ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA.

OR, A

DICTIONARY

OF

ARTS, SCIENCES, AND MISCELLANEOUS

LITERATURE;

ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.

THE FOURTH EDITION.

Illustrated with nearly six hundred Engravings.

VOL. XII.

INDOCTI DISCANT; AMENT MEMINISSE PERITI.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by Andrew Bell, the Proprietor,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH;
AND FOR VErnor, hood, AND SHARPE,

LONDON.

1810.

270 .77 399. d.97.