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ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA.

OR, A

DICTIONARY

OF

ARTS, SCIENCES, AND MISCELLANEOUS

LITERATURE;

ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.

THE SIXTH EDITION.

Illustrated with nearly six hundred Engravings.

VOL. VIII.

INDOCTI DISCANT; AMENT MEMINISSE PERITI.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY;
And Hurst, robinson, and COMPANY, 90, cheapside,

LONDON.

1823.