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Title: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7
"Drama" to "Dublin"

Author: Various

Release Date: June 11, 2010 [EBook #32783]

Language: English

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Transcriber's notes:

(1) Numbers following letters (without space) like C2 were originally
printed in subscript. Letter subsctipts 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) Letters topped by Macron are represented as [=x].

(5) Letters with a dot below are represented as [x.].

(6) The following typographical errors have been corrected:

Article DRAMA: "Incomparably the most important of recent additions
to the literary drama is Thomas Hardy's vast panorama of the
Napoleonic wars, entitled The Dynasts (1904-1908)." 'Incomparably'
amended from 'Imcomparably'.

Article DRAVIDIAN: "Their languages form an isolated group, and it
has not been possible to prove a connexion with any other family of
languages." 'form' amended from 'from'.

Article DRAWING: "The same analogy may be observed between two of
the senses in which the French verb tirer is frequently employed."
'French' amended from 'Frech'.

Article DRAWING: "Although the modern Italians have both traire and
trarre, they use delineare still in the sense of artistic drawing,
and also adombrare." 'in' amended from 'is'.

Article DREDGE and DREDGING: "... the illustration of the
geographical distribution of marine animals, and the more accurate
determination of the fossils of the Pliocene period."
'illustration' amended from 'illlustration'.

Article DRENTE: "... and in 1818 the Society of Charity
(Maatschappij van Weldadighei