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kp-eb0706-014401-8875 | CARLOWITZ, or Karlovacze, a city of Hungary, in the province denominated the Sclavonian Frontier. It is situated on the south bank of the Danube, about ten miles from Peterwardein. It is the seat of the Greek archbishop, and, besides the cathedral, has two Greek churches and one Catholic, with 930 houses, and 5600 inha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 12' N 19 45' 5" E | CARLOWITZ |
kp-eb0706-014402-8875 | CARLSBAD, a town in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, the capital of the circle of Caslau. It is celebrated throughout the Continent for its mineral springs, which are frequented in the summer season by numerous visitors of the highest rank. It is situated between two lofty mountains, through which the river Tepl runs; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014403-8875 | CARLSBURG, a city, the capital of the same name, in the Austrian province Siebenbergen, in Hungary. It [7:6:145]is situated on the banks of the Maros, and contains, besides the cathedral, a Catholic, a Lutheran, a Reformed, and a Unitarian church, and two synagogues. There is an ecclesiastical seminary, and a Catholic ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 3' N 23 30' E | CARLSBURG |
kp-eb0706-014501-8888 | CARLSHAM, a sea-port of the province of Carlskrona, in Sweden. It is situated at the mouth of the river An, and has a small though very secure harbour. It contains 500 houses, and 3387 inhabitants, who carry on a considerable foreign trade, in corn, iron, wood, pitch, tar, and potashes. Many ships belong to the port, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 56 13' N 14 42' E | CARLSHAM |
kp-eb0706-014502-8888 | CARLSKRONA, a province of Sweden. It is bounded on the north by Cronoberg, on the north-east by Kalmar, on the east and south by the Baltic Sea, and on the west by Christianstadt. Its extent is 1122 square miles, and it contains a population of 67,200 persons, inhabiting three cities, three market-towns, and 1091 hamle... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014503-8888 | CARLSRUHE, a city of Germany, the capital of the dominions of the Grand Duke of Baden. It is situated in the valley of the Rhine, about three miles from that stream, and 376 feet above the level of the sea. The city is built in a peculiar form, eight principal streets proceeding from a circular centre, and not unlike t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 59' 55" N 8 15' 25" E | CARLSRUHE |
kp-eb0706-014504-8888 | CARLSTADT, a province or laen of the kingdom of Sweden. It is bounded on the north by Norway, on the north-east by Storra-Kopperburg, on the east by Oerebro, on the south-east by Skaraborg, on the south by Wenern, and on the south-west by Elfsborg. Its extent is 6754 square miles, and the inhabitants are 140,100, who o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 59 21' 45" N 13 24' 55" E | CARLSTADT |
kp-eb0706-014601-8901 | CARMAGNOLA, a city of Italy, in the province of Turin, in the kingdom of Sardinia, on a small stream that runs into the Po. It contains an elegant church, and five others, four monasteries, and 1200 inhabitants, who carry on great commerce in silk and linen goods. The silk market in June is the most frequented of any i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014602-8901 | CARMEL, a high mountain of Palestine, standing on the skirts of the sea, and forming the most remarkable headland on all that coast. It extends eastward from the sea as far as the plain of Jezreel, and from the city of that name it stretches to Caesarea on the south. It seems to have had the name of Carmel from its gre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014603-8901 | CARMELITES, an order of religious persons, making one of the four tribes of mendicants or begging friars, and taking its name from Mount Carmel, formerly inhabited by Elias, Elisha, and the children of the prophets, from whom this order pretends to be derived in an uninterrupted succession. The manner in which they mak... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014701-8914 | CARMEN, an ancient term among the Latins, used in a general sense to signify a verse, but more particularly to signify a spell, charm, form of expiation or execration, couched in a few words placed in a mystic order, on which its efficacy depended. Pezron derives the word carmen from the Celtic carm, the shout of joy, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014702-8914 | CARMENTALIA, a feast among the ancient Romans, celebrated annually upon the 11 th of January, in honour of Carmenta or Carmentis, a prophetess of Arcadia, mother of Evander, with whom she came into Italy sixty years before the Trojan war. The solemnity was also repeated on the 15th of January, which is marked in the ol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014703-8914 | CARMONA, a city of Spain, in Andalusia, in what is called the kingdom of Seville. It is situated on a gentle elevation, and towards the south overlooks a plain, one of the richest in Spain, being almost wholly covered, for more than twenty miles, with woods of olive trees. A castle, now in ruins, was formerly the princ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014704-8914 | CARMULLA, a considerable town of Hindustan, with a stone fort, in the territories of the Poonah Mahrattas, and province of Aurungabad, 100 miles east from Poonah. Long. 75. 32. E. Lat. Ì8. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014705-8914 | CARNAC, a town in the department of Morbihan, in France, containing 2614 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014706-8914 | CARNAPRA ÝCEGA, one of the holy places of the Hindus, in Northern Hindustan, province of Serinagur, situated at the confluence of the Alcananda with the Pindar river. Long. 79. 15. E. Lat. 30. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 17' N 79 15' E | CARNAPRA ÝCEGA |
kp-eb0706-014707-8914 | CARNATIC, a large province of Hindustan, so denominated by the Europeans. It extends along the eastern coast of Hindustan about 500 miles in length, and is from 50 to 100 miles in breadth. It is bounded on the north by the Guntoor circar, the limit being the small river Gundezama, which falls into the sea at Montapilly... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014801-8927 | CARNATION, among painters, is understood of all the parts of a picture in general which represent flesh, or which are naked and without drapery. Titian and Correggio in Italy, and Rubens and Vandyke in Flanders, excelled in carnations. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014802-8927 | CARNAUL, a town of Hindustan, and the chief town of a district in the Balaghaut ceded districts, situated in the middle of a very extensive plain. This district extends along the south side of the Toombuddra river, and is situated between the 15th and 16th degrees of north latitude. It was ceded to the British in 1800,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 50' N 77 58' E | CARNAUL |
kp-eb0706-014803-8927 | CARNEADES, a celebrated Greek philosopher, was a native of Cyrene in Africa, and founder of the third academy. He was so fond of study that he not only avoided all entertainments, but forgot even to eat at his own table; his maid servant Mclissa was obliged to put the victuals into his hand. He was an antagonist of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014901-8940 | CARNEDDE, in British antiquity, denotes heaps of stones, supposed to be druidical remains, and thrown together on occasion of confirming and commemorating a covenant, Gen. xxxi. 46. They are very common in the Isle of Anglesey, and were also used as sepulchral monuments, in the manner of tumuli; for Mr Rowland found a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014902-8940 | CARNEIA, in Antiquity, a festival in honour of Apollo, surnamed Carneus, and held in most cities of Greece, but especially at Sparta, where it was instituted. The reason of the name, as well as the occasion of the institution, is controverted. It lasted nine days, beginning on the 13th of the month Carneus. The ceremon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014903-8940 | CARNELIAN, a well-known variety of caleedony, the produce of India. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014904-8940 | CARNERO, a name given to that part of the Gulf of Venice which extends from the western coast of Istria to the islands of Grossa and the coast of Morlachia.
Carnero is likewise the name of the cape to the west of the mouth of the Bay of Gibraltar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014905-8940 | CARNIFEX, among the Romans, the common executioner. By reason of the odiousness of his office, the carnifex was expressly prohibited by the laws from having his dwelling-house within the city. In the writers of the middle ages carnifex also denotes a butcher.
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kp-eb0706-014906-8940 | CARNIOLA, a province of the Austrian empire, with the title of duehy. It is bounded on the north by Carinthia, on the north-east by Styria, on the east and southeast by Croatia, on the south by Dalmatia and the Adriatic, and on the west by Istria, Friuli, and the county of Grotz. Carniola is about 120 miles in length b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014907-8940 | CARNIVAL, or Carnaval, a time of rejoicing and season of mirth, observed with great solemnity by the Italians, particularly at Venice, and held from the twelfth day till Lent.
The word is formed from the Italian Cαrnavalle, which M. Du Cange derives from Carn-a-val, by reason of the flesh being then put in the pot, to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-014908-8940 | CARNIVOROUS, an epithet applied to those animals which naturally seek and feed on flesh.
It has been a dispute among naturalists whether man is naturally carnivorous. Those who take the negative side of the question insist chiefly on the structure of our teeth, which are mostly incisores or molares; not such as carniv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015001-8953 | CARO, Annibal, a celebrated Italian poet, was born at Civita Nuovo in 1507. He became secretary to the Duke of Parma, and afterwards to Cardinal Farnese. He was also made a knight of Malta. He translated Virgil’s Aeneid into his own language, and with such propriety and elegance of expression, that he was allowed by th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015002-8953 | CAROLINA, North, one of the United States of America, is bounded on the north by Virginia, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by South Carolina, and on the west by Tenessee. It lies between long. 75.45. and 84. W. and lat. 33. 50. and 36. 30. N., being four hundred and thirty miles in length by a hundred a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015101-8966 | CAROLINE Islands, or New Philippines, a chain of islands, amounting to thirty, in the Pacific Ocean, which are but little known to Europeans.
Caroline Boohs, the name of four books composed by order of Charlemagne, to refute the second council of Nice. These books are couched in very harsh and severe terms, containing... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015102-8966 | CAROLOSTADIANS, or Carlostadians, an ancient sect or branch of Lutherans, who denied the real presence of Christ in the eucharist.
They were thus denominated from their leader Andrew Carolostadius, who having originally been archdeacon of Wittemberg, was converted by Luther, and was the first of all the reformed clerg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015103-8966 | CAROLUS, an ancient English broad piece of gold struck under Charles I. Its value at the time it was coined is said to have been twenty shillings.
Carolus, a small copper coin, with a little silver mixed in it, struck under Charles VIII. of France. The Carolus was worth twelve deniers when it ceased to be current. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015104-8966 | CAROOR, a town of Hindustan, in the district of South Coimbetoor. It is situated on the north bank of the Amarawati, or Caroor river, and contains above 1000 houses. The Caroor was the ancient boundary between the dominions of Mysore and Trichinopoly; and owing to this favourable situation, and being also guarded by a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 55' N 78 12' E | CAROOR |
kp-eb0706-015105-8966 | CARORA, a city of South America, in the province of Venezuela. It is situated on the river Morera, is well built, and possesses some large and handsome streets. The inhabitants, who amount to about 700, are chiefly engaged in the rearing of productive animals, such as oxen, mules, horses, sheep, and the like. Lat. 9. 5... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015106-8966 | CAROTIDS, in anatomy, two arteries of the neck, which convey the blood from the aorta to the brain; one called the right, and the other the left carotid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015107-8966 | CAROUGE, a city in the canton of Geneva, in Switzerland. It stands on the Arve, and is connected with the city of Geneva by a bridge over that river. It contains about 3500 inhabitants, employed in various manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015108-8966 | CARP, the English name of a species of cyprinus. See Ichthyology.
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kp-eb0706-015109-8966 | CARPATES, or Alpes Bastarnicae, in Ancient Geography, a range of mountains running out between Poland, Hungary, and Transylvania; now called the Carpathian Mountains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015110-8966 | CARPATHIUM Mare, the sea that washes the island of Carpathus. (See Horace and Ovid.) | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015111-8966 | CARPAEA, a kind of dance anciently in use among the [7:6:152] Athenians and Magnesians, performed by two persons, the one acting a labourer, the other a robber. The labourer, laying by his arms, goes to ploughing and sowing, still looking warily about him, as if afraid of being surprised. The robber at length appears, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015201-8979 | CARPENEDOLO, a market-town of Italy, in the Austrian delegation of Brescia. It is situated on the river Seriola, and contains two churches, an orphan-house and hospital, and 4370 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015202-8979 | CARPENTARIA, Gulf of, a vast bay on the northern coast of New Holland, containing many islands. This gulf, which was accurately surveyed by Captain Flinders, has a shore of about 1200 miles in length. It stretches in breadth to 5.30. of east longitude from Endeavour Strait to Cape Wilberforce, and it runs into the land... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015203-8979 | CARPENTER, a person who practises carpentry. The word is formed from the French charpentiers formed from charpentes which denotes timber; or rather from the Latin carpentarius, a maker of carpenta, or carriages. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015204-8979 | CARPENTRAS, an arrondissement in the department of Vaucluse, in France, 356 square miles in extent. It is divided into five cantons and twenty-nine communes, containing 43,282 inhabitants. The city which gives name to the arrondissement is situated on a fruitful plain on the banks of the Auzon. It contains 2500 houses ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-015205-8979 | CARPENTRY.
We must begin by informing our readers, that the bulk of the present article was written by the late Professor Robison, in order to form, with those on Roof, and Strength of Materials, also written by him for this Encyclopaedia, a uniform system of the most useful departments of practical mechanics, deduced... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017201-9239 | CARPENTUM, in Antiquity, a name common to different sorts of vehicles, answering to coaches as well as waggons, or even carts, among us. The carpentum was originally a kind of car or vehicle in which the Roman ladies were carried, though in after-times it was also used in war. Some derive the word from carro ; others f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017202-9239 | CARPET, a well-known species of covering, chiefly employed for the floors of rooms, but also used for a variety of other purposes. Carpets are of oriental origin, and are made of different sorts of stuffs; some of them of silk ornamented with gold, dthers of cotton, but by far the greater part of wool. They are woven i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017401-9265 | CARPI, a principality of Modena, in Italy, situated about four leagues from that city.
Carpi, Ugo da, an Italian painter, of no very considerable talents in the art, but remarkable for being the inventor of that species of engraving on wood, distinguished by the name of chiaro-scuro, in imitation of drawing. This is p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017402-9265 | CARPINO, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Capitanata. It is situated on the river Gargano, and contains 4860 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017403-9265 | CARPOCRATIANS, a branch of the ancient Gnostics, so called from Carpocrates, who in the second century revived and improved upon the errors of Simon Magus, Menander, Saturinus, and other Gnostics. He owned with them one sole principle and author of all things, whose name as well as nature was unknown. The word, he taug... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017404-9265 | CARR, a kind of rolling throne, used in triumphs, and at the splendid entries of princes. The word is derived from the ancient Gaulish or Celtic carr, mentioned by Caesar in his Commentaries under the name of cams. Plutarch relates that Camillus having entered Rome in triumph, mounted on a carr drawn by four white hors... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017405-9265 | CARRAC, or Carraca, a name given by the Portuguese to the vessels which they formerly sent to Brazil and the East Indies, these being very large, round built, and fitted for war as well as burden. Their capacity lay in their depth, which was very extraordinary. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017406-9265 | CARRARA, a city of Italy, in the province Massa Carrara, under the Duke of Modena. It is situated high up on a mountain, contains a cathedral and several other churches, a ducal palace, and 6550 inhabitants, who find employment chiefly in the celebrated marble quarries, and in some measure in spinning silk.
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kp-eb0706-017501-9278 | CARRIAGE, a vehicle serving to convey persons, goods, merchandise, and other things, from one place to another. For the construction and mechanical principles of wheel-carriages, see Mechanics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017502-9278 | CARRICK, the southern district of Ayrshire, having the central district of Kyle on the north, Kirkcudbright on the east, Wigton on the south, and the Irish Sea on the west. It is thirty-two miles in length and twenty in breadth. It is a wild and mountainous tract of country. The Doon, the Girvan, and the Stinchar are i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017503-9278 | CARRICKFERGUS, a town in the province of Ulster, in Ireland, which, with a small surrounding district, forms one of the eight counties of towns which enjoy an exclusive jurisdiction, separate from that of the county within which they are situated. It lies on the northern side of Carrickfergus Bay, called also the Lough... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017601-9291 | CARRIER, a person who carries goods for others for hire. By the law of Scotland, carriers fall within the intendment of the edict of the Roman praetor, entitled Nau-tae, Caupones, Stabularii, which has, with some variations, been adopted into the municipal system of that country, and according to which an obligation ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017701-9304 | CARRION de los Condes, a town of Spain, in the province of Leon. It is situated near the confluence of the rivers Carrion and Ciesa. The country around it is fruitful in wine and in corn; but being wholly destitute of trees, it has a very barren appearance. This town contains 2800 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017702-9304 | CARRON, a small but remarkable river in Scotland, rising about the middle of the isthmus between the Friths of Forth and Clyde. Both its source, and the place where it empties itself into the sea, are within the shire of Stirling, which it divides into two nearly equal parts. The whole length of its course, which is fr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017801-9317 | CARRONADE, a short kind of ordnance, capable of discharging a large ball as well as throwing a shell, and useful in close engagements at sea. It takes its name from Carron, the place where this sort of ordnance was first made, or the principle applied to an improved construction. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017802-9317 | CARROUSAL, a course of horses and chariots, or a magnificent entertainment exhibited by princes on some public rejoicing. It consists in a cavalcade of several gentlemen, richly dressed and equipped after the manner of ancient cavaliers, divided into squadrons, meeting in some public place, and practising jousts, tourn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017803-9317 | CARRUCA, in Antiquity, a splendid kind of carr, or chariot, mounted on four wheels, and richly decorated with gold, silver, ivory, &c. in which the emperors, senators, and people of condition, were carried. The word comes from the Latin cαrrus, or British carr, which is still the Irish name for any wheel-carriage.
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kp-eb0706-017804-9317 | CARRUCAGE (parucagium'), a kind of tax anciently imposed on every plough, for the public service. See Carrucate. Carruca ge, Carucage, or Carnage, in husbandry, denotes the ploughing of ground, either ordinary, as for grain, hemp, and flax; or extraordinary, as for woad, dyers’ weed, rape, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017805-9317 | CARRUCATE (carrucata), in our ancient laws and history, denotes a plough-land, or as much arable ground as can be tilled in a year with one plough.
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kp-eb0706-017806-9317 | CARRYING, in falconry, signifies a hawk’s flying away with the quarry. Carrying is one of the ill qualities of a hawk, which she acquires either by dislike of the falconer, or from not being sufficiently broken to the lure.
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kp-eb0706-017807-9317 | CARSE, a word signifying a flat piece of ground, has been applied to three several tracts of country in Scotland, namely, the Carse of Falkirk, the Carse of Gowrie, and the Carse of Stirling. It was long matter of plausible conjecture that these flat tracts of land on the borders of large rivers had been formed by the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017901-9330 | CARSTAIRS, William, an eminent Scottish divine, whose merit and good fortune called him to act in great scenes, and to associate with men to whose society and intercourse his birth gave him few pretensions to aspire. A small village in the neighbourhood of Glasgow was the place of his nativity. His father, of whom litt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017902-9330 | CARSUCAL, Rainier, a Jesuit, born at Citerna, in Tuscany, in 1647, was the author of a Latin poem entitled Ars bene Scribendi, which is esteemed both for the elegance of the style and for the excellent precepts it contains. He also wrote some good epigrams, and died in 1709. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-017903-9330 | CART, a land carriage with two wheels, drawn commonly by horses, to carry heavy goods, &c. from one place to another. The word seems formed' from the French charrette, which signifies the same, or rather the Latin carreta, a diminutive of carrus. See Mechanics, and Wheel-Carriages.
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kp-eb0706-017904-9330 | CARTE, Thomas, the historian, was the son of Mr Samuel Carte, prebendary of Lichfield, and born in 1686. When he was reader in the abbey-church at Bath, he took occasion, in a sermon delivered on the 30th of January 1714, to vindicate Charles I. with respect to the Irish massacre, which drew him into a controversy with... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-018001-9343 | CARTEL, an agreement between two states for the exchange of prisoners of war.
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kp-eb0706-018002-9343 | CARTES, Rene Des, or Descartes, Rene, was born at La Haye, in Touraine, on the 31 st of March 1596, and descended of a noble family, who came originally from Bretagne. In infancy his constitution was extremely delicate, or rather weak, a peculiarity which he shared in common with many other men of genius; and, in fact,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-018301-9382 | CARTESIANS, a sect of philosophers, who adhered to the system of Descartes, founded on two principles, the one metaphysical, the other physical. The metaphysical principle is, I think, therefore I am; the physical principle is, that nothing exists Lut substance. Descartes considered substances as of two kinds; the one ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-018302-9382 | CARTHAGENA, a city, sea-port, and arsenal of Spain, situated on the banks of the Mediterranean Sea. It is in the province or kingdom of Murcia. The port is very secure, both from an enemy and from tempests. Two castles of great strength defend it from the former, whilst high mountains surrounding all its sides, and an ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020701-9694 | CARTHUSIANS, a religious order, founded by one Brudo in the year 1080. The Carthusians, so called from the desert of Chartreux, the place of their institution, are remarkable for the austerity of their rules. They are not permitted to quit their cells, except to go to church, without leave of their superior, nor speak ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020702-9694 | CARTOON, or Carton, in painting, is a design drawn on thick paper, pasteboard, or other material, which is used as a model for a large picture in fresco, oil, or tapestry; it was also formerly employed in glass and mosaic. Cartoons are particularly useful in fresco painting. They are employed in the following manner: t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020801-9707 | CARTOUCHE, in Architecture and Sculpture, an ornament representing a scroll of paper. It is usually a flat member, with wavings to represent some inscription, device, cipher, or ornament of armoury. Cartouches are, in architecture, much the same as modifiions; only the latter are set under the cornice in wainscotting, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020802-9707 | CARTRIDGE, in the military art, a case of pasteboard or parchment, holding the exact charge of a firearm. Those for muskets, carabines, and pistols, contain both the powder and ball for the charge; those of cannon and mortars are sometimes in cases of pasteboard or tin, sometimes in cases of wood, but most frequently i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020803-9707 | CARTWRIGHT, William, a divine and poet of some eminence, born at Northway, near Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, in September 1611. He finished his education at Oxford, afterwards went into holy orders, and became a most florid preacher in the university. In 1642 he obtained the place of succentor in the church of Salis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020804-9707 | CARUCATURIUS, in ancient law-books, he who held land in soccage, or by plough tenure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020805-9707 | CARVAGE (carυagium'), the same with Carrucage. Henry III. is said to have taken carvage, that is, two marks of silver for every knight’s fee, towards the marriage of his sister Isabella to the emperor. Carvage could only be imposed on tenants in capite. Carvage also denotes a privilege by which a man is exempted from t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020806-9707 | CARVER, a cutter of figures or other devices in wood. Carvers answer to what the Romans called sculptores, who were different from coelatores, or engravers, as the latter wrought in metal.
Carver is also an officer of the table, w+ose business it is to cut up the meat, and distribute it to the guests. The word is form... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020807-9707 | CARVIN, a town in the department of the Pas de Calais, in France, in the arrondissement of Bethune, with 496 houses and 4920 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020808-9707 | CARVING, in a general sense, the art or act of cutting or fashioning a hard body, by means of some sharp instrument, especially a chisel. In this sense carving includes statuary and engraving, as well as cutting in wood. Carving, in a more particular sense, is the art of engraving or cutting figures in wood. In this se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020809-9707 | CARWAR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of North Canara, situated in a bay at the mouth of a navigable river. It was formerly a noted seat of European commerce, and exported great quantities of cloth, but has lately fallen into decay. An English factory was established in the year 1640, and traded with Persia and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 49' N 74 16' E | CARWAR |
kp-eb0706-020810-9707 | CARY, Lucius, Lord Viscount Falkland, was born in Oxfordshire about the year 1610, and was a young nobleman of great abilities and accomplishments. About the time of his father’s death in 1633, he was made gentleman of the privy chamber to King Charles I. and afterwards secretary of state. Before the assembling of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020901-9720 | CARYTES, in Antiquity, a festival in honour of Diana, surnamed Caryatis, held at Caryum, a city of Laconia. The chief ceremony consisted of a dance said to have been invented by Castor and Pollux, and performed by the virgins of the place. During Xerxes’s invasion, the Laconians not daring to appear and celebrate the c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020902-9720 | CARYATIDES, or Cariates. See Architecture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020903-9720 | CARYL, Joseph, a divine of the last century, bred at Oxford, and some time preacher to the society of Lineoln’s-inn, an employment which he filled with much distinction. He became a frequent preacher before the long parliament, a licenser of their books, one of the assembly of divines, and one of the candidates for the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020904-9720 | CARYLL, John, an English poet, of the Roman Catholic persuasion, was secretary to Queen Mary, the wife of Janies II., and one who followed the fortunes of his abdicated master; who rewarded him, first with knighthood, and then with the honorary titles of Earl Caryll and Baron Dartford. How long he continued in the serv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020905-9720 | CASA, in ancient writers, and those of the middle ages, is used to denote a cottage or house.
Casa, Santa, denotes the chapel of the holy virgin at Loretto. The Santa Casa is properly the house or rather chamber in which the blessed virgin is said to have been born, where she was betrothed to her spouse Joseph, where ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 33 40' N 113 23' E | CASA |
kp-eb0706-020906-9720 | CASALE, one of the provinces into which the Italian kingdom of Sardinia is divided. It is bounded on the north by Vercelli, on the east by Moltara, on the south by Alessandria, and on the west by Asti. It extends over 375 square miles, or 239,360 English acres. Though a part is mountainous, the province yields corn and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 10' N 8 14' E | CASALE |
kp-eb0706-020907-9720 | CASALNUOVO, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Calabria Ulteriore, with 5490 inhabitants. It is situated in a rich olive district. By an earthquake in 1783, nearly one half of the then inhabitants were destroyed.
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kp-eb0706-020908-9720 | CASALVIERI, a town of Italy, in the province of Terra di Lavoro, and kingdom of Naples, with 3636 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020909-9720 | CASAI de Caceres, a Spanish town in the province of Estremadura, with 5000 inhabitants, who enjoy a partial freedom, and have among themselves rather a democratical constitution. There are sixteen tanneries here, which employ fifty-one workmen, who annually tan 10,500 pieces. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-020910-9720 | CASAS, Bartholomeo de Las, bishop of Chiapa, in Mexico was descended of a noble Spanish family, and born at Seville in 1474. At the age of nineteen he went to St Domingo with his father, Antonio de Las Casas, who had accompanied Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to the New World. On his return to Spain he became... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-021001-9733 | CASATI, Pauł, a learned Jesuit, born at Placentia in [7:6:211]1617. He entered early among the Jesuits; and after having taught mathematics and divinity at Rome, was sent into Sweden to Queen Christina, whom he prevailed on to embrace the popish religion. He wrote, 1. Vacuum proscriptum·, 2. Terra machinis mota, Rome, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-021101-9746 | CASAUBON, Isaac de, was born at Geneva, on the 18th February 1559, his family, which was originally from Dauphine, having taken refuge in that city after embracing the reformed religion. He received the rudiments of his education from his father, who was* latterly minister of Crest; and his progress was so rapid that a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-021201-9759 | CASBIN, or Casween, a city of Persia, in the province of Irak. It is situated on a great sandy plain, nine miles west of the highest ridges of Mount Taurus. Although the largest portion of it was thrown down by an earthquake, it is still regarded as one of the largest and most populous towns in the kingdom, and carries... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 12' N 49 33' E | CASBIN |
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