where consider... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-084801-0994 | SURROOL, a town of Bengal, district of Birbhoom, where the East India Company have a factory for white cottons. Long. 87. 42. E. Lat. 23. 39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-084802-0994 | SURSOLID, or Surdesolid, in Arithmetic, the fifth power of a number, or the fourth multiplication of any number, considered as a root. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-084803-0994 | SURSUTTY, a river of Hindustan, which rises in the mountains on the north-east boundary of the province of Delhi, and running south-west, is lost in the sands of Ajmeer. A town and fortress of the same name is situated on the western bank of this river, and now belongs to an independent chief. Long. 75. 27. E. Lat. 29.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-000101-0011 | SURVEYING.
THE system of rules and operations by which the relative position of any number of points in a tract of country may be determined, so that it may be delineated on a plane surface, is called surveying. When the extent of country is not great, the subject involves little difficulty; but when a kingdom, such a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-000701-0017 | SURVIVORSHIP. See Annuities and Mortality. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-000702-0017 | SUSA, the ancient royal residence of the kings of Persia, built by Darius the son of Hystaspes, according to Pliny, though he perhaps only restored it, being a very ancient city, founded by Tithonus, father of Memnon. Its compass was said by ancient authors to be 120 stadia; but the ruins give us the idea of a still gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-000703-0017 | SUSEDOON, a town of Hindustan, province of Delhi, situated near the ancient canal of the Sultan Feroz. Long. 76. 30. E. Lat. 29. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-000704-0017 | SUSPENSION, in musical harmony. See Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-000705-0017 | SUSPENSION BRIDGE is such a structure as is hung and stretched across some chasm, water-course, or other space, over which it is designed to form a passage. In Thibet, Peru, and various other remote regions, bridges on this principle, though of an extremely rude and perishable construction, and forming a most unstable ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-000801-0018 | SUSSEX, an English maritime county, bounded on the east by Kent, on the north by that county and Surrey, on; the west by Hampshire, and on the south by the British Channel. It is of an oblong shape, being about seventy miles in length from east to west, and nowhere more than twenty-six miles in breadth from north to so... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001001-0020 | SUTALURY, a town of Bengal, province of Bakergunge, which trades to some extent in grain. Long. 90. 10. E. Lat. 22. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001002-0020 | SUTCHANA, a town of Hindustan, province of Gujerat, situated to the east of Noanagur, to the chief of which it belongs. An extensive fishery is carried on along this part of the Gulf of Cutch. The pearl-oyster fishery is also carried on here, and is a source of revenue. Lat. not ascertained. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001003-0020 | SUTHERLAND, an extensive county in the north of Scotland, situated between 57° 53' and 58° 36' north latitude, and between 3° 39' and 5° 15' west longitude from Greenwich; having the sea on the south-east, west, and north, Caithness on the north-east, and Ross-shire on the south. From north to south it extends from 35 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001201-0022 | SUTLER, one who follows the army, and furnishes the troops with provision. Sutlers pitch their tents or build their huts in the rear of each regiment, and about headquarters. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001202-0022 | SUTTON-COLDFIELD, a town in the hundred of Hemlingford and county of Warwick, 112 miles from London. It is situated on a bleak hill in a very extensive parish. It has a good church, with a high square tower. The town is neat, and contains many comfortable residences. There is a market on Wednesday, and several fairs. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001203-0022 | SUTULEGE, a celebrated river of Hindustan, and the easternmost of those five rivers which are called the Punjab. It has its rise in the lofty ridge of the Himalaya Mountains, and flows in a southerly direction, bounding to the east the country of Lahore, where it enters Hindustan at Bellaspoor. The stream is 100 yards ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001204-0022 | SWAFFHAM, a town of the hundred of South Greenhoe, in the county of Norfolk, ninety-three miles from London. It is well built, in a pleasant and healthful district. The church is of the cathedral form, with an elegant turret and steeple. It is not a place of much trade, but has a good market on Saturday. In the market ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001205-0022 | SWALLY, a seaport of Hindustan, province of Gujerat, situated at the mouth of the Taptee river; twenty miles' west by south of Surat, of which it may be considered as the port. Long. 72. 50. E. Lat. 21.5. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001206-0022 | SWAMMERDAM, John, a celebrated natural philosopher, was the son of John James Swammerdam, an apothecary and naturalist of Amsterdam, and was born in 1637. His father intended him for the church, and with this view had him instructed in Latin and Greek; but thinking himself unequal to so serious a vocation, he prevailed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001207-0022 | SWAN Isles, a cluster of small rocky islets, which lie between the north coast of Van Diemen’s Land and the south of New Holland. They are uninhabited. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001208-0022 | SWANAGE, a town of the hundred of Rowbarrow, in the county of Dorset, on the isle of Purbeck, 127 miles from London. It stands on the sea-shore. A large quantity of stone is shipped from this place for London. The population amounted in 1811 to 1483, in 1821 to 1607, and in 1831 to 1734.[7:21:13] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001301-0027 | SWANPAN, or Chinese Abacus, an instrument for performing arithmetical operations. See Abacus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001302-0027 | SWANSEA, a seaport town of South Wales, in the county of Glamorgan, 206 miles from London. It stands at the mouth of the river Tawy, which serves as its haven. It is a tidal harbour, and can only be entered with the flood-tides, but it has a good dry dock. The town is in a semicircular form, on a rising ground, and has... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-001303-0027 | SWEDEN.
Τηε early history of Sweden is not less involved in fable than that of most other nations. Some historians have pretended to exhibit regular catalogues of the princes who reigned in Sweden in very early times; but they differ so much from each other, that no credit can be given to them. All indeed agree that a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-003201-0046 | SWEDENBORG, Emanuel, was born at Stockholm, in Sweden, in January 1689. His father was bishop of Skara in West Gothland; member of a society for the propagation of the gospel, formed on the plan of that of England; and president of the Swedish church in Pennsylvania and London. To this last office he was appointed by C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-003401-0048 | SWEEP, in the sea-language, is that part of the mould of a ship where she begins to compass in the rung-heads. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-003402-0048 | SWIFT, Jonathan, one of the wittiest writers of his own, and surpassed by few of any other age, was the son of an attorney, who held the office of steward to the society of King’s Inns, Dublin. When the father died, it was found that he had not left behind him effects sufficient to pay his funeral expenses. At that per... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-003901-0053 | SWIMMING, the art of floating one’s self on water, and at the same time making a progressive motion through it. As swimming is not natural to man, it is evident that at some period it must have been unknown among the human race. Nevertheless there are no accounts of its origin to be found in the history of any nation; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-004201-0056 | SWINDON, a town of the hundred of Kingsbridge in Wiltshire, eighty-three miles from London. It is a neat, well-built town, with a market on Monday, and several fairs. The inhabitants amounted in 1811 to 1341, in 1821 to 1580. and in 1831 to 1742. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-004202-0056 | SWINESHEAD, a town in the hundred of Kirton and county of Lincoln, 120 miles from London. It is a place of inconsiderable trade, with a market on Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1811 to 1561, in 1821 to 1696, and in 1831 to 1994. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-004203-0056 | SWITZERLAND.
Switzerland is situate in western Europe, having France on the west, Germany on the north, Austria on the east and south-east, and Savoy and Piedmont on the south-west. This country was anciently called Helvetia, from its first known inhabitants: its more modem name is supposed to be derived from the cant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005101-0069 | SWORD, an offensive weapon worn at the side, and serving either to cut or stab. Its parts are, the handle, guard, and blade; to which may be added the bow, scabbard, pummel, &c.
Sword of State, which is borne before the king, lords, and governors of counties, cities, or boroughs, &c. For or before the king, it ought t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005102-0069 | SYDABAD, a town of Hindustan, province of Agra, 20 miles south by east from the city of Agra. Long. 77. 57. E. Lat. 27. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005103-0069 | SYDAPORUM, a town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, 90 miles N.N.W. from Madras. Long. 79.45. E. Lat. 14. 11. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005104-0069 | SYDENHAM, Thomas, an excellent English physician, was the son of William Sydenham of Winford Eagle, in Dorsetshire, and was born there about the year 1624. He studied at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, but left that university when Oxford was garrisoned for King Charles I., and went to London, where, becoming acquainted with Dr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005201-0070 | SYDNEY, the capital of the British settlements in New South Wales, situated about seven miles from the mouth of Port Jackson, in a cove of the same name, which is a most capacious natural basin, having a depth of water to allow the approach of the largest ships to the very sides of the rocks, and being perfectly secure... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005202-0070 | SYENE, an ancient city of Egypt, situated, according to Mr Bruce, in north latitude 24° 0' 45". Pliny and Strabo both say that it lay directly under the tropic of Cancer. Syene is remarkable for being the place where the first attempt was made to measure the circumference of the earth. This was done by Eratosthenes, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005203-0070 | SYLAH, a large fortified town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat. It belongs to a Hindu chief, who is tributary to the Guicowar.[7:21:53] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005301-0071 | SYLLA, Lucius Cornelius, a Roman memorable for his vices and cruelties, and for relinquishing the dictatorship two years after he had compelled the people to elect him. See Roman History. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005302-0071 | SYLLABLE, in Grammar, one or more letters pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, forming a complete sound, and constituting a word or a part of a word. No single letter except a vowel can form a syllable. The longest syllable in the English language is the word strength. The most natural way of dividing words int... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005303-0071 | SYLLABUS, in matters of literature, denotes a table of contents, or an index of the chief heads of a book or discourse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005304-0071 | SYLLOGISM, in Logic, an argument or term of reasoning, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called premises, the last, the conclusion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005305-0071 | SYMBOL, a sign or representation of something moral, by the figures or properties of natural things. Hence symbols are of various kinds; as hieroglyphics, types, enigmas, parables, fables, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005306-0071 | SYMMACHUS, Quintus Aurelius, a Latin writer of high reputation during his own time, was born at Rome, being the son of Lucius Avianus Symmachus, who became prefect of the city in the year 364. The son was carefully initiated in the learning of the age, and soon distinguished himself by his talents and eloquence. He bec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005307-0071 | SYMPATHY, an agreement of affections and inclinations, or a conformity of natural qualities, humours, and temperaments. Sympathy also denotes the quality of being affected by the affection of another, and may subsist either between different persons or bodies, or between different parts of the same body. It is either s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005308-0071 | SYMPHEROPOLE, the capital city of the Russian province of Krimea. It stands on the southern part of the peninsula, about twenty miles from the sea, in a fine valley at the base of the Tauridan Mountains, on the small river Salghir. It was the residence of the khans or chiefs of the peninsula till it was seized by the R... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005309-0071 | SYMPHONY (Ital. Sinfonia). Anciently this word had various musical meanings. It now usually signifies a piece of instrumental music for an orchestra, consisting of several movements, and generally performed in a concertroom. The overture differs from the symphony chiefly in the smaller number of its movements, seldom c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005401-0072 | SYMPLOCE, συμπλoxn, in Rhetoric, a figure, where the same word is repeated several times in the beginning and end of a sentence, including the Anaphora and Epirtophe. Thus, “Quis legem tulit? Rullus. Quis majorem populi partem suffragiis privavit? Rullus. Quis comitiis praefuit? Idem Rullus.” | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005402-0072 | SYMPOSIARCH, in Antiquity, the director or manager of an entertainment. This office was sometimes performed by the person at whose charge the entertainment was provided, sometimes by another named by him; and at other times, especially in entertainments provided at the common expense, he was elected by lot, or by the s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005403-0072 | SYNAERESIS, Contraction, in Grammar, a figure by which two syllables are united in one; as vemens for vehemens. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005404-0072 | SYNAGOGUE, among the Jews, is a place where that people met to worship God. Authors are not agreed about the time when the Jews first began to have synagogues. Some suppose them as old as the ceremonial law, and others fix their beginning to the times after the Babylonish captivity. They erected synagogues not only in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-005405-0072 | SYNALOEPHA, in Grammar, a contraction of syllables, performed principally by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, on account of another vowel or diphthong at the beginning of the next As, ilΓ ego, for ille ego, &c.
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kp-eb0721-005406-0072 | SYNCELLUS, or Sincellus, an ancient officer in the family of the patriarchs and other prelates of the eastern church. The word, in the corrupt Greek, συγχελλος , signifies a person who lies in the chamber with another; a chamber-fellow, or chum. The syncellus was an ecclesiastic, who lived with the patriarch of Constan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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