FAR (276 FAR 
Farming, eviclent that the number of f's ea Number of inhabited houses... 2... .. S527 
Fernba™, for any interval, will shew, to which of the 12 finger- | Number of families which oceupy them. . . » 570'” 
-_——_— s, or notes of the half-tone system, the same Families PRA ee wy Sh aio. BIH 
be! : thus all in less than 23. -4-f-2m may —_Do, in trade and eae! pe SORT 
be classed with the unison, or first di , and consi- Males -. .. 3.0 Ba ses Seip Bente eels 
dered as temperaments; all between this and 80 © + Females . «5-4 see eee eee s 1 1560, 
2f + 7 m, may be considered of the second degree, or Total ON ee ee ee ee QOL 
as minor seconds, &. * See the Beauties of E: Wales, vol xiv. page 
In like manner, the third or m column of 53 parts in 241. West Long. 47’ 52”, North Lat. 51° 137". See 
the octave, are the Artificial’ Commas of Mercator, asis Sunney. (je o 6. 6 or oe 
particularly explained in our article Common Measures | FARO, the name of a town of P , in the pro- 
of int and by help of which commas, the calcu- vince of » It is situated in a level and sandy 
lations of ‘most intervals, except those near to or less plain, about a league from the sea, and on the bank of 
than a comma, may. be correctly perfurmed. And, in the river Da Quarteira. The town, which is quite open, 
like manner, the first column, tely considered, of 
a table of regular intervals, constitute Mr Farcy’s Arti- 
Jicial Commas, 612 to the octave: ‘by means of which, 
the utmost facility, and every requisite degree of accu- 
racy, is given to the calculations of all real or diatonic 
intervals r than =, (except sometimes confound- 
ing R and» ¥c, and also € and ¢), mostly in whole 
numbers ; and in the calculations of po) ener or 
where decimal or vulgar fractional parts of this artificial 
comma are used, even the smallest intervals, as well 
as the largest, are represented by them and decimals, 
with greater oo pms than it is practical to make ex- 
iments, or to apply musical ‘calculations in practice. 
ARMING. See AcricuLTURE. ; 
FARNHAM, a town of England, in the hundred of 
Farnham, and the county of Surrey, is situated partly 
on a hill not far from the north bank of the river Wye. 
The town consists of one principal street, with some 
smaller ones branching off to the north and south, and 
the houses are in general excellent. The principal pub- 
lie buildings and establishments at Farnham, are the 
castle, the church, and the market house, with a free 
school, and a charity school. The castle is situ- 
ated upon a hill, on the north side of the principal street. 
It was built by Henry, (brother of King Stephen,) Bi- 
shop of Winchester, and has ever since the sum- 
mer residence of:the Bishop of Winchester. It was 
greatly injured in the civil war in 1642, but was rebuilt 
and fe oy the Restoration by Dr Morley, Bi- 
shop of Winchester. . It is built of brick, ‘Sveted! with 
stucco, and is embattled, and of a oma 
Some remains of the keep of the ancient e are con- 
tiguous to the edifice. It is called Jay’s Tower, which 
is ascended by 68 stone steps. It contains a kitchen 
garden on its top, consisting of 48 rods ofland. ‘The 
whole is surrounded with a strong stone wall, at the 
foot of which is a moat planted with oaks. The church, 
‘which was formerly a ¢ of'ease to Waverley Abbey, 
is at a little distance to the south of the High Street, and 
is a large building, apparently built about the end of the 
15th or the beginning of the 16th century. It consists 
of a nave continued to form the chance), with a north 
and south aisle, . Its numerous windows are -adorned 
with tracery ; and the interior contains several hand- 
some monuments, ‘with a painting of the 12 a -on 
an altar-piece The tower, which is very substantial, 
has a small turret at each cornice ; end Giersiontlibe. 
kgt at the west end, which seems to have 
hops cultivated in the 
; Feroa Reserata, very j 
wi 
built, and has , 
Sites Sale 
. 
1s 
large ones are obliged to un 
load roy tie road or lower down the river, which,:af- 
ter numerous windings, forms the narrow entrance ‘of 
the harbour a league and a half to the south-east of the 
town. The harbour is defended by the fort of San Lou- 
renco de Olhaé, situated on the east side of the river. 
Anithier narrow arm of the river, or i 
of the sea, called a Baretta, forms an island, on whi 
is the sandy cape of Santa Maria. In all the maps, this 
island is laid down at too great a distance from the land: 
The tract between the town and the sea is very A 
and is covered with marine plants. It is flat and 
on the i bres - op oe Se 
tains of Miguel, which are high and steep, but: 
cultivated taietatla their base. sev er 
The gi part of the trade of Algarvia is carried on 
v the country people in a , ina building for this 
purpose, The syru wiath ior haendedaomaanie 
making brandy. They are then spread in the sun in 
an open situation, and are afterwards p into small 
baskets made of the leaves of the fan each con- 
taining 28 os grrr ye i dag omer 
th the red, cularly the Figo do Enchario, an 
do Bispo, are most. and Spanish 
reeds are also exported from Faro to « Number 
of houses 1200; population 5000. West Long. 7° 52’, 
North Lat. 87° 2. (j) 1 ritsvite +4 
. FAROE, the name given to a group of islands in the 
Northern Ocean, ing toDenmark. 
presen 
interesting. They to have been resorted 
& long before Diienia Ba 
cause, the subj petty 
Harold the fatr-haired, led to the colonization of 
in the 9th century. Those inhabitants of Norway who 
did not chuse to submit to that victorious left 
ple of Faroe, who were of the same rank with those who. 
