Chambers's Encylopaedia (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... E long., to 26" 5ff N. lat, 75" E long. The highest summit is Abu (q. v.). The north-eastern extremity of the range sinks into comparatively low rocky hills. The north-western side is very bold and precipitous, the south-eastern less so. There is no road practicable for wheel-carriages across this range for a distance of 220 miles. A'RC6 (anc. Arx), a town of South Italy, in the province of Caserta, 60 miles east-south-east from Rome. It is situated on a hill near the Liris; and tho summit of the hill, which is lofty and precipitous, is crowned by an interesting medieval fortress called Socca (VArce. This fortress was considered impregnable till it was scaled and taken by the invading army of Charles of Anjou in 1266. Numerous inscriptions in which the name of Cicero occurs have been discovered near A.; and some ruins near the town axe known as L'aja di Cicerone, or Cicero's Bam. Pop. (1881) 1551. ARCIDO'SSO, a town of Central Italy, in the province of Grosseto, 23 miles north-cast from Grosseto, on a feeder of the Umbrone, among the Apennines. Pop. (1881) 1937. A'RCTJS SENI'LIS, a not very well ohosen term for a change occurring in the cornea of the eye, in consequence of fatty degeneration of its marginal art. The term is objectionable, because the change usually commences before the advent of old age, ana further, because the areut, or arch, is usually converted into a oomplete circle by the time that the patient has reached the age of sixty or seventy years. The areut lentlie usually commences at or even before the age of forty years, as on opaque whitish crescent, skirting either the upper or lower margin of the cornea; and from this commencement it extends along the edge, till it finally becomes a complete circle, which sometimes assumes a ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... E long., to 26" 5ff N. lat, 75" E long. The highest summit is Abu (q. v.). The north-eastern extremity of the range sinks into comparatively low rocky hills. The north-western side is very bold and precipitous, the south-eastern less so. There is no road practicable for wheel-carriages across this range for a distance of 220 miles. A'RC6 (anc. Arx), a town of South Italy, in the province of Caserta, 60 miles east-south-east from Rome. It is situated on a hill near the Liris; and tho summit of the hill, which is lofty and precipitous, is crowned by an interesting medieval fortress called Socca (VArce. This fortress was considered impregnable till it was scaled and taken by the invading army of Charles of Anjou in 1266. Numerous inscriptions in which the name of Cicero occurs have been discovered near A.; and some ruins near the town axe known as L'aja di Cicerone, or Cicero's Bam. Pop. (1881) 1551. ARCIDO'SSO, a town of Central Italy, in the province of Grosseto, 23 miles north-cast from Grosseto, on a feeder of the Umbrone, among the Apennines. Pop. (1881) 1937. A'RCTJS SENI'LIS, a not very well ohosen term for a change occurring in the cornea of the eye, in consequence of fatty degeneration of its marginal art. The term is objectionable, because the change usually commences before the advent of old age, ana further, because the areut, or arch, is usually converted into a oomplete circle by the time that the patient has reached the age of sixty or seventy years. The areut lentlie usually commences at or even before the age of forty years, as on opaque whitish crescent, skirting either the upper or lower margin of the cornea; and from this commencement it extends along the edge, till it finally becomes a complete circle, which sometimes assumes a ...

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March 2012

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246 x 189 x 44mm (L x W x T)

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872

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978-1-130-74016-5

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9781130740165

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