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kp-eb0706-003106-7406 | CAMBIO, an Italian word which signifies exchange, commonly used in Provence, and in some other countries, particularly Holland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003107-7406 | CAMBIST, a name given in France to those who trade in notes and bills of exchange. The word cambist, though a term of antiquity, is even now a technical word of some use among merchants, traders, and bankers. Some derive it from the Latin cambium, or rather cambio. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003108-7406 | CAMBLET, or Chamblet, a stuff composed sometimes of wool, sometimes of silk, and sometimes of hair, especially that of goats, with wool or silk: in some, the warp is silk and wool twisted together, and the woof hair.
The true or oriental camblet is made of the pure hair of a sort of goat, frequent about Angora, and wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003109-7406 | CAMBO, a town of the department of the Lower Pyrenees, in France, on the river Nive, which is thus far navigable. It is celebrated for its mineral springs, one cold, containing iron, and two warm and sulphureous, which are much frequented. The stationary inhabitants amount to 1150. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003110-7406 | CAMBODIA, Camboge, Camboja, or Camboya, a country of Asia, occupying the eastern shore of the Gulf of Siam, bounded on the north by Loas, on the east by Cochin-China and Tsiampa, on the west by Siam and the Burman empire, and on the south by the sea. In length it maybe estimated at 350 miles, by 150 in average breadth.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 N 104 35' E | CAMBODIA |
kp-eb0706-003201-7419 | CAMBONG, or Cambing, an island in the Eastern Seas, about thirty miles in circumference. It lies off the north coast of Trinon. Lat. 8. to 9. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003202-7419 | CAMBRAY, an arrondissement of the department of the North, in France, extending over 355 square miles, divided into seven cantons, and containing 117 communes, with 112,994 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is a fortified city on the river Scheldt, which divides it into two parts. It is well but irregular... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003203-7419 | CAMBREMER, a town in the department of Calvados, in France, with 165 houses and 1056 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003204-7419 | CAMBRIA, a name for the principality of Wales. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003205-7419 | CAMBRIC, in commerce, a species of linen made of flax, very fine and white; the name of which was originally derived from the city of Cambray, where they were first manufactured. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003206-7419 | CAMBRIDGE, the capital of the English county of the same name, stands on the river Cam, which is navigable to the Ouse, and communicates with the sea through the port of Lynn. It is situated on an extensive and not very fertile plain, and is considered a very salubrious situation. Neither the streets nor private buildi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003301-7432 | CAMBRIDGESHIRE is divided into two parts by the river Ouse. Its most northerly division, which is principally composed of the Isle of Ely, is bounded by rivers and their communicating branches. The limits thus formed are so intermixed as with difficulty to be traced. The southern half has an indented and undistinguishe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003501-7458 | CAMBYSES. See Persia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003502-7458 | CAMDEN, William, the great antiquary, was born in London in the year 1551. His father was a native of Lichfield, in Staffordshire, who, settling in London, became a member of the company of paper-stainers, and lived in the Old Bailey. His mother was of the ancient family of Curwen of Workington, in Cumberland. He was e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 17' N 80 33' W | CAMDEN |
kp-eb0706-003601-7471 | CAMEL, in Zoology. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003602-7471 | CAMELODUNUM. See Camalodunum. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003603-7471 | CAMELOPARDALIS, in Zoology. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003604-7471 | CAMEO. See Camaieu. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003605-7471 | CAMERA Aeolia, a contrivance for blowing the fire, ι for the fusion of ores, without bellows, by means of water falling through a funnel into a close vessel, which sends from it so much air or vapour as continually blows the fire. If there be the space of another vessel for it to expatiate in by the way, it there depos... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003801-7497 | CAMERARIUS, Joachim, one of the most learned writers of his time, was born in 1500, at Bamberg, a city of Franconia, and obtained great reputation by his writings. He translated into Latin Herodotus, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Euclid, Homer, Theocritus, Sophocles, Lucian, Theodoret, Nicephorus, and other Greek writers. He ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003802-7497 | CAMERI, a town of Italy, in the province of Novara, in the kingdom of Sardinia. It is situated between the Ticiuio and Terdoppio, and grows much flax, which affords employment to a population of 4500 persons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003803-7497 | CAMERINO, one of the delegations into which the papal dominions in Italy are divided. It is situated between the delegations of Macerata, Fermo, Perugia, and Spoletto, and includes part of the Apennines. It extends over 407 square miles, or 260,400 English acres, and comprehends one city, one market-town, and twenty-fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 6' N 13 19' E | CAMERINO |
kp-eb0706-003804-7497 | CAMERLINGO, according to Du Cange, signified formerly the pope’s or emperor’s treasurer. At present camerlingo is nowhere used but at Rome, where it denotes the cardinal who governs the ecclesiastical state, and administers justice. It is the most eminent office at the court of Rome, because he who holds it is at the h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-003805-7497 | CAMERON, John, a theologian of great erudition, was born at Glasgow about the year 1579. His parents are described as respectable, but their situation in life has not been specified. He received his early education in his native city, and after completing the ordinary course of study, he was employed in teaching the Gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004101-7536 | CAMERONIANS, a sect or party in Scotland, who separated from the Presbyterians in 1666, and continued to hold their religious assemblies in the fields. The Ca-meronians took their denomination from Richard Cameron, a famous field preacher, who refusing to accept the indulgences granted by King Charles II. deeming such ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004102-7536 | CAMIGTEN, one of the Philippines, in the Eastern Seas, about ten miles in length, situated due north of the island of Luzon. Gold, wax, cassia, and cocoa-nuts, are the chief articles of trade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004103-7536 | CAMILLUS, Marcus Furius, was the first who rendered the family of Furius illustrious. He triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of the second founder of Rome. In a word, he acquired all the glory which a man can gain in his own country. Lucius Apuleius, one of the tribunes, prose... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004104-7536 | CAMILLI and Camillae, in Antiquity, boys and girls of ingenuous birth, who ministered in the sacrifices of the gods; and especially those who attended the Flamen Dialis, or priest of Jupiter. The word seems borrowed from the language of the ancient Etrurians, in which it was written casmillus, and signified minister. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004105-7536 | CAMINHA, a sea-port town in the province of Entre-Duero-e-Minho, in the kingdom of Portugal. It is on the river Minho, about two miles above the bar which runs across the mouth of the river. The defects of the port are hindrances to commerce, and the principal dependence[7:6:42] of the inhabitants is on the fisheries. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004201-7549 | CAMIS, or Kamis, in the Japanese mythology, denote deified souls of ancient heroes, who are supposed still to interest themselves in the welfare of the people whom they anciently commanded. The camis answer to the hcrocs in the ancient Greek and Roman mythology, and are venerated like the saints in the modern Roman chu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004202-7549 | CAMISADE, in the art of war, an attack by surprise in the night, or at break of day, when the enemy is supposed to be asleep. The word is said to have taken its rise from an attack of this kind, in which, as a badge or signal to know one another by, they bore a shirt, in French called chemise, or chamise, over their ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004203-7549 | CAMISARDS, a name given by the French to the Calvinists of the Cevennes, who formed a league, and took up arms in their own defence, in 1688. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004204-7549 | CAMISO, a city of the intendancy of Seragosa, in the island of Sicily. It is situated at the foot of the mountain Modia, but healthy, and contains 10,000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004205-7549 | CAMLETINE, a slight stuff, made of hair and coarse silk, in the manner of camblet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004206-7549 | CAMOENS, Louis, the most illustrious of the Portuguese poets, was born at Lisbon in 1517. His family was of considerable note, and originally Spanish. In 1370 Vasco Perez dc Camaens, disgusted at the court of Castile, fled to that of Lisbon, where King Ferdinand immediately admitted him into his council, and gave him t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004301-7562 | CAMONICA, a market-town of Italy, in the Austrian delegation of Bergamo. It stands on the river Adda, where the canal from Milan joins that river. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004302-7562 | CAMP, the ground on which an army pitch their tents. It is marked out by the quartermaster-general, who appoints every regiment its ground. See War.
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kp-eb0706-004401-7575 | CAMPAGNA, a city of Italy, in the province Principato-Citeriore, of the kingdom of Naples, with 6744 inhabitants, who are remarkable for their industry, and carry on great trade in oil, silk, and other productions of the fertile district that surrounds them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004402-7575 | CAMPAIGN, in the art of war, denotes the space of time during which an army keeps the field. See War. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004403-7575 | CAMPANELLA, Thomas, a famous Italian philosopher, born at Stilo in Calabria in 1568. He distinguished himself by his early proficiency in learning; for at the age of thirteen he was a perfect master of the ancient orators and poets. His peculiar inclination was to philosophy, to which he at last devoted his whole time ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004404-7575 | CAMPANI, Matthew, of Spoletto, curate at Rome, wrote a curious treatise on the art of cutting glasses for spectacles, and made several improvements in optics, in which he was assisted by his brother and pupil Joseph. He died after 1678. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004405-7575 | CAMPANIFORM, or Campanulated, an appellation given to flowers resembling a bcll. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004406-7575 | CAMPANINI, a name given to an Italian marble dug out of the mountains of Carrara, because, when it is worked, it sounds like a bell. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004407-7575 | CAMPBELL, Archibald, Earl and Marquis of Argyll, was the son of Archibald Earl of Argyll, by the Lady Anne Douglas, daughter of William Earl of Morton. He was born in the year 1598, and educated in the profession of the Protestant religion, according to the strictest rules of the church of Scotland, as it was establish... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004801-7627 | CAMPBELTOWN, a royal burgh of Scotland, in the peninsula of Kintyre, Argyleshire. It is beautifully situated on the margin of a salt-water lake or inlet of the sea, lying, in a semicircular form, around the head of the bay. Campbeltown is mostly of modern erection. It consists, besides the side streets, of one main str... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004802-7627 | CAMPDEN, a market-town in the hundred of Kifts-gate, in Gloucestershire, ninety miles from London. The market is held on Wednesday. Its population amounted in 1811 to 1214, in 1821 to 1249, and in 1831 to 1503. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004803-7627 | CAMPEACHY, or Campeche, a town of Mexico in the province of Yucutan, situated on a bay to which it gives name, on the west coast of the peninsula. It is defended by a castle provided with cannon. The buildings are of stone, and when first taken by the Spaniards it contained about 3000 houses, and had considerable monum... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-004804-7627 | CAMPER, Peter, eminent for his extensive knowledge in the various branches of medicine, zoology, and comparative anatomy, and for his taste in the fine arts, was born at Leyden on the 11th May 1722. His family had long held distinguished situations in the magistracy of that city, where his grandfather had exercised the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005101-7666 | CAMPI AN, Edmund, an English Jesuit, was born at London, of indigent parents, in the year 1540, and educated at Christ’s Hospital, where he had the honour to speak an oration before Queen Mary on her accession to the throne. He was admitted as a scholar of St John’s College in Oxford at its foundation, and took the deg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005102-7666 | CAMPICURSIO, in ancient military art, a march of armed men for several miles, from and back again to the camp, to instruct them in the military pace. This exercise was nearly akin to the decursio, from which it only differed in this, that the latter was performed by horsemen, and the former by foot soldiers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005103-7666 | CAMPIDOCTORES, or Campiductores, in the Roman army, were officers who instructed the soldiery in the discipline and exercise of war, and the art of handling their weapons to advantage. They are also sometimes called campigeni and armidoctores. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005104-7666 | CAMPIDUCTOR, in the writers of the middle ages, signifies the leader or commander of an army or party. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005105-7666 | CAMPION, a town of the kingdom of Tangut, in Tartary. It was formerly remarkable for being a place through which the caravans passed in the road from Bukharia to China. Long. 104. 44. E. Lat. 40. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005106-7666 | CAMPITAE, in Ecclesiastical History, an appellation [7:6:52]given to the Donatists, on account of their assembling in the fields for want of churches. For a similar reason they were also denominated Montenses and Rupitani. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005201-7679 | CAMPLI, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Abruzzo-Ulteriore, containing 6200 inhabitants, with a bishop, whose diocese is united to that of Ortona. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005202-7679 | CAMPOMANES, D. Pedro Rodrigues, Conde de, a Spanish statesman, and writer of great celebrity, particularly on subjects of political philosophy, was born in the Asturias towards the year 1710. We learn from the Biographie Universelle that he was appointed by Charles III. fiscal of the royal and supreme council of Castil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005203-7679 | CAMPOBASSO, a city of Italy, the capital of the province Molise. It is situated on the ascent of a high mountain, and forms a kind of amphitheatre round it. It is fortified, and contains two churches, and 7660 inhabitants, who are employed chiefly in making cutlery ware. It is in a fertile district, which supplies much... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005204-7679 | CAMPO Formio, a town of Italy, in the delegation of Udine, in Austrian Lombardy, containing 1500 inhabitants; where, in 1797, peace was concluded between France and Austria. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005205-7679 | CAMPO Mayor, a town of Portugal, on the frontiers of Spain, in the province of Alentejo. It is about three leagues from Elvas, the fortress opposed to the Spanish frontier city of Badajos. It is on a barren soil, and produces scarcely food sufficient for the inhabitants; it possesses two forts and a castle, and contain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005206-7679 | CAMPRODON, a town of Spain, in the province of Catalonia. It is situated on the western declivity of the Pyrenees, and, being near the western entrance from France, is fortified with considerable works, and usually contains a small garrison. It contains 1500 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005207-7679 | CAMPSIE, a village and parish of Scotland, in the county of Stirling, situated on the banks of the Kelvin. Bleaching, printing, and the manufactureof cotton, in which machinery is employed on an extensive scale, are carried on here. It is distant seven miles from Dumbarton, and nine from Glasgow. The population of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005208-7679 | CAMPUS, in antiquity, a field or plain in a city, not built upon, but left vacant for shows, combats, exercises, and other uses of the citizens.
Campus Mail, in ancient customs, an anniversary assemblage of our ancestors held on May-day, when they confederated together for the defence of the kingdom against all its e'... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005209-7679 | CAMROOP. This country, which formerly constituted an independent kingdom of the Hindoos, is 300 miles in length by 100 in breadth. It lies to the north-east of Bengal, and occupies both banks of the Brahmapootra river, extending from the Candar Chokey in Ootrecole to the province of Dehrung. Its capital is Kungamutty, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005301-7692 | CAMUS, Charles Stephen Louis, a mathematician and mechanician, born at Cressy en Brie, near Meaux, the 25th August 1699, son of Stephen Camus, a surgeon of that town, and Margaret Maillard.
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kp-eb0706-005401-7705 | CANAAN, the fourth son of Ham, whose irreverence towards his father Noah is recorded in the ninth chapter of Genesis. Upon the occasion of his disrespectful conduct, the patriarch cursed him in a branch of his posterity, declaring that “a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.” This curse however being pron... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005501-7718 | CANABAC, an island which lies contiguous to Bulam, on the western coast of Africa, and is inhabited by a fierce and savage race of people. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-005502-7718 | CANADA.
This extensive tract of country is situated in North America, between the 42d and 51st degrees of north latitude, and between the 61st and 81st degrees of west longitude from London. It is computed to extend from east to west about 1400 miles, and from north to south from 200 to 400 miles. In the year 1791 it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-006901-7900 | CANAL, an artificial cut in the ground, supplied with water from rivers, springs, and the like, in order to form a navigable communication betwixt one place and another. (See Navigation, Inland.) Canal, in Anatomy, a duct or passage through which any of the juices flow.
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kp-eb0706-006902-7900 | CANALE, a town of Italy, in the province of Alba, of the kingdom of Sardinia. It is situated on the river Borbo, and contains 3200 inhabitants, who produce some good wine. There is a mine of rock salt near it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-006903-7900 | CANANORE, a town and small district of Hindustan, on the sea coast of the province of Malabar. The town is situated at the bottom of a small bay, which is one of the best on the coast; and it is defended by a fortress situated on the point that forms the bay, which, since the province has been ceded to the East India C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007001-7913 | CANARA, a province of Hindustan, extending from the twelfth to the fifteenth degree of north latitude. It is a narrow strip of territory, running along the western coast of India, 200 miles in length by thirty-five in breadth; and is hemmed in on the east by the great ridge of the Ghaut Mountains. It is bounded on the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007201-7939 | CANARIES, a group of fine islands situated at some distance from the western coast of Africa, in the Atlantic Ocean. They are thirteen in all; but only three, Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Fuerteventura, can be called large; Palma, Lancerota, Gomera, and Ferro, are comparatively small; while Graciosa, Rocca, Allegranza,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007501-7978 | CANCAR, Cancao, Ponthiames, a sea-port of Cambodia, situated on a river -which discharges itself into the sea, on the eastern coast of Siam. It was attacked by the Siamese in 1717, and since that period it has fallen into decay. There still reside here many Chinese, who export betel-nut, various valuable kinds of wood,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007502-7978 | CANCELLI, a term used to denote latticed windows, or those made of cross bars disposed latticewise. It is also used for rails or balusters inclosing the communion-table, a court of justice, or the like, and..for the net-work in the inside of hollow bones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007503-7978 | CANCER, in Astronomy, one of the twelve signs, represented on the globe in the form of a crab, and thus marked (sō) in books. The reason generally assigned for its name, as well as figure, is a supposed resemblance which the sun’s motion in this sign bears to that of the crab-fish. As the latter walks backwards, so the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007504-7978 | CANCHERIZANTE, or Cancherizato, in the Italian music, a term signifying a piece of music that begins at the end, being the retrograde motion from the end of a song, or other composition, to the beginning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007505-7978 | CANCON, a market-town of the department of the Lot and Garonne, in France, with 2212 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007506-7978 | CANDA, a town of Italy, in the delegation of Polesina, in the Austrian dominions. It is situated on the river Castagnaro, near its junction with the Tartaro, and the canal Bianco. It contains 3200 inhabitants, who carry on a great trade in flax. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007601-7991 | CANDESH. See Khandesh. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007602-7991 | CANDIA, a city, the capital of the island and province of the same name, in the Mediterranean. It is the residence of a pasha, and of the Greek archbishop, who is called Archbishop of Gortyna, and primate of Kirid or Candia. It stands on a point of land in a bay, before which the island of Sandia is a protection to the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007701-8004 | CANDIAC, John Louis, a premature genius, born at Candiac, in the diocese of Nismes in France, in 17I¾. In the cradle he distinguished the letters of the alphabet; at thirteen months old he knew them perfectly; at three years of age he read Latin, either printed or in manuscript; at four he translated from that tongue; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007702-8004 | CANDIDATE, a person who aspires to some public office. In the Roman commonwealth candidates were obliged to wear a white gown during the two years spent by them in soliciting a place. This garment, according to Plutarch, they wore without any other clothes, that the people might not suspect them of concealing money for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007703-8004 | CANDLE, a small taper of tallow, wax, or spermaceti, the wick of which is commonly of several threads of cotton, spun and twisted together.
A tallow-candle, to be good, must be half sheep’s and half bullock’s tallow; for hog’s tallow makes the candle gutter, and always gives an offensive smell, with a thick black smok... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007801-8017 | CANDLEMAS, a feast of the church held on the second day of February, in honour of the purification of the Virgin Mary. It is borrowed from the practice of the ancient Christians, who on that day used abundance of lights both in their churches and processions, in memory, as is supposed, of our Saviour’s being on that da... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007802-8017 | CANDLESTICK, an instrument to hold a candle, made in different forms and of all sorts of materials.
The golden candlestick was one of the sacred utensils which Moses caused to be placed in the Jewish tabernacle. It was made of hammered gold, a talent in weight, and consisted of seven branches, adorned at equal distanc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007803-8017 | CANDY, a kingdom of Ceylon, which occupies the central parts of the island. It is mountainous in its surface; is watered by several small lakes, some rivers of considerable size, and torrents pouring down the ravines. Owing to the damps and noxious exhalations which prevail, the air is extremely adverse to the constitu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 7 23' N 80 47' E | CANDY |
kp-eb0706-007901-8030 | CANDYING, the act of preserving simples in substance, by boiling them in sugar. The performance of this originally belonged to the apothecaries, but it has now become a part of the business of the confectioner. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007902-8030 | CANE denotes a walking stick. It is, or rather was, customary to adorn it with a head of gold, silver, agate, or other substances. Some are without knots, and very smooth and even; others are full of knots about two inches distant from one another, and have but little elasticity.
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kp-eb0706-007903-8030 | CANEA, one of the circles into which the island of Candia is divided, comprehending the western part of the island. Though hilly, the plains yield oil, flax, honey, corn, silk, and much fruit. The chief city, of the same name, is situated on the north const of the island, is fortified with strong walls and deep ditches... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007904-8030 | CANELLI, a town of Italy, in the province of Asti, of the kingdom of Sardinia, containing 3200 inhabitants, who produce some excellent wine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007905-8030 | CANEPHORAE, in Grecian Antiquity, virgins who, when they became marriageable, presented certain baskets full of little curiosities to Diana, in order to procure leave to quit her train, and change their state of life. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007906-8030 | CANEPHORIA, in Grecian Antiquity, a ceremony which formed part of a feast celebrated by the Athenian virgins on the eve of their marriage-day. At Athens the canephoria consisted in this, that the maid, conducted by her father and mother, went to the temple of Minerva, carrying with her a basket full of presents, to eng... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007907-8030 | CANES, otherwise called Khans, in Egypt and other eastern countries, a poor sort of buildings for the reception of strangers and travellers. People are accommodated in these with a room at a small price, but with no other necessaries; so that, excepting the room, there are no greater accommodations in these houses than... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007908-8030 | CANET de Mar, a Spanish sea-port town, in the province of Catalonia, with 2800 inhabitants, many of whom are employed in the fisheries. Long. 2.30. E. Lat. 41.36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 41 36' N 2 30' E | CANET |
kp-eb0706-007909-8030 | CANETO, a market-town of Italy, in the Austrian delegation of Mantua. It is built on the river Oglio, and contains 3160 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007910-8030 | CANEVA, a town of Italy, in the delegation Udine of Austrian Lombardy, with 2590 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-007911-8030 | CANGE, Charles du Fresne, Sieur du, one of the most learned writers of his time, was born at Amiens on the 18th December 1610. His father, who was royal provost of Beauquesne, sent him at an early age to the Jesuits’ College in Amiens, where he soon distinguished himself by his application and quickness of apprehension... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-008001-8043 | CANGI, Ceangi, or Cangani, anciently a people of Britain, concerning whose situations antiquaries have been much perplexed. These various names indicate the same people. Camden discovered some traces of them in many different and distant places, as in Somersetshire, Wales, Derbyshire, and Cheshire; and he might have fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-008002-8043 | CANGIAGIO, or Cambiasi, Ludovico, one of the most eminent of the Genoese painters, was born in 1527. His works at Genoa are very numerous; and he was employed by the king of Spain to adorn part of the Escurial. He died in 1585. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-008003-8043 | CANGOZIMA, or Cangoxuma, a town of Japan, in the southern extremity of the island of Ximio. It is watered by a river which descends into an artificial canal, and is afterwards discharged with great rapidity into the sea. On the side of the river stands a custom-house, a fine edifice, at which passengers paya second dut... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 10' N 132 15' E | CANGOZIMA |
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