The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . s. Among thinkers on the same lines, butmore or less independent, Molitor is perhaps the mostimportant. Swedeneorg {) is usually reckoned amongthe theosophists, and some paija of his theory justify thisinclusion ; but his syafem as a whole has little in commonwith those speculative constructions of the Divine naturewhich form the essence of. iheosophy, as strictly under-sto
The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . s. Among thinkers on the same lines, butmore or less independent, Molitor is perhaps the mostimportant. Swedeneorg {) is usually reckoned amongthe theosophists, and some paija of his theory justify thisinclusion ; but his syafem as a whole has little in commonwith those speculative constructions of the Divine naturewhich form the essence of. iheosophy, as strictly under-stood, (a. se.) TIIERA, or, as it is now called, Santorin. is a volcanicisland in the /Egean Sea, the southernmost of the groupof islands, called Sporadee, which intervene between theCyclades and Crete. From the last-named island it isseparated by a space of 60 miles of sea, but the loftyCretan rangesof Dicte andIda are clearlyvisible from itin fine shape San-torin forms acrescent, andencloses a bayon the north,east, and south,while on thewestern sidelies the smallerisland of Ther-asia. The en-circling wallthus formed,which is ellip-tical in shapeand 18 milesround in itsinner rim, isbroken in two Thcra and neighbouring Islands. -towards the north-west by a straita mile in breadth, where the water is not less than 1100feet deep, and towards the south-west by an aperture about 280 T H E —T H £ 3 miles wiifc, wbenj the vrater is shallow, and an islandcalled AsproijjM or \Miite tland. lying lu tUe middle, servesIS u stepping-stone between the iw^ promoijtories. Tbeclids -isi: perpendicularly from the waters of the bay. insoiuf |.laces to the height of 10^0 feet , but towards theoiieii Eca, both in Santorin a^d Therasia, the ground slopespra-JuaJly away, and ha-i been conrerteH into broad levelterraces, everywhere covered with tufaceous agglomerate,which, though ertraordinanly bare and ashen to the eye,is tbe soil which produces the famous Santorii:
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