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ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA;

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THE DIFFERENT SCIENCES AND ARTS
Are digefted into the FORM of Distinct

TREATISES OR SYSTEM S,

COMPREHENDING

The HISTORY, THEORY, and PRACTICE, of each,
according to the Latest Discoveries and Improvements;

AND FULL EXPLANATIONS GIVEN OF THE

VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE,

WHETHER

Relating to NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL Objects, or to Matters ECCLESIASTICAL,
CIVIL, MILITARY, COMMERCIAL, &c.

TOGETHER WITH

A DESCRIPTION of all the COUNTRIES, A GENERAL HISTORY, Ancient and Modern,
CITIES, Principal MOUNTAINS, SEAS, of the different EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, and
STATES;

RIVERS, &c. throughout the WORLD;

AND

An ACCOUNT of the LIVES of the moft EMINENT PERSONS in every Nation,

from the earliest ages down to the prefent times.

THE WHOLE COMPILED FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE BEST AUTHORS, IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES; THE MOST APPROVED DICTIONARIES,
AS WELL OF GENERAL SCIENCE AS OF PARTICULAR BRANCHES; THE TRANSACTIONS, JOURNALS, AND MEMOIRS, OF LEARNED
SOCIETIES, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD; THE MS. LECTURES OF EMINENT PROFESSORS ON DIFFERENT SCIENCES;
AND A VARIETY OF ORIGINAL MATERIALS, FURNISHED BY AN EXTENSIVE CORRESPONDENCE.

The SECOND EDITION; greatly Improved and Enlarged.

ILLUSTRATED WITH ABOVE TWO HUNDRED COPPERPLATES.

VOL. II.

INDOCTI DISCANT, ET AMENT MEMINISSE PERITI.

EDINBURG H:

Printed for J. BALFOUR and Co. W. GORDON, J. BELL, J. DICKSON, C. ELLIOT, W. CREECH,
J. McCLIESH, A. BELL, J. HUTTON, and C. MACFARQUHAR.

MDCCLXXVIII.

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