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kp-eb0721-040204-0422 | TUMLOOK, a small town of Bengal, in the district of Hooghly. The lands in the neighbourhood are extremely low, and only protected from inundation by embankments. It is the head-quarters of an agency for the manufacture of salt, which is a government monopoly. It is thirty-five miles south-west from Calcutta. Long. 88. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 17' N 88 2' E | TUMLOOK |
kp-eb0721-040205-0422 | TUN, a large vessel or cask, of an oblong form, largest in the middle, and diminishing towards its two ends, girt about with hoops, and used for stowing several kinds of merchandise for convenience of carriage; as brandy, oil, sugar, skins, &c.
Tun is also the name of a measure. A tun of wine is four hogsheads; of tim... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040206-0422 | TUNBRIDGE, a town of the hundred of the same name, in the lathe of Aylesford, and county of Kent, thirty-one miles from London. It stands on a branch of the Medway, called the Tun, which is navigable, and by which coals and other goods are conveyed from the Thames. It is a well-built and clean town, with a handsome chu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040207-0422 | TUNE, in Music, means either a short and popular melody, or correct intonation in singing or playing. See Music, Organ, Song, Temperament, Tonality . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040208-0422 | TUNGUSES, a wandering native race of Asiatic Russia, who occupy the whole south-eastern portion of that vast territory, being first found on the banks of the Yenisei, and extending all the way eastward to the sea of Okhotsk. They resemble the Mongols in their countenance, though it is larger and still more flattened. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040209-0422 | TUNGUSKA, the name of three large rivers of Asiatic Russia, the tributaries of the Yenisei. The Lower Tunguska, the most northerly of the three, has the longest c<.urse. It takes its rise in the northern part of the government of Irkoutsk, and after running parallel to the Lena, takes a westerly course, when it joins t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040210-0422 | TUNICA, a kind of waistcoat or under garment, in use among the Romans. They wore it within doors by itself, and abroad under the gown. The common people could not afford the toga, and so went in their tunics; whence Horace calls them populus tunicatus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040211-0422 | TUNING-FORK, a steel instrument with two prongs and a handle, used to regulate the pitch of voices, or of instruments that require to be tuned. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040212-0422 | TUNJNG-HAMMER, an instrument used by pianoforte tuners to twist round the iron pegs to which the wires are fastened at one end, or to fix these pegs by hammering them into their holes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040213-0422 | TUNIS, a country of Africa, bounded on the north and east by the Mediterranean Sea and the kingdom of Tripoli, on the south by several tribes of the Arabs, and on the west by the kingdom of Algiers and the country of Esab. It is 300 miles in length from east to west, and 250 in breadth from north to south. See Africa.
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... | 36 42' N 16 10' E | TUNIS |
kp-eb0721-040301-0425 | TUNNEL. A tunnel is simply a hole bored through a hill, in order to carry a canal, a road, or a railway, in an advantageous course, and is generally resorted to as a means of lessening the expense which would ensue if an open cutting were made. There are other reasons which may render this mode of proceeding advisable;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040801-0430 | TUNQUIN, or Tonquin, a large kingdom of India beyond the Ganges, bordering on the Chinese provinces of Quangsee and Yunan, and separating that empire from Cochin-China and Cambodia. It is situated between the seventeenth and twenty-third degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the east by the Gulf of Tunquin, and o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040901-0431 | TUPPEL, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi. situated on the east side of the Jumna, forty-seven miles south-south-east from the city of Delhi. Long. 77. 30. E. Lat. 28. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040902-0431 | TUPTEE, a considerable river of Hindustan, formed by the union of numerous streams. It has its source near the village of Batool, among the Injardy Hills, whence it pursues a westerly course through the provinces of Khandesh and Gujerat, until it falls into the sea about twenty miles below Surat. It has a bending cours... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040903-0431 | TURA, a small river of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic Russia, which rises in the district of Nertschinsk, and falls into the Ingoda. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040904-0431 | TURBAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, district of Chuta Nagpore. Long. 85. 5. E. Lat. 22. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 32' N 85 5' E | TURBAH |
kp-eb0721-040905-0431 | TURBAN, the head-dress of most of the eastern nations, lt consists of two parts, a cap, and a sash of fine linen or taffety artfully wound in divers plaits about the cap. The cap has no brim, is pretty flat, though roundish at top, and quilted with cotton, but does not cover the ears. There is a good deal of art in giv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040906-0431 | TURCAE or Turci, supposed to be the Tusci of Ptolemy, whom he places between Caucasus and the Montes Ceraunii. The name is said to denote, “to desolate or lay waste.” See Turkey. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-040907-0431 | TURCOMANS, a nomadic Tartar race, who are spread over many districts of Western Asia. Their native seat seems to be in the regions east of the Caspian, in the vast plains between it and the Aral. In their wars with the Kalmucs, the latter often proved victorious, and they were in consequence forced to fly into the Russ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-041001-0432 | TURGOT, Αννε Robert Jacques, Baron de l’Aulne, a celebrated philosopher and statesman, was born at Paris on the 10th of May 1727, of a very ancient Norman family. His father was a long time provost of the corporation of merchants, during which he was the object of general admiration on account of his prudent administra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-041002-0432 | TURIN, one of the continental provinces of the kingdom of Sardinia, in the ancient division of Piedmont. It is bounded on the north-east by Ivrea, on the east by Asti, on the south by Saluzzo, on the south-west by Penerolo, and on the north-west by Savoy, and it extends over 3209 square miles. A promontory of the Cotta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 4' 14" N 7 29' 25" E | TURIN |
kp-eb0721-041101-0441 | TURINSK, a town of Tobolsk, in Asiatic Russia, and the capital of a district of the same name, situated along the banks of the river Tura. It was built about the year 1660, and contains 4000 inhabitants, with six churches and a convent. There is a separate suburb for the Tartars. Long. 28. 40. E. Lat. 57. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 57 56' N 28 40' E | TURINSK |
kp-eb0721-041102-0441 | TURIVICARY, a town of Hindustan, in the Mysore territories, forty-seven miles north from Seringapatam. It consists of an outer and an inner fort, strongly defended by a ditch and mud-wall, with a suburb at a little distance containing above 700 houses. It possesses two very ancient temples. Long. 76. 50. E. Lat. 13. 7.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 7' N 76 50' E | TURIVICARY |
kp-eb0721-041103-0441 | TURKEY.
Turk or Toork is the generic name of a great family of nations which has been settled for time immemorial in Western Asia and the adjoining portions of Europe, and of which a branch has been for several centuries in possession of the countries around the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, which, on that ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-042801-0458 | TURKI, a town of Hindustan, in the province of North Bahar, pleasantly situated on the Bogmutty river, and formerly possessed of a fort. Long. 85. E. Lat. 26. 16. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 16' N 85 E | TURKI |
kp-eb0721-042802-0458 | TURKIN, a small town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of the Caucasus, on the Caspian, 140 miles S. of Astracan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-042803-0458 | TURN-AGAIN, a low, flat, and swampy island in Torres Strait, about three miles in length. It is surrounded with reefs, and is overrun with mangroves. Long. 140. 55. E. Lat. 9. 34. S.
Turn-again, Cape, on the east coast of New Zealand, discovered by Captain Cook in 1769. Long. 177. 55. W. Lat. 40. 34. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-042804-0458 | TURNHOUT, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of South Brabant. It is the capital of an arrondissement, which extends over 518 square miles, is divided into six cantons and 48 communes, with 76,800 inhabitants. The city is in the district called the Campine, and is a place of active manufacturing industry, espec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-042805-0458 | TURNING, the art of giving circular and other forms to objects, by making them revolve in various manners in a machine called a lathe, and applying cutting instruments so as to produce the form required; or by making the cutting instrument revolve, when the object to be operated upon is fixed.
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kp-eb0721-043101-0461 | TURON Bay, a fine bay of Cochin-China, on which is situated Faifo, the capital and principal scat of commerce in the country. The adjacent district is remarkably fertile and beautiful. The channel into this bay is round the north-east end of the Hansan peninsula, having an island to the north. All the coast is safe to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043102-0461 | TURPENTINE, a transparent viscous substance, flowing either naturally or by incision from several resinous trees. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043103-0461 | TURRIFF, a small but thriving and industrious town in Aberdeenshire. It is pleasantly situated on a gentle ascent on the right bank of a branch of the river Deveron, thirty-four and a half miles from Aberdeen. It was erected into a free borough of barony in the year 1511, by James IV. This town possesses manufactures o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043104-0461 | TURSHEEZ, a considerable city of Persia, in the province of Khorassan, situated on the verge of the Salt Desert. There is an old city, Sultanabad, which is small; but a new one has been added, in which the governor and his principal officers reside; and the two cities contain about 20,000 inhabitants, among whom are 10... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043105-0461 | TURTLE Island, a small island in the Eastern Seas. Long. 132. 51. E. Lat. 6. 35. S. Of the same name, there is another small island in the South Pacific Ocean, surrounded by a reef of coral rocks. Long. 177. 57. W. Lat. 19. 50. S. There is a cape of this name on the south coast of the island of Java. Long. 109. 58. E. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043106-0461 | TURUCHANSK, or Mangasea, a town of Asiatic Russia, on the Yenisei, the smallest and most northerly of all the Siberian towns which bear the name of a city. It derives its name Mangasea from a magazine having been originally built, in 1601, for the collection of the furs paid in tribute to Russia. It was removed from th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 65 40' N 88 44' E | TURUCHANSK |
kp-eb0721-043107-0461 | TUSCAN Order, in Architecture. See Architecture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043108-0461 | TUSCANY, ' a grand duchy in Italy, said to have derived the name from a King Tuscus, who in remote ages ruled Etruria. It extends in north latitude from 42° 5' 20” to 44° 31' 10'', and in east longitude from 9° 32' 25’ to 11° 4' 35". It is bounded on the north-west by Lucca and Modena; on the north-east, east, and sout... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043201-0462 | TUTICORIN, a town of Hindustan, on the sea-coast [7:21:433] of the province Tinnevelly, where is a pearl fishery, though the pearls are not so valuable as those found on the seacoast of Ceylon, in the bay of Condatchy, being stained with a blue or greenish tinge. Here the Dutch formerly had a factory. It was taken from... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043301-0463 | TUTOR, in Law, is one chosen to look to the persons and estates of children left by their fathers and mothers in their minority. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043302-0463 | TUZLA, a town of Caramania, in Asiatic Turkey, situated in an elevated plain in the interior, at the western extremity of a chain of salt-lakes, twenty-eight miles north of Konieh. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043303-0463 | TWEED, the fourth river in Scotland for size, and the boundary between England and Scotland, from Carham burn, on its south side, six miles above Coldstream, till it falls into the German Ocean at Berwick. It takes its rise in the upper part of the parish of Tweedsmuir, in the county of Peebles, at the foot of a hill c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043304-0463 | TWEEDDALE, or Peebles, a county in the south of Scotland. See Peeblesshire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043305-0463 | TWENTY-FOUR Pergunnahs, a small district in the province of Bengal, situated chiefly to the south of Calcutta, on the east side of the Hooghly. This was the first territory of any extent possessed by the British in Bengal. It was ceded to them by the nabob Jaffier Aly Khan, immediately after the revolution of 1757, to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043306-0463 | TWENTY-TWO Rajahs, a district in Northern Hindustan, tributary to the Nepaulese, and divided into twenty-two petty principalities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043307-0463 | TWELFTH-DAY, the festival of the Epiphany, or the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles; so called, as being the twelfth day, exclusive, from the festival of Christmas. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043308-0463 | TWER, a city of Russia, in the province of Moscow, the capital of a stadtholderate of the same name, which is 26,010milesin extent, and contains a population of 1,270,000 persons. The city is on the right bank of the Wolga, where the waters of the Twerza and the Tmaka fall into it. Twer has no fortifications, but is su... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043309-0463 | TWICKENHAM, a parish of the hundred of Isleworth and county of Middlesex, ten miles from London. It lies on the river Thames, opposite to Richmond, with which it is connected by an elegant bridge. It is remarkable as the residence of Pope, who was buried in the parish church, and for Strawberry Hill, the elegant dwelli... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043310-0463 | TWILIGHT, that light, whether in the morning before sunrise, or in the evening after sunset, supposed to begin and end when the least stars that can be seen by the naked eye cease or begin to appear. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043311-0463 | TWINS, two small islands in the Eastern Seas, near the north coast of the island of Flores. Long. 122. 33. E. Lat. 8. 2. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 8 2' S 122 33' E | TWINS |
kp-eb0721-043312-0463 | TWO Brothers, two small islands in the Eastern Seas, near the west coast of Borneo. Long. 109. 13. E. Lat. 1. 32. S. Other two islands, twenty-seven miles from the east point of the island of Madura. Long. 114. 43. E. Lat. 6. 50. S. Other two near the west coast of the island of Celebes. Long. 119. 22. E. Lat. 4. 40. S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043313-0463 | TWO-HEADED Ροιντ, a cape on the south-west coast of the island of Kodiak. Long. 207. 5. E. Lat. 56. 54. N.
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... | 56 54' N 207 5' E | TWO-HEADED |
kp-eb0721-043401-0464 | TWO Hills, a small island among the New Hebrides, in the South Pacific Ocean. Long. 160. 38. E. Lat. 17. 15. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 15' S 160 38' E | TWO |
kp-eb0721-043402-0464 | TWO Sisters, two small islands in the Eastern Seas, covered with wood, and surrounded by a reef of coral rocks. Long. 106. 12. E. Lat. 5. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 5 S 106 12' E | TWO |
kp-eb0721-043403-0464 | TYGERS ’ Islands, a cluster of small islands and shoals in the Eastern Seas, thirty miles east from the island of Saleyer. A small island in the Chinese Seas, near the coast of Chiampa. Long. 107. 45. E. Lat. 40. 47. N. Another small island in the Chinese Seas, near the coast of Cochin-China. Long. 106. 13. E. Lat. 16.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043404-0464 | TYNDALE, William, a learned and pious martyr, was born during the latter part of the fifteenth century. He is said, but apparently without foundation, to have been the grandson of Hugh, Lord Tyndale; who having been engaged in the civil wars between the houses of York and Lancaster, lost his honours, together with his ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | TYNDALE | |
kp-eb0721-043405-0464 | TYNEMOUTH, a town of the ward of Castle, in the county of Northumberland, 286 miles from London. The name describes the situation. The town has considcrable salt and glass works, and vast quantities of coal are shipped from the port. It has lately been visited by company for sea-bathing. Tynemouth was created a borough... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | TYNEMOUTH | |
kp-eb0721-043406-0464 | TYPE (ruro;), an impression, image, or representation of some model, which is termed the antitype. In this sense the word frequently occurs in the writings of divines, who employ it to denote that prefiguration of the great events of man’s redemption, which they trace in the principal transactions recorded in the Old T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043407-0464 | TYPE-FOUNDING. In the article Printing the reader will find that the invention of the art of type-founding was a very early consequence of the discovery of the rude art of taking impressions from laboriously excised letters of wood and metal; and that after an investigation of the statements of various authors, the hon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | TYPE-FOUNDING | |
kp-eb0721-043701-0467 | TYPOGRAPHY, the art of printing. See PRINTING. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043702-0467 | TYRANT, among the ancients, denoted simply a king or monarch; but the ill use which several persons invested with that character made of it, has altered the import of the word; and tyrant now conveys the idea of an unjust or cruel prince, who rules in a more despotic manner than the laws allow. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043703-0467 | TYRE or Sour, a seaport of Syria, anciently a city of extensive commerce and great riches, but which has now fallen into a state of insignificance and poverty. It was formerly called the Queen of the Sea, and ancient writers dilate with wonder on its magnificence and extent. The more ancient city of Tyre was founded by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 33 10' N 35 20' E | TYRE |
kp-eb0721-043801-0468 | TYRHOOT, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, principallysituated between the 27th and 28th degrees of N. lat. On the north it is bounded by the districts of Moc-wanpoor and Muchwany, which are subject to Nepaul; on the south it has Hajypoor and Boghpoor; to the east, the Bengal district of Purneah; and o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043802-0468 | TYRNAU. a city of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, the capital of a circle of the same name in the province of Hither Danube. It is the seat of the provincial courts of law, and contains nine churches, 660 houses, with 5700 inhabitants, chiefly employed in making linen and woollen cloths. It is a place of very active c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 22' 53" N 17 29' 42" E | TYRNAU |
kp-eb0721-043803-0468 | TYROL or Thiol, a province of Austria, one of those most early acquired by the imperial family. It takes its name from an ancient castle on a mountain, near the river Meran, which came under the house of Austria through a female, Margaretta Maultasche, in the year 1363. It extends in north latitude from 45° 39' 30" to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-043804-0468 | TYRONE, an inland county of the province of Ulster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by the counties of Donegal and Londonderry, on the east by Lough Neagh and the county of Armagh, on the south by the counties of Monaghan and Fermanagh, and on the west by those of Fermanagh and Donegal. It lies between 54° 20' and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044101-0471 | TYRTAEUS, a renowned poet, was an Athenian by birth, and flourished about 682 years before the commencement of the Christian, era. He followed the occupation of a schoolmaster, was lame in one foot, and was considered as scarcely sound in mind. By the foolish, genius is sometimes mistaken for fatuity. The causes which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044201-0472 | TYRWHITT, Τhomas, a distinguished scholar, was born in London on the 29th of March 1730. His father Dr Robert Tyrwhitt, descended from an ancient baronet’s family in Lincolnshire, was at that time rector of St James’s, Westminster; but this benefice he resigned in 1732, on being appointed a canon residentiary of St Pau... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044301-0473 | TYTLER, William, one of the most strenuous defenders of the immaculate purity of Queen Mary, was born at Edinburgh on the 12th of October 171). He was the son of Mr Alexander Tytler. a writer or attorney in Edinburgh, by Jane the daughter of Mr William Leslie, merchant in Aberdeen, and granddaughter of Sir Patrick Lesl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044401-0474 | TZULIM, or Tchulimm, a river of Asiatic Russia, which runs through the province of Kolivan, and hills into the Yenisei. Its course is through a poor and desolate country, with scarcely a house or an inhabitant, but only tall pine* rising like pyramids, and spreading their branches so wide ns to render the woods almost ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | TZULIM | |
kp-eb0721-044501-0475 | UU, or u, the twentieth letter and fifth vowel of our alphabet, is formed in the voice by a round configuration of the lips, and a greater extrusion of the under one than in forming the letter o. The sound is short in curst, must, tun, tub; but is lengthened by a final e, as in tune, tube, &c. In some words it is rathe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044502-0475 | UBEDA, a city of Spain, in the province of Andalusia, in the division called the kingdom of Jaen. It is situated in a fertile district, on a gentle elevation, but is well protected from the cold north winds by the loftier elevations of the Sierra Nevada. The vegetable products are, corn, grapes, olives, and especially ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 3' N 3 18' W | UBEDA |
kp-eb0721-044503-0475 | UBIQUIRARIANS, a word formed from ubique, everywhere, denotes a sect of Lutherans which arose and spread itself in Germany, and whose distinguishing doctrine was, that the body of Jesus Christ is everywhere, or in every place. Brentius, one of the earliest reformers, is said to have first broached this error in 1560. L... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | UBIQUIRARIANS | |
kp-eb0721-044504-0475 | UBIQUITY, Omniprescence, an attribute of the Deity, whereby he is always intimately present to all things. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044505-0475 | UBRIQUE, a city of Spain, of the province of Andalusia, in the western part of the government of Granada, between the Sierra of the Alpuraxis and that of Antequera, in a most picturesque country. It is nestled in the bottom of a deep valley, hemmed in by singularly rugged mountains. The valley is pierced by two streams... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044506-0475 | UCKFIELD, a town in the hundred of Loxfield-Dorset and rape of Pevensey, in the county of Sussex. It is situated on the great road to Lewes and Eastbourne, forty-one miles from London. It is well built, clean, and flourishing, chiefly depending on the travelling through it It is a part of the parish of Buxted. The popu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044507-0475 | UDINE, a city of Austrian Lombardy, the capital of the delegation of Friuli, in the government of Venice. It is surrounded with walls, and stands on the river Roja di Palma, in a hilly country, 350 feet above the level of the sea. It is a well-built city, and kept in good order, but, from the narrowness and crookedness... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 3' 14" N 13 8' 57" E | UDINE |
kp-eb0721-044508-0475 | UDIPU, a town of the south of India, province of Canara, about three miles from the sea, on a small river. It contains 300 houses and three Hindu temples, the roofs of which are covered with copper. Long. 74. 48. E. Lat. 14. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044509-0475 | UFFCULME, or Uffcolumb, a market-town and parish in the hundred of Bampton and county of Devon, 160 miles from London. It has a good market on Wednesday, and some fairs. The trade in serges has become extinct. The population amounted in 1821 to 1979, and in 1831 to 2082. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044510-0475 | UGLITSCH, a circle of the Russian government of Jaroslaw. It extends in north latitude from 57° 17' to 58° 11', and in east longitude from 38° 17' to 39° 8'. It comprehends one city and 374 towns and villages, with 68,840 inhabitants. The land is of moderate fertility, watered by the Wolga, the Jugol, and the Uleima; a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 57 27' N 38 19' E | UGLITSCH |
kp-eb0721-044511-0475 | UGOCSA, a circle of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Hither Theiss. It extends over 480 square miles, one half of which is covered with woods. It comprehends three market-towns and sixty-three villages, with 5390 houses, and 36,900 inhabitants, [7:21:446]mostly Catholics, with 2000 Protestants an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 7' 10" N 22 44' 34" E | UGOCSA |
kp-eb0721-044601-0476 | UIST, South and North, two of the Hebrides Islands. South Uist is situate in 57° 7' and 57° 25' N. lat., and 7° 12' and 7° 28' W. long. Its extent is twenty-one miles, its greatest breadth about eight miles and a half, and its superficial extent is calculated at 127 square miles. The population in 1831, including small... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044602-0476 | UJ-VIDEK, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, in the province of Hither Danube and the circle of Bacs. It is the capital of a district called by the Germans Neusatz, and by the Hungarians Also-Jaras. It stands on the river Danube, is the seat of a Greek bishop, and has five churches belonging to that sect, and o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 16' N 19 59' 26" E | UJ-VIDEK |
kp-eb0721-044603-0476 | UKENSKOI, a town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tobolsk, at the confluence of the Irtysch and the Obi, 196 miles north of Tobolsk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044604-0476 | UKIKITSCHA, a small river of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic Russia, which falls into the Olenek. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044605-0476 | UKINSKO i, a cape of Asiatic Russia, on the eastern coast of Kamtschatka, sixty miles north-east of Oudinskoi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044606-0476 | UKIPEN, a small island in the North Pacific Ocean, so called by the Russians, probably the same with that called Sledge Island by Captain Cook. Long. 214. E. Lat. 64. 22. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 64 22' N 214 E | UKIPEN |
kp-eb0721-044607-0476 | UKRAINE, a large country of Europe, lying on the borders of Turkey in Europe, Poland, Russia, and Little Tartary. Its name properly signifies a frontier. By a treaty between Russia and Poland in 1693, the latter remained in possession of all that part of the Ukraine lying on the west side of the river Dnieper, which is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044608-0476 | ULEABORG, the most extensive circle of the Russian province of Finland. It is bounded on the north by Norway, on the east by Archangel, on the south-east by Kupio, on the south by Wasa, on the south-west by the Gulf of Bothnia, and on the north-west by Sweden. It extends over 46,266 square miles, comprehending three to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 64 53' 30" N 25 24' 53" E | ULEABORG |
kp-eb0721-044609-0476 | ULEY, a town of the hundred of Berkeley, in the county of Gloucester, two miles from Dursley and 105 from London. Near to it, on the side of a hill, are the remains of a Roman encampment. The chief occupation is making broad cloths for the East India market, which are afterwards dyed and finished in London. The populat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044610-0476 | ULIETEA, one of the Society Islands, in the Smith Pacific Ocean, wholly surrounded by reefs, and interspersed with small islands, forming several harbours. (For further details, see Society Islands.) The southern extremity is in long. 181. 20. W. and lat. 16. 55. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 55' S 181 20' W | ULIETEA |
kp-eb0721-044611-0476 | ULLAPOOL, a fishing village situate on the north shore of Loch Broom, in Ross-shire. It possesses an excellent harbour and quay; but the buildings, and, it must be added, the population, are quite disproportionate to the present state of its trade and fisheries. In the article Ross-shire, the quantity of fish caught an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044612-0476 | ULM, a city of the kingdom of Wurtemburg, the capital of a circle of the same name in the province of the Danube. It stands on the river Danube, at the point where the Iller and the Blau discharge their waters into that river, and the Danube thus becomes navigable. On [7:21:447]the western side are some lofty hills, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 23' 45" N 9 53' 1" E | ULM |
kp-eb0721-044701-0477 | ULSTER, one of the four provinces into which Ireland is divided. It consists of the northern portion of the island, and embraces the following counties: Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Monaghan, and Tyrone. This province had anciently petty kings of its own. It was subjected to the English... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044702-0477 | ULTERIOR, in Geographg, is applied to some part of a country or province which, with regard to the rest of that country, is situated on the farther side of the river, mountain, or other boundary which separates the two countries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044703-0477 | ULTRAMARINE, a beautiful blue colour used by the painters, prepared from the lapis lazuli by calcination. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044704-0477 | ULTRAMONTANE, something beyond the mountains. The term is principally applied in relation to France and Italy, which are separated by the Alps.
ÜLUGH-BEIGH, a learned Tartarian prince, was born in 1393. His real name was Mohammed Taragai; Ulugh-Beigh being only a descriptive appellation, signifying great lord or princ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044705-0477 | ULVERSTONE, a market-town in the hundred of Lonsdale, and county of Lancaster, 273 miles from London. It is pleasantly situate, and consists principally of four spacious and well-built streets. Its trade is considcrable, is on the increase, and consists of ore, pig, and bar iron, copper ore, cotton, hats, and other fab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044706-0477 | ULYSSES, king of Ithaca, the son of Lacrtes and father of Telemachus, and one of those heroes who contributed most to the taking of Troy. After the destruction of that city, he wandered for ten years, and at last returned to Ithaca, where, with the assistance of Telemachus, he killed Antinous and other princes who inte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-044707-0477 | UMAN, a circle of the Russian government of Kiew, extending in north latitude from 48° 25' to 49“ 9', and in east longitude from 29° 40' to 30° 41'. It is separated from Cherson by the river Seniuska. It has little wood, but extensive steppes, producing, when cultivated, good crops of corn. The capital is of the some n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 43' N 29 51' E | UMAN |
kp-eb0721-044708-0477 | UMBELLIFEROUS Plants are such as have their tops branched and spread out like an umbrella. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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