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kp-eb0721-007207-0090 | TAMBOUR, in Architecture, a term applied to the Corinthian and Composite capitals, as bearing some resemblance to a drum, which the French call tambour. Some choose to call it the vase, and others campana or the bell. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007208-0090 | Tambour is also used for a little box of timber-work, covered with a ceiling, within the porch of certain churches; both to prevent the view of persons passing by, and to keep off the wind, &c. by means of folding doors, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007209-0090 | Tambour also denotes a round course of stone, several of which form the shaft of a column, not so high as a diameter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007210-0090 | Tambour, in the arts, is a species of embroidery. The tambour is an instrument of a spherical form, upon which is stretched, by means of a string and buckle, or other suitable appendage, a piece of linen or thin silken stuff; which is wrought with a needle of a particular form, and by means of silken or gold and silver... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007211-0090 | TAMBOUR de Basque, a well-known kind of small drum, commonly called a tambourine. It is much used among the Biscayans, and consists of one piece of parchment stretched over the top of a broad hoop, which is furnished with little bells. It is sounded by sliding the fingers along the parchment, or by striking it with the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007212-0090 | TAMBOURIN, a drum much used in Provence. Its case is much longer and somewhat narrower than that of the common drum. It is beaten with a drumstick, while the performer at the same time plays with his left hand upon a small flute, called galoubet. See Ριρε. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007213-0090 | TAMBURO (Ital.), the common military drum. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007214-0090 | TAMBURONE, or Cassa GRANDE, or Cassa (Ital.), the military bass-drum. See M usic . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007215-0090 | TAMBOW, a government of Russia, one of the East Sea provinces, extending in east longitude from 38° 31' to 43° 20', and in north latitude from 51° 8' to 55° 9', being 26,072 square miles. It is a level district in the northern part, sandy and swampy; but in the south it is of moderate fertility. It is well watered, som... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 43' 44" N 41 40' E | TAMBOW |
kp-eb0721-007216-0090 | TAMERLANE, or Timur Βεκ, a celebrated prince and conqueror, was born in 1335, in the village of Kesch, belonging to the ancient Sogdiana. His origin is obscurely known, some writers describing him as of royal blood, others as the son of a shepherd. It is however evident that he chiefly owed his elevation to his talents... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007301-0091 | TAMTAM, or Gong. See Music . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007302-0091 | TAMWORTH, an ancient borough, situated partly in Warwickshire and partly in Staffordshire, 117 miles from London. The situation is at the confluence of the rivers Tame and Anker. The church is an ancient but irregular building, with some fine monuments. The ancient castle formerly belonged to the earls of Leicester. Ne... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007303-0091 | TAN, the bark of trees after it has been ground and used by the tanner. The smallest sort is generally made up in little square cakes called turf, and sold for firing. The coarser sort is sometimes dried in the sun, and used by bakers for heating their ovens, &c.; but its chief use is for making hot-beds to raise pine-... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007304-0091 | TANAH, a town of Hindustan, province of Gujerat, forty-one miles east by north from the city of Surat. Long. 73. 4L E. Lat. 21.21. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007305-0091 | TANAGA, one of the Fox Islands, in the North Pacific Ocean, about forty miles in circumference. Long. 182. 14. E. Lat. 53. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 20' N 182 14' E | TANAGA |
kp-eb0721-007306-0091 | TANAKEKE, a small island, about twelve miles in circumference, surrounded by a cluster of smaller ones. Many of the smaller islands of this group are uninhabited, and the others are peopled by the Buggesses. It is situated off the south-west extremity of Celebes. Long. 19. 10. E. Lau 5. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007307-0091 | TANDAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, adjacent to the ruins of the ancient city of Gour. Long. 88. 15. E. Lat. 24. 49. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 49' N 88 15' E | TANDAH |
kp-eb0721-007308-0091 | TANETE, a town and small principality in the island of Celebes, situated half way between Fort Rotterdam and the bay of Sori an. Long. 119. 35. E. Lat. 4. 14. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 4 14' S 119 35' E | TANETE |
kp-eb0721-007309-0091 | TANGERANG, a village of the island of Java, about fifteen miles west from Batavia. A large weekly bazaar is held here, to which the produce of the adjacent country is brought, and thence carried to Batavia. There is also a river of the same name, which falls into the ocean about twenty miles west of Bantam. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007310-0091 | TANGIER, a port-town of Africa, in the kingdom of Fez, and empire of Morocco, situated at the entrance of the Straits of Gibraltar, in Long. 5. 50. W. Lat. 38. 49. N. In 1662, this place belonged to the Portuguese, and was given to King Charles II. upon his marriage with the Infanta of Portugal; but growing weary of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 49' N 5 50' W | TANGIER |
kp-eb0721-007311-0091 | TANJORE, an extensive, populous, and well-cultivated district of the south of India, in the Carnatic, situated in the Bay of Bengal, between the 10th and 12th degrees of north latitude, and intersected by the river Cauvery. It is bounded on the north by the Cauvery river, on the south and east by the Indian Ocean, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 42' N 79 11' E | TANJORE |
kp-eb0721-007401-0092 | TANK, in the language of Hindustan, a place enclosed for receiving and retaining rain-water. During the periodical rains the tanks are filled, and thus in the dry season furnish water for the rice-fields and cattle. Some of them are of great extent, measuring 300 or 400 feet on the side. They are of a quadrangular form... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007402-0092 | TANKSAL, a town of Hindustan, in the Sikh territories, province of Delhi, 150 miles north from Delhi. Long. 76. 53. E. Lat. 30. 51. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 51' N 76 53' E | TANKSAL |
kp-eb0721-007403-0092 | TANNA, a town and fortress of Hindustan, province of Aurungabad and district of Bombay, situated on the east side of the island of Salsette. The fort, which is very strong, commands the passage between the island and the main land, which is about 200 yards broad. The fort is usually garrisoned by a battalion of sepoys,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 10' N 73 5' E | TANNA |
kp-eb0721-007404-0092 | Τanna, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, one of those called the New Hebrides, discovered by Captain Cook in the year 1774, about twenty-two miles in length and ten in breadth. Long. 169. 44. E. Lat. 19. 32. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 32' S 169 44' E | Τanna |
kp-eb0721-007405-0092 | Τanna Balloo, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the east coast of Borneo. Long. 118. 21. E. Lat. 4.52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 4 52' N 118 21' E | Τanna Balloo |
kp-eb0721-007407-0092 | TANNER, Thomas, an eminent antiquary, was born in 1674. His father, Thomas Tanner, was vicar of Market Lavington in Wiltshire. The son was sent to Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1689; took the degree of A.B. in 1693, and that of A.M. in 1696; and was elected a fellow of All Souls College in 1697. He became prebendary of E... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007408-0092 | TANNING, the art of converting hides and skins into leather. This art has been practised for many centuries in Britain; but some improvements have been recently made on it, suggested by the discoveries of modern chemistry. These we shall briefly notice, offer having described the method generally practised.
The leathe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007701-0095 | TANORE, a decayed town on the sea-coast of Malabar. It is thirty miles south by east from Calicut. Long. 75. 55. E. Lat. 10. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 55' N 75 55' E | TANORE |
kp-eb0721-007702-0095 | TANTALUS, in fabulous history, king of Phrygia and Paphlagonia, was the son of Jupiter and the nymph Plota. He one day entertained the gods at his table, when, to prove their divinity, he served up his son Pelops cut in pieces. All the deities, except Ceres, perceived his cruelty and impiety, and would not touch his pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007703-0095 | TAOO, one of the Friendly Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, about twenty-four miles in circumference. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007704-0095 | TAORMINA, a town in Sicily, situated on a high rock, and eighty-eight miles south of Messina. A colony from the isle of Naxos settled at the foot of Aetna, at no great distance from the shore, and at about a league or a league and a half from the present situation of Taormina. Dionysius the tyrant attacked this colony,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007801-0096 | TAOUKA, one of the Society Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Long. 145. 9. W. Lat. 14. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 30' S 145 9' W | TAOUKA |
kp-eb0721-007802-0096 | TAPANOOLY, a small British settlement in Sumatra, situated on a small island at the bottom of the bay of Tapanooly on the north-west shore. It was taken by a French squadron in 1760, and also in 1809, when the inhabitants were plundered. Long. 98. 50. E. Lat. 1. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 1 40' N 98 50' E | TAPANOOLY |
kp-eb0721-007803-0096 | TAPER denotes a kind of tall wax-candle, placed in a candlestick, and burnt at funeral processions, and in other church solemnities.
Paschal Taper, among the Romanists, is a large taper, to which the deacon applies five pieces of frankincense, in holes made for the purpose in the form of a cross; and which he lights w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007804-0096 | TAPESTRY, a kind of cloth made of wool and silk, adorned with figures of different animals, &c. and formerly used for lining the walls of rooms, churches, &c. The art of weaving tapestry is supposed to have been borrowed from the Saracens; accordingly the workmen employed in this manufacture in France were formerly cal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007901-0097 | TAPOOL, a small island, one of the Sooloo archipelago, situated due south from the principal Sooloo Isle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007902-0097 | TAPOPO, a small low island in the Eastern Seas, on the west coast of the island of Waygiou, covered with trees to the water’s edge. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007903-0097 | TAPPA, one of the small Molucca Islands, separated from that of Lata by a channel in some places not above forty yards wide and one and a half long, with deep water. Long. 123. 35. E. Lat. 0. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 0 6' N 123 35' E | TAPPA |
kp-eb0721-007904-0097 | TAR, a thick, black, unctuous substance, obtained chiefly from old pines and fir trees by burning them with a close smothering heat. It is prepared in great quantities in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Russia, and North America, and in other countries where the pine and fir abound. Becher the celebrated chemist first propose... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007905-0097 | TARABAD, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, in the province of Aurungabad, ninety-four miles south-east from Surat. Long. 74. 20. E. Lat. 20. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007906-0097 | TARAHPOOR, a town of Hindustan, province of Bahar, ninety miles south-south-east from Patna. Long. 86. 40. E. Lat. 25. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007907-0097 | TARANTELLA, a lively Neapolitan dance, the melody in 6/8 time. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-007908-0097 | TARANTO, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Otranto. It stands on a rocky island near to Cape St [7:21:80]Vito, but is joined to the continent by a long bridge. It is surrounded with walls, and defended by batteries and a strong castle. It is the capital of a district, is the seat of an archbishop, and cont... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008001-0098 | TARARE, a town of France, in the department of the Rhone and the arrondissement of Villefranche. It stands at the foot of a mountain on the river Tardine, and has extensive manufactures of muslins, printed cottons, mixed cloths of wool and cotton, and considerable tanneries. It contains 6250 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008002-0098 | TARASCON, a town of France, in the department of the Mouths of the Rhone and the arrondissement of Arles. It stands on the left bank of the Rhone, over which is a bridge of boats leading to Beaucaire. It is a well-built place, and has a castle, from the platform of which a fine prospect is to be seen. It contains 12,50... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008003-0098 | TARBES, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Pyrenees, in France. It is 484 square miles in extent, is divided into eleven cantons, and these into 197 communes, containing, in 1836, 110,542 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, which is that also of the department. It is situated on a fine ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008004-0098 | TARDEBIG, a town of the hundred of Halfshire, in the county of Worcester, 113 miles from London. It has no market, and only derives some trade from the canal which passes by it from Birmingham. The inhabitants amounted in 1831 to 4145. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008005-0098 | TAREM, a town of Persia, in the province of Laristan, situated in a plain on the banks of a salt river. It is a meanly built place, consisting of a mud fort, surrounded on all sides by wretched huts, but is populous, and contains many respectable merchants, who trade to Muscat, Gombroon, and Shiraz. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008006-0098 | TARENT, an island on the western shore of the Persian Gulf, immediately opposite Katif. It is about seven miles in length and as many in breadth, is well supplied with fresh water, and embellished with many delightful gardens, which produce abundance of fruit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008007-0098 | TARGUM, a name given to the Chaldee paraphrases of the books of the Old Testament. They are called paraphrases or expositions, because they are rather comments and explications than literal translations of the text. They are written in the Chaldee tongue, which became familiar to the Jews after the time of their captiv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008008-0098 | TARIFF, a table containing the names of different sorts [7:21:81]of merchandise, with the duties to be paid as settled among trading nations. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008101-0099 | TARN, a department of the south-west of Frarwe, formed out of a part of ancient Languedoc. It is bounded on the north and north-east by the department of Aveiron, on the south-east by Herault, on the south by Aude, on the west by Upper Garonne, and on the north-west by Tarn-Garonne. Its area contains 573,977 hectares, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008102-0099 | TARN and Gabonne, a department of the south-west of France. In 1808 it was formed out of portions of the several existing departments of Lot, Upper Garonne, Lot-Garonne, Gers, and Aveiron. In times before the revolution it was known as the Agenois, Lomagne, and Basse Marche du Rouergue of Upper Languedoc. According to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008103-0099 | TARNOPOL, a circle of the Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, extending over 13l7square miles, comprehending four cities, six market-towns, and 251 villages, with 189,600 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, on the river Sereth. It contains 1080 houses, with 7560 inhabitants, of whom many are Jews, who carr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008104-0099 | TARNOW, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, extending over 2040 square miles. It contains three cities, eleven market-towns, and 464 villages, with 215,000 inhabitants, of whom 15,000 are Jews. the capita] is the city of the same name, which contains 360 houses, with 4540 inhabitants, employed in making table... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 59' N 20 55' E | TARNOW |
kp-eb0721-008105-0099 | TARPA, Spurius Mecius, a Latin critic in the time of Julius Caesar and Augustus. He had his tribunal in the temple of Apollo, where, with four assistants, he passed sentence on the works of the poets. Cicero and Horace make honourable mention of this critic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008106-0099 | TARPAULIN, a piece of canvass, well tarred over to keep off the rain from any place. The term is applied in a burlesque sense to a person that has been all his life bred to the sea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008107-0099 | TARPORLEY, a town of the hundred of Eddisbury, in the county of Chichester, 179 miles from London. It has some small manufactories of stockings and leather breeches. The population amounted in 1821 to 800, and in 1831 to 995; but the parish contains 2391. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008108-0099 | TARRAGONA, a city of Spain, in the province of Catalonia. In the period when the Romans governed Spain, this city was very celebrated as the capital of that division of the kingdom which is to the east of the Ebro, then denominated Tarraconia. The streets are narrow, and the [7:21:82] houses lofty. It is the see of an ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008201-0100 | TARSUS, a large city of Asia Minor, the ancient capital of Cilicia, situated on a fertile plain on the right bank of the Cydnus, about six miles from its mouth. The town is partly surrounded by a wall, supposed to be the remains of that erected by Haroun al Raschid. The houses, which seldom exceed one story in height, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008202-0100 | TARTARY, a tract of territory in central Asia, of which the limits have never been exactly defined. It is generally understood to embrace that wide space which intervenes between the dominions of Russia and China on the west and east, and which on the south is bounded by the kingdom of Persia and the lofty central moun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008701-0105 | TARTAS, a river of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tobolsk, falls into the Om near Tartaskoi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008702-0105 | TARTASKOI, a small town of Asiatic Russia, in Tobolsk, situated at the junction of the Om and Tartas. It is forty miles west-south-west of Kainsk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008703-0105 | TARVEN or Tarvin, a town in the hundred of Eddis-bury and county of Chester, four miles from the city of Chester, and 177 from London. The church is a well-built structure. The parish comprehends, besides the town, eleven small townships, whose population amounted in 1821 to 3486, and in 1831 to 3415; but the town cont... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008704-0105 | TASAPAN, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near Junkseylon. Long. 98. 14. E. Lat. 8. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008705-0105 | TASHKUND, or Ταsηκεντ, formerly a considerable city of Independent Tartary, situated on the Sihon or Jaxartes. It has suffered much from the devastations of war. It is 210 miles north of Samarcand. Long. 64. 48. E. Lat. 42. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008706-0105 | TASIEVA, a river of Asiatic Russia, in the province of Tobolsk, which falls into the Tchulim about twenty miles north-west of Tasieuskoi. The latter place is situated on this river, 820 miles of Tobolsk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008707-0105 | TASMAN’S Head, the most southern point of Bruny’s Island, on the north-east coast of Van Diemen’s Laud. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008708-0105 | Tasman's Island, a great peninsula connected with Van Diemen’s Land by an isthmus 600 feet broad by about 1800 long. At the southern extremity is a small island, called Tasman’s Island. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008709-0105 | TASSISUDON, a city of Northern Hindustan, province of Bootan, of which it is the capital. It is the residence of the Deb rajah. It is situated in a highly cultivated valley, about three miles in length by one in breadth, intersected by the Tchintchieu river. The climate is esteemed exceedingly salubrious. The castle or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008710-0105 | TASSO, Torquato, one of the most celebrated of modem poets, was the son of Bernardo Tasso, himself eminent ill the same path of literature. Bernardo, a native of Bergamo, noble but poor, published in 1560 his chivalrous poem of the Amadigi, which forms the link between the wild and half-burlesque school in which Ariost... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008801-0106 | TASSONI, Alessandro, who was born at Modena in 1565, and died in 1635, ranks as the best of those Italian writers who, in the seventeenth century, made the burlesque epic a remarkable branch of literature for their nation. His work of this class, “La Secchia Rapita,” or the Rape of the Bucket, commemorates an incursion... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008802-0106 | TASTE, a certain sensation excited in the mind by certain bodies, which are called sapid, applied to the tongue and palate, and moistened with saliva. This is the original and proper meaning of the word taste; but as the qualities of bodies which produce these sensations are unknown, they have obtained the names of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-008803-0106 | TASTE is likewise used in a figurative sense, to denote that faculty by which we perceive and judge of whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or of art. This faculty relishes some things, is disgusted with others, and to many is indifferent. It has also been called an internal sense, and by one philoso... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009101-0109 | TATE, Nahum, a poet and dramatist, the son of Dr Faithful Tate, was born in Dublin in the year 1652. He was educated in Trinity College, but did not betake himself to any profession. Upon the death of Shadwell in 1692, Tate succeeded him as poet laureat, and held that place until the reign of George I. whose first birt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009102-0109 | TATIANUS, a Greek writer of the primitive church, was a native of Syria, and by profession a rhetorician. He was educated in paganism, but became a convert to Christianity, and a disciple of Justin Martyr, whom he attended at Rome. After the death of Justin, in the year 165, he adopted some very unsound opinions, and a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009103-0109 | TATIUS, Achilles, a Greek writer, is supposed by Fabricius to have flourished in the third or fourth century. His age seems however to be very uncertain. Suidas, who gives him the name of Achilles Statius, informs us that having originally been a Pagan, he was converted to Christianity, and at length became a bishop. H... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009104-0109 | TATISCHEVA, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Oufa, on the Oural, twenty-eight miles west of Orenburg. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009105-0109 | TATTA, a district of Hindustan, formerly contained within the great soubah of Moultan, but now comprehending nearly the delta of the Indus, which has been already described under the article SINDE. The country is intersected by the overflowing waters of the Indus, and where these do not reach, it is mostly sandy and ba... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009106-0109 | Tatta, an ancient and celebrated city, and capital of the above district, situated near the banks of the Indus, about 130 miles by the course of the river from the sea. It was formerly a rich and commercial city, but is now greatly decayed, exhibiting, instead of the bustle and animation of its ancient trade, long stre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009201-0110 | TATTERSHALL, an English market-town, in the hundred of Gartree and division of Lindsey, in the county of Lincoln, 127 miles from London and fourteen to the north-west of Boston. It is on the Bain, a river that is navigable to the Withan, into which it flows in its way to the sea. The church, which was formerly collegia... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009202-0110 | TATTOOING, or Tattowing, an operation in use among the islanders in the South Sea, for marking their bodies with figures of various kinds, which they consider as ornamental. It is performed by puncturing the skin, and rubbing a black colour into the wounds. The instrument used somewhat resembles a comb, the teeth of wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009203-0110 | TAUDA, a river of Asiatic Russia, formed by the junction[7:21:93] of the Sosva and the Losva, and which falls into the Tobol, four miles south of Tobolsk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009301-0111 | TAUJEPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, district of Purneah, thirty-six miles east by north from the town of Pumeah. Long. 88.15. E. Lat. 25. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009302-0111 | TAULLAH Mhokee, a small village of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, nine miles north of Nadone, the principal town of the Kaungrah country. It contains a temple highly esteemed by the credulous Hindus, who believe that a volcanic flame which issues from the side of a mountain in the neighbourhood is an emanation f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009303-0111 | TAUMAGO, an island in the Pacific Ocean, discovered by Quiros in 1606, about twenty-four or twenty-five miles in circumference. Long. 169. 25. E. Lat. 10. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009304-0111 | TAUNDA, a town of Hindustan, in the nabob of Oude’s territories, situated on the south side of the Goggrah river, thirty-five miles south-east from Fyzabad. Long. 82. 38. E. Lat. 26. 33. N. It is celebrated for its manufacture of cotton cloths. This is the name of another town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009305-0111 | TAUNTON, a large town of the hundred of its name, in the county of Somerset, 144 miles from Bristol. It is finely situated in the rich and fertile valley of Taunton-Dean, which is watered by the river Tone. It has also water communication by a canal with the river Parrett and the sea at Bridgewater. It is a very well b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009306-0111 | TAUNUS Mountains, a district of Germany, in the dominion of the prince of Nassau. In Germany this range of mountains was long denominated the Heights of Homburg, and belonged to the duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt before it came to the house of Nassau, as a portion of the duchy of Katzerellenbogen. It lies between the Rhine a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009307-0111 | TAUREE, a town of the province of Bengal, district of Monghir, ninety-two miles north-north-west from Moorshedabad. Long. 86. 50. E. Lat. 24. 31. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009308-0111 | TAURIA, a province of Russia in Europe, the most southern part of that empire. The peninsula known to the ancients as Chersonesus Taurica, and now known by the Tartar name of Crem, or Crimea, forms the better portion of the province. The northern portion is the Steppes of the Nogay Tartars. The whole extent is 44,903 s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009309-0111 | TAURIS. See Tabriz. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009310-0111 | TAURUS, a celebrated range of mountains, so called by the ancients, and which were said to extend from the Grecian Archipelago to the extremities of Asia. By some they were thought to take their rise in Caria and Pamphylia; and by others among the more modern geographers, on the coast of Cilicia, not far from Scanderoo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009311-0111 | TAVAI Poenammoo, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, being the more southerly of the two which form New Zealand, and separated from the northern island by a channel called Cook’s Straits, that celebrated navigator having sailed round them both in the year 1769. The island is about 500 miles in length from south-west ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009312-0111 | TAVERNIER, John Baptist, a French traveller, was born in 1605. In the course of forty years he travelled six times to Turkey, Persia, and the East Indies, and visited all the countries in Europe, travelling mostly on foot. His travels have been frequently reprinted in six volumes, 12mo.
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kp-eb0721-009401-0112 | TAVISTOCK, an English market and borough town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Devon, 206 miles from London and fourteen from Plymouth. It stands at the foot of the mountains called the Forest of Dartmoor, by which it is well sheltered from northerly and easterly winds, and the situation is remarkably ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-009402-0112 | TAVOY, a town and district of the province of Pegu, in the Birman empire, which so late as the year 1753 was the seat of an independent principality. The town is advantageously situated on the eastern side of a fine bay, formed by an extensive island of the same name. Tavoy formerly belonged to the king of Siam, but wa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 20' N 98 20' E | TAVOY |
kp-eb0721-009403-0112 | TAWALLY Isle, one of the Gilolo Islands, in the Eastern Seas. It is thirty-five miles long from north to south, and six in average breadth. Long. 127. 14. E. Lat. 0. 21. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 0 21' S 127 14' E | TAWALLY |
kp-eb0721-009404-0112 | TAWEETAWEE, the chief of a cluster of islands, fifty-six in number, composing part of the Sooloo archipelago. It has few inhabitants. The other islands are of various sizes; and some are merely rocky islets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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