Bryant
Bryant (jacon), A Profound Scholar, Mytho Logist, And Sacred Historian, Born At Plymouth In 1713. His Father Bad A Place In The Customs, And Was Af Terwards Stationed In Kent, Where His Son Was First Sent To A Provincial School, From Which He Was Re. Moved To Eton. Here He ...
Buat Nancay
Buat-nancay (louis Ga Rana, Comm, Nu), Was Born Of An Old Family In Normandy, On The 2d Of March 1782. At An Early Age, He Entered Into The Order Of Malta ; And, By A Tbrtunate Accident, He Became Acquainted With The Chevalier Folard, Author Of The Commentaries On Polybius, ...
Buenos Ayres
Buenos Ayres, One Of The Viceroyalties Into Which The Spanish Dominions In South Ame Rica Are Divided, And The Most Extensive Of The Whole. To The South And North Its Limits Are Not Exactly Defined, As It Stretches Into Extensive De Serts Inhabited Only Bysavages, And Little Known. Its Southern ...
Burger
Burger (gomm Ey Avevirrus), A Celebrated German,poet, Born The Ist Of January 1748, At Wel. Merswende, A Village In-the Principality Of Halber Stadt, Where His Father Was Lutheran Minister. In His Childhood He Discovered Little Inclination To Study; The Bible And The Canticles Alone Had Any Attraction For Him : ...
Busching
Busching (antony Frederick). This Very Eminent Geographer Was Born At Stadthagen, A Vil Lage Of Westphalia, On The 27th September 1744. In His Youth He Laboured Under Peculiar Disadvag• Tages, Arising From The Disorderly Life Led By His Fa. They, And From The Narrow Means Of Education Which His Native ...
C Establishment Of Academies
Establishment Of Academies, &c. About The Middle Of The Seventeenth Century Were Formed Those Associations Of Scienti Fic Men, Which, Under The Appellation Of Academies Or Philosophical Societies, Have Con Tributed So Much To The Advancement Of Knowledge In Europe. The Academia Del Ci Mento Of Florence, Founded In 1651, ...
C Remarks
Remarks, &c. It Will Hardly Be Doubted By Any One Who Attentively Considers The Method Explained In The Novum Organum, Which We Have Now Attempted To Sketch, That It Contains A Most Comprehensive And Rigorous Plan Of Inductive Investigation. A Question, However, May Occur, How Far Has This Method,been Really ...
Ca Ufiristaun
Ca Ufiristaun, A Mountainous Country Of Asia, Situated Partly Upon The Hindoo Coosh, And Partly Upon The Beloor Tmigh. Ha Boundaries Are Caubul, Boduksbaun, And Bulkb. This Territory Consists Of Vast Mountains Covered With Snow, Is. Dosing A Few Narrow But Fertile Valleys. It Is Inhabited By A Singular People, ...
Cabanis Peter John George
Cabanis (peter John George), A Distinguish Ed Writer, And Physician At Paris, Was Born At Onac In 1757. His &aber, John Baptiste Cabana), Was A Lawyer Of Eminence, And Chief Magistrate Of A Dis Trict In The Lower Limousin ; Highly Respected For His Extensive Knowledge And Inflexible Integrity, And ...
Caermarthenshire
Caermarthenshire, A County In South Wales, Containing 926 Square Miles, Or About 590,640 Acres. The Northern And Eastern Parts Are Moun Tainous. Near The, Sea The Land Is Flat, But The Gene Ral Surface Of The County Is Hilly. It Is Intersected In Almost Every Direction By Valleys, From The ...
Caernarvonshire
Caernarvonshire, & County In North Wales, Is Divided By The Conway From Denbigh Shire; From Part Of Merionethshire A Rivulet; From Anglesea By The Straits Of Mesas The Re Sidue Is Bounded By The Tea, In Figure It Is Very Irregular, A Great Peniasulated Point Running Eat From It To ...
Caithness
Caithness, A Scathe 'canny, The Mat Dinh Ern Of The Mainland Of Great Britain, Is Anted Between Me *0' And 5r Of North Latitude, Sad Be Tween 2° 50' And Sn 17' West Longitude; And, Is Eluding The Island Of Shona, To The Pankow' Fri* Extends Ever 6181 *pare Masher ...
Calcutta
Calcutta. The Encyclopedia Contains Some Account Of The Settlement And Subsequent Improve Ment Of Calcutta ; And In The Present Article, Which Is Compiled From The Works Of Recent Writers, We Have Endeavoured To Comprehend Whatever Is Most Useful And Interesting In The Description Of This Cele Brated City. Calcutta ...
Caledonian Canal
Caledonian Canal. The Importance Of This Great National Undertaking, Whether Considered As A Work Of Magnitude And Expence, As Tending To Open •up And Improve Some Of The Most Barren And Ragged Districts In Scotland, Of To Facilitate The) Intercourse Between 'eastern And Western 'kidd Of Great Britain, By Rendering ...
Calender
Calender, A Mechanical Engine Employed By Cloth-lappere, For Dressing And Finishing Cloths And Stuffs Of Various Descriptions And Fabrics, Before Ex Posure To Sale, Or Delivery To Purchasers. It Is Also Used By Calico-printers, In Order To Extend And Smooth The Surface Of Their Cloths, After They Have Been Bleached, ...
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire Is Divided Into Two Parts By The River Ouse. Its Most Northerly Division, Which Is Principally Composed Of The Isle Of Ely, Is Bounded By Rivers, And Their Communicating Branches. The Limits Thus Formed Are So Intermixed, As With Difficul Ty To Be Traced. The Southern Half Has An ...
Camper
Camper (parse), Eminent For His Extensive Knowledge In The Various Branches Of Medicine, Zoology, And Comparative Anatomy, And For His Taste In The Fine Arts, Was Born Atleiden, May The 11th, 1722. His Family Had Long Hel Distinguished Situations In The Magistracy Of That City, Where His Grandfather Had Exercised ...
Campomanes D Pedro Rod
Campomanes (d. Pedro Rod Rigulti, Comte Os), A Spanish Statesman, And Writer Of Great Cele Brity, Particularly On Subjects Of Political Philosophy, Was Born In The Asturias Towards The Year 1710. We Hoe Sought In Vain For Biographical Materials In Re Prd To This Eminent Penion, Of Whose Life We ...
Camus
Camus (caaalzs Stzphen Louis), A Mathe Matician And Mechanician : Born At Creasy En Brie, Near Meaux, The 25th August 1699 ; Son Of Stephen Camas, A Surgeon Of That Town, And Margaret Mail Lard. His Taste For Practical Mechanics Was Very Early Demonstrated By A Singular Ingenuity In The ...
Canada
Canada. In The Encyclopedia Will Be Found An Account Of The Settlement And Early History Of Canada, With Other ,particulars Relative To The Nature And Productions Of The Country. At Present We Propose To Add Such Further Information As We Have Been Enabled To Collect From The Works Of Recent ...
Canary Islands
Canary Islands. In The E La Will Be Found Some Account Of This Archipe Ago, So Far As Known At The Time Of Its Publication. Since That Time, M. Doty& St Vincent Has ,published His Essay On, The Fortunate Islands, In Which, Besides Giving The Result Of His On Observations, ...
Capmany I
Capmany (i). Antorrto On), One Of The Most Eminent Of The Later Writers Of Spain, Was Born In Ca Talonia In 1754. He Lived For A Considerable Time In Barcelona, And Latterly In Madrid, Where He Died In 1810. He Ranks High Both As A General Scholar, And As A ...
Caraccas
Caraccas, An Extensive Province Of South America, Forming, Part Of The Spanish Dominions In That Country. It Comprehends Five Other Subordi Nate Provinces Or Governments ; Namely, The Province Of Venezuela In The Centre, The Government Of Ma. Nioaibe On The West, Guiana On The South, The Go Vernment Of ...
Cardiganshire
Cardiganshire Is Divided From Caermar Thenshire And Pembrokeshire, Along The Greatest Part Of Its-southern Side, By The Tivy ; On The North It Is Divided From Merionethshire By The River Dory ; And From Montgomeryshire By An Artificial Boundary. The Boundaries On The East, Between It And Radnor Shire And ...
Carlow
- Carlow, The Account Of Which In The Encyclo Pedia, Under The Name Of Catherlough, Occupies Only A Very Few Lines, Lies Almost Entirely Between The Rivers Barrow And Slaney. It Is About S3 Eng Lish Miles Long, From North To South, And About 19 Miles Broad At Its Greatest ...
Carlyle
Carlyle (josses Macon), A Distinguished Orientalist, And General Scholar, Was The Son Of' A Phy Sician At Carlisle, And Was Born There In The Year 1759. He Received His Early Education, In The Learn Ed Languages, At The Grammar-school Of That City. In 1775 He Proceeded To Cambridge, Obtained His ...
Carnatic
Carnatic, The Name Of An Extensive Maritime Province On The Eastern Side Of The Peninsula Of In Dia, Which, According To Mr Hamilton's East India Gazetteer, Stretches From The 8th To The 16th Degree Of North Latitude. In Dr Heyne's Tracts On India, It Is Said To Extend From The ...
Caste
Caste. By This Term Is Here Distinguithed The Classification And 'distribution Of The Members Of A, Community Into -certain Classes Or Orders,. For 'the Petformance'of Certain Fitnctions; With Of Certain Privileges, 'or The Endurance Of Certain Burtbens ; -establishment Of Hereditary Per Manence 'in 'these Orders, The Son Being Ordained ...
Castl
Castl Onandlilln Poet, Was Born Of Humble Permits, In• The Year I'121, At Monte. Ha Scone, A. Small Town In The States Of The Church. It Was. There, Too, That His Studies Commenced, Is Which He Made Such Rapid Progress, That He Was Sp. Pointed, In Early Youth, Professor Of ...
Caubul
Caubul. That Extensive Territory In The Centre Of Asia, Which At Present Composes The Kingdom Of Caubul, Is Formed Of Various And Disunited Por• Tions. The Basis Is A Large Tract Of Mountain Table Land, Interposed Between Persia And Indostsn, And To Which The Persians Have Given The Generally Re ...
Cavallo
Cavallo Itreerisva), An Electrician And Natiw Ml Philosopher ; Been At Naples 30th March 174g ; And Son Of A Physician Established In That City. His Father Died When He Was Only Eleven Years Old ; But He Received • Liberal Education Through Dm Kindness Ofhis Friends, And Completed His ...