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ENCYCLOPA'EDIA;
O R, A
DICTIONARY
OF
ARTS, -SCIENCES,
AND
MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE;
ConflruEted on a PLAN,
BY WHICH
THE DIFFERENT SCIENCES AND ARTS
Are digefted into the FoRM of diftina
TREATISES OR SYSTEMS,
C 0 M P R E H E N D I N G
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. Objeas, or to1 Matters ECCLESIASTICAL,
CIVIL' MILITARY, COMMERCIAL, &C.
Including ELUCIDATIONS of the moft important Topics relative to RELIGION, MORALS, MANNERS,
and the OECONOvXY of LIFE.
TOGETHER WTTII
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 earlieR 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 fcience as of its
particular branches; the Tranfadiions, Journals, and Memoirs, of various Learned Societies, the MS. Le&ures of Eminent
Profeffors on different fciences; and a variety of Original Materials, furnifhed by an Extenfive Correfpondence.
THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES, GREATLY LIMPROF-ED..
ILLUSTRATED WITH FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO COPPERPLATES.
V 0 L. IX. HYD-LES
INDOCTI DISCANT, ET AMENT MEAlINISSE PERITI.
PHILADELPHIA:.
PR-INTED BY THOMAS DOBSON, AT THE STONE-HOUSE, No 41, SOUTH SECOND-STREET.
M.D CC.X CVIII.
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