THE

IMPERIAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA:

OR,

DICTIONARY

OF THE

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Amprehendino also the whole circle of

miscellaneous literature.

IN THIS WORK.

ALL the sciences are digested in a systematic form,

and EXHIBITED ACCORDING TO THE PRESENT HIGHLY IMPROVED STATE OF KNOWLEDGE;

AND

.Every Term of Art amply explained in Alphabetical Order.

ASTRONOMY,

The whole including all the Modern Discovering in

CHEMISTRY, ELECTRICITY, GALVANISM, GEOGRAPHY,

DOMESTIC AND POLITICAL (ECONOMY, &c. &c. &c.

WITH A GENERAL VIEW OP ALL

Empires, Kingdoms, States, Countries, Mountains, Seas, Rivers, Lakes, §c. tye.

AND A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF

PATRIARCHS, PROPHETS, APOSTLES, PHILOSOPHERS, POETS, PAINTERS, AUTHORS AND THEIR

WORKS, HEROES, IAWYERS, AND STATESMEN,

WITH EVERY OTHEB TOPIC OF INFORMATION ESSENTIAL TO A WORK OF THIS NATURE.

BY THE

REV. W. M. JOHNSON, A. M.

CURATE OF HENBURY, AND CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD HUTCHINSON;

AND

THOMAS EXLEY, A. M.

TEACHER OF THE MATHEMATICS, BRISTOL.

Apes debemus imitari, quae ut vagantur et flores ad me} faciendum idoneos carpunt; deinde quicquid attulere, disponunf, ac perfavos digerunt; ita debemus quaecunque ex direrra lectione congessimuaseparare : melius enira distincta servantur: deinde, ad debitam •facultatem ingenii, in unum saporem varia ilia libamenta confundere; ut etiam si apparuerit unde sumptura est, aliud taroen esse,quam unde sumptum est, appareat. SENECA.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

PRINTED AND

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY J. ROBINS AND CO. ALBION PRESS,

AND SOLD BY SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES,PATERNOSTER* ROW.

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