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ENCYCLOPzEDIA;
OR, A
DICTIONARY
OF
ARTS, SCIENCES,
MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE;
Conftruded on a PLAE,'
BY WHICH
THE DIFFERENT SCIENCES AND ARTS
Are digefted into the FORM of diftinft
TREATISES oR SYSTEMS,
COMPREHENDING
THE HISTORY, THE)RY, and PRACTICE, of each,
According to th L tft'Difcoveries and Improvements;
AND FULL EXPLANATIONS GIVEN OF THE
VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE,
WHETHER RELATING TO
NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL Obje&s, 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 earliefc ages down to the prefent times.
Compiled from the writings of the beft authors in feveral languages; the moft approved Didionaries, as well of general fcience as of its
particular branches; the Tranfadions, Journals, and Memoirs, of various Learned Societies, the MS. Leaures of Eminent
Profeffors on different fciences; and a variety of Original Materials, furnified :by an Ektenfive Correfpondence.
TH FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES, GREATLY IMPROVED.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO COPPERPLATES.
V O L. V. CIC-DIA
INDOCTI DISCANT, ET AMENT MEMINISSE PERITI.
PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED BY THOMAS DOBSON, AT THE STONE-HOUSE, No 41, SOUTH SECOND-STREET.
M.D C C.X CV III.
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