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FLORENCE

Volume 2 · 73 words · 1771 Edition

archbishop's see and city of Italy, situated on the river Arno, in Tuscany, forty-five miles east of Leghorn: E. long. 12° 15', and N. lat. 43° 36'. Florence is one of the most elegant towns in Italy, has an university, and is six miles in circumference. The statues, paintings, and curiosities in the grand duke's palace are the admiration of travellers.

Florentine, a town of Champagne in France, twenty-eight miles south-west of Troyes.