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kp-eb0705-074601-2762 | BURY, a market-town of the hundred of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, 194 miles from London, on the river Irwell. It is celebrated for its extensive printing grounds, which have been the foundation of the large fortune of
Sir Robert Peel. Some other branches of the cotton trade arc carried on here. The market is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074602-2762 | BURYING. See Burial. Burying Alive was the punishment of a vestal who had violated her vow of virginity. The unhappy priestess was let down into a deep pit, with bread, water, milk, oil, a lamp burning, and a bed to lie on. But this was only for show; for the moment she was let down, they began to cast in the earth upo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074603-2762 | BUSBEC, Auger Gislen, Lord of, a person illustrious on account of his embassies, was born at Commines in the year 1522, and educated at the famous universities of Louvain, Paris, Venice, Bologna, and Padua. He was engaged in several important employments and negocia-tions, and in particular was twice sent ambassador by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074701-2775 | BUSBY, Dr Richard, son of a gentleman in Westminster, was born at Lutton in Lincolnshire in 1606. He passed through the classes in Westminster school as king’s scholar, and completed his studies at Christ-church, Oxford. In 1640 he was appointed master of Westminster school; and by his skill and diligence in the discha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074702-2775 | BUSCHING, Anthony Frederick. This very eminent geographer was born at Stadthagen, a village of Westphalia, on the 27th September 1724. In his youth he laboured under peculiar disadvantages, arising from the disorderly life led by his father, and from the narrow means of education which his native town afforded. Fortuna... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074801-2788 | BUSEO, a town in the eastern division of Wallachia, the seat of a Greek bishop, and the capital of the district of the same name, which comprehends one other town, and 218 villages. It has several churches, mostly of the Greek communion, 1500 houses, and 4900 inhabitants, who carry on considerable trade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074802-2788 | BUSH, Paul, the first bishop of Bristol, became a student in the university of Oxford about the year 1513, and in 1518 took the degree of bachelor of arts. He afterwards became a brother of the order called bonhommes; of which, after studying some time among the friars of St Austin, now Wadhain College, he was elected ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074803-2788 | BUSHEAB, an island in the Persian Gulf, about sixteen miles in length and five or six in breadth, separated from the mainland by a channel of considerable breadth, from which runs a long ridge of rocks. It is inhabited, and covered with date trees. The chief resides at the east end, and subsists partly by piratical adv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074804-2788 | BUSHEL. See Weights and Measures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074805-2788 | BUSHIRE, Abuschehr, a town of Persia, in the province of Fars, situated in the Persian Gulf. The surrounding country is a parched and barren desert, consisting of brown sand or grey clay and rock, unenlivened by any kind of vegetation. The town, which is of a triangular form, occupies the southern extremity of a penins... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074806-2788 | BUSIRIS, in Ancient Geography, a city of Lower Egypt, to the south of Leontopolis, on that branch of the Nile called Busiriticus. It is said to have been built by Busiris, who was noted for his cruelty, and was slain by Hercules. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074807-2788 | BUSK, a city of the circle of Lemberg, in the Austrian province of Gallicia. It is situated on the river Bug, which runs from a beautiful lake here. The inhabitants are about 3150, and have four churches, three Greek and one Catholic, and manufactures of leather and of paper. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074808-2788 | BUSKIN, a kind of shoe, somewhat in the form of a boot, and adapted to either foot, and worn by either sex. This part of dress, covering both the foot and mid-leg, was tied underneath the knee; it was very rich and fine, and principally used on the stage by actors in tragedy. It was of a quadrangular form; and the sole... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074809-2788 | BUSS, in maritime affairs, a small sea vessel, used in the herring fishery, commonly from forty-eight to sixty tons burden, and sometimes more. A buss has two small sheds or cabins, one at the prow and the other at the stern; and that at the prow serves for a kitchen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074810-2788 | BUSSOLENGO, a town of the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy, in the delegation of Verona. It is situated on the river Etsch, and contains about 3000 inhabitants, chiefly employed in the manufacture of linen goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074811-2788 | BUSSORA, Bassora, Balsora, or Basra, a celebrated city of Asia, in the government of Bagdad, situated on the western bank of the Shut-ul-Arab, about seventy miles from the mouth of this noble stream, which is navigable to the city for ships of 500 tons burden. Bussora is surrounded by walls, which are kept in a tolerab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 32' N 44 46' E | BUSSORA |
kp-eb0705-074901-2801 | BUST, or Busro, in Sculpture, denotes the figure or portrait of a person in relievo, showing only the head, shoulders, and stomach, the arms being lopped off, and ordinarily placed on a pedestal or console.
In speaking of an antique, we say the head is marble, and the bust porphyry or bronze, that is, the stomach and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074902-2801 | BUSTAR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, the capital of an independent rajah, whose subjects are among the most barbarous of any people in Hindustan. Long. 82. 38. E. Lat. 19. 44. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 44' N 82 38' E | BUSTAR |
kp-eb0705-074903-2801 | BUSTARD. See Ornithology, Index. Bustard Bay, a bay on the east coast of New Holland, in which there is a channel leading to a large lagoon. There is space here for a few ships to lie in safety, but access to the lagoon is prevented by shallows. Around the sides of the bay are salt marshes and bogs, and mangroves grow ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 4' S 208 18' W | BUSTARD |
kp-eb0705-074904-2801 | BUSTUARII, in Homan Antiquity, gladiators who fought about the bustum or funeral pile of a person of distinction, in order that the blood which was spilt might serve as a sacrifice to the infernal gods, and render them more propitious to the manes of the deceased. This custom was introduced in the room of the more inhu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-074905-2801 | BUSTUM, in Antiquity, denotes a pyramid or pile of wood, whereon were anciently placed the bodies of the deceased, in order to be burnt.
The Romans borrowed the custom of burning their dead from the Greeks. The deceased, crowned with flowers, and dressed in his richest habits, was laid on the bustum. Some authors say ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075001-2814 | BUSVAGON, an island in the Eastern Seas, belonging to the Philippines, fifty miles in length by thirteen in average breadth, and situated in the 12th degree of north latitude. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075002-2814 | BUTCHER, a person who slaughters cattle for the use of the table, or who cuts up and retails the same. Among the ancient Romans there were three kinds of established butchers, whose office it was to furnish the city with the necessary cattle, and to take care of preparing and vending their flesh. The suarii provided ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075003-2814 | BUTESHIRE, a county on the west coast of Scotland, in the Frith of Clyde, is composed of seven islands, viz. Bute, Arran, Great Cumbrae, Little Cumbrae, Inchmar-nock, Lamlash, and Pladda.
Bute, from which the county derives its name, is situated between longitude 4. 51. and 5. 2. W., and latitude 55. 4L and 55. 43. N.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075301-2853 | BUTLER, Charles, a native of Wycomb, in the county of Bucks, and a master of arts in Magdalen College, Oxford, who published a book entitled “The Principles of Music in singing and setting; with the twofold use thereof, ecclesiastical and civil.” 4to, London, 1636. The author of this book was a person of singular learn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075302-2853 | BUTT is used for a measure of wine, containing two hogsheads, or 126 gallons, and is otherwise called/njoe. A hutt, of currants is from 1500 to 2200 pounds weight.
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Butts, or Butt-ends, in the sea language, are the fore ends of all planks under water, as they rise, and are joined one end to another. Butt-ends... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075401-2866 | BUTTER, a fat, unctuous substance, prepared from milk by beating or churning. It was late ere the Greeks appear to have had any notion of butter; their poets make no mention of it, and yet speak frequently of milk and cheese. The Romans used butter as a medicine, never as food. According to Beckman, the invention of bu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075402-2866 | BUTTERFLY. See Entomology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075403-2866 | BUTTERIS, in the manege, an instrument of steel, fitted to a wooden handle, wherewith to pare the foot or cut off the hoof of a horse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075404-2866 | BUTTOCK of a Ship, is that part which forms her breadth right astern, from the tack upwards; and a ship is said to have a broad or a narrow buttock, according as she is built broad or narrow at the transom. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075405-2866 | BUTTSTED, a city, the chief of the bailiwick of the same name, containing 11,200 inhabitants, in the duchy of Saxe-Weimar. It stands on the river Lossa, and contains 1921 inhabitants, engaged in woollen manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075406-2866 | BUTTON, an article in dress, the form and use of which are too well known to need description.
Mxtal Buttons. The metal with which the moulds are intended to be covered is first cast into small ingots, and then flatted into thin plates or leaves, of the thickness intended, at the flattening mills; after which it is cu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075407-2866 | BUTTOOL, a small district of Hindustan, in the northern extremity of the province of Oude, ceded to the British by the treaty concluded in 1801 with the nabob of Oude. On the north it is separated by hills and forests from the territories of the Goorkhali rajah of Nepaul. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075408-2866 | BUTTRESS, a kind of abutment built archwise, or a mass of stone or brick, serving to prop or support the sides of a building or wall on the outside, where it is either very high, or has any considerable load to sustain on the other side, as a bank of earth, or the like. Buttresses are used against the angles of steeple... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075409-2866 | BUTZOW, a city in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg Schwerin. It is situated near a lake on the river Warnow, and is the seat of a provincial judicature. The inhabitants amount to 2964, who are employed mostly in linen manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075410-2866 | BUXTEHUDE, a small city in the province of Bremen, and kingdom of Hanover. It is situated on the river Este, is walled, and contains about 1700 inhabitants, who find employment in making soap, leather, snuff, hosiery, and some baize. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075411-2866 | BUXAR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, district of Shahabad, situated on the south bank of the Ganges. The fort, which, though of small size, commands the Ganges, is now dismantled. At this place every boat navigating the river, as well as every land traveller, is obliged to stop and produce a pass; and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 35' N 83 58' E | BUXAR |
kp-eb0705-075412-2866 | BUXTON, Jedediah, a prodigy of skill in numbers. His father, William Buxton, was schoolmaster of the same parish where he was born in 1704; yet Jedediah’s education was so much neglected, that he was never taught to write; and with respect to any other knowledge but that of numbers, he seemed always as ignorant as a bo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075501-2879 | BUXTORF, John, a learned professor of Hebrew at Basel, who, in the seventeenth century, acquired the highest reputation for his knowledge of the Hebrew and Chaldee languages. He died of the plague at Basel in 1629, aged sixty-five. His principal works are, 1. A small but excellent Hebrew Grammar, the best edition of wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075502-2879 | BUYING, the act of making a purchase, or of acquiring the property of a thing for a certain price.
Buying the Pefusal is giving money for the right or liberty of purchasing a thing at a fixed price in a certain time to come, and is chiefly used in dealing for shares in stock. This is sometimes also called by a cant na... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075503-2879 | BUZOT, a town of the province of Valencia, in Spain, about ten miles from Alicant, in a most romantic situation. It is 'celebrated for its warm baths, and for the kermes collected from the quercus coccifera. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075504-2879 | BUZZARD. See Ornithology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075505-2879 | BYNG, George, Lord Viscount Torrington, was the son of John Byng, Esq. and was born in 1663. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as a volunteer with the king’s warrant. His early engagement in this course of life gave him little opportunity of acquiring learning or cultivating the polite arts; but by his abilities and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075601-2892 | BYROM, John, an ingenious poet of Manchester, born in 1691. His first poetical essay appeared in the Spectator, No. 603, beginning, “My time, 0 ye Muses, was happily spent which, with two humorous letters on dreams, are to be found in the eighth volume. He was admitted a member of the Royal Society in 1724; and having ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-075602-2892 | BYRON, Lord George Gordon, the only son of Captain Byron, and Catharine, sole child and heiress of George Gordon, Esq. of Gight, in Scotland, was born on the 22d January 1788, in Holies Street, London. His father, a man of dissolute and extravagant habits, died in 1791, at Valenciennes, leaving his widow, who was then ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 1 18' S 173 16' E | BYRON |
kp-eb0705-076101-2957 | BYSSUS, or Byssum, a fine thready matter produced in India, Egypt, and the vicinity of Elis in Achaia, of which the richest apparel was anciently made, especially that worn by the priests, both Jewish and Egyptian. Some interpreters render the Greek βυαδoς, which occurs both in the Old and New Testament, by Jine linen.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076102-2957 | BYZANTIUM, an ancient city of Thrace, situated on the Bosphorus. It was founded, according to Eusebius, about the thirtieth Olympiad, when Tullus Hostilius reigned in Rome. But, according to Diodorus Siculus, the foundations of this metropolis were laid in the time of the Argonauts, by one Bysas, who then reigned in th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076103-2957 | BZOVIUS, Abraham, one of the most celebrated writers[7:5:762] in the seventeenth century, in as far as respects the number of pieces composed by him. His chief work is the continuation of Baronius’s Annals. He was a native of Poland, and a Dominican friar. Upon his arrival at Rome he was received with open arms by the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076201-2970 | C, THE third letter, and second consonant, of the alphabet, is pronounced like k before the vowels a, o, and u, and like s before e, i, and y. C is formed, according to Scaliger, from the κ of the Greeks, by retrenching the stem or upright line; though others derive it from the ב of the Hebrews, which has in effect the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076202-2970 | CAABA, or Caabah, properly signifies a square stone building, but it is particularly applied by the Mahommedans to the temple at Mecca, built, as they pretend, by Abraham and his son Ishmael. This temple enjoys the privilege of an asylum for all sorts of criminals; but it is most remarkable for the pilgrimages made to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076203-2970 | CAANA, or Kaana, a town in Upper Egypt, seated on the eastern bank of the river Nile, whence corn and pulse are carried for the supply of Mecca in Arabia. Here are several monuments of antiquity yet remaining, adorned with hieroglyphics. Long. 32. 23. E. Lat. 24. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076204-2970 | CAB, a Hebrew dry measure, being the sixth part of a seah or satum, and the eighteenth part of an ephah. A cab contained 2∣∙ pints of our old corn measure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076205-2970 | CABAL, a name aptly given to the infamous ministry of Charles II. composed of five persons, Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale, the first letters of whose names, in this order, furnished the appellation by which they were distinguished. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076206-2970 | CABALLARIA, in middle-age writers, lands held by the tenure of furnishing a horseman with suitable equipage during war, or when the lord had occasion for him. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076207-2970 | CABALLEROS, or Cavalleros, are Spanish wools, of which there is a pretty considerable trade at Bayonne in France, and other places. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076208-2970 | CABALLINE denotes something belonging to horses. Thus caballine aloes is so called, from its being chiefly used for purging horses; and common brimstone is called sulphur caballinum, for a similar reason. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076209-2970 | CABANIS, Peter John George, a distinguished writer and physician at Paris, was born at Conac in 1757. His father, John Baptiste Cabanis, was a lawyer of eminence, and chief magistrate of a district in the Lower Limousin, highly respected for his extensive knowledge and inflexible integrity, and entitled to the gratitud... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076401-2996 | CABBAGE. See Horticulture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076402-2996 | CABBALA, according to the Hebrew style, has a very distinct signification from that in which we understand it in our language. The Hebrew cabbala signifies tradition; and the rabbin, who are called cabbalists, study principally the combination of particular words, letters, and numbers, by which means they pretend to di... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076501-3009 | CABBALISTS, the Jewish doctors who profess the study of the cabbala. In the opinion of these men, there is not a word, letter, nor accent in the law, without some mystery in it. The Jews are divided into two general sects; the Karaites, who refuse to receive either tradition or the Talmud, or any thing but the pure tex... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076502-3009 | CABECA, or Cabess, a name given to the finest silks in the East Indies, while those from fifteen to twenty per cent, inferior to them are called barina. The Indian workmen endeavour to pass them off one with the other; for which reason the more experienced European merchants take care to open the bales, and to examine ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076503-3009 | CABELLO, or Cavello Porto, a sea-port of Venezuela, in South America, with an excellent harbour and bay. It is situated a league to the west of the harbour of Bon-burata, and has become the centre of the commerce and navigation of the province of Venezuela. The bay is exceedingly commodious, safe, and well defended fro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 N 10 20' E | CABELLO |
kp-eb0705-076504-3009 | CABENDA, a great emporium on the western coast of Africa, situated a little to the north of the river Zaire, in the district of Cacongo. From the remarkable beauty and fertility of its situation, it has been called the Paradise of the coast. The bay is very commodious for trade, wooding, and watering. Long. 12. 30. E. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076505-3009 | CABEZA DE BUEY, a town in the Spanish province of Estremadura, with 3500 souls. There is carried on here a cloth manufactory, which employs 1666 workmen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076506-3009 | CABEZZO. See Angola. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076507-3009 | CABIDOS, or Cavidos, a long measure used at Goa, and other places of the East Indies belonging to the Portuguese, to measure stuffs, linens, and the like, and equal to four-sevenths of the Paris ell. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076508-3009 | CABIN, a room or apartment in a ship, where any of the officers usually reside. There are many of these in a large ship, the principal of which is designed for the captain or commander. The apartments where the inferior officers or common sailors sleep and mess are usually called berths. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076509-3009 | CABINET, the most retired place in the finest part of a building, set apart for writing, studying, or preserving any thing that is precious.
Cabinet also denotes a piece of joiner’s workmanship, being a kind of press or chest, with several doors and drawers. There are common cabinets of oak or of chestnut varnished, c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076510-3009 | CABIRI, a term in the theology of the ancient Pagans, signifying great and powerful gods, and being a name given to the gods of Samothracia. They were also worshipped in other parts of Greece, as Lemnos and Thebes, where the Cabiria were celebrated in honour of them. These gods are said to have been in number four, nam... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076511-3009 | CABIRIA, festivals in honour of the Cabiri, celebrated in Thebes and Lemnos, but especially in Samothracia, an island consecrated to the Cabiri. All persons initiated in the mysteries of these gods were thought to be thereby secure against storms at sea, and all other dangers. The ceremony of initiation was performed b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076512-3009 | CABLE, a thick, large, strong rope, commonly of hemp, which serves to keep a ship at anchor.
Cable is also applied to ropes which are used to raise heavy loads by the help of cranes, pulleys, and other engines. The name cable is usually given to such as are at least three inches in circumference; those which are less ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076701-3035 | CABRA, a town of Central Africa, situated on the Niger, and serving as a port to Timbuctoo, from which it is about twelve miles distant. It is represented as consisting of one long row of about 1200 houses along the river; the ground is wet and marshy. The people are entirely employed in trade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076702-3035 | CABRERA, an island belonging to Spain, in the Mediterranean Sea, to the south of Majorca. There is a castle, and a presidio to which delinquents are transported, and kept to hard labour, from the neighbouring ports of the peninsula. It is provided with excellent springs of water, and the harbour is of great capacity, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 7' 30" N 3 31' 26" E | CABRERA |
kp-eb0705-076703-3035 | CABUL, or Caubul, a province of Afghanistan, which sometimes gives its name to the whole kingdom, with which its limits are frequently confounded. It is estimated to extend 250 miles in length by 150 in average breadth. It is situated between the 33d and 35th degrees of north lat. and is bounded on the north by Kuttore... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076704-3035 | CABYNA, a small island in the Eastern Seas, about twenty-one miles in length by fiffeen in breadth, lying due south of the eastern extremity of Celebes. Long. 121. 53. E. Lat. 5. 18. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 5 18' S 121 53' E | CABYNA |
kp-eb0705-076705-3035 | CACAVONE, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Molese, with 2247 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076706-3035 | CACCAMO, a city in the intendancy of Palermo, in the island of Sicily. It is situated on the shore, and contains 6420 inhabitants.
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kp-eb0705-076801-3048 | CACERES, a town of Spain, in the province of Estremadura. It is situated on the left bank of the Tagus, between Alcantara and Truxillo, and principally known from giving its name to a particular kind of Merino wool, or a second or third rate fineness. It contains 8000 inhabitants, and has twenty-six tanneries, which em... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076802-3048 | CACHALONG, a name given by mineralogists to a peculiar variety of calcedony. It is commonly of a milk-white colour, and translucent, occurring imbedded in the trap rocks of Iceland and Faro, along with calcedony. It is met with also on the borders of the river Cach in Bukharia; whence its designation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076803-3048 | CACHAO, Kacho, Kecho, or Backhinc, the capital of the kingdom of Tonquin, in Asia, situated on the west side of the river Songkoi, about eighty miles from the sea. It is of great extent, and has neither walls nor fortifications, being merely surrounded by a bamboo hedge. The principal streets are wide and airy, and for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076804-3048 | CACHAR, a district in Asia, tributary to the Burman empire, and lying about the twenty-fifth degree of north latitude, between that country and Bengal. It is a mountainous and sterile country, bounded on the north by Assam, on the south by the Cassay country, on the east by Cassay, and on the west by the districts of T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076805-3048 | CACHUNDE, the name of a medicine, highly celebrated among the Chinese and Indians, and composed of several aromatic ingredients, perfumes, medicinal earth, and precious stones. They make the whole into a stiff paste, and, according to their fancy, form out of it several figures, which are dried for use; these are princ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076806-3048 | CACOPHONIA, in Grammar and Rhetoric, the meeting of two letters or syllables which yield an uncouth and disagreeable sound. The word is compounded of %α%of, bad, and voice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076807-3048 | CACUS, in fabulous history, an Italian shepherd upon Mount Aventine. As Hercules was driving home the herd of King Geryon, whom he had slain, Cacus robbed him of some of his oxen, which he drew backward into his den lest they should be discovered. Hercules at last finding them out by their lowing, or the robbery being ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076808-3048 | CADALEN, a market-town of the department of the Tarn, in France, on the river Candou, with 1404 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076809-3048 | CADARI, or Kadari, a sect of Mahommedans, who assert free will, attribute the actions of men to men alone, not to any secret power determining the will, and deny all absolute decrees, and predestination. The author of this sect was Mabeb ben Kaled al Gihoni, who suffered martyrdom for his doctrine. The word comes from ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076810-3048 | CADENCE, or Repose, in Music (from the Latin cadere, to fall or descend), the termination of an harmonical phrase on a repose, or on a perfect chord.
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kp-eb0705-076811-3048 | CADENET, a city of the department of the Vaucluse, in France, on the right bank of the Durance, with distilleries for brandy, and 2447 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076812-3048 | CADEROUSE, a city of the department of Vaucluse, in France, where are several silk mills. It contains 800 houses and 3876 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076813-3048 | CADET, the younger son of ä family, is a term naturalized in our language from the French. In Spain it ιs usual for one of the cadets in great families to take the mother’s name.
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kp-eb0705-076901-3061 | CADI, or Cadhi, a judge of civil affairs in the Turkish empire. It is generally taken for the judge of a town, judges of provinces being distinguished by the appellation of mollahs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076902-3061 | CADILESCHER, a capital officer of justice among the Turks, answering to a chief justice among us. There arc but three cadileschers in all the grand seignior’s territories; the first is that of Europe, the second that of Natolia, and the third resides at Grand Cairo. This last used to be the most considerable. The cadil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076903-3061 | CADILAC, a city of the department of the Gironde, in France, where there are some considerable iron-works, and cutlery and other goods made. The inhabitants are 1326. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076904-3061 | CADIZ, the most important maritime city of Spain. It is situated in the province of Seville, one of the four divisions of Andalusia. Its situation is peculiarly favourable for foreign commerce, especially with the western world, as being more southerly and westerly than any other considerable port. Its harbour, or rath... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-076905-3061 | CADIZADELITES, a sect of Mahommedans very like the ancient Stoics. They shun feasts and diversions, and affect an extraordinary gravity in all their actions; they [7:5:770]are continually talking of God, and some of them make a jumble of Christianity and Mahommedanism. They drink wine, even in the fast of the Ramazan; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077001-3074 | CADMEAN Letters, the sixteen ancient Greek or Ionic characters, such as they were first brought by Cadmus from Phoenicia, whence Herodotus calls them also Phoenician Letters. According to some writers, Cadmus was not the inventor, nor even the importer, but only the modeller and reformer, of the Greek letters; and it w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077002-3074 | CADMIUM. This metal has not yet been met with in its native state, but is contained in certain ores of zinc, and especially in the black fibrous blende of Bohemia, which contains about five per cent, of it. It was discovered by Μ. Stromeyer in 1817, who used the following process for separating it from its ore. He diss... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077003-3074 | CADMUS, in fabulous history, king of Thebes, the son of Agenor, king of Phoenicia, and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix, and Europa. According to tradition, he carried into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the Greek alphabet; and there built Thebes, in Boeotia. The poets say that he left his native country in search o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077004-3074 | CADRITES, a sort of Mahommedan friars, who once a week spend a great part of the night in turning round, holding each other’s hands, and repeating incessantly the word liai, which signifies living, and is one of the attributes of God; during which one of them plays on a flute. They never cut their hair, nor cover their... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0705-077005-3074 | CADSAND, an island on the coast of Dutch Flanders, situated at the mouth of the Scheldt, whereby the Dutch command the navigation of that river. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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