Fernandez De Afuera
Fernandez De Afuera, Lies In 33° 41' South Latitude, And 81° 40' West Longitude ; And As Both Islands Arc Situated So Directly In The Same Latitude, Stran Gers Are Apt To Mistake The One For The Othw; But They May Be Easily Distinguishediby The Obvious Eireti%stance Of The Land ...
Fernando De
Fernando De Nortoxn, Is The Name Of An Island In The Atlantic, About 60 Or 80 Leagues From The Coast Of Brazil. It Is No Where Above Two Leagues In Extent. Its Surface Is Unequal And Mountainous; And In The Middle Of The Island Is A Mountain Called Campanario, Or ...
Ferr Ara
Ferr Ara, A Duchy Situated In The Eastern Part Of Upper Italy, And Part Of The Pontifical Domains. This Tel Ritory Is Nearly Of A Triangular Shape ; One Side Stretches 25 Miles Along The Shores Of The Adriatic On The East, Another About 58 Miles To The North, And ...
Ferrara
Ferrara, A City Of Italy, The Capital Of The Duchy Of Ferrara, Situated On The North Bank Of The River Po, Which Here Divides Into Two Branches, Called Po Di Volano And Po Di Primaro, Both Flowing To The East. This City Is Sur Rounded By A Fortified Wall And ...
Ferrol
Ferrol Is One Of The Best Sea-port Towns Of Spain, In The Province Of Galicia. It Is Situated To The North-north East Of Corunna, And Ten Leagues From Cape Ortegal. Be Fore 1752, Ferrol Was Merely A Fishing Village, But A Large Town Containing Many Elegant Public Buildings, Has Been ...
Feudal
Feudal, Is A Term Used To Denote That System Of Legal Polity, In Regard To Tenures Of Land, Which Was Generally Introduced, At An Early Period, Among The States Of Modern Europe. The Origin Of The Feudal System Is Involved In Consider Able Obscurity. Some Writers Pretend To Have Discovered ...
Fever
Fever. See Medicine. Fez, Or Fits, The Capital Of The Ancient Kingdom Of That Name In Western Barbary, Was Founded About The 185th Year Of The Hegira (a. D. 786,) By Idris, A Descendent Of Maho Met, Who Had Fled From Medina To Avoid The Persecution Of The Caliph Abd-allah. ...
Fezzan
Fezzan, One Of The Provinces Of The State Of Tri Poli, Is A Considerable Tract Of Country In The Interior Of Northern Africa, Situated About 360 Miles South Of Mesu Rata, And Nearly Midway Between Tunis And Egypt. It Is Considered As The Country Of The Ancient Garamantes, And As ...
Fezzan Berdoa
Berdoa, Fezzan, The Great Ridge Of Mountains, With Its Different Rami Fications, Are 'said To Abound In Gold, Particularly In The West, Opposite Bambouk And Mantling, And In The East, Opposite To Wangara. From Tombuctoo, Which Is The Mart Of The Mandingo Gold, It Is Distributed Over The Northern Quarters ...
Fifth
Fifth, In Music, Is The Numeral Designation Of An In Terval, Consisting Of 5 Diatonic Degrees, Including The Low Est And Highest Of These; But Besides The Intervals That Can Properly Come Under This Denomination, A Wider Range Has Been Improperly Taken By Various Writers, In Giving The Name Of ...
File
File, A Well-known Steel Instrument, Having Teeth On The Surface For Cutting Metal, Ivory, Wood, Sic. When The Teeth Of These Instruments Are Formed By A Flat Sharp-edged Chissel, Extending Across The Surface, They Are Properly Called Files ; But When The Tooth Is Formed By A Sharp-pointed Tool, In ...
Finances
Finances. The Engliah Colonists," Says Adam Smith, "have Never Yet Contributed Any Thing Towards The De Fence Of The Mother Country, Or Towards The Support Of Its Civil Government. They Themselves, On The Con Trary, Have Hitherto Been Defended Almost Entirely At The Expense Of The Mother Country. The Ex ...
Finger Keyed Instruments
Finger-keyed Instruments, In Music, Are In Gene Ral Such As Are Performed Upon By Touching With The Fin Gers A System Of Of Levers, Called Keys, Manual Keys, Or The Clavier. The Organ, Virginal, Spinet, Harpsichord, Piano Forte, And Barillons Or Carillons, Are Well Known In This Class Of Instruments. ...
Finland
Finland, A Division Of Sweden, But Recently Annexed To Russia, Is Situated Between 60° And 66° 23' North Lati Tude, And Between 21° 20' And 31° 20' East Longitude From Greenwich. It Is Bounded On The North By Swedish Lap Land ; On The West By The Gulf Of Bothnia ...
Firmin Abauzit
Abauzit, Firmin, A Frenchman Of Considerable Learning, Was Born At Usez, In Languedoc, On The 11th November, 1679. To Avoid The Persecutions To ?vhit Protestants Were Then Exposed, His Mother Carried Him Into Switzerland, After The Decease Of His Father, Where He Prosecuted The Studies Of Physic And Theology. 1 ...
Fisher Ames
Ames, Fisher. On The Illustrious Subject Of The Present Article, We Feel Most Sensibly How Difficult It Is To Think Without Emotion, Or To Speak With That Coolness And Sclf-controul, That Temperance And Impartiality, That Be Come The Biographer. If, However, On Any Point Of His Tory, It Be Admissible ...
Fixed Stars
Fixed Stars. Various Opinions Have Been Entertained By Astronomers Respecting The Tails Of Comets. Tycho Brahe And Ap Pian Imagined, That The Tail Was Occasioned By The Rays Of The Sun Transmitted Through The Nucleus Of The Comet, Which They Believed To Be Transparent Like A Lens. Kepler Thought That ...
Flavius Animus Manlius Tor
Flavius Animus Manlius Tor Quatus Severinus, The Most •eminent Of The La Ter Romans, Was Born At Rome About The Year 470, And Flourished In The Reigns Of The Emperors Zeno And Thcodoric. He Was Deprived Of His Fa. Ther At An Early Age, And Thus Succeeded To The Pa ...
Flensbourg
Flensbourg Is The Name Of A Sea-port Town Of Den Mark, Situated On The Eastern Coast Of The Duchy Of Sles Wick, And Though Not The Capital, Is The Most Opulent And Important Place In The Duchy. The Streets Are Rather Nar Row, And The Houses, Though Not So Neat ...
Fletcher
Fletcher, A Mnituw, Of Salton, In East Lothian, Was A Statesman And A Patriot Of The Highest Order ; And Though Scotland, His Native Land, Was The Chief Object Of His Exer Tionl, Yet, Wherever The Love Of Country And Of Liberty Pre Vails, He Deserves To Be Remembered With ...
Floating Anchor
Floating Anchor. This Is A Simple Implement, Which Is Sunk Below The Swell Of The Sea, Where There Is No Other Anchorage, For The Purpose Of Preventing A Vessel From Drifting. Dr Franklin Proposed That It Should Consist Of A Wooden Cross, From The Ends Of Which A Sail Should ...
Florence
Florence, A Celebrated City Of Italy, Is Situated On The Banks Of The River Arno, In North Lat. 43' 46' 3g", And East Long. A According To Sidereal Observations. It Is Distant 150 Miles From Rome, And About 60 From The Shores Of That Part Of The Mediterranean Called The ...
Florida
Florida, A Province In North America, Is Bounded On The North By Georgia ; On The East, By The Atlantic ; On The South, By The Gulf Of Mexico; And On The West, By The Mississippi. It Extends Between 500 And 600 Miles From East To West; And Little More ...
Flower Garden 457
Flower Garden. 457. Tim Flower Garden, It Has Been Already Observed, § 55. Has A Separate Situation, Generally At Some Distance From The Fruit And Kitchen Garden. It Should Indeed Form An Ornamental Appendage To The Mansion, And Be Easily Ac Cessible In All Kinds Of Weather. There Is No ...