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ENCYCLOP/ED IA;
OR, A
DICTIONARY
OF
ARTS, SCIENCES,
AND
MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE;
Conftru6ted on a PLAN,
BY WHICH
THE DIFFERENT SCIENCES AND ARTS
Are digefted into the FORM of Diftin& -
TREATISES OR SYS TEMS,
COM P RE H EN DING
THE HISTORY, THEORY, and PRACTICE, of each,
According to the Lateft Difcoveries and Improvements;
AND FULL EXPLANATIONS GIVEN OF THE
VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE,
WHETHER RELATING TO
NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL Objeits, or to Matters ECCLESIASTICAL,
CIVIL, MILITARY, COMMERCIAL, &C.
Including ELUCIDATIONS of the moft important Topics relative to RELIGION, MORALS, MANNERS,
and the OECONOMY of LIFE
TOGETHER WITH
A DESCRIPTION of all the Countries, Cities, principal Mountains, Seas, Rivers, &c.
throughout the WORLD;
A General HISTORY, Ancient and Modern, of the different Empires, Kingdoms, and States;
AND
An Account of the LIVES of the moft Eminent Perfons in every Nation,
from the earliefL ages down to the prefent times.
Compiled from the writings of the beft Authors, in feveral languages; the moft approved Diftionaries, as well of general fcience as of its
particular branches; the Tranfa&ions, Journals, and Memoirs, of various Learned Societies, the MS. Ledtures of Eminent
Profeffors on different fciences; and a variety of Original Materials, furnifhed by an Extenfive Correfpondence.
THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN EIGHTEEN VOLU.MES, GREATLY IMfPROVED.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO COPPERPLATES.
V O L. II. ANG- BAR
INDOCTI DISCANT, ET AMENT MEMIN!SSE PERITI.
PHILA.DEL PHIA:
PRINTED BY THOMAS DOBSON, AT THE STONE HOUSE, No 41, SOUTH SECOND STREET.
M.DCC.XCVIII.
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