Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. 8

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Excerpt from Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. 8: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time, Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American BiographyLippe. He ancient principality of Lippe is, at present, divided between two reigning houses: 1. Lippc-detmold con tains about 490 square miles, with inhabitants. Detrnold, with 2700 inbah itants, is the capital. Public revenue, guilders. The prince furnishes a contingent of 600 men to the German confederac The constitution granted by the mo er ofthe present prince to the country is still suspended, because the no bility will not allow the peasants to be represented. 2. Solar -lEURppe. The dominions of the prince 0 Lip -biick churg-schauenbur contain 21 square miles, with 25 inhabitants, revenue, guilders, contin at to the Ger manic confederation, men. Btlcke burg, the capital, is on the river An. In 181 the prince abolished the last traces of bondage, and, Jan. 15, 1816, established a constitution.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.