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kp-eb0704-030801-3319 | BALANCE OF POWER, Among states, a most important principle of foreign policy, intimately connected with the general peace and independence of nations, but which some have treated as altogether chimerical, and others represented as having led only to pernicious results. It is more generally admitted, however, to have a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031301-3384 | BALASORE, a seaport of Hindostan, in the province of Orissa. It is built along the banks of the Boorce Bel-laun river, where the stream is not navigable for vessels of greater burden than 100 tons, and these can only get over the bar at spring tides. The English, Dutch, and Portuguese formerly had factories at Balasore... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031302-3384 | BALAYAN, a province of the island of Manilla, in the East Indies. It lies next to the city of Manilla, and extends along the coast on the east side of the island, a little beyond the Bay of Batangas. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031303-3384 | BALBEC, a city of Asia, in Syria, anciently called Heliopolis, and by the Arabians, “The Wonder of Syria.” It is situated at the foot of Anti-Libanus, on the last rising ground where the mountain terminates in the plain.
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kp-eb0704-031501-3410 | BALBRIGGEN, a fishing town of Ireland, in the county of Dublin, with a good quay, where ships of burden can unload and receive their cargoes. It is 19 miles north ol Dublin, and its population is 3024. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031502-3410 | BALCARRY, a sea-port of Scotland, on the Solway Frith, in the county of Kirkcudbright. It is 10 miles eastsouth-east of Kirkcudbright. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031503-3410 | BALDINGER (Ernest Godfrey), a German physician of considerable eminence, and the author of a great number of medical publications. He was born near Erfurth, 13th May 1738, and was originally destined for the church; but having acquired a strong predilection for medicine, his father yielded to his wishes, and allowed hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031504-3410 | BALDINUCCI, Philip, a distinguished Italian writer on the history of the arts, was born at Florence about 1624. His chief work is entitled Notizie dd Professori del Disegnο da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610 al 1670, and was first published in six vols. 4to in 1681-8. An edition in 20 vols. 8vo, with notes by Manni,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031505-3410 | BALDOCK, a market-town of the county of Hertford and Hundred of Broadwater. It is thirty-eight miles from London, on one of the great roads to York. The market is held on Thursday. The town belonged formerly to the knights-templars, who are said to have built the four large churches still remaining there. The populatio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031506-3410 | BALDWIN, archbishop of Canterbury, was born of obscure parents at Exeter, where, in the early part of his [7:4:316]life, he taught a grammar-school. After this he took orders, and was made archdeacon of Exeter; but he resigned that dignity, and became a Cistercian monk in the monastery of Ford in Devonshire, of which, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031601-3423 | BALE, John, bishop of Ossory, in Ireland, was bornât Cove, near Dunwich, in Suffolk, in the year 1495. At twelve years of age he was entered in the monastery of Carmelites at Norwich, and thence sent some years afterwards to Jesus College in Oxford. He was educated a Roman Catholic, but afterwards converted to the Prot... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031602-3423 | BALEARES Insulae, or the Balearic Islands. The appellation is commonly derived from ∕3αλλs∕r, jacere, because the inhabitants were excellent slingers. They are two in number, the Greater and the Less, or Major and Minor; and hence the modern names Majorca and Minorca. See Majorca and Minorca. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031603-3423 | BALEN, Hendrick van, historical and portrait painter, was born at Antwerp in 1560. He was a disciple of Adam van Oort, but he quitted that master to acquire a better taste in design and composition by pursuing his studies at Rome, where he resided for a considerable time. He died in 1632. All the historical subjects pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031701-3436 | BALES, Peter, a famous master in the art of penmanship, and one of the first inventors of short-hand writing. He was born in 1547, and is described by Anthony Wood as “a most dexterous person in his profession, to the oreat wonder of scholars and others.” We are also informed that “he spent several years in sciences am... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031702-3436 | BALEY, Walter, the son of Henry Baley of Warn-well in Dorsetshire, was born at Portsham in the same county, and educated at Winchester school, from which he was sent to Oxford, and, after two years’ probation, admitted perpetual fellow of New College in the year 1550. Having taken his degrees in arts, he practised phys... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031703-3436 | BALFRON, a village and parish of Scotland, in the county of Stirling, where a manufacture of cotton was established in 1789, and flourished for some time. The population is 1968, and it is 22 miles north of Glasgow. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031704-3436 | BALFROOSH, a large commercial town of Persia, in the province of Mazanderan, about twelve miles distant from the southern shore of the Caspian Sea. It is built in a low, swampy, though rich country; and, from the deep and. almost impassable roads which lead to it, seems not at all favourably situated for the seat of an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031705-3436 | BALGUY, John, an eminent English divine, was born at Sheffield in Yorkshire in August 1686. He was admitted of St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1702, and in 1705-6 took his bachelor’s degree, soon after which he quitted the university. In 1711 he obtained a small living, and in 1729 was preferred to the vicarage of Nor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031706-3436 | BALHARRY, a town of Hindostan, in Mysore, situated on the west side of the Haggry River, 187 miles [7:4:318]north from Seringapatam, and the capital of the collectorship of the same name, into which, and Cuddapah, the Balaghaut ceded districts are divided. It is a hill fort, with a fortified village. It was taken by Hy... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031801-3449 | BALI, Bally, or Little Java, one of the Sunda islands, in the Eastern Seas, separated from Java by the straits of the same name, which are five miles wide. It is a large island, being seventy-five miles in length by forty in breadth. A chain of mountains crosses the island in a direction east and west, and terminates o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031802-3449 | BALINDERRY, a village and parish of Ireland, in the county of Antrim, seventy-three miles from Dublin. Its population is 4948. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031803-3449 | BALIOL, or Balliol, Sir John de, founder of Baliol College in Oxford, was the son of Hugh Baliol, of Bernard’s Castle, in the diocese of Durham, and very eminent on account of his power and riches. During the contests and wars between King Henry III. and his barons he firmly adhered to the king. In 1263 he began the fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-031804-3449 | BALK, or Bulk, was formerly a province of Persia, but is now a dependency of the kingdom of Cabûl or Afghanistan. European geographers have but an imperfect knowledge of these countries, situated in the depths of Asia, and defended against the visits of Christian travellers by the fierce intolerance of their inhabitant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 28' N 65 16' E | BALK |
kp-eb0704-031901-3462 | BALLAD is a word frequently used as synonymous with song: but it properly denotes an historical song, or a song containing a narrative of adventures or exploits, either serious or comic. It is one of the most ancient species of composition, and still constitutes a great portion of the literature of the more uncivilized... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032001-3475 | BALLAST, any heavy matter, as stone, gravel, or iron, thrown into the hold of a ship, in order to make her sink a proper depth in the water, that she may be capable of carrying a sufficient quantity of sail without upsetting. There is often great difference in the proportion of ballast required to prepare ships of equa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032101-3488 | BALLENDEN, Sir John. See Bellenden, Sir John. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032102-3488 | BALLENSTEDT, a city in the duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg. It is situated in the Hartz Forest, in a most picturesque district, selected for a seat of the sovereign, whose castle is accommodated with the usual appendages of courtly residences. The city, besides the court, contains about 2800 inhabitants, who are very industri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032103-3488 | BALLET, Balet, or Balletto, a kind of dramatic poem, representing some fabulous action or subject divided into several entries; wherein several persons appear, and recite things under the name of some deity, or other illustrious character. .
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kp-eb0704-032104-3488 | BALLINA, a post-town of Ireland, in the county of Mayo, situated on the river Moy. In 1798 General Humbert, who landed with the French troops in Ireland, took possession of this place. The population is 4422, and it is 6 miles S. of Killala. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032105-3488 | BALLINAFIINCH, a post-town of Ireland, in the county of Down, near which is a much-frequented chalybeate spa. In 1798 a strong body of insurgents were defeated here, and half the village was destroyed. The population is 884. Ballinahinch is 94 miles N. by E. from Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032106-3488 | BALLINAKIL, a market-town of Ireland, in Queen’s county, with woollen manufactures. The population is 1951, and it is 66 miles S. W. of Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032107-3488 | BALLINASLOE, a thriving town of Ireland, in the county of Galway, on the river Suck. Here is held a great fair for wool, and several cattle fairs. The population is 1800. It is 90 miles W. of Dublin, and 30 miles W. of Galway. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032108-3488 | BALLINGARRY, a post-town of Ireland, in the county of Limerick. The population is 1553. It is 142 miles 8. W. of Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032109-3488 | BALLINROBE, a post-town of Ireland, in the county of Mayo. Its population is 2191. It is 147 miles W. by N. from Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032110-3488 | BALLISTA, a machine used by the ancients for shooting darts, and which resembled in some measure our crossbow. The word is Latin, signifying a cross-bow, and is derived from the Greek βαλλω, to shoot or throw. Vegetius informs us that the ballista discharged darts with such rapidity and violence that nothing could resi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032111-3488 | BALLISTEUM, or Ballistraea, in Antiqudy, a military song or dance used on occasions of victory. Vopiscus has preserved the ballisteum sung in honour of Aurelian, who, in the Sarmatian war, was said to have killed forty-eight of the enemy in one day with his own hand. Mille, mille, mille, mille, mille, mille decollavimu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032112-3488 | BALLISTIC Pendulum, an ingenious machine, ĩnvent- e ..?y Benjamin Robins for ascertaining the velocity of tm ιtary projectiles, and consequently the force of fired gunpowder. It consists of a large block of wood, affixed to the end of a strong iron stem, having a cross steel axis at the other end, placed horizontally, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032113-3488 | BALLOON. See Aeronautics. Balloon also denotes a kind of game something resembling tennis. The balloon is played in the open field, with a great round ball of double leather blown up with wind, and thus driven to and fro with the strength of a man’s arm, fortified with a brace of wood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032114-3488 | BALLOTING, a method of voting at elections, &c. by means of little balls, usually of different colours, called by the French ballots, which are put into a box, in such a manner as to enable the voter, if he chooses, to conceal for whom or for what he gives his suffrage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032115-3488 | BALLYBAY, a market and post-town of Ireland, in the county of Monaghan. Its population is 1378, and it is 76 miles N. by W. of Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032116-3488 | BALLYCASTLE, a small sea-port town of Ireland, in the county of Antrim, divided into an upper and lower town. Its population is 1436, and it is 180 miles N. from Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032117-3488 | BALLYMATRON, a market and post-town of Ireland, in the county of Longford. The population is 1135. It is 68 miles W. by N. of Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032118-3488 | BALLYMENA, a town of Ireland, in the county of Antrim, situated on the river Maine. Linen manufactures are carried on here, and there is a weekly market for horses and cattle. The population is 2740. It is 30 miles N. of Belfast. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032119-3488 | BALLYMONEY, a village of Ireland, in the county of Antrim, where there is a monthly market for linens. The population is 1949. It is 150 miles N. of Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032120-3488 | BALLYMOTE, a post-town of Ireland, in the county of Sligo, where the linen manufacture has been established. The population is 884, and it is 119 miles N. W. from Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032121-3488 | BALLYRAGGET, a post-town of Ireland, in the county of Kilkenny, on the river Nore. The population is 1604. It is 76 miles S. W. of Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032122-3488 | BALLYSHANNON, a town of Ireland, in the county of Donegal, on a bay at the mouth of a river flowing from Lough Erne, which is crossed by a bridge of 14 arches. It has a good harbour, and a fishery of eels and salmon. The population is 3831. It is 127 miles N. W. from Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032123-3488 | BALLYTORE, a post-town of Ireland, in the county of Kildare, on the river Grees. The population is 824. It is 35 miles S. W. of Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032124-3488 | BALM OF GILEAD. The earliest specifics against personal injuries, resorted to by mankind, were probably the different parts of vegetables produced in their respective countries; and hence we find that most savages are acquainted with vulneraries prepared by the hand of nature, or that they seek to improve them from dec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032401-3527 | BALMERINO, a village and parish of Scotland, in the county of Fife, situated on the Tay, where are the ruins of an abbey founded by Alexander II. in 1229. The population is 921. It is about 8 miles north-west of St Andrews. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032402-3527 | BALNAVES, Henry, a Scottish protestant, born in the shire of Fife in the reign of James V., and educated at the university of St Andrews. He went afterwards to France in order to finish his studies, and returning to Scotland, was admitted into the family of the earl of Arran, who at that time governed the kingdom; but,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032403-3527 | BALNEARII Servi, in Antiquity, servants or attendants belonging to the baths. Some were appointed to heat them, called fornicateres; others were denominated capsarii, who kept the clothes of those that went into them; others aliptae, whose care it was to pull off the hair; others unctuarii, who anointed and perfumed th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032404-3527 | BALNEARIUS Fur, in Antiquity, a kind of thief who practised stealing the clothes of persons in the baths; sometimes also called fur balnearum. The crime of those thieves was a kind of sacrilege, for the hot baths were accounted sacred; and hence they were more severely punished than common thieves, who stole out of pri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032405-3527 | BALOGNES, an arrondissement in the department of Manche, or of the Channel, in France, extending over 325 square miles, and comprehending seven cantons and 122 communes, with 94,676 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, on the river Merderet. It contains 1050 houses, and 7112 inhabitants, employed chiefl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 30' N 1 34' W | BALOGNES |
kp-eb0704-032406-3527 | BALO l’ADE, a term in the manege, signifying a leap made by a horse between two pillars, or upon a straight line, in such a manner that when his fore feet are in the air, he shows nothing but the shoes of his hinder feet without yerking out. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032407-3527 | BALSOVER, or Bolsover, a market-town in the hundred of Scarsdale and county of Derby, 155 miles from London. It is celebrated for the manufacture of tobacco pipes, and for an ancient magnificent castle built by the family of Hastings, earls of Abergaveny. The number of inhabitants in 1801 amounted to 1091, in 1811 to 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032408-3527 | BALTA, a town, the capital of the circle of the same name, in the Russian government of Podolia. It stands on the Kodima, near its junction with the Bug, and carries on a trade in corn by that river with Warsaw and Dantzic. The population is 1600. Long. 29. 33. E. Lat. 47. 46. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-032409-3527 | BALTIC SEA. The denomination of the Baltic, applied to the inland sea which forms the subject of this article, is first found in the work of Adam of Bremen, who was canon of that city at the close of the eleventh century, entitled Chorographia Scandinaviae. The etymology of this name has given rise to many conjectures.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033201-3631 | BALTIMORE, a decayed town of Ireland, in the county of Cork, situated on a headland projecting into the sea, with a good harbour. It is 13 miles south-east of Bantry.
Baltimore, a town of Maryland, in North America. It is situated round the head of a small bay, which is an arm of the Chesapeak, and near the mouth of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 10' N 76 40' W | BALTIMORE |
kp-eb0704-033202-3631 | BALTINGLASS, a town of Ireland, county of Wicklow, on the river Slaney. It carries on a manufacture of 'linen and woollen cloths. Here an action took; place in 1798, between the royalists and the insurgents, in which th latter were defeated. The population is 1500, and it is 37 miles south by west of Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033203-3631 | BALUBALAGAN, a cluster of thirteen small, flat, wooded islands in the Straits of Macassar, having navigable channels between them, but uneven anchorage. There is a fishery here for biche-de-mer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033204-3631 | BALUS PER, a small kind of pillar used for balustrades. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033205-3631 | BALUSTRADE, a series or row of balusters, joined by a rail, and serving as well for a rest to the elbows as for a fence or inclosure to balconies, altars, staircases, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033206-3631 | BALUZE, Etienne, a writer eminently distinguished by his knowledge of history, ecclesiastical antiquities, and the canon law, was born at Tulle on the 24th of December 1630, being the descendant of a family which had long adhered to the legal profession. He received his elementary education at the place of his nativity... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033501-3670 | BALZAC, John Lewis Guez de, born at Angoulême in 1594- He was one of the most distinguished and po- nular writers of his day, but his works have long since sunk into comparative obscurity. Voltaire allows him the merit of having been the first who gave numbers and harmony to French prose, but censures his style as some... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033502-3670 | BAMBA, a province of the kingdom of Congo, in Africa. It is situated between the rivers Ambriz and Lose, the last of which separates it from Pemba on the east, as the Ambriz does from the province of Sogno on the north. Along the sea-coast Bamba extends itself northward to the river Lelunda, and on the south to that of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033503-3670 | BAMBARRA, an extensive and important country of interior Africa, with which the journeys of Park, who was perhaps the first European that reached it, have made us tolerably acquainted. It is situated between the 1st and 5th degrees of east longitude, and the 12th and 15th of north latitude. It has on the west the count... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033601-3683 | BAMBOCCIO, a celebrated painter, was born at Laeren, near Narden, in 1613. His name was Peter van Laer; but in Italy they gave him the name of Bamboccio, on account of the uncommon shape of his body, the lower part being one third longer than the upper, and his neck so short that it was buried between his shoulders. Na... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033602-3683 | BAMBOO. This plant is generally ranked by botanists in the number of reeds; but some, less sensible of its analogies with them, incline to institute a separate genus for it. In the Systema Naturae, Linnaeus describes two species, under the genus Bambusa, which is characterized thus: “scales three, covering the spikelet... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033801-3709 | BAMBOROUGH, a village in Northumberland, on the sea-coast, fourteen miles north of Alnwick, was once a royal borough, sending two members to parliament, and even gave name to a large tract extending southward which was called Bamboroughshire. It had also three religious foundations, a house of friars preachers founded ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033802-3709 | BAMBOUK, a country in the interior of western Africa, situated between the Ba-Fing and the Faleme, the two great upper tributaries of the Senegal. The chief characteristic of this country is the quantity of gold with which its soil is almost universally impregnated. This precious metal exists in a perfectly pure state,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033901-3722 | BAMBURG, a city of the circle of Upper Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria, which gives its name to a magistracy. It was formerly under a sovereign bishop, but secularized by the revolution in France. It stands on the Regnitz, in a beautiful situation, surrounded with vineyards and gardens. Like all the ecclesiastical cit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 53' 31" N 11 48' 16" E | BAMBURG |
kp-eb0704-033902-3722 | BAMIYAN, a city of Asia, in the province of Zablestan, ten days’ journey from Balk, and eight from Gazna. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033903-3722 | BAMPTON, or Bampton-in-the-Bush, a markettown of the hundred of Bampton and county of Oxford. It stands in a flat situation near the banks of the Isis, seventy miles from London, and eighteen from Oxford. The church is a magnificent ancient edifice. The market is held on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 10... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033904-3722 | BANAGHER, a market and post-town of Ireland, in King’s county, on the river Shannon, over which is a bridge. The population is 2813; and it is 81 miles west by south of Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033905-3722 | BANALBUFAR, a town on the western coast of the island of Majorca, belonging to Spain, where the best wine is produced. It contains 3745 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033906-3722 | BANAT, one of the divisions of Hungary, which is included in the military frontier provinces. It extends over 2973 square miles, or 1,802,720 acres, and contains one market-town, two cities, and 162 villages, with 174,650 inhabitants. The latter are mostly of the Greek church,’ but about one third are Catholics, with a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033907-3722 | BANBURY, a market and borough-town of the hundred of Banbury, in the county of Oxford, seventy-five miles from London. The corporation consists of a mayor, recorder, high steward, and six burgesses, who returned a member to the House of Commons, in the election of whom the Earls of Guildford long had the patronage. It ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033908-3722 | BANCA, an island in the Eastern Seas, about 130 miles in length by forty or fifty in breadth, lying off the northeastern coast of Sumatra, from which it is separated by the Straits of Banca. This island has in all ages been celebrated for its mines of tin, which have yielded immense quantities of ore, and appear to be ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-033909-3722 | BANCAPOOR, a large town of Hindostan, in the province of Bejapoor, antl formerly a place of importance. The fort was dismantled by Tippoo’s army. It is 50 miles S.S.E. from Darwar. Long. 76. 16. E. Lat. 14. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 58' N 76 16' E | BANCAPOOR |
kp-eb0704-033910-3722 | BANCOOK, a sea-port of the kingdom of Siam, situated on the east side of Siam river. It is properly the seaport of Siam, few ships ascending higher up the river; and it is distant from it forty-two miles. In the reign of Louis XIV. this place was ceded to the French, who here erected[7:4:340] a fortress, which they ret... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034001-3735 | BANDA ISLANDS. These islands, situated 130 miles to the south-east of Amboyna, are ten in number, viz. Banda Neira, Gonong Apee, Banda Lantoir, Pulo Ay or Way, Pulo Rondo or Pulo Roon, Rosyngen, Pulo Pisang, Craka, Capella, and Sonangy.
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kp-eb0704-034201-3761 | BANDALEER, or Bandelier, in military affairs, a large leathern belt, thrown over the right shoulder, and hanging under the left arm. It was worn by the ancient musketeers, both for sustaining their fire-arms, and for the carriage of their musket charges, which, being put up in little wooden cases coated with leather, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | BANDALEER | |
kp-eb0704-034202-3761 | BANDELLO, a celebrated Italian novelist, was born at Castelnuovo, in the neighbourhood of Tortona, about 1480. In his youth he studied both at Rome and at Paris; and his education being completed, he went to reside at Mantua. There he remained for several years much esteemed by Pirro Gonzaga, who intrusted him with the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034301-3774 | BANDER CONGO, a small sea-port town in Asia, seated on the Persian Gulf. Long. 54.10. E. Lat. 19. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 0' N 54 10' E | BANDER CONGO |
kp-eb0704-034302-3774 | BANDINI, Angelo Maria, a learned Italian, was born at Florence on the 25th of September 1726. Having been left an orphan in his infancy, he was supported by his uncle, Joseph Bandini, a lawyer of some note. He received his education among the Jesuits, and discovered an early passion for the study of antiquities. A desi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034303-3774 | BANDITTI, from the Italian bandito, persons proscribed, or, as we call it, outlawed, and sometimes denominated[7:4:344] banniti or toris banniti. It is also a denomination given to highwaymen or robbers who infest roads in troops. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034401-3787 | BANDON, or Bandonbridge, a town of Ireland, in the county of Cork, on the river Bandon, which flows into the sea at Kinsale. Its public buildings are two churches, a handsome Roman Catholic chapel, and a court-house. It has two market-houses and a spacious quay on the south side of the river. It has manufactures of lin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034402-3787 | BANDORA, the capital of the island of Salsette, on the western coast of the peninsula, on this side the Ganges. Long. 72. 30. E. Lat. 19. 0. N. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 0' N 72 30' E | BANDORA |
kp-eb0704-034403-3787 | BANDORE, the name of a musical instrument with strings, resembling a lute, and said to have been invented in the fourth year of Queen Elizabeth, by one John Rose. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | BANDORE | |
kp-eb0704-034404-3787 | BANDROL, a little flag, in the form of a guidon, extended more in length than in breadth, and usually hoisted on the masts of vessels; a pennant or streamer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | BANDROL | |
kp-eb0704-034405-3787 | BANE, from the Saxon bana, a murderer, signifies destruction or overthrow. Thus, “I will be the bane of such a man,” is a common saying; when a person receives a mortal injury by any thing, we say, “it was his bane and he who is the cause of another man’s death is said to be le bane, that is, a malefactor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034406-3787 | BANFF, the capital of Banffshire, is pleasantly situated on the western bank of the river Deveron, at the point where it discharges itself into the sea. The town is of great antiquity, and its erection is traditionally ascribed to Malcolm Canmore. A charter was afterwards granted in 1165 by William the Lion (Carte of M... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 57 40' 58" N 2 32' W | BANFF |
kp-eb0704-034407-3787 | BANFFSHIRE, a county in the north of Scotland, bounded by the Moray Frith on the north, by Aberdeenshire on the south and south-east, and by the county of Moray on the west, is situated in the 58th degree of north latitude, and between 2° 13' and 3° 40 ’ west longitude. The number of acres which the shire contains, has... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034501-3800 | BANGALORE, a fortified town of Hindostan, in the rajah of Mysore’s territories, founded by Hyder. The fort, which was constructed by Hyder after the best fashion of Mahommedan architecture, was destroyed by his son Tippoo, after he found that it was incapable of effectuallyresist-jog the British army. It was afterwards... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 57' N 77 46' E | BANGALORE |
kp-eb0704-034601-3813 | BANGHIR, a town of Ireland, in King’s county, in the province of Leinster, seated on the river Shannon. Long. 8. 5. W. Lat. 53. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 10' N 8 5' W | BANGHIR |
kp-eb0704-034602-3813 | BANGOR, a city, the see of a bishop, in the county of Carnarvon, in North Wales, 253 miles from London, on the magnificent new road to Ireland by Holyhead. A harbour has recently been constructed, at which are loaded numerous vessels with slates, from the extensive quarries in that neighbourhood. The cathedral is very ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-034603-3813 | BANGUEY, an island in the Eastern Seas, lying off the north coast of Borneo, and separated by a channel three miles wide, from the island of Balambangan. It is about 23 miles in length by 11 in breadth. Long. 117. 25. E. Lat. 7. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 7 15' N 117 25' E | BANGUEY |
kp-eb0704-034604-3813 | BANIAK, an island in the Eastern Seas, off the west coast of Sumatra. It is one of a cluster of islands, and is about 17 miles in length by 7 in average breadth. Seaslug or biche de mer is obtained here. Long. 96. 48. E. Lat. 2. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 2 10' N 96 48' E | BANIAK |
kp-eb0704-034605-3813 | BANIALUCH, or Bagnaluch, a city of European Turkey, the capital of Bosnia, upon the frontiers of Dalmatia, near the river Setina. Long. 18. 20. E. Lat. 44. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 20' N 18 20' E | BANIALUCH |
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