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kp-eb0721-064303-0683 | VIENNA (Wien), the capital of the circle of Austria, and of the whole Austrian empire, is situated upon an arm of the Danube, to the south of the main stream, at the mouth of the rivulet Wien, about 500 feet above the level of the sea, and in north latitude 48° 12', and east longitude 16° 22'. The city, properly so cal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064601-0686 | VIENNE, a department of the south-west division of France, formed out of the ancient province of Upper Poitou. It extends in north latitude from 46° 8', to 49° 9', and in longitude from 0° 7' east, to 0° 58' west. It is bounded on the north by the departments of Mayence and Indre-Loire, on the east by the Indre and Loi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064701-0687 | VIENNE, Upper, a department in the north-west of France, formed out of the Upper Limousin, and the districts of La Marche and Poitou. It is situated in north latitude between 45° 26', and 46° 24', and in east longitude between 0° 33', and 1° 41'. It is bounded on the north by the departments of Vienne and of Indre, on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064702-0687 | VIERLANDS, four small islands in the river Elbe, a little above the city of Hamburg, and under the joint government of that city and of Lübec. The inhabitants are a colony of Dutch who came to these spots on a religious account, and who still retain their ancient language, religion, dress, and manners. They are, in fac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064703-0687 | VIERZON, a city of France, in the department of the Cher, and the arrondissement of Bourges. It stands at the point where the rivers Eure and Eber unite, and contained in 1836, 4706 inhabitants, employed in making hosiery, woollen goods, and leather. Lat. 47. 12. Long. 1. 58. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064704-0687 | VIGER, Francois, more generally known by the name of Franciscus Vigerus, a learned Jesuit, was a native of Rouen, and died there in the year 1647. His treatise entitled "De praecipuis Graecae Dictionis Idiotismis liber,” is said to have been originally published in 1632. The subsequent editions are very numerous, and s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064705-0687 | VIGEVANO, a province of the kingdom of Sardinia in Italy, in the principality of Piedmont, on the frontier towards Milan. It is a level and rich, though small district, producing wine, silk, and some rice. The capital is of the same name, is the seat of a bishop, and is situated about two miles from the river Tessin. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064801-0688 | VIGIL, in church history, is the eve or next day before any solemn feast; because then Christians were wont to watch, fast, and pray, in their churches.
Vigils of Plants, a term under which botanists comprehend the precise time of the day in which the flowers of different plants open, expand, and shut. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064802-0688 | VIGILANTIUS, the bold opponent of ecclesiastical corruptions in the fourth century, and the forerunner of those who have since testified for scriptural truth, and protested against certain errors of the ancient fathers. Others of the same, or of an earlier period, may have offered some occasional opposition to supersti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-064901-0689 | VIGO, a sea-port of Spain, in the province of Galicia, more remarkable for the excellence of the bay on which it stands. Vigo bay is entirely enclosed with high mountainous land, broken by cultivated valleys, which form a pleasing landscape. It is entered by a long channel, in which there are from twenty-seven to thirt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065001-0690 | VIJANAGRAM, a considerable town of Hindustan, in the Northern Arcons, twenty-five miles north by west from Vizapatam. Long. 83. 30. E. Lat. 18. 4. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065002-0690 | VILLAFRANCA, a small town in the delegation of Verona in Venetian Lombardy, with a population of 2000. It is nine miles distant from Verona.
Villafranca, a town of Spain, in the province of Estremadura, distant from Madrid about 200 miles. It is a place of but little importance, and has a population of about 2500. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065003-0690 | VILLACH, a circle in the Austrian government of Laibach in Illyria. It is bounded on the north by the Upper Ens, on the east by Klaganfort, on the south by Laibach and Venice, and on the west by Tyrol. It extends over 2200 square miles, and comprehends four cities, eleven market towns, and 1147 villages, with 112,980 i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065004-0690 | VILLAGE, an assemblage of houses inhabited chiefly by peasants and farmers, and having no market; a circumstance by which it is distinguished from a town. The word is French, formed from the Latin villa, a country house. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065005-0690 | VILLEFRANCHE, one of the arrondissements of the department of the Rhone, in the south of France, containing 584½ square miles, and divided into 9 cantons, 127 communes, with 151,980 inhabitants in 1836. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Morgen, near to the left bank of the Paone, in a most... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065006-0690 | VILLENA, a city of Spain in the province of Murcia. It is situated on the north-east of the river Jumilla, in a bleak and mountainous country. Near it is a salt lake, two leagues in circumference, which supplies the neighbouring district with salt for culinary purposes. The whole of the surrounding country is studded w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065007-0690 | VILLEIN, or Villain, in our ancient customs, denotes a man of servile or base condition, viz. a bondman or servant. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065008-0690 | VILLENAGE, in Law. The folk-land, or estates held in villenage, was a species of tenure neither strictly feudal, Norman, nor Saxon, but mixed and compounded of them all; and which also, on account of the heriots that usually attend it, may seem to have somewhat Danish in its composition. Under the Saxon government, the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065101-0691 | VILLENEUVE D’AGEN, an arrondissement of the department of the Lot and the Garonne, in France, extends over 560 square miles, and is divided into six cantons, with eighty-six communes, which contained in 1836 96,961 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name on the river Lot, with a population of 11,222 in 1836... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065102-0691 | VILLIERS, George, duke of Buckingham, was the third son of Sir George Villiers. He was born at Brookes-by in Leicestershire, August 20, 1582. His handsome person and pleasing manners gained him the favour of James I., who, in 1615, created him a knight, with a pension of L.1000 a-year. From this time, his promotion was... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065103-0691 | VIMIERO, a small town of the province of Alentejo, in the kingdom of Portugal. It stands on a mountain, and contains 430 houses, with about 1800 inhabitants, and is only remarkable as the scene of one of that series of victories gained by the duke of Wellington during the peninsular war. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065104-0691 | VINA or Βιν, a singular musical instrument of India, of the lute kind. Mersenne describes and gives a representation of it in the twenty-first proposition of the second book of his Harmonics. It is minutely described in the Asiatic Researches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065105-0691 | VINCATGHERRY, a town of Hindostan, in the Mysore rajah’s territories. It is built on a rising ground, and consists of several inclosures surrounded by walls of stone, and flanked with towers and bastions, which rise higher and higher towards the central inclosure, in which stood the rajah’s dwelling. It is distant 120 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065106-0691 | VIN cent. ST, one of the windward West India islands, is situate in 13° N. Lat. and 61° W. Long. It is seventeen miles long from north to south, and ten miles broad. Being discovered by Columbus on the 22d January (1498), which is St Vincent’s day in the Spanish calendar, he named it after that saint. It was then inhab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065107-0691 | VIN cent. JoHN Jervis, Earl of ST, a distinguished naval officer, was born at Meaford, in Staffordshire, on the 9th of January 1734, old style. His father, Lwynfen Jervis, Esq., was counsel and solicitor to the admiralty, and treasurer of Greenwich Hospital. Young Jervis was destined for the law, but having contracted ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065201-0692 | VINCI, Leonardo da, an illustrious Italian painter, descended from a noble Tuscan family, was born in the castle of Vinci near Florence, in 1445. He was placed under Andrea Verochia, a celebrated painter in that city; but soon surpassed him and all his predecessors so much, as to be reputed the master of the third or g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065202-0692 | VINCULUM, in algebra, a character in form of a line or stroke drawn over a factor, divisor, or dividend, when compounded of several letters or quantities, to connect them, and shews that they are to be multiplied or divided, &c. together by the other term.
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kp-eb0721-065203-0692 | VINDHYA MOUNTAINS, a chain of hills in Hindustan which passes through Bahar and Benares, and continues through the provinces of Allahabad and Malwah, along the north side of the Nerbuddah. They are inhabited by Bhecls, and other predatory tribes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065204-0692 | VINEGAR, Acetum, an agreeable acid, prepared from wine, cider, beer, and other liquors; of considerable use, both as a medicine and a sauce. The word is French, vinaigre; formed from vin, wine, and aigre, sour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065205-0692 | VINGORLA, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the rajah of Colapoor, on the sea-coast of the province of Bejapoor. Long. 73. 22. E. Lat. 15. 54. N.
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... | 15 54' N 73 22' E | VINGORLA |
kp-eb0721-065301-0693 | VIOLA. See Βοτανυ. Viola, or Tenor Violin. A bow-instrument of the violin kind, intermediate in size and pitch between the violin and the violoncello. It has four strings, of which the third and fourth are covered with silvered copper wire. It is tuned C, G, D, A, reckoning upwards, and is an octave higher in pitch tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065302-0693 | VIOLIN, a bow-instrument of considerable compass, and great powers of expression and execution. Its origin is obscure. The best violins are those of the old Cremona makers, Jerome, Anthony, and Nicholas Amati, and Stradivarius and Guarnerius, and F. and T. and G. B. Ruggiero. Next in quality are those of Jacob Steiner,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065303-0693 | VIOLONCELLO, a powerful and expressive bow-instrument of the violin family. It has four strings, the third and fourth of which are covered with silvered copper wire. It is tuned C, G, D, A, reckoning upwards, and is an octave lower than the viola. Passages of rapid execution do not suit this instrument, especially on t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065304-0693 | VIOLONE, Contra-basso, or Double-Bass, the largest instrument of the violin kind. The best are of Italian make. See article Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065305-0693 | VIQUE, or Vich, a city of Spain, in the province of Catalonia. It is situated on the river Ter, above Gerona. The country around, though not naturally fertile, is rendered productive by high cultivation. The most considerable works for printing calicos are within this district, and there are in the city considerable ma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065306-0693 | VIRAGO, a woman of extraordinary stature and courage, who has the mien and air of a man, and performs the actions and exercises of men. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065307-0693 | VIRAGNE, a town and mud fort of Hindustan, province of Aurungabad, in the Nizam’s territories, 100 miles south-east from Ahmednuggur. Long. 76.15. E. Lat. 18.11. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065308-0693 | VIRANCHIPURA, an open town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic district of Vellore, situated on the south shore of the Palur river. It was formerly a large place, and pos-ssessed many public buildings; but suffered severely during the war with Hyder. Long. 79. 5. E. Lat. 12. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065309-0693 | VIRAPELLE, a town on the Malabar coast, in the district of Cochin, five miles north from the town of Cochin. It is the residence of the apostolic vicar of the Roman Catholic Christians, who superintends sixty-four churches. There are besides forty-five governed by the archbishop of Craga-none, and also the large dioces... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065310-0693 | VIRE, an arrondissement of the department of Calvados, in France. It extends over 373½ square miles, and comprehends six cantons, which are divided into 97 communes, containing 89,450 inhabitants in 1836. The capital is the city of the same name, a manufacturing place of great activity, containing 7339 inhabitants, who... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065311-0693 | VIRGIL. Of the personal history of Publius Vir-gilius Maro, the greatest of Latin poets, little is known with certainty. The principal authority on which his biography rests, is a life usually attributed to Tiberius Claudius Donatus, a grammarian who flourished in the fifth century of the Christian era. Its authenticit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-065701-0697 | VIRGINIA, the largest and most central state in the American Union, perhaps the most varied in its productions, and the richest in natural resources, blessed with a happy climate and a fruitful soil, exhibiting a pleasant interchange of the most romantic and lovely scenes. The state borders upon the Atlantic ocean and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066001-0700 | VIRGIN ISLANDS, situate between 17° 40', and 80° 40' N. lat., and between 64° 30' W. long. Sir Francis Drake is said to have called them the Virgin islands in honour of Queen Elizabeth; but this is a mistake, for they were called Las Virgines by Columbus, in honour of the eleven thousand virgins in the Romish ritual. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066002-0700 | VIRGO, one of the signs or constellations of the zodiac. VIRNANGH, a village of Hindustan, in the province of Cashmere, thirty-seven miles south-east from the city of Cashmere. Long. 74. 13. E. Lat. 34. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066003-0700 | VIRTUAL, or Ροτεντιαl, something that has a power or virtue of acting or doing. The term is chiefly understood of something that acts by a secret invisible cause, in opposition to actual and sensible. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066004-0700 | VIRTUE, a term used in various significations. In its general sense it denotes power, or the perfection of any thing, whether natural or supernatural, animate or inanimate, essential or accessory. But, in its more proper or restrained sense, virtue signifies a habit, which improves and perfects the possessor and his ac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066005-0700 | VIRTUOSO, an Italian term introduced into English, signifying a man of curiosity and learning, or one who loves and promotes the arts and sciences. But among us the term seems to be appropriated to those who apply themselves to some curious and quaint rather than immediately useful art or study; as antiquaries, collect... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066006-0700 | VISCOUNT (Vice comes), was anciently an officer under an earl, to whom, during his attendance at court, he acted as deputy to look after the affairs of the county. But the name was afterwards employed as an arbitrary title of honour, without any shadow of office pertaining to it, by Henry VI.; when, in the eighteenth y... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066007-0700 | VISHNOU, that person in the triad of the Brahmins who is considered as the preserver of the universe. Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer; and these two, with Vishnou, united in some inexplicable manner, constitute Brahme, or the supreme numen of the Hindus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066008-0700 | VISIER, an officer or dignitary in the Ottoman empire. The Visier-azam, that is, “grand visier,” is the prime minister of state in the whole empire. He commands the army in chief, and presides in the divan or great council. Next to him are six other subordinate visiers, called visiers of the bench, who officiate as his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066009-0700 | VISTULA, or Weisel, a large river of Poland, which, taking its rise in the mountains south of Silesia, visits Cracow, Warsaw, &c. and continuing its course northward, falls into the Baltic sea below Dantzig. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066010-0700 | VITERBO, a delegation or province of the papal dominions, formed out of a part of Orvieto, the duchy of Castro, and the countship of Ronaglione. It is bounded on the north by Perugia, on the north-east by Spoletto, on the east by Rieta, on the south-east by Rome, and on the south and south-west by the sea, and on the w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066101-0701 | VITORIA, a city of Spain, in the province of Alava. It is built on the river Ladorra, which runs into the Ebro, on a plain which yields excellent wheat and other grain, but is surrounded with lofty and barren mountains. The walls round it are unfit for defence, but they render the city compact, and furnish very pleasan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066102-0701 | VITTORIA, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the island of Sicily. It is in the province of Noto, and is the capital of a circle of it called the Contea of Modica, which contains 120,000 acres of land, and 80,000 inhabitants. It is 130 miles from Palermo, and is oddly situated among straggling craggy rocks, but boasts... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066103-0701 | VITRIOL, a compound salt formed by the union of iron, copper, or zinc, with sulphuric acid; hence called from the colours white, blue, and green, according to the metal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066104-0701 | VITRIOLATED, among chemists, something impregnated, or supposed to be so, with vitriol or its acid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066105-0701 | VITRUVIUS Pollio, Marcus, an ancient architect of great name, is sometimes represented as a native of Rome; but, if we may rely on the opinion of Maffei, there are divers reasons for supposing him to have been a native of Verona; and other writers are disposed to transfer the honour of his birth-place to Formiae, a cit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066106-0701 | VITRY-LE-FRANCAIS, or Vitry-sur-Marne, an arrondissement in the department of Marne, which extends over 608½ square miles, and is divided into five cantons, and 133 communes, which in 1836 contained 50,527 inhabitants. The city stands near the junction of the rivers Orne and Marne. It is strongly fortified, tolerably w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066107-0701 | VIVIPAROUS, an epithet applied to such animals as bring forth their young alive and perfect, in contradistinction to those that lay eggs, which are called oviparous animals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066108-0701 | VIZAGAPATAM, a considerable town and district of Hindustan, in the province of the Northern Circars. The district, principally situated between the 17th and 19th degrees of north latitude, is mountainous, and many of the hills are wild and destitute of vegetation. The principal trading towns of the district are, Vizaga... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066201-0702 | VIZIADROOG, a commodious sea-port of Hindustan, province of Bejapore, situated south by east from Bombay. The mouth of the river on which it is situated is half a mile broad, without a bar: it is said to be navigable twenty-five miles for vessels of 200 tons burden; and near the mouth ships of 700 tons may anchor in sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066202-0702 | VIZIANAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, thirty-seven miles west from Gunjam. Long. 84. 45. E. Lat. 19. 21. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066203-0702 | VIZIERABAD, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, situated on the eastern bank of the Chinaub or Acesines river. It belongs to the Seiks. Long. 73. 57. E. Lat. 32. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066204-0702 | VIZZINI, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the island of Sicily, and province of Noto, 97 miles from Palermo. It stands on a volcanic mountain, near the source of the river Dirello, and was the Bedenum of Ptolemy. It is a very healthy spot, and contains 9100 inhabitants, and is one of the cities which sends a member ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066205-0702 | VLISSINGEN, a maritime town of Holland, in the province of Zealand, called by the English Flushing. It is situated at the mouth of the West Scheldt, on the south side of the island of Walcheren, and thus in some measure commands the entrance to that river, and the access to Antwerp. In 1809 it suffered much during the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066206-0702 | VOCABULARY denotes the collection of the words of a language, with their significations, otherwise called a dictionary, lexico, or nomenclature. A vocabulary is properly a smaller kind of dictionary, which does not enter so minutely into the origin and different acceptations of words. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066207-0702 | VOCAL, something that relates to the voice or speech. Thus vocal music is that set to words, especially verses, and to be performed by the voice; in contradistinction to instrumental music, composed only for instruments, without singing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066208-0702 | VOCALIZE, to, (Ital, vocalizzare,) a technical term in music, signifying to sing exercises upon the vowel A only. The practice of vocalizing follows the study of the solfeggio in learning to sing. See Solγa, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066209-0702 | VOCATIVE, the fifth state or case of nouns. See Grammar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066210-0702 | VOET, Gisbert, an eminent divine, was born at Heus-den on the 3d of March 1589, being the descendant of an ancient and considerable family. The earlier part of his education he received at the school of his native place, and there he astonished his teachers by his uncommon powers of memory. It is said that he could rep... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066211-0702 | VOGEL, a small island in the Eastern seas. Long. 130. 46. E. Lat. 5. 12. S. There is also a cluster of small islands, under this designation, near the West coast of Siam. Long. 98. 55. E. Lat. 7. 38. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066212-0702 | VOGHERA, a province of the kingdom of Sardinia, in the principality of Piedmont, containing two cities [7:21:663]and 139 towns and villages, with 114,400 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name on the river Stoffora. It is fortified, is well built, and contains seven religious houses for monks and nuns. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066301-0703 | VOICE, a sound produced in the throat and mouth of an animal, by peculiar organs.
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kp-eb0721-066302-0703 | VOIGHTLAND, a province or circle of the kingdom of Saxony, which was diminished by the peace of 1814. It is bounded on the north-east by Erzgeberge, on the southeast by Bohemia, on the south-west by Bavaria, and on the north-west by Reus. The province is divided into three bailiwicks, comprehending eighteen cities or t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066303-0703 | VOIRON, a city of France in the department of Lozere and arrondissement of Grenoble. It stands on the river Morges, and is remarkable as the central point for the extensive trade in hempen cloth which is made in the surrounding district. There is also a fabric of sword blades highly esteemed, and there are several pape... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066304-0703 | VOLCONDA, a town and fortress of the South of India, province of the Carnatic. The port is situated on a rock 200 feet high, and a mile in circumference at the bottom. It was taken by the Mahratta chief, Sevagee, in 1677; and during the Carnatic wars of the last century, was a strong post. Long. 79∙5. E. Lat. 11. 10. N... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066305-0703 | VOLERY, a bird-cage of such a size that the birds have room in it to fly up and down. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066306-0703 | VOLGA, the largest river in Europe, derives its origin from two small lakes in the forest of Volkonski about 80 miles from Tver, a town in Russia. It is navigable a few miles above that town. This noble river waters some of the finest provinces in the Russian empire, and at last falls into the Caspian sea, by several m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066307-0703 | VOLHYNIA, or Wolhynia, a government, or stad-holderate, of the Russian empire, extending in north latitude from 49’ 28' to 52° 3', and in east longitude from 23° 30' to 29° 14'. It is bounded on the north-west by Grodno, on the north by Minsh, on the east by Kieu, on the south by the Austrian kingdom of Gallicia, and o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066308-0703 | VOLITION, an act of willing. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066309-0703 | VOLONES, slaves who, in the Punic war, voluntarily offered their services to the state, which is the reason of the appellation; upon which they were admitted to citizenship, as none but freemen could be soldiers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-066310-0703 | VOLT, in the manege, a round or circular tread, hence, by the phrase to make volts, is understood a gate of two treads, made by a horse going sidewise round a centre, in such a manner that these two treads make parallel tracks; one larger, made by the fore-feet, and another smaller, made by the hind-feet; the croup app... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070001-0740 | VOLTAIRE, François Marie A rouet de, one of the most celebrated writers of modern times, was born at Paris on the 20th of February 1694. His father, François Arouet, was “ancien notaire au Chatelet,” and treasurer of the chamber of accounts; his mother was Marguerite d’Anmart. At the birth of this extraordinary man, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070201-0742 | VOLTERRA, a city of Italy in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the capital of a circle called a vicarate, of the same name, and the seat of a bishop. It stands on a hill, and is surrounded with walls of Etruscan construction. It has a cathedral and several churches, and contains 6200 inhabitants. Volterra is celebrated for i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070202-0742 | VOLUME, a book or writing of a just bulk to be bound by itself. The name is derived from the Latin volvere, “to roll up the ancient manner of making up a book being in rolls of bark or parchment. See Bibliography. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070203-0742 | VOLUNTARY, in Music, means properly an extempore composition played upon the organ, or some other instrument. In Great Britain, from want of thorough musical education, there are very few performers who can safely attempt any thing of this kind. In Germany there are many. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070204-0742 | VOLUTE, in Architecture, a kind of spiral scroll used in Ionic and Composite capitals, whereof it makes the principal characteristic and ornament. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070205-0742 | VOMITING, a retrograde spasmodic motion of the muscular fibres of the oesophagus, stomach, and intestines, attended with strong convulsions of the muscles of the abdomen and diaphragm; which when gentle create a nausea, when violent a vomiting. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070206-0742 | VORALBERG, a circle of the Austrian province of Tyrol, which touches on the lake of Constance. This locality renders it of some importance to the imperial dominions. It extends over 1628 square miles, and comprehends three cities, seven market towns, and 412 villages, with 79,600 inhabitants. It is a mountainous and hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070207-0742 | VORSTIUS, Conrad, born at Cologne on the 19th of July 1569, was the son of a dyer who had secretly adopted the Protestant faith. Having received a good preliminary education, he in 1587 entered the College of St Lawrence at Cologne. After lecturing at Geneva, he was appointed professor of theology at Steinfurt, where h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070301-0743 | VOSGES, a department in the north-east of France, formed out of the southern part of the ancient province of Lorraine, and extending in north latitude from 48° 31' to 49° 7', and in east longitude, from 5° 30' to 6° 12'. It is bounded on the north by the departments of the Meuse and the Meurthe, on the east by those of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070302-0743 | VOSSIUS, Gerard John, a writer of great and variegated erudition, was born near Heidelberg in the year 1577. His father, John Voss, and his mother, Cornelie de Bie, were both natives of Roermund, a town in the Netherlands. Having embraced the doctrines of the Reformation, he emigrated to the Palatinate, where he studie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070401-0744 | VOTIVE Medals, those on which are expressed the vows of the people for the emperors. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070402-0744 | VOURLA, a sea port of Asia Minor, on the site of the ancient Clazomene, one of the twelve great cities of Ionia. It is built on two eminences; and one division is inhabited by Christians, who occupy about 500 houses, and possess two churches; the remainder of the town is inhabited by Turks. It is now of little importan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070403-0744 | VOW, a solemn religious promise or oath. The use of vows is found in most religions. They form a considerable part of the Pagan worship, being made either in consequence of some deliverance, under some pressing necessity, or for the success of some enterprize. Among the Jews, all vows were to be voluntary, and made by ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070404-0744 | VOWEL, in Grammar, a letter which affords a complete sound of itself, or a letter so simple as only to need a bare opening of the mouth to make it heard and to form a distinct voice. The English vowels are six in number, viz., A, E, I, O, U, Y. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070405-0744 | VUKOVAR, a market town, the capital of a district of the same name in the Sclavonian province of Hungary. It stands on the river Danube, and contains 700 houses, and 5820 inhabitants. Lat. 45. N. Long. 19. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070406-0744 | VULCAN, in Pagan worship the god of subterraneous fire and metals, was the son of Jupiter and Juno; and was said to be so remarkably deformed, that his father threw him down from heaven to the isle of Lemnos, in which fall he broke his leg, and there he set up his forge, and taught men how to soften and polish brass an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070407-0744 | VULCANO, one of the Lipari islands in the Mediterranean sea, to the south of the principal island. It is a lofty island about fifteen miles in circuit, and possesses two small ports on its northern coast, where Valcanello is joined to it by a low rock formed of its own lava. Long. 14. 55. 56. E. Lat. 38. 23. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070408-0744 | VULGATE, a very ancient Latin translation of the Bible, and the only one acknowledged by the church of Rome to be authentic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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