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The ultimate design of the Hetæria was an unsound one, and its operations were based upon an imposture; but in exciting the Greeks against Turkish rule, and in inspiring confidence in its own resources and authority, it was completely successful.

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  1. In physical geography, a drowned valley: distinguished from a fiord by the absence of all forms due to glacial erosion. Also written rias. The opposite form, an inlet of the sea, is known when wide as a gulf, bay, or bight, according to size and degree of inflexion, or as a fjord or ria when long and narrow. Encyc. Brit., XXVIII. 622.

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  1. Spanish ria, the mouth of a river, from rio, from Latin rivus, a river.
 

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