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This day was published, pries ss. Put V.whick completes
the Pleat Volume, of
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA EDINENSIS ; or,
bie 1 lONARY ed Alt IS, aCIENCIS, and MISCbLo
I.ANEOUS LITERA I URI, in sia -Vela Quito, with need y
Pell Plates.
By JAMES MILL AR, M. D.
&tor of the 4th and 3th Editions of the Incyelopiedia Britannia,
with the assistance of the principal Coo, ribtuots to that work
• • Exclusive of Biograpircal :,Itetches, and Miscellaneous No-
tice:in the various departments of Literature and Science,- the
lest Volume ei.mprehnois the following subjects, more hilly de
tailed, viz.—Abyssinia, Acoustics, Aerostadon, AfricA, Apicul-
ture America. Anatomy, Architecture, Astronomy, Bandana
kluitifaciory, Be.k Biography, Bleu log, Betsey, lii.
From obis enumeration will appear, that the present Volume
of this work contains as much matter as threoVos Of any Of
itt uniterepdvarhis ; some at the subjects are dismissed at veater
length thaw in larger works, mid all of than are treated in amens
err adapted to the general Reader.
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Bodies, Capillary Attraction and Cohesion, Hydrostatic bistros
meats, Hydraulics, Motion of Water in Tubes, Pipes, and Co-
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Floating Cylinders of Camphor; Guard's Experiments on the
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