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kp-eb0721-070501-0745 | W, or w, is the twenty-second letter of our alphabet; and is composed, as its name implies, of two v’s. It was not in use among the Hebrews, Greeks, or Romans, but chiefly among the northern nations, the Teutones, Saxons, Britons, &c. It is not employed by the French, Italians, Spaniards, or Portuguese, except in prope... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070502-0745 | WAAG, a river of Hungary, which rises in the Carpathian Mountains, and falls into the Danube opposite to the island of Schut. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070503-0745 | WAAL, a river of the Netherlands, being one of the branches of the Rhine. Running from east to west through Guelderland, passing by Nimeguen, Tiel, Bommel, and Gorcum, and uniting with the Maes, it falls into the German Sea below the Briel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070504-0745 | WADEY Abassi, a small river of Arabia, which falls into the Red Sea ten miles south-south-east of Hodeida.
Wadey el Arkik, a small river of Arabia, which waters the city of Medina.
Wadey el Kebir, a small river in Arabia, which in rainy seasons reaches the Red Sea near Mocha.
Wadey Elmahan, a small river of Arabia, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070505-0745 | WADJO, or Waju, a state or confederacy in the island of Celebes, situated to the north of the Buggess territories named Boni. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070506-0745 | WAFERS, or Sealing Wafers, are made thus. Take very fine flour, mix it with glair of eggs, isinglass, and a little yeast; mingle the materials; beat them well together; spread the batter, being mode thin with gum-water, on even tin plates, and dry them in a stove; then cut them out for use. You may make them of what co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070507-0745 | WAFTIB, a small low island in the Eastern Seas, on the west coast of the island of Waygiou, covered with trees. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070508-0745 | WAGEEO, or Waygiou, one of the Papuan islands, separated by Dampier’s Strait from New Guinea to the south. It may be estimated in length at ninety miles, by twenty-two miles in average breadth. The island is throughout mountainous at a small distance from the coast, and very woody, being covered with an immense forest ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070509-0745 | WAGES. See Τaχατιον. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070510-0745 | WAGGON, a wheel-carriage, of which there are various forms, accommodated to the different uses for which they are intended. The common waggon consists of the shafts or rods, being the two pieces which the hind horse bears up; the welds; the slotes, or cross pieces, which hold the shafts together; the bolster, being tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070511-0745 | WAGNAGUR, a town of Hindustan, possessed by independent native chiefs, on the sea-coast of the Gujerat peninsula. Long. 71. 58. E. Lat. 21. 3. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070512-0745 | WAGUR, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Cutch, of which it forms the eastern boundary. The inhabitants are Mahommedans, and predatory in their habits; and the country is elevated and woody, and intersected by a number of streams which fall into the Runn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070513-0745 | WAHI, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, long the residence of an illustrious Mahratta family, about fifty miles south of Poonah. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070514-0745 | WAIFS, Βova Waviata, are goods stolen, and waived or thrown away by the thief in his flight, for fear of being apprehended. These by the law are given to the king, as a punishment upon the owner for not himself pursuing the felon, and taking away his goods from him. And therefore if the party robbed do his diligence im... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070601-0746 | WAINFLEET, a market-town in the Lindsey division of the county of Lincoln, in the hundred of Candelshoe, 132 miles from London. It is situated on a creek of the sea, only navigable for small vessels. The town comprehends two parishes, All Saints and St Mary’s, with each a church. There is a weekly market on Saturday, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070602-0746 | WAINSCOT, in building, the timber-work that serves to line the walls of a room, being usually made in panels, and painted, to serve instead of hangings. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070603-0746 | WAKE, the track impressed by the course of a ship on the surface of the water. It is formed by the re-union of the body of water which was separated by the ship’s bottom while moving through it; and may be seen to a considerable distance behind the stern, as smoother than the rest of the sea. Hence it is usually observ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070604-0746 | WAKEFIELD, a large market-town of the wapentake of Morley, in the west riding of the county of York, 180 miles from London and nine from Leeds. It stands on the river Calder, is well built, with wide streets, in which are many very handsome brick houses. Besides the churches, the other public buildings are, the free gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070605-0746 | WAKEFIELD, Gilbert, a commentator and critic of some celebrity, born at Nottingham on the 22d of February 1756, was the son of the Rev. George Wakefield, rector of the parish of St Nicoas. He was observed in his earliest infancy to be of a serious turn of mind, and he made a rapid progress in the first elements of lite... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070801-0748 | WAKES. Mr Whitaker, in his History of Manchester, has given a particular account of the origin of wakes and fairs. He observes, that every church at its consecration received the name of some particular saint; that this custom was practised among the Roman Britons, and continued among the Saxons; and that in the counci... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-070901-0749 | WALACHIA, a principality situated between the Danube, the Moldau, and the Hungarian province of Siebenburgen, the capital of which is Bucharest. In the time of the Romans it was a part of Dacia. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, it received from the court of Byzantium princes who were tributary to it. After the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-071001-0750 | WALAJA, or Abadnagub, a town of the south of India, in the province of the Carnatic, situated on the north side of the Palar river. It is a place of considerable consequence, regularly built, rich and populous. By means of bullocks, it carries on a considerable trade between the seacoast and Mysore. Long. 78. 5. E. Lat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-071002-0750 | WALCHEREN, an island, forming part of the province of Zealand, in the kingdom of Holland. It stands on the north entrance of the western Scheldt, is highly fertile, though unhealthy to foreigners, especially in the autumn, when they are liable to be attacked by that description of fever which takes its name from the is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-071003-0750 | WALDAI, a circle of the Russian government of Novogorod. It extends in north latitude from 57° 37' to 58° 16', and in east longitude from 33° 24' to 38° 4', and contains one city and 507 villages, in 100 parishes, with 54,640 inhabitants. It is abundant in streams, and has upwards of 150 small lakes, some of them five ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 57 44' N 32 19' E | WALDAI |
kp-eb0721-071004-0750 | WALDECK, a small principality of the north of Germany, deriving its name from a mountain castle, the ruins of which still exist It is between 51° 4' and 51° 31' of north latitude, and between 8° 26' and 9° 7' east longitude, as regards the chief part of the territory; but a small portion of it, the Graffshaft, or count... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-071101-0751 | WALDEGRAVE Islands, two small rocky islands lying off the southern coast of New Holland. Captain Flinders includes them under the title of the Investigator’s Group. Long, of the largest, 134. 44. E. Lat. 33. 35. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-071102-0751 | WALDENSES. See Valdenses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-071103-0751 | WALDO. See Valdo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-071104-0751 | WALES, a country situated in the south-west part of Britain, into which the ancient Britons retired from the persecution of the Saxons. Anciently it was of greater extent than it is at present, and comprehended all the country beyond the Severn; that is, besides the twelve counties included in it at present, those of H... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-071105-0751 | WALES, New South. Under this title are included the various British settlements which have been established in the island of New Holland. A description of that island will be found under the article Australasia, together with a short account of its first settlement by the British, and of the early progress of the colon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-072201-0762 | WALKJ, a circle of the Russian government of Ukraine, extending in north latitude from 49° 33' to 50° 2', and in east longitude from 35° 9’ to 35° 48'. It comprehends 660 square miles, with one city, eighty-three towns, many scattered farms and houses, and 65,700 inhabitants. The chief employments are agriculture, bree... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 50' N 35 50' E | WALKJ |
kp-eb0721-072202-0762 | WALLACE, Sir William, the name of one well known to the readers of British history, as the heroic defender of Scotish independence against the aggressions of Edward I. of England. He was the second of three sons of Sir Malcolm Wallace (or Walays) of Elderslie and Auchin-bothic, in the county of Renfrew, and not far fro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-072601-0766 | WALLINGFORD, a market and borough town of the county of Berks and hundred of Moreton, 46 miles from London. It stands on the river Thames, over which is a fine stone bridge of 19 arches, 300 yards in length, with drawbridges to admit the passage of barges. It is an ancient town, once consisting of twelve parishes, now ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-072602-0766 | WALLINGTON, a hamlet in the parish of Beddington and hundred of its own name in the county of Surrey, eleven miles from London. It is only remarkable for the printing and bleaching grounds within it, on the banks of the river Wandle. The great rivalry from the calico-printers in the north has suspended the progress of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-072603-0766 | WALLIS, John, a distinguished mathematician, logician, and grammarian, was born on the 23d of November 1616, at Ashford in Kent, of which parish his father was then minister. Having been previously instructed in the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, he was in 1632 sent to Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he applied ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 18' S 177 W | WALLIS |
kp-eb0721-072701-0767 | WALLSEND, a large village, situated between Newcastle and North Shields, in the county of Northumberland. It is noted for the excellent quality of the coal so abundant in its neighbourhood, as well as for its connection with the celebrated Roman wall built by the emperor Severus, which, as the name of the place indicat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-072702-0767 | WALLUBGHUR, a hill-fortress of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, in the province of Bejapore and district of Darwar. It was long in possession of the Mahratta chief Purseram Bhow. On his death it was occupied by the Colapoor rajah, in whose possession it remained until 1804, when, by the interposition of the Brit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-072703-0767 | WALMER, a neatly-built village, containing many respectable private dwelling-houses, in the hundred of Cornito in the county of Kent. It is noted for the castle of the same name, built close on the sea-shore, and used as the residence of the lord-warden of the cinque ports. The castle commands an extensive view of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-072704-0767 | WALPOLE, SIR Robert, Earl of Orford, was born at Houghton in Norfolk, September 6th, 1674, and was educated on the foundation at Eton school. Thence he was elected to King’s College in Cambridge; but on the death of his elder brother, he resigned his scholarship. He was elected member for Castle-Rising, and represented... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-072901-0769 | WALSALL, a town of the hundred of Offlow and county of Stafford, 116 miles from London and fifteen from Stafford. It is a place of great antiquity. It stands on the side of a hill, and consists of several regular and spacious wellbuilt streets, which are well paved, and lighted with gas. The parish church is a spacious... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-072902-0769 | WALSH, William, an English critic and poet, the son of Joseph Walsh, Esq. of Abberley in Worcestershire, was born about the year 1660. He became a gentleman commoner of Wadham College, Oxford, but left the university without taking a degree. His writings are to be found among the works of the Minor Poets, printed in 17... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073001-0770 | WALSHAM, Νοrth, a market-town of Norfolk, in the hundred of Tunstead, 124 miles from London, and twelve from Norwich. It is about six miles from the sea-shore, and consists of three streets, diverging from a central area, in which is built the church. It has a well-supplied market on Tuesday, and two annual fairs. Ther... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073002-0770 | WALSINGHAM, a market-town of the county of Norfolk, in the hundred of North Greenhoe, 117 miles from London, and four miles from the sea. It was formerly a large place, when the abbey, whose ruins remain to attest its former magnificence, contained an image of the Virgin Mary, much venerated, and visited by numerous pi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073003-0770 | WALTHAM ABBEY, a market-town of the county of Essex, in the hundred of Waltham, eleven miles from London. It takes its name from the stately abbey erected there by Harold, son of Earl Godwin, and afterwards further endowed by Henry II. The present church was formed out of a part of the ancient building. The town has a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073004-0770 | WALTHAMSTOW, a large parish, with a town of the same name, in the county of Essex, in the hundred of Becontree, five miles from London. It is situated near the river Lea, in a rich district, and consists mostly of country houses belonging to the rich class of traders of the metropolis. There is a large church, an endow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073005-0770 | WALTON, Isaac, an early writer of great popularity, was born on the 9th of August 1593, in the parish of St Mary and town of Stafford. The condition of his father is not mentioned, but his mother is described as the daughter of Edmund Cranmer, archdeacon of Canterbury, and the niece of the archbishop. His own occupatio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073201-0772 | WALURU, a town of Hindustan, province of Mysore. It consists of 500 houses, and is one of the richest and best built towns on this frontier, above the Ghauts. It is defended by a citadel, and has a manufacture of cotton cloth, and another of blankets. There are also distilleries of country rum, in which the bark of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073202-0772 | WAMAR, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the west coast of Aroo. Long. 134. 57. E. Lat. 5. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073203-0772 | WANDIA, a town of Hindustan, province of Cutch, district of Wagur, situated on the northern side of the Runn, immediately opposite the fortress of Mallia. It was subdued by the British in 1809, when the chief was laid under tribute. Long. 70. 43. E. Lat. 23. 3. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073204-0772 | WANDICOTTA, a town and large district of the Balaghaut ceded territories, situated principally between the fourteenth and fifteenth degrees of north latitude, and now mostly comprehended in the Cudapah collectorship. The chief towns are Wandicota, Tadimery, and Anantapooram, and the principal river is Pennar. The town ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073205-0772 | WANDIPOOR, a town and fortress of Hindustan, province of Bootan, in the territories of the rajah. It is a place of great strength, being situated on the narrow extremity of a rock, between three rivers, the confluence of whose streams takes place at its sharpened point, and forms a river of considerable magnitude, call... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073206-0772 | WANDIWASH, a town and fortress of the south of India, in the province of the Carnatic. In 1759, the British were repulsed in an attack on this place; but in November following, it was taken by Sir Eyre Coote, with scarcely any loss. It was the scene of a decisive battle, in January 1760, between the French under Μ. Lal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073207-0772 | WANDSWORTH, a town and large parish in the county of Surrey, in the hundred of Brixton, six miles from London. It stands at the junction of the river Wandle with the Thames, and contains corn-mills, distilleries, breweries, and boat-building yards upon a large scale, as well as silk and printing works. There are two ch... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073208-0772 | WANKANEER, a town of Hindustan, province of Gujerat, situated on an angle formed by the conflux of the rivers Muchoo and Patalia. It contains about 5000 houses, and a very handsome mosque, and belongs to a petty chief, who is tributary to the Guicowar. Long. 70. 55. E. Lat. 22. 27. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073209-0772 | WANLOCKHEAD, a village in the parish of Sanquhar and county of Dumfries, nearly 1500 feet above the level of the sea. It is famed for the lead mines which have been worked there from the middle of the sixteenth century to the present time, with various success, but which are now on the decrease. Gold was at one time wo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073210-0772 | WANNY, an extensive district in the island of Ceylon, situated on the north-east quarter, in the vicinity of Trincomalee. It is a flat country, well adapted for the cultivation of rice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073211-0772 | WANSTEAD, a parish of the county of Essex, in the hundred of Becontree, six miles from London. It is a scattered place, containing many fine residences belonging to the richer class of the inhabitants of the metropolis. It was chiefly remarkable for the magnificent mansion recently destroyed, to the great regret of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073212-0772 | WANTAGE, a market-town and parish of the county of Berks, and in the hundred of the same name, sixty miles [7:21:733]from London. This place is celebrated from King Alfred having been born in a royal residence which it once contained. The town stands in the vale of the White Horse; a name given to it from the figure of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073301-0773 | WAPENTAKE is the same with what is called a hundred, especially used in the north counties beyond the river Trent. The word seems to be of Danish original, and to be so applied for this reason: when first the kingdom, or a part, was divided into wapentakes, he who was the chief of the wapentake or hundred, and who is n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073302-0773 | WAPPING. See London. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-073303-0773 | WAR.
That portion of military science which falls to be treated under this term, may be conveniently discussed, in a work like the present, under the two main and obvious divisions of War by Land, and War by Sea. We shall accordingly view the subject with reference to these divisions.
PART I.—WARLIKE OPERATIONS BY LA... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077001-0810 | WARANKUL, or Warangol, an ancient city of Hindustan, in the province of Hyderabad, belonging to the nizam. Long. 79. 34. E. Lat. 17. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077002-0810 | WARARSDIN, a portion of the Austrian province of Croatia, denominated a generality. It is on the frontier towards Turkey, and peopled with military colonists, the males of which are regimented, and held ready for service as one of the conditions of their possessing the land. It extends over 1470 square miles, and compr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077003-0810 | WARBURTON, William, a learned and distinguished writer, descended from an ancient family in Cheshire, was the eldest son of George Warburton, an attorney at Newark in the county of Nottingham, and was born on the 24th of December 1698. He was first sent to school there under a Mr Twells, but had the chief part of his e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077301-0813 | WARD is variously used in our old books. A ward in London is a district or division of the city, committed to the special charge of one of the aldermen; and in London there are twenty-six wards, according to the number of the mayor and aldermen, of which every one has his ward for his proper guard and jurisdiction. A f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077302-0813 | WARDEN, or Guardian, one who has the charge or keeping of any person, or thing, by office. Such is the warden of the Fleet, the keeper of the Fleet prison, who has the charge of the prisoners there, especially such as are committed from the court of chancery for contempt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077303-0813 | WARDROBE, a closet or little room adjoining to a bedchamber, serving to dispose and keep a person’s apparel in; or for a servant to lodge in, to be at hand to wait, &c.
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kp-eb0721-077401-0814 | WARDSHIP, in chivalry, one of the incidents of tenure by knight-service. See Feudal System. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077402-0814 | WARE, a market-town of the county of Hertford, in the hundred of Braughin, twenty-one miles from London. It stands on the river Lea, which is navigable to the metropolis, and by which much malt, the principal commodity of the place, is conveyed to the great porter breweries and distilleries in London. It is a well-buil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077403-0814 | WAREHAM, a market-town of the county of Dorset, in the hundred of Winfrith and division of Blandford, 112 miles from London. It is situated on an eminence between the mouth of the rivers Frome and Piddle, and consists of four principal and several minor streets. The river Frome is navigable up to the bridge for small c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077404-0814 | WARKWORTH, a town of the county of Northumberland, in the ward of Morpeth. It stands on the river Coquet, 308 miles from London. It consists of three streets, in which are good houses. It is remarkable for the extensive ruins of the castle of its name, belonging to the duke of Northumberland, with its park and hermitag... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077405-0814 | WARMING. Under the article Stove, the different means of heating apartments, both directly by stoves, and also by throwing in a supply of warm air, have been already noticed; and under the article Stea m, the means of using it as a source of heat for warming buildings and fluids, and also for drying articles, have been... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077601-0816 | WARMINSTER, a market-town of the county of Wilts, in the hundred of its own name, ninety-seven miles from London and twenty-two from Salisbury. The river Willy runs through the town, and falls into the Avon. Warminster has a market on Saturday, at which the greatest quantity of corn is sold of any place in the county. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077602-0816 | WARNAWIN, a circle of the Russian government of Kostroma, extending in north latitude from 56° 48' to 57° 33', and in east longitude from 43° 59' to 46° 12'. It is a poor and barren district, thinly inhabited, and scarcely yielding [7:21:777]com sufficient for its scanty population, many of whom seek employment and sub... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077701-0817 | WARP, in the manufactures, a name for the threads, whether of silk, wool, linen, hemp, &c. that are extended lengthwise on the weaver’s loom; and across which the workman, by means of his shuttle, passes the threads of the woof, to form a cloth, ribband, fustian, or the like.
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kp-eb0721-077702-0817 | WARRANT is a power and charge to a constable or other officer to apprehend a person accused of any crime. It may be issued in extraordinary cases by the privy council, or secretaries of state; but most commonly it is issued by justices of the peace. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077703-0817 | WARRANTY, Warrantia, in Law, a promise, or covenant by deed, made by the bargainer for himself and his heirs, to warrant and secure the bargainee and his heirs, against all men, for enjoying the thing agreed on or granted between them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077704-0817 | WARREE, or Sawunt Warree, an extensive district of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, situated between the sea and the western Ghaut Mountains, being forty miles in length and about twenty-five in breadth. It is rocky and unproductive, and formerly the inhabitants were much addicted to piracy. In 1818 the British ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077705-0817 | WARREN is a franchise or place privileged by prescription or grant from the king, for the keeping of beasts and fowls of the warren, which are hares and coneys, partridges, pheasants, and some add quails, woodcocks, and water-fowl, &c. These being feroe naturce, every one had a natural right to kill as he could; but up... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077706-0817 | WARRINGTON, a large market and borough town of the county of Lancaster, in the hundred of West Derby. It is a place of great though doubtful antiquity. Its name is most obviously of Saxon origin, Whoering in that language signifying an armed or defended town. It is placed on the river Mersey, over which a bridge was er... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077707-0817 | WARRIOR, a town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, thirty-eight miles north-east from Tanjore. Long. 79. 25. E. Lat 11. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 15' N 79 25' E | WARRIOR |
kp-eb0721-077708-0817 | WARSAW, the capital of the kingdom of Poland, is situated on the left bank of the Vistula, in north lat. 52° 14', and east long. 21° 2', in the midst of a vast sandy plain. The city proper is ill built, with narrow dirty streets; but the suburbs are fine and spacious, with wide, straight and [7:21:778]well-paved street... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-077801-0818 | WARTON, Josepj, an elegant poet and critic, was born in the year 1722, in the house of his maternal grandfather, Joseph Richardson, rector of Dunsford in Surrey. His father, Thomas Warton, B. D. fellow of Magdalen College, and professor of poetry at Oxford, and afterwards vicar of Basingstoke in Hampshire, and of Cobha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-078101-0821 | WARWICK, a borough and market town, the capital of the county of that name. It is within the hundred of Kington, and stands on the bank of the river Avon, seven miles from Stratford and ninety-one from London. It is a wellbuilt and regular town. The county-hall is a fine structure, as is also the county gaol. It had on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-078201-0822 | WARWICKSHIRE, an inland county of England, and nearly in the centre of the kingdom. It is bounded on the western side, from north to south, by Staffordshire, Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire; and on the eastern side by Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Oxfordshire. Its greatest length from north to south is abou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-078301-0823 | WARYE, an open town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat and district of Werrear, fourteen miles south-west from Ruhdunpoor. It is the residence of many of the head jhuts, and can muster from 800 to 1000 horsemen, well mounted, and armed with spears and sabres. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | WARYE | |
kp-eb0721-078302-0823 | WASA, a circle of the Russian province of Finland, which extends over 16,760 miles, comprehending six cities, 2255 hamlets or farms, with 145,700 inhabitants. The capital is the town of the same name, on a bay in the Baltic Sea. It is well built, though chiefly with wooden houses, but has a handsome stone church. It co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 63 4' 35" N 21 30' E | WASA |
kp-eb0721-078303-0823 | WASH, among distillers, the fermentable liquor used by malt distillers. See Brewery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-078304-0823 | WASHINGTON, the capital of the United States of North America, is finely situate on undulating ground in the angle formed by the junction of the navigable river Potomac with the Eastern Branch, in the centre of the federal district of Columbia, an area of 100 square miles, ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 55' N 76 58' W | WASHINGTON |
kp-eb0721-078305-0823 | WASHINGTON, George, the first president of the United States, was born in the year 1732, in the parish of Washington, in Virginia. He was descended from an ancient family in Cheshire, of which a branch was established in Virginia about the middle of the seventeenth century. Little is known concerning his education, or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-078401-0824 | WASIL, a circle of the Russian government of Nishegorod, extending in north latitude from 55° 52' to 56°
40 . , and in east longitude from 45° 5' to 46° 22'. It is watered by the rivers Wolga, Sura, and Wetluga, is of moderate fertility, yielding corn, but more pasturage. The population is 110,000, who find much emplo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 63 52' N 46 6' E | WASIL |
kp-eb0721-078402-0824 | WASILKOW, a circle in the Russian government of Kiew, extending in north latitude from 49° 39' to 50°
13', and in east longitude from 31° 47' to 32° 23'. It has the river Dnieper as its eastern boundary, and the banks are both fertile and picturesque. It has good meadows, extensive woods, and yields a surplus of corn.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 12' N 32 55' E | WASILKOW |
kp-eb0721-078403-0824 | WASSAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, eighteen miles north by east from Cambay. Long. 72. 52. E. Lat. 22. 39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 22 39' N 72 52' E | WASSAH |
kp-eb0721-078404-0824 | WASSOTA, a celebrated fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore and district of the Concan. There are two forts, situated on rocks nearly perpendicular, and 3000 feet high. They were surrendered in 1818 to a British force, notwithstanding their strength. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-078405-0824 | WATCH. See Clock AND Watch Work. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-078406-0824 | WATCHET, a market-town of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of Willerton and Freemanners, 158 miles from London. It is a seaport, situated on the Bristol Channel, but its harbour has been much neglected; and though means have been taken to improve it, small vessels only can enter it. Watchet was formerly a place o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-078407-0824 | WATEEHOO, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, about six miles long and four broad, discovered by Captain Cook in 1777. Long. 158. 15. W. Lat. 20. 1. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 20 1' S 158 15' W | WATEEHOO |
kp-eb0721-078501-0825 | WATER-WORKS.
UNDER this name may be comprehended almost every hydraulic structure or contrivance; such as canals, conduits, locks, mills, water-engines, &c. But they may be conveniently classed under two general heads, 1st, works which have for their object the conducting, raising, or otherwise managing, of water; and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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UNDER | |
kp-eb0721-080901-0849 | WATERFORD, a maritime county of the province of Munster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny, on the east by that of Wexford, on the south by the Atlantic, and on the west by the county of Cork. It lies between 51° 55' and 52° 20' north latitude, and 6° 58' and 8° 10' west long... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-081301-0853 | WATERLAND, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Le Maire and Schouten in 1616. Long. 149. 30. W. Lat. 14. 46. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 46' S 149 30' W | WATERLAND |
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