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ENCYCLOP/ED IA;
OR, A
DICTIONARY
OF
ARTS, SCIENCES,
AND
MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE;.
Conflruced on a PLAN,
BY WHICH
THE DIFFERENT SCIENCES AND ARTS
Are digefted into the FORM of Diffina
TREATISES OR SYSTEMST
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 Obje&s, or to Matters ECCLESIASTICAL,
CIVIL, MILITARY, COMMERCIAL, &C.
Including ELuclDATIONs 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, fc.
throughout the WORLD;
A General HISTORY, Anccnt and Modern, of the different Empires, Kingdoms, and States;
A X D
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 moil approved Didionaries, as well of general fcience as of iti
particular branches; the Tranfa&ions, Journals, and Memoirs, of various Learned Societies, the MS. Ledures of Eninsnt
Profeffors on different fciences; and a variety of Original Materials, furnifhed by an Extenfive Correfpondence.
THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES, GREATLY IMPROVED.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO COPPERPLATES.
V O L. XVII. SCO- STR
INDOCTI DI!SCAN'T, ET AMENT MEMINI.SSE PERITI.
PHILADEL PHIA:
rRINTED BY rHOMAS DOBSON, AT THE STONE HOUSE, Nu 41, SOUTH SECOND STREET.
M.DCC.XCVI II.
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