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kp-eb0721-081302-0853 | WATERLAND, Daniel, D. D., a learned English divine, who greatly distinguished himself in theological controversies, was born in 1683, at Wasely in Lincolnshire, of which place his father was rector. He had his academical learning at Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he drew up a useful tract, which went through severa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-081303-0853 | WATERLOO, a village of Belgium, ten miles south of Brussels, with about 1600 inhabitants. Its name has been rendered famous by the battle which decided the fate of Napoleon. For an account of that battle, see the article War. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-081304-0853 | WATFORD, a market-town of the county of Hertford, in the hundred of Caisho, 17½ miles from London. It stands on the river Colne, a few miles from its source at Otterpool. It is well built and pleasantly situated, consisting principally of one street. There is a good market on Saturday, and two annual fairs are held. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-081305-0853 | WATLINGTON, an irregularly built market-town of the county of Oxford, in the hundred of Pirton, forty-three miles from London. It stands in a hilly district, called the Chiltern Hills, has an endowed school, and a market on Saturday, with two annual fairs. The population amounted in 1821 to 1479, and in 1831 to 1833. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-081306-0853 | WATSON, Robert, LL.D., an elegant historian, was born at St Andrews, about the year 1730. He was the son of an apothecary of that place, who was also a brewer. Having gone through the usual course of languages and philosophy at the school and university of his native city, and also entered on the study of divinity, a d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-081501-0855 | WATT, James, a philosopher, mechanician, and civil engineer, whose inventive talents, extensive knowledge of the sciences and arts, and practical application of them to the purposes of life, place him in the foremost rank of those illustrious men whose discoveries have influenced the state of society, and conferred dis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082101-0861 | WATTS, Isaac, D. D., a learned ano eminent dissenting minister, was born at Southampton in 1674, of parents eminent for piety, and considerable sufferers for conscience-sake. In 1690 he was sent up to London for academical education under the tuition of the Rev. Thomas Rowe; and in 1696 was himself engaged as tutor to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082102-0861 | WAUFGORN, a town of Hindustan, province of Aurungabad, twenty-four miles north from Poonah, whence originated the Holcar family. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082103-0861 | WAUGUR, an extensive district of Hindustan, province of Gujerat, tributary to the Guicowar. It is intersected by the river Mahy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082104-0861 | WAUJPORE, a town of Hindustan, province of Gujerat, forty-five miles from Surat. Long. 73. 47. E. Lat. 21.24. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082105-0861 | WAUSSIM, a town of Hindustan, province of Berar, situated on a small stream which falls into the Wurdah. Long. 77. 28. E. Lat. 20. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082106-0861 | WAVE, in Philosophy, water, or any other fluid, raised above the general level of the surface.
The waves of the sea are of two kinds, natural and accidental. The natural waves are those which are exactly proportioned in size to the strength of the wind, whose blowing gives origin to them. The accidental waves are thos... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082107-0861 | WAWUL, a village of Hindustan, province of Gujerat, situated on the Sereswati, a few miles to the south-east of Rahdunpoor. It contains about 300 houses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082108-0861 | WAX, or Bees’ Wax, in Natural History, a firm and solid substance, moderately heavy, and of a fine yellow colour, formed by the bees from the pollen of flowers.
The best sort is that of a lively yellow colour, and an agreeable smell, somewhat like that of honey. When new, it is toughish, yet easy to break; but by age ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082109-0861 | WAY, a passage or road. The Roman ways were divided into consular, praetorian, military, and public; and of these we have four remarkable ones in England. The first is Watling Street or Watheling Street, leading from Dover to London, Dunstable, Towcester, Atherston, and the Severn, extending as far as Anglesea in Wales... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082201-0862 | WAYGHTES, or Waits, a word which is used only in the plural number, and signifies hautboys. It is now applied to the performers on these and other musical instruments, by a transition from the instruments themselves, and particularly to those performers who parade the streets by night, about the Christmas season of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082202-0862 | WAYGIOU. See Wageeo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082203-0862 | WAYTE, a rocky island in the Straits of Macassar, near the west coast of Celebes. Long. 119.18. E. Lat. 0. 40. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 0 40' S 119 18' E | WAYTE |
kp-eb0721-082204-0862 | WAYWODE is a title formerly given to the governors of the chief places in the dominions of the czar of Muscovy. The palatines or governors of provinces in Poland also bore the quality of waywodes or waiwodes. The Poles likewise called the princes of Wallachia and Moldavia waywodes, as esteeming them no other than on th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082205-0862 | WEARY Bay, on the north-east coast of New Holland, south of Endeavour River. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082206-0862 | WEATHER. The term weather is used, in the popular sense which is commonly attached to the word, to express the general condition of the atmosphere resulting from heat or cold, tranquillity or commotion, dryness or humidity, in all its modifications of visible and invisible vapour, together with the other variable pheno... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-082301-0863 | WEAVING.
Weaving is the art of arranging yarn or thread of various materials, flax, cotton, wool, silk, &c., so as to form cloth. In all woven cloths, of whatsoever material, one system of threads is made to pass alternately under and over another system of threads, so as to resemble, when held up to the light, a piec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-083201-0872 | WEB, a sort of tissue or texture formed of threads interwoven with each other; some of which are extended in length, and called the warp; others are drawn across, and called the weft or woof. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-083202-0872 | WEBER, Carl Maria Von, was born at Eutin, in Holstein, on the 18th^[1. According to Weber’s own account, he was born on the 18th; according to another account, on the 16th of December. ] of December 1786. His father, a lover of music and a skilful violinist, not only had him carefully educated, but encouraged his music... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-083401-0874 | WEBSTER, Alexander, D. D. was the son of James Webster, minister of the Tolbooth Church in Edinburgh, and was born in that city about the year 1707. He was only thirteen years of age at the death of his father, and of course could derive little from parental instruction or example. He studied, at the university of Edin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-083402-0874 | WEDGE, one of the mechanical powers. See Mechanics .
Wedge Island, on the south coast of New Holland, at the mouth of Spencer’s Gulf, the largest of the group called by Captain Flinders Gambier’s Isles. Long. 136. 29. E. Lat. 35. U.S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-083403-0874 | WEDMORE, a town and parish of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of Bempstone, 126 miles from London and five from Axbridge. It had formerly a market, which has of late years ceased to be attended. The population of the parish amounted in 1821 to 3097, and in 1831 to 3557. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-083404-0874 | WEDNESBURY, a town of the county of Stafford, in the hundred of Offlow, 124 miles from London and seven from Birmingham. It is a place of black and gloomy appearance, inhabited chiefly by persons employed in the extensive and valuable coal-mines in its vicinity, or in some branches of the iron manufacture. The parish c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-083405-0874 | WEDNESDAY, the fourth day of the week, so called from a Saxon idol named Woden, supposed to be Mars, worshipped on this day.
Ash- Wednesday, the first day of Lent, so called from the custom observed in the ancient Christian church, of penitents expressing their humiliation at this time by appearing in sackcloth and as... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-083406-0874 | WEEK, in chronology, a division of time comprising seven days. See Chronology. Passion- Weck, or the Holy Weck, is the last week in Lent. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-083407-0874 | WEERE, a small district of Hindustan, province of Cashmere, extending along the south side of the Jhylum, here about eighty yards across. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-083408-0874 | WEIGHING MACHINES. In this our concluding article on weighing instruments, we intend to supply such particulars as have not already been treated of under the heads of Balance and Mechanics. In doing so, we propose, in the first instance, to sketch shortly, and possibly with some novelty, the early history of the invent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-084001-0880 | WEIGHT, in Physics, a quality in natural bodies, whereby they tend downwards towards the centre of the earth. Or, weight may be defined, in a less limited manner, to be a power inherent in all bodies, whereby they tend to some common point, called the centre of gravity, or, to speak more accurately, to one another; and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-084002-0880 | WEIGHTON, or Market-Weighton, a market-town of the east riding of the county of York, in the wapentake of Harthill, 192 miles from London and eight from Beverley. It chiefly consists of one long street, with a few of less appearance leading from it. It has a good corn market on Wednesday, and a canal communication with... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-084003-0880 | WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
By weight, or, as some call it, the measure of weight, is meant the apparent force or tendency which any body or commodity has to descend; and which, owing to the centrifugal force of the earth’s rotation, and the buoyancy of the air or other medium in which the operation of weighing is performed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085601-0896 | WEIMAR, a city, the capital of the grand duchy of that name, in Germany. It stands on the river Ilm, and is surrounded with hills, some of which are covered with woods. The buildings are not remarkable, but are on the whole in a better style and condition than is to be seen in most of the towns in Germany of the same e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 59' 12" N 12 45' 5" E | WEIMAR |
kp-eb0721-085602-0896 | WEISK, a circle of the province of Wologda, in Russia, is bounded on the north-east by Archangel, on the east by Ustjug and Totma, on the south by Kadnikow, on the west by Novogorod, and on the north-west by Olonetz. It extends over 11,060 square miles, comprehends one city, two market-towns, 390 villages, and 68,750 i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085603-0896 | WEISSENSTEIN, a circle in the Russian province of Esthonia, formerly called Jerwin. It extends in north latitude from 58° 35' to 59° 12', and in east longitude from 25° 4' to 26° 22', and comprehends 924 square miles, having one town, eight villages, and ninety-one hamlets, with 27,240 inhabitants. The soil is good, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 58 51' 30" N 25 27' E | WEISSENSTEIN |
kp-eb0721-085604-0896 | WELDON, a market-town of the county of Northampton, in the hundred of Corby, seventy-three miles from London. It consists of two portions, distinguished as Great and Little Weldon, but the latter is the more populous. The river Nen has its source near the town. It contains a good market-house, occupied on Wednesday. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085605-0896 | WELIKIJO-LUKI, a circle of the Russian government of Pfkow, extending in north latitude from 55° 54' to 56° 50', and in east longitude from 29° 23' to 30° 45'. It is watered by the river Lowat, and many of its tributary streams; is generally level, in part undulating, and abounding in woods and morasses. The capital is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085606-0896 | WELISH, a circle of the Russian government of Witebsk. It extends in north latitude from 55° 25' to 56° 2', and in east longitude from 30° 13' to 31° 6'. It contains one city and 1013 villages, with 56,400 inhabitants. The principal river is the Duna, which receives the waters of the Mescha and the Welish, as well as t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 36' N 31 48' E | WELISH |
kp-eb0721-085701-0897 | WELL, a hole under ground, usually of a cylindrical figure, and walled with stone and mortar. Its use is to collect the water of the strata around it.
Well, an apartment formed in the middle of a ship’s hold, to enclose the pumps, from the bottom to the lower decks. It is used as a barrier to preserve those machines f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085702-0897 | WELLESLEY’S Islands, a group of islands so called by Captain Flinders, at the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria, on the north coast of New Holland. Their names are Mornington isle, Pisonia, Bentinck, Sweer’s island, and several other small and rocky islets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085703-0897 | WELLINGBOROUGH, a market-town of the county of Northampton, in the hundred of Hamfordshoe, sixty-eight miles from London, and seven from Northampton, on the river Nen. It is a well-built town, in which the making of boots and shoes and bobbin lace is still carried on, though the latter trade has declined. Near to it ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085704-0897 | WELLINGTON, a market-town in the county of Somerset and hundred of West Kingsbury, on the river Tone, 150 miles from London and seven from Taunton. It is in a rich district, is well built, has an ancient noble church, and a new one recently erected at the sole expense of the clergyman. The town formerly had a considera... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085705-0897 | WELLINGTON, a market-town of the county of Salop, in the hundred of South Bradford, near the Wrekin, 150 miles from London. It is a well-built place, has a handsome church of modern erection, supported by cast-iron pillars. There is a good market on Thursday, and very considerable occupation afforded by the mines of ir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085706-0897 | WELLS, a city of the county of Somerset, in the hundred of Wellsforum, 120 miles from London and eighteen from Bath. It is situated in a rich valley at the foot of the Mendip Hills, which supply abundance of coal. It is tolerably well built, though many of the houses are of an antique fashion, whilst others of more mod... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085707-0897 | WELSHPOOL, a borough-town and parish of the county of Montgomery, in North Wales, in the hundred of Pool, 177 miles from London. It is pleasantly situated and well built, with a convenient county-hall, in which the assizes are held. It is near the river Severn, and is connected with it by a canal, and by another with E... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085708-0897 | WEM, a market-town and large parish of the county of Salop, in the hundred of North Bradford, 172 miles from London. It chiefly consists of one large street, with a few smaller. It has a very handsome church, a free school, and two dissenting chapels. There is a good market on Thursday, and three annual fairs. The popu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085709-0897 | WEMYSS, Easter, a village, situated on the shores of the Firth of Forth, in the county of Fife. Its inhabitants, amounting in 1831 to 858, are principally weavers.
Wemyss, Wester, a seaport town about a mile distant from the above. It consists almost entirely of one street, which is in good order, as is also the small... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085710-0897 | WENDEN, a circle of the Russian government of Livonia, extending in north latitude from 56° 35’ to 57° 54', and in east longitude from 25° 3' to 27° 22'. It is bounded by Pernau on the north, by Dorpat on the east, on the south-east by Witebsk, and on the south-west and west by Riga. It comprehends 4158 square miles, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 57 15' N 25 10' E | WENDEN |
kp-eb0721-085801-0898 | WENDOVER, a borough and market town of the county of Buckingham, in the hundred of Aylesbury, thirty-five miles from London. It is a poor place, with little or no trade except what is connected with lace-making. It returned two members to the House of Commons till 1832, when it was disfranchised. A small market is held... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085802-0898 | WENEW, a circle of the Russian province of Tula, extending in north latitude from 54° 20' to 55° 50', and in east longitude from 37° 39' to 38° 34'. It contains one city, 147 villages, besides the establishments of some nobles, and 25,500 inhabitants. It is watered by the rivers Oker and Wenewka. The land is moderately... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 20' N 38 1' E | WENEW |
kp-eb0721-085803-0898 | WENLOCK (called either MucH or Great Wenlock), a borough and market town of the county of Salop, in the division called the Franchise of Wenlock, 151 miles from London. It is a very ancient town, but very ill built. It is said to have been the first town that sent members to parliament in 1478, but it was not incorpora... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085804-0898 | WEOBLY, a market-town of the county of Hereford, in the hundred of Stretford, 146 miles from London and twenty-one from the city of Hereford. It is a place of considerable antiquity, and consists of one principal street with well-built houses. It has a market on Thursday. There are two good charity schools. The populat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085805-0898 | WERAD, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, in the province of Bejapoor, sixty-three miles southsouth-west from Poonah. Long. 73. 48. E. Lat. 17. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 30' N 73 48' E | WERAD |
kp-eb0721-085806-0898 | WERCHNE-DNIAPROWSK, a circle of the Russian government of Jekaterinoslaw. It extends in north latitude from 51° 8' to 52° 7', and in east longitude from 33° 45' to 34° 57'. The land is very fertile, and repays with good interest whatever industry is expended on it. It breeds many valuable herds of horned cattle, as wel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 8' N 34 41' E | WERCHNE-DNIAPROWSK |
kp-eb0721-085807-0898 | WEREJA, a circle of the Russian government of Moscow, extending in north latitude from 53° 27' to 54° 19', and in east longitude from 37° 30' to 37° 47'. It is bounded on the north by Mohaisk, on the north-east by Swenigorod, on the east by Podol, on the south by Kaluga, and on the west by Smolensko. It comprehends 654... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 29' N 35 55' E | WEREJA |
kp-eb0721-085808-0898 | WERNIGERODE, a principality in Prussia, now mediatised, and forming a portion of the circle of Osterwick, in the province of Saxony. The family of Stolberg-Wernigerode were formerly the sovereigns, and are now the proprietors, and in a secondary sense the governors, having the patronage of all clerical, civil, and judi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085809-0898 | WERREAR, a district of Hindustan, on the north-west frontier of the province of Gujerat, extending along the banks of the Banass river. This country is famed for its excellent grass, to which it is indebted for its name, Wud-dyar or Wandyar signifying in the Gujerattee language a herdsman; and is resorted to by immense... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085810-0898 | WERTURIAN or Uralian Mountains. See Oural Mountains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085811-0898 | WESEL BAY, on the south coast of the island of Java. Long. 113. 42. E. Lat. 8. 21. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 8 21' S 113 42' E | WESEL BAY |
kp-eb0721-085812-0898 | WESENBERG, a circle in the Russian province of Esthonia, formerly called Wierland. It extends in north latitude from 58° 45' to 59° 40', and in east longitude from 25° 40' to 28° 3', and comprehends 1910 square miles, with two towns, seven parishes, and 157 hamlets, in which are seventeen Lutheran and one Greek church,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 59 28' N 26 18' E | WESENBERG |
kp-eb0721-085813-0898 | WESLEY, John, founder of the sect of Methodists, was the son of Samuel Wesley, rector of Epworth, in the isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire, and was born in that village in the year 1703. His very infancy was distinguished by an extraordinary incident; for when he was only six years old, the parsonage-house at Epworth was... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085901-0899 | WESSEL’S Islands, a chain of islands which extends north-eastward from the north coast of New Holland, thirteen leagues, at the entrance of the Gulf of Carpentaria, on the west side. The inhabitants are barbarous in the extreme, and go about naked. The northern extremity is in lat. 11. 18. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-085902-0899 | WEST, one of the cardinal points of the horizon, diametrically opposite to the east; and strictly defined the intersection of the prime vertical with the horizon on that side the sun sets in.
West, Gilbert, was the son of Dr West, prebendary of Winchester, who published an edition of Pindar in 1697. He studied at Winc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086001-0900 | WEST-BROMWICH, a parish of the county of Stafford, in the hundred of Offlow, 122 miles from London. It is a very scattered place, and affords considerable occupation in various branches of the iron manufacture. Besides the old parish church, two others have been recently erected. The population amounted in 1821 to 9505... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086002-0900 | WESTBURY, a borough of the county of Wilts, in the hundred of its own name, ninety-seven miles from London. There is a church of Gothic architecture, and a townhall, and it has a market on Thursday. The chief trade consists in making fine woollen cloths and cassimeres. It returns one member to the House of Commons. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | WESTBURY | |
kp-eb0721-086003-0900 | WESTERAS, an internal province of the kingdom of Sweden, formed out of a small portion of the ancient province of Upland, and the eastern part of Westmanland. It is now bounded on the north-west by Kopparberg, on the north-east by Gefleborg, on the east by Upsala, on the south by Malaren and Nykoping, and on the west b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 59 35' 31" N 16 22' 28" E | WESTERAS |
kp-eb0721-086004-0900 | WESTERHAM, a market-town of the county of Kent, in the lathe of Sutton, and the hundred of the same name, twenty-two miles from London. It is on the borders of Surrey, is pleasantly situated and neatly built, with some very good houses. The market-house, though small, is an elegant building. The church contains a monum... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086005-0900 | WESTMEATH, an inland county in the province of Leinster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by Longford and Meath, on the east by Meath and Kildare, on the south by the King’s county, and on the west by Roscommon. It lies between 53° 20' and 53° 47' N. lat., and 7° and 7° 55' W. long., extending forty miles in its gre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086301-0903 | WESTMINSTER, a city which forms the west part of the capital of Britain, but has a government distinct from the rest. This city had its name from the situation of its abbey, anciently called a minster, in respect of that of St Paul. That part properly called the city of Westminster, comprehending the parishes of St Joh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086401-0904 | WESTMORELAND, one of the most northern English counties. It is separated from the sea-shore by a narrow strip of the county of Lancaster, which bounds it on the south and south-west, as do Cumberland on the north and north-west, and Yorkshire on the east. It is of very irregular shape. Its greatest length is forty, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086402-0904 | WESTERN Port, on the south coast of New Holland, a capacious bay, with a considerable island at the entrance, which lies in lat. 38. 33. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086403-0904 | WESTPORT, a seaport town in the county of Mayo, distant from Dublin, by way of Tuam, 134½ miles. The town is beautifully situated in a small valley, which is watered by a stream running through the centre of the two principal streets. There are various minor streets which diverge on both sides of the valley, and, from ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086404-0904 | WESTRAY, one of the largest of the Orkney Islands, containing, in 1831, 2025 inhabitants. See Οrκνευ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086405-0904 | WETLUGA, a circle of the Russian government of [7:21:865] Kostroma. It extends in north latitude from 57° 8' to 58° 33', and in east longitude from 45° 6' to 47° 48'. The soil is poor, and the climate raw and cold, better adapted for pasturage than for agriculture; and the population, much dispersed, does not exceed 30... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086501-0905 | WETSTEIN, John James, a learned biblical critic, was born at Basel in 1693. On his admission to the ministry, he maintained a thesis “De variis Novi Testamenti Lectionibus in which he showed that the great variety of readings of the New Testament affords no argument against the authenticity of the text. He had made the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086502-0905 | WETTER Isle, in the Eastern Seas, situated off the north coast of the island of Timor. It is about sixty-five miles in length and twenty in average breadth. Long. 126. 40. E. Lat. 7. 24. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086503-0905 | WETTEREN, a large market-town of the Netherlands, in the province of East Flanders and circle of Dendermond. It stands on the river Scheldt, and contains 7750 inhabitants, chiefly employed in making linen and fine thread. There is a handsome bridge over the river. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086504-0905 | WEXFORD, a maritime county in the province of Leinster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by Wicklow, on the east by St George’s Channel, on the south by the Atlantic, and on the west by Waterford, Kilkenny, and Carlow. It lies between 52° 4' and 52° 48' north latitude, and 6° 5' and 7° 1' west longitude; extending f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086801-0908 | WEYRE, a town of Hindustan, province of Agra, belonging to the rajah of Bhurtpore. It is well fortified, and is situated on the high road from Agra to Jeypore. Long. 77. 2. E. Lat. 27. 2. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 2' N 77 2' E | WEYRE |
kp-eb0721-086802-0908 | WHAMPOA, a seaport of China, situated on an island in the river Canton, about two miles below Canton city. Here is a safe anchorage for large ships, which carry on their communication with Canton by boats. The island on which Whampoa is situated is called Bankshall island, from being the place where storehouses are con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086803-0908 | WHARTON, Philip, Dure of, a nobleman of the most brilliant parts, but of the most whimsical, extravagant, and inconsistent turn of mind, was the son of Philip marquis of Wharton. He was educated at home; and his father’s great aim was to render him a complete orator. At a very early age he married a young lady, the dau... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086901-0909 | WHEAT. See Agriculture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086902-0909 | WHEEL, in Mechanics, a simple machine, consisting of a round piece of wood, metal, or other matter, which revolves on its axis. See Mechanics.
W heel is also the name of a kind of punishment to which great criminals are put in divers countries. In some, assassins, parricides, and robbers on the highway, are said to be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-086903-0909 | WHEELER, Sir George, a learned traveller and divine, was the son of Colonel Wheeler of Charing in Kent, and was born in 1650 at Breda, where his parents, as royalists, were then in exile. In 1667 he became a commoner of Lincoln College, Oxford, but did not take a degree. He travelled through various parts of Greece and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087001-0910 | WHIDAH, a kingdom of Africa, on the coast of Guinea, and to the west of the Gold Coast; extending about ten miles along the sea. It is a populous country, well furnished with large villages; and there are so many small ones, that they are not above a musket-shot from each other. Whidah was conquered by the king of Daho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087002-0910 | WHIDBEY’S Isles, seven small islands on the south coast of New Holland, about seven or eight miles from Whidbey Point, which is a rocky promontory in long. 135. 6. W. and lat. 34. 36. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 36' S 135 6' W | WHIDBEY’S |
kp-eb0721-087003-0910 | WHIRLPOOL, an eddy, vortex, or gulf, where the water is continually turning round. Those in rivers are very common, from various accidents, and are usually very trivial, and of little consequence. In the sea they are more rare, but more dangerous. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087004-0910 | WHIRLWIND, a wind which moves in a spiral direction, as well as horizontally, which is exceedingly rapid and impetuous, but only of short duration. Of some kinds of whirlwinds the motion is slow, and they are only injurious by their vortex; while others seem to do mischief as well by their progressive as their whirling... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087005-0910 | WHISKEY, a term signifying water, and applied in Scotland and in Ireland to a distilled liquor drawn from barley. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087006-0910 | WHIST, a well-known game at cards, which requires great attention and silence; hence the name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087007-0910 | WHISTON, William, an English divine of a singular character, was born the 9th of December 1667, at Norton, near Twycrosse, in the county of Leicester, where his father was rector. He was admitted of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 1693 he took the degree of A.M., and became a fellow. He afterwards began to take pupils; but h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087008-0910 | WHITAKER, John, was born at Manchester on the 27th of April 1735. His father, James Whitaker, does not appear to have been in affluent circumstances. At the age of ten, the son was sent to the free-school, and in 1752 was removed to Oxford upon an exhibition of ten pounds a year. He was entered of Brasen-nose College, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087301-0913 | WHITBURN, a parish and village situated on the high road from Edinburgh to Glasgow, in the county of Linlithgow. The inhabitants of the village are mostly weavers. It contains two places of worship belonging to the dissenters. In 1831 the population of the parish amounted to 800. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087302-0913 | WHITBY, a seaport town in the north riding of the county of York, in a locality distinguished as the Liberties of Whitby Strand, 242 miles from London. It stands at the mouth of the river Eske, which divides it into two parts; and it consists of several streets, which are steep and narrow. The mouth of the river forms ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087401-0914 | WHITCHURCH, a market-town of the county of Hants, in the hundred of Evingar, and division of Kingsclere, fifty-seven miles from London. It is an ancient borough, and returns one member to parliament. It is now a place of little trade, with a small market on Friday. The river that runs by it produces the finest trout, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087402-0914 | WHITE, one of the colours of natural bodies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0721-087403-0914 | WHITE Friars, a name common to several orders of monks, from being clothed in a white habit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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