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Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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apital of New Jersey province the followingyear, and remained the seat of governmentnearly all of the time the British were inpossession. The last royal governor, WilliamFranklin, was captured here in 1776. In 1718, Perth Amboy became a city. The first namewas given in honor of the Earl of Perth, andthe second was the original Indian name of theplace. PERTURBATIONS, pur tur bashunz,ii termused in astronomy to describe certain variationsin the motion of planets or comets. The orbitof the earth is subject to certain perturbations,or changes, due to the action of other planets.In its journey round the sun the earth doesnot follow an absolutely direct line of orbitbut oscillates or sways in its motion severalhundred miles above and below the true lineof its orbit. This change, or perturbation, isdue to the attraction of the moon. Other plan-ets are also subject to perturbations, accordingto the influence on them of other heavenlybodies. See Astronomy; Planet; Comet. A city ZOOJ^years old.
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.ERU, a republic facing the Pacific Oceanfor about a thousand miles, in the northwesternpart of South America, is a land of romantichistory, sublime scenery and economic impor-tance. Its name at the time of the Spanishconquest, four centuries ago, was Tavantinsuyo.Happening to hear the word pelu spoken by anative, an officer assumed it to be the name ofthe country, and the rush of events caused thestrange word, imperfectly transmitted, to spreadrapidly and to take the permanent form Peru.The width of the Peruvian republic is about 700miles; the area is about 679,600 square miles,equal to all of the Pacific coast states of theUnited States and nearly all of Nevada. The People and Their Cities. The populationof Peru is about four and one-half millions;about half of this number are of the nativerace, and the remainder are quite evenly di-vided between the whites of unmixed blood(chiefly Spanish) and the mestizos, or mixturesof European and native stocks. The whitesrepresent the culture o

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