Amotherby, Yorkf. N. Riding, near Rydel.

AMOUR, a river of Afiatic Siberia. AMOY, an ifle on the SW. of China. AMPASA, an island of Zanguebar. AMPHIPOLIS, an ancient decayed city of Macedon, formerly it's capital, on the river Strymon, 70 miles NE. of Salonichi. Ampleford, Yorks. near Think.

AMPLEPUIS, a town in the dept. of Rhone and Loire. It is celebrated for it's wines, and is 16 miles E. of Rouanne.

Ampney-Dorun, Glouc. near Fairford, and near Cricklade, in Wilt. AmpneyHoly Rood, Ampney-Mary, Ampney-Peter, Glouc. near Fairford. Amport, Hampf. near Andover.

*AMPTHILL, a pretty town in Bedfordshire, 44 miles from London, between the roads from thence to Buckingham and Royston. It is almoft in the centre of the country, between two hills, and was the refidence of the injured Catharine of Arragon, wife of Henry VIII.

Ampton, Notting. near Tuxford. Ampton, Suff. N. of Edmundsbury.

AMPUGNANO, a diftrict of Corfica.
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AMPURIAS, a fea-port of Catalonia. AMPURIAS, an inland town of Sardinia. AMRAS, a castle of Auftria, 2 miles SE. of Infpruck, containing a rich library. AMROM, an island of Denmark. Amsford, Kent, near Seven-Oak. AMSTERDAM, a large, rich, populous, trading, and hand fome city of Holland, the capital of the United Provinces. The walls are high and ftrongly fortified, and the bridge, which joins the rampart, is built over the Amftel, and is an extraordinary piece of architecture. The public buildings are fine and numerous. are many handfome church-houses and hofpitals, for perfons of different ages, fexes, religious profeffions, and countries. Το the good fenfe and candour of the Dutch, in tolerating all profeffions of religion, when perfecution prevailed in other parts, we may, in a great meafure, attribute their profperity, and the populoufnels of their capital. This city is computed to be about half the fize of London; the foundation is laid upon piles, driven into the morafs whereon it ftands, and under the tadthoufe alone, there are 13,000. The exchange is one of the principal ornaments of the city; and the harbour, though difficult of accefs, becaufe of the fhoals, is one of the largest and finest in Europe, where a vast number of ships may be seen contantly; the freets are fpacious and well

paved, and most of them have canals with rows of trees on each fide, It is feated at the confluence of the rivers Amftel and Wye, 65 miles N. of Antwerp, 175 E. by N. of London, 24.0 N. by E. of Paris, and 560 NW. of Vienna. Lat. 52. 23. N. lon. 4. 50. E.

Amfty, a parish of Hertfordshire. Amf worth, Lanc. near Manchefter.

AMU, AMUR, rivers in Afiatic Ruffia. AMUL, a large inland town of Perfia. Amavell, a village in Hertfordshire, a little to the S. of Ware, and 21 miles from London. One part is called AmwellMagna, and the other Amwell-Parva; the head or fource of the New River, which fupplies London with water, is at the latter place. This canal was projected by Hugh Middleton; he began it in 1606, and fi nifhed it in 1612, by affiftance of the city of London, and by aid of parliament; but with a confiderable loss of his own property, he perfected the work. The extent of the canal is near 39 miles; it has 43 fluices, and there are 215 bridges over it. Amawick, Lincolnshire, between Sleaford and Tattershall.

ANABOA, an ifle, on the coast of Loango. ANADIR, a river of Siberia. ANADIR. SKOI, a town on the river, belonging to Ruffia.

Anadorn, in Down, Ulfter.

ANAGNI, a city of Campagna, fituated on an eminence, in the Via Latina, but now almost fallen to ruins. Near this, are the hot waters, anciently called Therma Aninx. Lat. 41. 56. N. lon. 13. 25. E.

ANAKOPIR, capital of the Abkas. ANARSTAPINN, a fea-port of Iceland. ANATOLIA, or NATOLIA PROPER, a province of Natolia, or Afia Minor. ANATTOM, one of the New Hebrides. ANBAR, a town of Hindooftan. ANCARANO, a town of Ancona, in the pope's territories, 82 miles NE. of Rome.

Ancafter, a village of Linc. 8 miles from Grantham, 15 miles S. of Lincoln. Ancaftle, Oxfordf. on the borders of Berk. fhire.

ANCENIS, a town a feated on the river Loire, in the dept. of Lower Loire, 20 miles E. of Nantz.

ANCLAM, a town of the Wefter, Swedifh, or Royal Pomerania, in Upper Saxony. It made a good figure once among the Hanfe-towns, and has an advantageous fite among good corn lands and excellent pafture, with the conveniency of fishing and exporting their commodities, by means of the river Pene, on which it is feated. Formerly it was called Tanglim, and fome have fuppofed it to have been the feat of

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places, they rife more than one third higher than the Pike of Teneriffe, heretofore accounted the highest part of the whole earth. The Andes may literally be faid, to hide their heads in the clouds: the ftorms often roll, and the thunders burst below their fummits; which, though exposed to the rays of the fun, in the centre of the torrid zone, are covered with everlasting fhows. From experiments made with a barometer, on the mountain of Cotopaxi, it appeared, that it's fummit was elevated 6252 yards, which is fomething more than 3 geographical miles, above the furface of the fea. Thefe mountains give rise to the largest rivers in the world; and, when the volcanos, which are numerous here, break out among the fnows, the fudden thaws, produce such torrents of water, as to deluge the plains, and carry off the inhabitants, both man and beaft.

ANDES, a hamlet of Mantua. Andiffer, near Lancaster. ANDORA, a large village of Genoa, producing excellent wine.

ANDORNO, a fmall place in Piedmont. ANDOVER, a large, well-built, populous town in Hampfhire, pleafantly fituated on the river Ande, on the edge of the Downs. It is a great throughfare on the western road, as well from Newbury to Salisbury, as from London down into the weit, 10 miles N. by W. of Winchester, and 65 W. by S. of London. 14. N. lon. 1. 20. W.

Lat. 51.

ANDRAGHIRA, a river of Sumatra, on which the Dutch have a factory.

ANDRAIG, a harbour and fort of Majorca.

ANDRARUM, a town of S. Gothland, 3 miles S. of Chriftianstadt; here is the greatest alum work in Sweden.

Andre, St. Northumb. 6 miles E. of Hexham. Andrew's, St. near Beccles. Andrew's-Caple, St. Hampshire, between Southampton and Petersfield.

ANDREW'S, ST. a town of Fifefhire, formerly the metropolis of Scotland, or of the Pictish kingdom. It is feated on a bay, on the level top of a small hill, commanding a view of the German Ocean. The cathedral, once a large Gothic structure, founded in 1161, and 157 years in building, was fo completely demolished in a fingle day, by John Knox and his adherents, that little of it now remains. The univerfity, founded by the bishop Wardlaw, in 1411, confifts of 3 colleges, the Old College, the St. Leonard's, and the New College, and has produced many learned men. The houses, though built of stone, are gone to decay, there being

no manufactures here to fupport the numerous inhabitants; and the harbour has fuffered greatly by the encroachments of the fea. It is 30 miles NE. of Edinburgh. Lat. 56. 18. N. lon. 2. 45. W.

ANDREW'S, ST. a town in Nova Scotia. ANDRE, ST. two towns in the dept. of Mont Blanc, and feveral others in different parts of France; alfo, a district of Corfica.

ANDREASBERG, or ST. ANDREW, a town of Brunfwick Lunenburg. It has rich iron mines.

ANDREW, ST. a town of Carinthia. ANDREW'S, ST. an ifland, and a town of Hungary.

ANDREW'S, ST. an island, with a town of Dalmatia.

ANDRIA, a town of Naples.

ANDROS, an ifland and fea-port of Turkey, in the Archipelago. The inhabitants are mostly of the Greek church, and about 5000 in number. The princi pal riches of this ifland, confist in silks, and it produces wine, oil, corn, oranges, citrons, mulberries, pomegranates, figs, &c. It lies to the N. of Candia, and near the S. end of Negropont.

ANDROSS, one of the Bermuda ifles.
ANDRUSSOW, a village of Smolenskow.
ANDRZEIOW, a little town of Cracow.
ANDST, a diftri&t in N. Jutland.

ANDUJAR, or ANDUXAR, an ancient, large, and populous city of Andalusia. It has feveral fine buildings, a ftrong castle, and is feated on the Guadalquiver, over which there is a stately bridge. It vends great quantities of fiĺk, and the country around, abounds in corn, wine, oil, honey, &c.. It is 25 miles E. of Corduba. Lat. 37. 55. N. lon. 3. 34. W.

ANDWORTSKOw, a district of Seeland. ANEGADA, one of the Carribee fles. ANFA, a district of Temecen, Africa. Anfield, Hampf. near Southampton. ANFILOCHA, now JEROIRLIA, a town of the ancient Epirus; it was almost ruined, during the wars between the Venetians and Turks.

Angabury, Herf. near Hitching. ANGARA, a river of Afiatic Ruffia. Angel, a river in Montgomeryshire. ANGELO, ST. a town in the pope's ter ritories; a ward and a caftle of Rome, to which the pope retires, on apprehenfion of danger; a trong castle of Malta; a caftle and district of Corfu; a fea-port of Apulia; a town, two cities, and a moun tain of Naples.

ANGELOS, the fecond city of Mexico. The ftreets are large, clean, and regularly built. The fquare, in the centre, is beau

tified on three fides with uniform porticos, where are fhops, furnished with all forts of merchandize on the other fide, is it's ftately cathedral, built in the modern tafte. It has a mint, glafs-house, and other manu factures, and the country around it is very fertile but the inhabitants, both priefts and people, are accounted extremely profligate and licentious in their mauners. Angelos, is 62 miles SE. of Mexico. Lat. 19. 30. N. lon. 99. 22. W. Angelfley, Somerfetfhire, near Taunton. ANGERAP, a river of Pruffia. ANGERBURG, a diftrict, and a town on a lake of the fame name in Pruffia. ANGERMANNIA, a province in the N. of Sweden, 24 miles long and 16 broad. It is diversified with rocks, mountains, and forests; rivers and lakes, abounding with fish; and, here are valuable iron

works.

ANGERMANNSLAND, a province of Lapland, W. of Angermannia. ANGERMUNDE, a town of Courland; and a town of Weftphalia.

ANGERN, an iron-work in Courland. ANGERS, a large and populous city of the dept. of Maine and Loire. It is feated near the confluence of the Sarte and Loire, and is divided by the Maine into two parts; the western, extending into the plain, and the eaftern, which rifes on the acclivity of a hill. It's environs prefent a pleasing view of numerous countryhoules, upwards of a hundred wind-mills, well cultivated kitchen-gardens, and eminences that produce good white wine. The inhabitants are computed at 30,000. The manufacture of handkerchiefs and fail-cloth, is carried on here; the produce of the flate quarries, at the extremity of the fuburb of Breffigny, forms likewife an important article of commerce. In Angers, there is a fpacious fquare, and four beautiful public walks. It is 50 miles E. of Nantz, and 175 SW. of Paris. Lat. 47. 30. N. lon. o. 35. W.

Angerton, Cumberland, in the Holme. Angerton, Northumb. near Morpeth. ANGEZEIA, one of the Comora Islands. ANGIHART, a village of Tufcany. ANGHIERA, a county, and a town of Milan, on the E. fide of the Lake Maggiore, 30 miles NW. of Milan. Lat. 45. 42. N. lon. 8. 40. E.

Anglefborough, in Limerick, Munster. ANGLESEY, OF ANGLESEA, ISLE OF, the most western county of N. Wales, through which the packets regularly pafs between London and Dublin. It was called by the ancients Mona, and was the feat of the Druids, of whom there feem

to be fome monumental remains, in the erections of huge ftones, fingly and collectively, in circles, and one upon another, as at Stone Henge; they are without any infcription, to thew the time or occafion of their erection. Here are alfo found some Roman and other antiquities. Angletey is feparated from Carnarvonshire, by a long and narrow ftrait, called Menai, or Meneu, which, in fome places, is fordable at low water. It is a fertile fpot, has fome valuable quarries, and a very fine copper-mine on Pary's Mount.

Anglefey Abbey, Camb. near Botfham. Angleton, Suffex, near Lewes. Angmering, E. and W. Suff. two finall villages on the English Channel, near Arundel.

ANGOL, a pleafant well-watered city of Chili, fituated on a very fertile plain, 125 miles N. of Baldivia. Lat. 37. 56. S. lon. 72. 59. W.

ANGOLA, a fertile kingdom of Lower Guinea, or Congo, fituated between the rivers Dande and Coanza. It is bounded on the N. by Congo Proper, on the E. by Malemba, on the S. by Benguela, and on the W. by the ocean. It produces Indian corn, beans, oranges, lemons, and feveral other fruits. The country is divided among feveral petty princes; the Portuguese have feveral fettlements on the coaft, and the English and Dutch yet carry on that infamous traffic the man-trade. Polygamy is allowed in this country, and they practife the initiatory rite of the Hebrews. They seem to be an amiable and peaceful people; they are tall, and are reckoned to be elegant figures, and very handfome; and from the fertility of the foil, and the fimplicity of their manners, they live very much at their cafe; it is perhaps from this circumftance, that thefe injured poor people, when carried into flavery, fhew an impatience of fatigue, and an independency of fpirit fuperior to thofe from the Gold-Coaft, where the foil is barren, and where they have been accuf tomed to hardship and labour. Angola is fituated between 5 and 16 degrees S. lat. and between 10 and 15 E. lon.

ANGORA, or ANGOURA, anciently ANCYRA, a town of Natolia in Afiatic Turkey, remarkable for it's remains of antiquity, as infcriptions, pillars, ruins of temples, &c. of porphyry and old marble. The cattle, which is as large as a fall town, and well inhabited, both by the Chriftians and Turks, is built of white marble, and ftone refembling porphyry, and throughout the walls of the town, which are low, and thofe of the houies which are generally built of unburnt brick,

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antique fragments are interfperfed. The city of Angora is computed to have 100,000 inhabitants in it, 90,000 of whom are Turks; and about 1000 of thefe are janizaries: Greeks, Armenians, &c. compofe the remaining 10,000. The country produces very good red wine, and they have excellent rice on fome of the rivers. They have the finest breed of goats here in the world; their hair or wool is quite white, and almoft as fine as filk; a great trade is carried on in this article, and the finest ftuffs, especially camlets, are made of it. The exports of Angora to Holland, France, and England, are about 1600 camel-loads yearly. It is 212 miles SE. of Conftantinople. Lat. 39. 30. N. lon. 32. 5. E.

ANGOT, a fruitful kingdom of Ethiopia, environed with fteep mountains. It has been wrefted from Abyffinia by the Galles.

ANGOULESME, a town in the dept. of Charente. It ftands on a mountain furrounded with rocks, the river Charente running at the foot of it. It is 20 miles W. of Limoges, and 250 S. by W. of Paris. Lat. 45. 39. N. lon. o. 14. E.

ANGOUMOIS, late a province of France, now included in the dept. of Charente. It is hilly, but fertile, has good iron-mines, and excellent paper manufactories.

ANGRA, a diftrict, and a fea-port of Tercera. The city of Angra is the metropolis of all the Azores. The harbour is good, and the town well built and populous; it has the privilege of fending a deputy to the general diet of Portugal. The English and Dutch have confuls here, though the commerce is very trifling; what they have from it is moftly wood and corn, and other provifions. Lat. 38. 39. N. lon. 27. 7. W.

ANGROGNE, OF ANGROGNA, a mountainous, yet fruitful community, parish, or to wnship of Piedmont, through which runs

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a little river of the fame name. ceffible only at two places from the S. and E. and there are retreats among the rocks, where, during the most violent perfecutions against the poor Vandois, their old barte, bards, as they are called, or valley. minifters, preached without interruption. Sometimes the valleys of Piedmont are called by the name of Angrogne. The town of Angrogna is 7 miles W. of Pignerol. Lat. 45. o. N. lon. 7. 15. E.

Angton, Suflex, near Arundel. ANGSO, a caftle of Uplandia. ANGUED, a province of Algiers, or rather a defert of Tremecen. Hords, or clans of Arabs, and others, live here

mostly on plunder, obliging travellers to pay them money for their paffports, which are a kind of fmall flag at the end of a lance. They have but little corn, and they feed principally on dates, milk, and what wild game (fo called) they kill. They all ramble or range about the country, without acknowledging any but their own chief, or paying any tribute to the Algerines.

ANGUILLA, a woody, fertile, level ifland, and the most northerly of the Carribees held by the English.

ANGUILLARA, a town in the pope's territories; also a lake, and a finall but hand fome town of Padua.

ANGUS, a fhire of Scotland, fometimes called Forfar, from the name of the countytown, is bounded on the N. by Aberdeenfhire, on the NE. by Kincardineshire, on the E. by the German Ocean, on the S. by the Frith of Tay, and on the W. by Perthshire. It's length and breadth are nearly equal, about 35 miles. It has many lakes and hills, with quarries of flate and freeftone, mines of lead and iron ore; the lower grounds are fertile in corn and pafture; and, along the coaft, the falmon-fishery is very extenfively carried on. The princi pal rivers are the N. and S. Efk.

ANHALT, a principality of Upper Saxony, 42 miles long, 8 broad. It abounds in corn, and is watered by the Salde, and the Mulda.

ANHALT, an island of Denmark, lying in the Categat, 8 miles from the coast of Jutland, and to from Zealand. It is dangerous for feamen, for which reafon a light-house is erected on it.

ANIAN. See AJAN.

ANJENGO, a fmall town and factory, held by the Eat India company. Their merchandize confifts chiefly of pepper and calicoes. Lat. 7. 0. N. lon. 76. 1. E.

ANJOU, a cidevant province of France, forms, with the late provinces of Maine and Touraine, the 4 departments of Maine and Loire, Indre and Loire, Maine and Sarte.

Anker, a river of Warwickf, which falls into the Tame at Tamworth. Ankerden, Worceft. on the borders of Herefordí Ankham, a river of Lincolnf. falling into the Humber. Ankerton, Oxfordf. NW. of Banbury. Ankerwick, Buckinghamsh. by the Thames. Anlaby, Yorkshire, near Hull.

ANNA, a diftri&t of Arabia Deferta. It's capital of the fame name is feated on the wettern bank of the Euphrates, where there is a plenty of olives, oranges, cit rons, lemons, pomegranates, and dates.

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