Produced by Marius Masi, Don Kretz and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Transcriber's notes:
(1) Numbers following letters (without space) like C2 were originally
printed in subscript. Letter subscripts are preceded by an
underscore, like C_n.
(2) Characters following a carat (^) were printed in superscript.
(3) Side-notes were relocated to function as titles of their respective
paragraphs.
(4) Macrons and breves above letters and dots below letters were not
inserted.
(5) [root] stands for the root symbol; [alpha], [beta], etc. for greek
letters.
(6) The following typographical errors have been corrected:
ARTICLE IRELAND: "The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 entirely
altered the parliamentary representation of Ireland. Twenty-two
small boroughs were disenfranchised." 'disenfranchised' amended
from 'disfranchized'.
ARTICLE IRELAND: "Catholics could not take longer leases than
thirty-one years at two-thirds of a rack rent; they were even
required to conform within six months of an inheritance accruing,
on pain of being ousted by the next Protestant heir." 'thirty'
amended from 'thiry'.
ARTICLE IRELAND: "It would be hard to name four other men who,
within the same period, used Shakespeare's language with equal
grace and force." 'four other' amended from 'other four'.
ARTICLE IRON AND STEEL: "This usefulness iron owes in part, indeed,
to its abundance, through which it has led us in the last few
thousands of years to adapt our ways to its properties; but still
in chief part first to the single qualities in which it excels,
such as its strength, its magnetism ..." Added 'properties'.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE
AND GENERAL INFORMATION