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BABEL, a city and tower undertaken to be built by the whole human race soon after the Flood, and remarkable for the miraculous frustration of the attempt by the confusion of languages. As to the situation of ancient Babel, most authors are of opinion that it was exactly in the place where the celebrated city of Babylon...
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BABEL
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BABELMANDEL, or Babelmandeb, “the gate of mourning,” a famous strait in the Indian Ocean, between the coast of Arabia Felix in Asia, and that of Adel and Zeila in Africa, at the entrance into the Red Sea. By some it is also called the Strait of Moka. It is narrow, being only seven miles wide, and difficult ’to navigate...
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BABENHAUSEN, a town and hereditary magistracy [7:4:266] belonging to the mediatized prince of Fugger-Babenhausen, now a part of the circle of the Upper Danube, in the kingdom of Bavaria. The district comprehends four market-towns, ten feudal castles, and sixty-one villages, with 11,156 inhabitants. The town, the reside...
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BABENHAUSEN
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BABER, an island in the Eastern Seas, surrounded by some smaller ones. It is about 18 miles long by six in its average breadth, and is situated between the 130th and 131st degree of east longitude.
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BABER
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BABINGTON, Gervase, bishop of Worcester, was born, according to Fuller, in Nottinghamshire; but in what year is uncertain. He was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow; and, in 1578, he was incorporated master of arts at Oxford. He appears, however, to have made Cambridge the place of his resi...
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BABINGTON
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BABOON. See Mammalia Index.
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BABOON
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BABUYANES, a group of small islands about 30 miles north of the island of Luzon, and generally considered the most northerly of the Philippines. They are mostly from 25 to 30 miles in circumference, and run out into many rocky islets. The principal productions are wax, ebony, bananas, cocoas, and plantains! They are a ...
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BABUYANES
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BABYLON, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia or Chaldaea, situated about long. 44.20. E. lat. 32. 30. N. Semiramis is said by some, and Belus by others, to have founded this city. But by whomsoever Babylon was founded, Nebuchadnezzar was the person who completed it, and made it one of the wonders of the wor...
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BABYLON
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BABYLONIA, or Chaldaea, a kingdom of Asia, and the most ancient in the world, being founded by Nimrod, the grandson of Ham, who also, according to the Bible, founded Nineveh, the capital of the kingdom of Assyria. The country was bounded on the north by the desert part of Mesopotamia, on the east by the Tigris, on the ...
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BABYLONIA
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BABYLONIAN, Babylonius, is used by some ancient writers to signify astrologer, or any thing relating to astrology. Hence ĪBabylemia cura means the art of casting nativities; and numeri Babylonii, the computation of astrologers.
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BABYLONIAN
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BABYLONICA Texta, a rich sort of weavings or hangings, denominated from the city Babylon, where the art of interweaving divers colours in hangings or tapestry was first practised. Hence also Babylonie garments, Babylonie skins, Babylonie carpets, housings, &c.
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BABYLONICA
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BACCHAE, in Antiquity, the priestesses of Bacchus, who celebrated the orgia or mysteries of that god. The word was also used for the ivy crowns or garlands worn by the priests of Bacchus at the Dionysiae festivals.
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BACCHAE
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BACCHANALIA, feasts celebrated in honour of Bacchus by the ancients. The two most remarkable were denominated the greater and lesser. The lesser, called Len(ea, from a word signifying a wine-press, were held in the open field about autumn; the greater, called Dionysia, from one of the names of Bacchus, were celebrated ...
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BACCHANALIA
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BACCHIC, something relating to the ceremonies of Bacchus. The celebrated intaglio called Michael Angelo’s ring, is a representation of a Baechic feast. Bαc(!iiic Song is sometimes used for a chanson a boire, or composition calculated to inspire jollity; but in a more proper sense it is limited to a dithyrambic ode or ...
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BACCHIC
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BACCHIUS, a follower of Aristoxenus, supposed by Fabricius to have been tutor to the emperor Marcus Antoninus, and consequently to have lived about A. d. 140. He wrote in Greek a very short introduction to music, in the form of dialogue, which Meibomius has published with a Latin translation. The dialogue was first pub...
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BACCHIUS
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BACCHUS, the god of wine, with whose fabulous characteristics and adventures every school-boy is acquainted. This divinity is seldom named in modern times, except as the supposititious patron of sensuality and excess; but he was regarded in a more respectable light by the ancients, who worshipped him in different count...
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BACCHUS
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BACCHYLIDES, a famous Greek poet, was the nephew of Simonides, and flourished about 450 years before Christ. He wrote Odes, Hymns, and Epigrams, of which there are some fragments in the first volume of Brunck’s Analecta.
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BACCHYLIDES
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BACCIO, or Baccius, Andrew, a celebrated physician of the sixteenth century, born at St Elpideo. He practised physic at Rome with great reputation, and was first physician to Pope Sixtus V. The most scarce and valuable of his works are the following :—1. De Thermis; 2. De Naturali Vinorum Historia, de Vinis Italiae, et...
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BACCIO
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BACHA, a city, chief of the bailiwick of the same name, containing 4162 inhabitants. It stands on the river Werra, in the duchy of Saxe Weimar, and contains a population of 1820 persons.
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BACHA
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BACHELOR, or Batchelor, a common term for a man not married, or who is yet in a state of celibacy. The Roman censors frequently imposed fines on bachelors. Dionysius of Halicarnassus mentions an old constitution, by which all persons of full age were obliged to marry. But the most celebrated law of this kind was that m...
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BACHELOR
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BACHIAN, one of the Molucca islands, about fifty-four miles in length by twenty in breadth, with an isthmus in the centre which widens towards each end. It is separated, by a narrow channel called the Strait of Patientia, from the island of Gilolo. It yields gold dust, sago, fruits, and the best cloves of the Moluccas....
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BACHIAN
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BACHMUT, a circle in the European Russian government of Catherinoslav. It is very extensive, including within it a very large portion of the steppes, which are destitute of wood and scantily supplied with water, but feed great numbers of sheep and oxen. The chief town, of the same name, contains about 5000 inhabitants,...
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BACHMUT
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BACKGAMMON, an ingenious game played with dice, upon a table, by two persons. The table is divided into two parts, upon which there are twenty-four black and white spaces, called points. Each adversary has fifteen men, black and white, to distinguish them, and they are disposed of in the following manner: Supposing the...
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BACKGAMMON
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BACKER, or Bakker, Jacob, portrait and historical painter, was born at Harlingen in 1609, but spent the greater part of his life at Amsterdam. He is mentioned as a skilful painter, particularly of portraits, which he executed with boldness, spirit, and grace. He was remarkable for an uncommon readiness of hand and free...
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BACKER
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BACKERGUNGE, a district in the province of Bengal, a considerable proportion of which, called Boklah, extends along the western bank of the great Ganges, nearly to its mouth, at the island of Rabnabad, which forms the south-east angle of the Bengal Delta. About the year 1584 part of this district was laid waste by an i...
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BACKERGUNGE
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BACKING the Sails, in Navigation, is to arrange them m a situation that will force the ship to move backwards.
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BACKING
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BACKSCHISARAI, a city in the European Russian government of Taurida, formerly the capital of the peninsula, and the residence of the khan. It was formerly a place of considerable trade, and in 1793 contained 1560 houses, with 5777 inhabitants. It has, however, greatly declined since the peninsula was transferred to Rus...
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BACKSCHISARAI
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BACULARIUS, in writers of the middle age, an ecclesiastical apparitor or verger, who carries a staff, baculus, in his hand, as an ensign of his office.
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BACULARIUS
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BACON, Roger, a Franciscan friar of great genius and learning, was born near Ilchester in Somersetshire in the year 1214. He began his studies at Oxford, but in what school or college is uncertain. Thence he removed to the university of Paris, which in those times was esteemed the centre of literature. Here, we are tol...
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BACON
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BACONTHORP, John; called the Resolute Doctor, a learned monk, was born towards the end of the thirteenth century, at Baconthorp, a village in Norfolk. He spent the early part of his life in the convent of Blackncy, near Walsingham, in the same county, whence he removed to Oxford, and thereafter to Paris, where, being d...
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BACONTHORP
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BACTRIA, or Bactriana, an ancient kingdom of 1sia,. bounded on the west by Margiana, on the north by the river Oxus, on the south by Mount Paropamisus, and on the east by the Asiatic Scythia and the country of the flassagetae. It was a large, fruitful, and well-peopled country, containing, according to Ammianus Marcell...
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BACTRIA
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BAC l’ROPERATA, an ancient appellation given to philosophers by way of contempt, denoting a man with a staff and a budget.
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BAC
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BACCULE, in Fortification, a kind of portcullis or gate, made like a pit-fall with a counterpoise, and supported by two large stakes. It is usually erected before 1 θ corpade guard, not far from the gate of a place.
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BACCULE
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BADAJOZ, a city, the capital of the province of Es- r emadura, in Spain. It is situated on a plain on the left ank of the Guadiana, is strongly fortified, and contains an arsenal and military academy, a cathedral, five parish 1 churches, twelve religious houses, and five hospitals. The inhabitants are 14,500. In the la...
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38 30' N 6 21' W
BADAJOZ
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BADAKSHAN, or Buducsnan, a mountainous district, situated to the north of the great Himalaya ridge, which bounds Hindostan on the north. It is about twenty days journey east-south-east of Buckharia, and nearly south of Kokaun. It comprehends the higher valley of the Amoo, which is here called the Jihonor the Jaxartes, ...
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BADAKSHAN
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BADALONA, a town of the province of Catalonia, in Spain, on the sea-coast, 10 miles north-east from Barcelona. It is defended by a castle, and remarkable as the landing place of the archduke Charles of Austria in the war of the succession in 1704. It contains about 2800 inhabitants, mostly seamen and fishermen.
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BADALONA
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BADEN, a grand duchy. See Germany. Baden, or Baden-Baden, a town in the grand duchy of Baden, celebrated for its medicinal springs, which rise from twenty-six wells of the warmth of from 110° to 118° of Fahrenheit. This is a place of great resort for company in the summer, as well on account of the baths as for the pic...
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BADEN
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BADENOCH, a district of Inverness-shire in Scotland. (See Inverness-shire.)
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BADENOCH
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BADEN-WEILLER, a town of Germany, belonging to the lower margravate of Baden. Long. 7. 50. E. Lat. 47. 55. N.
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47 55' N 7 50' E
BADEN-WEILLER
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BADENS, Francis, historical and portrait painter, born at Antwerp in 1571, died in 1603. His touch was light and spirited, and his colouring warm, in which, indeed, he had the honour of being the first who introduced a good taste among his countrymen.
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BADENS
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BADGER. See Mammalia Index.
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BADGER
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BADILE, Antonio, historical and portrait painter, born at Verona in 1480, died in 1560. By great study and application he acquired a more extensive knowledge of the true principles of painting than any of his predecessors. He was confessedly a very eminent artist; but he derived greater honour from having had two such ...
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BADILE
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BADIUS, Josse, sometimes called Badius Ascen-sius, from the village of Asche, where he was’ born in 1462, an eminent French printer, whose printing establishment was celebrated under the name of Prelum Ascensianum. He illustrated with notes several of the works which he printed, and was himself the author of several pi...
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BADIUS
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BAETICA, a province of ancient Spain, so called from the famed river Baetis, afterwards Tartessus, now Guadalquivir or the great river. It was bounded on the west by Lusitania, on the south by the Mediterranean and Sinus Gaditanus, and on the north by the Cantabric Sea, now the Bay of Biscay. On the east and north-east...
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BAETICA
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BAETYLIA, anointed stones, worshipped by the Phoenicians, by the Greeks before the time of Cecrops, and by other barbarous nations. They were commonly of a black colour, and consecrated to some god, as Saturn, Jupiter, the Sun. Some are of opinion that the true original of these idols is to be derived from the pillar o...
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BAETYLIA
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BAEZA, a city of Andalusia in Spain, seated on a high hill three miles from the Guadalquivir. It is the see of a bishop, and has a kind of university founded by John d’Avila. It was taken from the Moors about the end of the fifteenth century. Long. 3. 15. E. Lat. 37. 45. N.
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BAEZA
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BAFFIN’S BAY, a gulf of North America, separating Greenland from the north-eastern part of America. Davis’ Straits form the lower part or entrance of this bay or gulf.
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BAFFIN’S BAY
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BAFFO, a town in the island of Cyprus, with a fort built near the site of the ancient Paphos, of which some ruins yet remain, particularly fragments of columns, which probably belonged to the temple of Venus. Long. 32.20. E. Lat. 34. 50. N.
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34 50' N 32 20' E
BAFFO
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BAGDAD, a city of Asia, formerly the capital of the empire of the caliph, and long renowned for its commerce and its wealth. It is situated on an extensive and desert plain, with scarcely a tree or village throughout its whole extent; and, though it is intersected by the Tigris, it stands mostly on its north-east bank,...
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BAGDAD
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BAGLANA, a large and mountainous district of Hindostan, in the Mahratta territories, province of Aurungabad, through which many fertile plains and valleys are interspersed. It is situated between the 20th and 21st degrees of N. lat.; and the natural strength of the country’s augmented by a number of strong fortresses e...
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BAGLANA
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BAGLIVI, George, a celebrated physician of Italy, was a native of Apulia, and born about the year 1668. He studied at Padua, where he became doctor; and then went to Rome, where he was chosen professor of anatomy. He died at Rome in 1706, at the early age of thirty-eight. A collection of his pieces, which are all in th...
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BAGLIVI
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BAGMUTTY, a river of Hindostan, which has its source in the hills to the north of Catmandoo, the capital of Nepaul, whence it flows in a southerly direction, and joins the Ganges after a course of 300 miles.
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BAGMUTTY
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BAGNARA, a city of the province of Calabria Ulteriore, in the kingdom of Naples, on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It suffered by the earthquake in 1783, when, out of 4938 persons, 3324 perished. The injury has been in a great measure repaired, and it now contains a population of 4000 individuals, who carry on a considerable trad...
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BAGNARA
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BAGNAREA, a town of Italy, in St Peter’s patrimony, and in the territory of Orvieta, with a bishop’s see. Long. 12. 10. E. Lat. 42. 36. N.
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BAGNAREA
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BAG NERES, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Pyrenees, in France, 770 square miles in extent, comprehending ten cantons and 202 communes, with a population of 73,630 persons. The capital is the city of Bagnères de Biggore, celebrated for its medicinal springs. It is at the entrance of the beautiful valle...
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BAG NERES
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BAGNIALACK, a large town of Turkey in Europe, in the province of Bosnia. Long. 18. 10. E. Lat. 44. 0. N.
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BAGNIALACK
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BAGNOLAS, a town of Lower Languedoc, now the department of Gard, in France. It has a handsome square, and two fountains which rise in the middle of the town, the waters of which being received in a basin, are conveyed by a canal out of town, and thence to the lands about it. Long. 4. 43. E. Lat. 44. 10. N.
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BAGNOLAS
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BAGNOLI, a city in the province of Principato-Ulteriore, in the kingdom of Naples, where several Roman antiquities are found, containing 4850 inhabitants.
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BAGNOLI
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BAGNOLIANS, or Bagnolanses, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of heretics, who in reality were Manicheans, though they somewhat disguised their errors. They rejected the Old Testament and part of the New, held the world to be eternal, and affirmed that God did not create the soul when he infused it into the body. .
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BAGNOLIANS
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BAGNOLO, a city in the kingdom of Sardinia, in the continental province of Saluzzo. It stands on the river Grana, and contains 4374 inhabitants.
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BAGNOLO
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BAGPIPE, a musical instrument, of the wind kind, chiefly used in Scotland and Ireland, but not uncommon in some of the mountainous districts of Italy, particularly in Calabria. The peculiarity of the bagpipe, from which indeed it takes its name, is, that the air which blows it is collected in a leathern bag, whence it ...
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BAGPIPE
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BAHAMAS, or Lucayas, a chain of islands of great extent, stretching from off the northern coast of St Domingo, to that of East Florida, and situated between the 21st and 28th degrees of north latitude, and the 7lst and 81st of west longitude. They have never been regularly surveyed, nor their numbers ascertained with a...
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BAHAMAS
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BAHAR, a large province of Hindostan, which lies principally between the 22d and 27th degrees of north latitude.. On the north it was, until the conquests from ^θpaul in 1815, bounded by a range of hills and a low woody country; on the south by the ancient Hindoo province of Gundwana; and on the west by Allahabad, Oude...
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BAHAR
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BAHIR, a Hebrew term signifying “famous” or “illustrious,” but particularly applied to a book of the Jews, treating of the profound mysteries of the Cabala, being the most ancient of the rabbinical works.
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BAHIR
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BAHLINGEN, a bailiwick in the circle of Schwartz-wald, or the Black Forest, in the kingdom of Wirtemberg. It extends over 132 square miles, and comprehends two cities, one market-town, and thirty-five villages, with 28,164 inhabitants. Its agriculture is little productive, but manufactures of various kinds are more adv...
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BAHLINGEN
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BAHREIN, a cluster of islands on the south-west side of the Persian Gulf, near the Arabian shore, the principal of which is named Bahrein. This island, which is about fifteen miles from the coast, is one of the finest in the gulf, and is covered with villages and date gardens. The town and fort of Medina, which contain...
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BAHREIN
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BAHRY, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Agra, ten miles to the north of the Chumbul. It is a town of some consequence; many of the houses are two stories in height, and have a greater appearance of comfort than is usual in Indian towns. It is chiefly inhabited by Patans, and is distinguished by several handsome ...
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BAHRY
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BAHUS, a strong town of Sweden, and capital of a government of the same name, seated on a rock in a small island. Long. 11. 10. E. Lat. 57. 52. N.
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57 52' N 11 10' E
BAHUS
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BAIAE, an ancient village of Campania, in Italy, situated between the promontory of Misenum and Puteoli, on the Sinus Batanus, and famous for its natural hot baths, which served the wealthier Romans for the purposes both of medicine and pleasure. The variety of these baths, the softness of its climate, and the beauty o...
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BAIAE
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BAJAZET I. sultan of the Turks, a renowned warrior, but a tyrant, was conquered by Timour, otherwise called Tamerlane, and exposed by him in an iron cage; the fate it is said which he had destined for his adversary if he had proved the victor. The iron cage, however, so long and so often repeated as a moral lesson, has...
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BAJAZET I
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BAIHINGEN, a bailiwick of the kingdom of Wirtemberg, i∏ th e c i rc 1 e 0 f (; ιe Neckar. It extends over seventy square miles, and comprehends three cities, two markettowns, and sixteen villages, with 20,146 inhabitants. The city which gives name to the bailiwick is on the river ns, and contains a castle, a church wit...
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BAIHINGEN
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BAIKAL, a great lake of Siberia, in the government of Irkutsk, 366 miles in length from south-west to northeast, and from twenty to fifty-three miles in breadth. This vast reservoir is, according to accurate observations, about 1715 feet above the level of the sea. It is fed by several large rivers, namely, the Upper A...
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BAIKAL
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BAIL, Ballium (from the French bailler, which is derived from the Greek l βαλλs∕v, and signifies to deliver into hands), is used in our common law for the freeing or setting at liberty of one arrested or imprisoned upon any action, either civil or criminal, on surety taken for his appearance at a day and place certain.
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BAIL
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BAILIFF, or Bailie, in a general sense, denotes an officer appointed for the administration of justice in a certain district or bailiwick. The term is formed from the French word bailiff, that is, proefectus provinciae. The chief magistrates in divers towns are called bailiffs or bailies; and sometimes the persons to w...
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BAILIFF
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BAILH, David, painter of perspective views and portraits, was the son of Peter Bailii, an artist of some note, and was born at Leyden in 1584. From his father he learned to draw and design; but he was afterwards placed under the care of Adrian Verburg, and continued with him for some time; and when he quitted that mast...
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BAILH
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BAILIWICK, that liberty which is exempted from the jurisdiction of the sheriff of the county, and over which liberty the lord thereof appoints his own bailiff, with the like power within his precinct as an under-sheriff exercises under the sheriff of the county. Or it signifies the precinct of a bailiff, or the place w...
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BAILIWICK
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BAILLET, Adrian, a very learned French writer and critic, born in June 1649, at the village of Neuville, near Beauvais, in Picardy. His parents were too poor to give him a proper education, which, however, he obtained by the favour of the bishop of Beauvais, who afterwards presented him with a small vicarage. In 1680 h...
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BAILLET
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BAILLEUL, a town of France, in the department of the North, formerly very strong, but now without any fortifications. Long. 2. 45. E. Lat. 50. 45. N.
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50 45' N 2 45' E
BAILLEUL
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BAILLIE, Robert, one of the most learned men among the Scotish presbyterians of the seventeenth century, was born at Glasgow in the year 1599. His father, who is described as a citizen, was a son of Baillie of Jerviston, who belonged to the family of Carphin, a branch of the ancient family of Lamington, in the county o...
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BAILLIE
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BAILLY, Jean Sylvain, a celebrated philosopher and astronomer, was born at Paris on the 15th of September 1736. He was .originally intended for the professicn of painting, which his family had pursued for several generations, and he even had made some progress in the art. But the bias of his mind leaned too much to lit...
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BAILLY
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BAILMENT, from the French bailler, to deliver, means, in law, a delivery of goods in trust upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee or person to whom they are delivered, and the goods re-delivered as soon as the time or use for which they were bailed s...
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BAILMENT
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BAINBRIDGE, Dr John, an eminent physician and astronomer, born at Ashby de la Zouche, in Leicestershire, m 1582. He taught a grammar school for some }ears, and practised physic, employing his leisure hours m astronomy, which was his favourite study; but at en gth, removing to London, he was admitted a fellow of the col...
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BAINBRIDGE
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BAIREUTH, a city, the capital of the circle of the Upper Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria, as well as of the magistracy of the same name. It is situated on a branch of the river Maine, in a pleasant valley, and is a very ancient place, surrounded with walls, but in a state to unfit them for defence. It contains two Lut...
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BAIREUTH
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BAIROUT, Beirout, or Baruti, anciently Berytus, in Greek Bngurος, a seaport of Syria, in the pashalic of Saide or Acre. A tongue of land, which presents a conspicuous headland when viewed from the north, extends itself in a plain about five or six miles from the mountains towards the sea; and on the northern edge of th...
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BAIROUT
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BAITING, the act of attacking and harassing greater and stronger animals by smaller or weaker ones. In this sense we hear of the baiting of bulls or bears by mastiffs or bull-dogs.
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BAITING
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BAJALUKA, a city, the capital of a sandschak or province of Bosnia, in Turkey in Europe. It stands on the river Berbas, and is strongly fortified with a citadel, being the frontier garrison towards Austria. It contains 2700 houses, forty mosques, and, with the suburbs, which are chiefly occupied by Greeks, 15,000 inhab...
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BAJALUKA
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BAJAROTOS, a town of the province of Aragon, in Spain, containing 2600 inhabitants.
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BAJAROTOS
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BAJULUS, an ancient officer in the court of the Greek emperors. There were several degrees of bajuli; as, the grand bajulus, who was preceptor to the emperor; and the simple bajuli, who were sub-preceptors. The word is derived from the Latin verb bajulare, to carry or bear a thing on the arms or on the shoulders; and t...
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BAJULUS
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BAKER, Sir Richard, author of the Chronicle of th e Kings of England, was born at Sessinghurst, in Kent, about the year 1568. After going through the usual course of academical learning at Hart Hall, in Oxford, he travelled into foreign parts; and upon his return home was created master of arts, and soon after, in 1603...
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BAKER
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BAKEWELL, Robert, a distinguished agriculturist and improver of live stock, was born at Dishley, in Leicestershire, in 1725 or 1726, and he died there in October 1795. Though all the different kinds of domestic animals were objects of his experiments and ameliorations, his attention was more particularly devoted to the...
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BAKEWELL
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BAKING Is the art of making bread, meaning thereby loaf-bread, which is white, soft, ull of cavities, has an agreeable taste, and is easily digested. t 1. Like most of the arts of primary importance, its origin precedes the period of history, and is involved in the obscurity of the early ages of the world. There is n...
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BAKING
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BAKU, or Badku, a town, with an adjoining district of the same name, in Persia. Badku is the most spacious and convenient port in the Caspian, and stands in the peninsula of Absharon, in long. 51. 7. E. lat. 42. 22. N. It is a place of considerable trade, and is defended by a double wall and ditch, constructed during t...
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BAKU
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BALAAM, a prophet and diviner of the city of Pe-thor, on the Euphrates, whose practices with Balak, king of the Moabites, are recorded in the book of Numbers, chap, xxii∙ -It is a question much debated among divines, whether Balaam was a true prophet of God, or no more than a magician or fortune-teller. The Scripture, ...
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BALAAM
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BALACHNA, a circle of the Russian government of Nishegorod, containing about 90,000 inhabitants. The chief place is a city of the same name, at the junction of the river Usola with the Wolga. It contains about 4500 inhabitants, who carry on a trade in linen, and in salt produced fi'om springs near it. Long. 43. 25. E. ...
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BALACHNA
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BALADAN, the Scripture name for a king of Babylon, called by profane authors ßelesus or Pelesis i Nabonassar or Nαnybrus. Baladan was at first no more than governor of Babylon; but having entered into a confederacy with Arbaces, governor of Media, and rebelled against Sardanapalus, king of Assyria, both generals marche...
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BALADAN
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BALAGHAUT Ceded Districts. This country, which is in the south of India, comprehends an extensive tableland, supported like a terrace by the stupendous mountain wall of the Ghauts. It is a vast extent of level plains, stretching from the Krishna to the southern extremity of the Mysore, and is named Balaghaut, or “Above...
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BALAGHAUT
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BALAGUER, a city of the province of Catalonia, in Spain. It is situated on the river Segra, in a fruitful district, is fortified and defended by a citadel, and contains 4200 inhabitants, who are chiefly occupied in the pursuits of agriculture. Long. 1. 24. E. Lat. 4L 43. N∙
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BALAGUER
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BALAMBANGAN, a rich and fruitful island in the Eastern Seas, situated between Magindanao and Borneo, from the latter of which it is 15 miles distant. The East India Company formerly had a settlement here; but it is now abandoned, and is uninhabited. Long. 117. 5. E. Lat. 7. 15. N.
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BALAMBANGAN
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BALAMBUAN, or Padambuan, a strong town of Asia, in the Indies, on the east extremity of the island of Java, and capital of a territory of the same name. Long. 114. 10. E. Lat. 7. 50. S.
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BALAMBUAN
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BALANCE, a machine for ascertaining the weight of substances. There are several kinds of balances, as the common balance or scales, the steelyard, the Danish or Swedish balance, the Chinese balance, the hydrostatic balance, &c. The same name is also given to certain kinds of apparatus employed for measuring or comparin...
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