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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 232 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TREATISE , a written See also:

composition, dealing fully and syste- trains of camels may be seen, and See also:Persian merchants conspicuous matically with the principles of some subject of serious impor- by their high See also:black caps and See also:long See also:robes. The route which these tance. The M. Eng. tretis, O. Fr. tretis, or treitis, is a doublet caravans follow is a chaussee as far as See also:Erzerum, but this in places of " treaty," which also meant a discourse or See also:account. Both is too much broken to admit of the transit of wheeled vehicles. words are to be referred to See also:Lat. tractare, to treat, handle, The railway by Batoum to See also:Baku by way of See also:Tiflis has tended frequentative of trahere, tractus, to draw. " Treatise " thus greatly to turn the channel-of See also:commerce from See also:Trebizond into would mean, by See also:etymology, something well handled, nicely made.

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