1 Aoathodaemon
1. Aoathodaemon, Cneph, Or Chnuphis, Appears To Be The Oldest Representative Of The Divine Power Admitted By The Egyptians, _although His Attributes Are Not Distinctly Ascertained, Except As The Parent Of Phthah, Whose Origin Is Referred, In The Works Of The Spurious Hermes, To An Egg Of Cneph, Or Emeph, ...
1 The Earthen Wall
1. The Earthen Wall, (fig. 1. Plate Lxxix.) Is The Simplest Description Of Embankment, And Is Fre Quently Erected By Temporary Occupiers Of Lands On The General Principle Of Enclosing And Subdividing, Which Is Sometimes Made A Condition Of Tenure Be Tween The Landlord And Tenant. This Wall Applies To ...
103 Letters
103. Letters Are Denoted By A Character Which Seems To Represent Some Of The Materials Employed In Writing ; And Which Is Indeed Not Extremely Unlike An Inkstand Figured In Caylus's Recueil, And Con Sisting Of Two Parallel Tubes At Some Distance From Each Other, With A Cover Connected By ...
109 Eternity
109. Eternity Is Represented Simply Bill Serpent Rising In An Oblique Arch, And Without Horns; The Serpent Devouring Its Tail, And Making A Ring, Is Never Found As An Egyptian Emblem. Horapollo Says That Eternity Was Denoted By A Serpent Having Ser Its Tail Hidden Under Its Body; And That ...
117 Victory
117. Victory Is Denoted By A Branch, Perhaps A Palm Branch, With A Semicircle And A Circle, Some Times Preceded By The Waved Line. 118. The Character Signifying Fortune Somewhat Resembles That Which Denotes " Gold" (n. 105), But, Instead Of The Arch, We Have An Angular Line, Which Ins ...
12 Typhon
12. Typhon, The Spurious Son Of Rhea, And Cro Nus, Was Born On The Third Supplementary Day, And Married His Sister Nepbthe. He Is Characterized By A Red Colour, And Is Supposed To Have Been A Perso Nification Of The Effects Of Scorching Heat. He Is Also Compared To The ...
13 Arueris
13. Arueris, The Apollo Of The Egyptian Mytho Logy, Is Sufficiently Identified By The Comparison Of Various Inscriptions With The Fragment Of Hermapion, Preserved By Ammianus Marcellinus, As The Trans Lation Of The Inscription On A Particular Obelisc, With Which, However, It Does Not Exactly Agree, Although Its Style Completely ...
143 Priesthood
143. Priesthood Is Simply The Condition Of A Priest; The Character Prefixed Answering To The Coptic Prefix Met, And To The Greek Termination Eta. 144. The Ornaments Of The Head Are Very Gener Ally Used As Indicating The Person By Whom They Are Worn ; And Flowers, Probably Those Of ...
18 Paamyles
18. Paamyles, Mentioned By Several Authors As The Priapus Of Egypt, Is Sufficiently Distinguishable By His Usual Attributes. He Is Often Figured With One Hand Only, Which Is Elevated Towards The Angle Of A Kind Of Whip Or Fan, Suspended Above Him. At Edfou He Is Once Denoted In An ...
180 A Year
180. A Year Is Denoted By A Bent Line With A Little Projection From The Middle, Which Seems To Re Present A Plant With An Annual Shoot Or Bud ; It Is Commonly Followed By A Semicircle And A Block Or Dash. 181. There Is Some Little Uncertainty Respecting The ...
186 Units
186. Units Are Denoted By Short Lines, Like The Roman I. Mr. Akerblad First Noticed The First Three Numerals In The Last Line Of The Sacred Characters Of Rosetta, Where The Greek Text Is Deficient, And The Words " First And Second" Only Remain; And This Observation Alone Was Sufficient ...
2 The Earthen Mound
2. The Earthen Mound (fig. 3.) Is The Most Ge Neral Description Of Embankment, And As It Is Exe Cuted At Considerable Expence, Is Only Undertaken By Such As Have A Permanent Interest In The Soil. This Barrier Applies To Sea Lands Overflown By Every Spring Tide, And To Alluvial ...
4 Aptzra
4. Aptzra, Including The Orders Of Insects Now Named Aptera, Thasyavra, And At Bra, As Well As The Classes Crustacea Myrivoda And Arachacida, And Part Of The Classes Venues And Eehittodernmaa, This Latter Order, He By No Means Deviated From The Received Opinions Of His Time. In The Subsequent Editions ...
84 Kings 83
Kings. 83, 84. We Are Informed By Pliny, That The Akr. Andrian Obelisc Was Erected By Mesphres Or Mee. Tires, The Reading Of The Different Manuscripts Being Different ; And Since No King Of The Name Mestiree Is Mentioned By Other Authors, We May Consider This Mesphres As The Mephres ...
Agriculture
Agriculture. The Agriculture Of France Is In A Very Different State From That Of England Or Scotland, Being Mark. Ed By A Degree Of Blickwardness, Not A Little Surpris Ing In A Country So Far Advanced In Many Depart Ments Of Art And Science. The Causes, However, An Not Difficult ...
American
American Cranberry.—as A New And Re Cent Addition To Our Hardy Cultivated Fruits, The American Cranberry (vaccinium Macrocarpon) De Serves Particular Notice. It Is Distinguished By The Smoothness Of The Stems, And The Largeness Of Its Fruit. It Grows Freely, And Produces Its Fruit Readily, In Any Damp Situation, Though ...
An Account
An Account Of The Total Number Of Barrels Of White Herrings, Which Have Been Landed From The Fishery, Or Cured On Shore, In The Year Ended 5th April 1819;--in So Far As The Same Has Come Under The Cognizance Of The Officers Of The Fishery. An Account Of The Total ...
Animals 78
Animals. 78. A Figure Sitting On The Ground, And Stretching Out One Hand, Seems To Imply Simply A Man Or Per Son; Which Is Certainly The Sense Of The Enchorial • Character That Commonly Answers To It In The Manu Scripts; But In Composition The Figure Often Appears To Lose ...
Astronomy The
Astronomy. The Time Was Now Come When The World Was To Be Enlightened By A New Science, Arising Out Of The Comparison Of The Phenomena Of Motion As Observed In The Heavens, With The Laws Of Motion As Known On The Earth. Physical Astronomy Was The Result Of This Comparison, ...
Austria
Austria. The Austrian Empire Is One-fourth Larger Than France, And Twice As Large As Britain And Ireland. Its Population Consists Of A Mixed Mass Of Nations, Differing In Origin, Language, Religion, And Manners, Having Few Common Ties, And Little Intercourse With One Another. Austria Has But A Small Extent Of ...
Britain
Britain. Though Much Smaller In Extent Than Any Of The Other States Of The First Rank, Britain Is The Most Wealthy And Powerful Of The Whole. She Has A Mo Derately_good Climate, A Soil Less Fertile In Grain Than That Of France, But Affording Better Pasturage; An Extensive Line Of ...
Civil And Ecclesiastical Ii
Ii. Divisions, Civil And Ecclesiastical. Nothing Can Be More Simple And Uniform Than The Territorial Divisions Of France Since The Revolution. Instead Of Old Provinces Or Counties, Disproportioned In Size, And Having Frequently Their Chief Town At One Or Other Of The Extremities, The Departments Of France Have Almost Always ...
Colonies Commrrce
Commrrce, Colonies, Fisheries, Shipping. The Official Returns Of French Imports And Exports Were Published In A Very Circumstantial Manner Pre Vious To The Revolution, Particularly For The Years 1787, 1788, 1789, Which Were, Doubtless, Those In Which The Commercial Exchanges Between France And Her Neighbours Were Carried To The Greatest ...
Dockyards Greenwich Hospitals Navy
Dockyards; Greenwich Hospitals Navy. Xii.—revenue And Expenditure. The Revenue Of England, In The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth, Hardly Exceeded L600,000 A-year ; Un Der Charles I. It Was About L800,000; Under Charles 11. From L.1,200,000 To L.1,500,000. James Ii. Raised It To L2,000,000, A Sum, However, Which Fell Considerably Short ...
Edinburghshire
Edinburghshire, Or, As It Is Frequently Called, Mid-lothian, The Seat Of The Metropolis Of North Britain. It Is Situated Between 55° 89' And 55° 59' North Latitude, And Between 2° 86' And 3° 88' Longitude West From Greenwich. Its Boun Daries Are The Frith Of Forth On The North ; ...
Edwards Bryan
Edwards (bryan), The Well-known Historian Of The West Indies, Was Born At Westbury In Wiltshire, On The Ii St May 1748. His Father Had A Small Pa Ternal Estate, But As This Did Not Exceed L.100 Per An Num, He Found It Insufficient For The Maintenance Of A Numerous Family, ...
Edwards Jonathan
Edwards (jonathan), A Celebrated Ameri Can Metaphysician And Divine, Was Born October .5, 1703, At Windsor, In The Province Of Connecticut. His Family Had Originally Emigrated From England In The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth. His Father, Mr Ti Mothy Edwards, Was A Clergyman Of Great Piety And Respectability, And By ...
Elba
Elba, An Island Of The Mediterranean, Separated By A Narrow Channel From The Western Coast Of Italy. It Lies In 420 49' 6" N. Lat., And 100 9' 24" E. Long. From London. It Is About 70 English Miles In Circuit, But The Coast Is Very Winding And Irregular. Present ...
Electricity
Electricity. Most Of The Phenomena Which Electricity Pre Sents Have Been Described At Large In The Encyclo P.udia; And The Experimental Part Of The Science Remains Nearly In The Same State As At The Publi Cation Of That Work. This Is Not The Case, However, With The Theoretical. The Theory ...
Elevation Of When Fluids
Fluids, Elevation Of. When A Solid Body Is Partially Plunged In A When A Solid Body Is Partially Plunged In A Fluid, The Level Surface Near It Is Disturbed, And The Fluid Is Observed Either To Ascend Or Descend, So As To Form A Ring Round The Part Immersed. If ...
And Administration Of Justice
Law, And Administration Of Justice. In This Great Department, France Shows Nothing Of The Backwardness Apparent In Her Situation In Many Other Respects, But Is Entitled To The Particular Attention Of Other Nations, And Of None More Than Our Own. Law Does Not Rest On Tradition, Nor Is It Necessary ...