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UNIT

Volume 3 · 103 words · 1771 Edition

or Unity, in arithmetick, the number one, or one single individual part of discrete quantity.

UNITED NETHERLANDS consist of the provinces of Holland, Zealand, Friesland, Groningen, Overijssel, Gelderland, with Zutphen and Utrecht; these are bounded by the German sea on the north and west; by the circle of Westphalia, on the east; and by Flanders, Brabant, and the duchy of Cleves, on the south: lying between 3° 20' and 7° 30' east longitude, and between 51° 35' and 52° 40' north latitude; being about fifty miles long, and as many broad including the Zuyder-sea, which takes up a considerable space between these limits.