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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, [oo] for infinity symbol and [dP] for partial differential
symbol.
(6) The following typographical errors have been corrected:
ARTICLE HALLER, ALBRECHT VON: "From a literary point of view the
main result of this, the first of his many journeys through the
Alps, was his poem entitled Die Alpen, which was finished in March
1729, and appeared in the first edition (1732) of his Gedichte."
'poem' amended from 'peom'.
ARTICLE HAMBURG: "... and if the progress of the tide up the river
gives indication of danger, another three shots follow." 'another'
amended from 'other'.
ARTICLE HARBOUR: "Ostend is the only jetty harbour in which a large
sluicing basin has been recently constructed, but it can only
provide for the maintenance of deep-water quays in its vicinity;
..." 'harbour' amended from 'habour'.
ARTICLE HARMONICA: "... Franz Leppich's panmelodicon in 1810,
Buschmann's uranion in the same year, &c. Of most of these nothing
now remains but the name and a description in the Allgemeine
musikalische Zeitung ..." Added 'in'.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE
AND GENERAL INFORMATION