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Encyclopædia Britannica;
OR, A
DICTIONARY
OF
ARTS and SCIENCES,
COMPILED UPON A NEW PLAN.
in which
The different Sciences and Arts are digeſted into
diſtinct Treatiſes or Syſtems;
and
The various Technical Terms, &c. are explained as they occur
in the order of the Alphabet.
illustrated with one hundred and sixty copperplates.
By a Society of GENTLEMEN in Scotland.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
EDINBURGH:
Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar;
And ſold by C. Macfarquhar, at his Printing-office, Nicolſon-ſtreet.
M. DCC. LXXI.
