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ENCYCLOPEDIA;
OR, A
DIC TIONA RY
OF
ARTS, SCIENCES,
MISCELLANE.OUS LITERATURE;
Conftruded on a PLAN,
BY WHICH
THE DIFFERENT SCIENCES AND ARTS
Are digefted into the FORM of diftindt
TREATISES OR SYSTEMS
COMPREHENDING
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 Objeffs, or to Matters ECCLESIASTICAL,
CIVIL, MILITARY,. COMMERCIAL, &C.
Including ELUCIDATION& of the moft important Topics relative to RELIGION, MORALS) MANNERS)
and the OECONOMY of LIFE.
TOGETHER WITII
A DESCRIPTION of all the Countries, Cities, principal Mountains, Seas, Rivers, &ec.
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 earlieft ages down to the prefent times.
Compiled from the writings of the beft authors in feveral languages; the moft approved Di&ionaries, as well of general feience as of its
particular branches; the Tranfaftions, Journals, and Memoirs, of various Learned Societies, the MS. Le6lures of Eminent
Profeffors on different fciences; and a variety of Original Materials, furnifhed by an Extenfive Correfpondence.
THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES, GREATLr IMPROVED.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO COPPERPLATES.
V 0 L. VI. DIA- ETH
IN.DOCTI DISCANT, ET AMENT MEMINISSE PERITI.
PHILADELPHIA: -
PRINTED BY THOMAS DOBSON, AT THE STONE-HOUSE, No 4, SOUTH SECOND-STREET.
M.D CC.X CV III.
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