remarkably abstemious in diet, they are great] 
FEZ 
fm treet heme more an 
pare , but the province, which bears its 
name, is for the quantity of trona, a species 
of fossil alkali, which floats on the surface of its nume~ 
rous lakes. Teghery, about 70 miles south-west of the 
capital 'is'a'cmnall town, nearest to the western frontier. 
ane north are Sockna, Sibha, Hun, and Waden. 
anaes dincnaigsareace t. Itisacommon 
i is to desi arich man, by saying that he is 
read and meat every day, But though 
i i y addict- 
is the juice of 
fresh, is sweet 
which is extremely intoxicating. Their amuse- 
ment in their eveni i is with the 
reer ts one teen Merah 
strument is a rude kind of guitar, and whose motions 
are sufficiently rete Aen ym 4 of the females, 
in general, are unusually tious, are vehe- 
mently fond of amusement, i ot dane’ in the 
occasional blood-letting, which is always done 
cupping, and never by venesection ; ‘aibeliivigattics 
315 
FIE 
of medicine is confined almost entirely to amulets, con« 
sisting of sentences from the Koran, written on a sli 
of paper, which the patient wears about his neck, an 
is sometimes compelled to swallow. “ae 
Geography, vol. vi.; Rennel’s ‘Geography of Herodo- 
poy 566, 618; and Horneman’s Travels in Africa; 
p- 62. (q) 
FIARS, is the name given in Scotland to the average 
prices of different kinds of grain sold within'the coun- 
ty for ready money. Their average prices are gene 
rally determined ‘by the Sheriff in the end of February 
or the beginning of March, from the evidence of a 
number ble tenants or dealers in corn. The 
method of striking’ the average varies in different coun- 
ties. (1) 
FIBRE. See Anatomy and Puysro.ocy. 
FICHTELBERG. See Franconia. 
FIELDING, Henry, the celebrated English novel. 
list and dramatie writer, was born at Sharpham Park; 
near Glastonbury, in Somersetshire, on the 22d of 
April 1707. His father, Edmund Fielding, Esq. who 
was nearly related to many noble and a meee fa+ 
milies, served in the wars under the Duke of Marl- 
borough, and eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant- 
eral. His mother was daughter to seigeGens 
ee to Sir Henry Gould, one of the of 
x 
home, under the care of the Rev. Mr Oliver, a person 
edn = seems _ have entertained Me very, ~~ 
, as he is generally thought to have design e 
character of Parson Tr somyie Pooogh Andrews, a8 a 
it of this we Sm He was. afterwards re- 
moved to Eton school, where he had an opportunity of 
forming a very early intimacy with the first Lord Lyt- 
tleton, Mr Fox, (afterwards Lord Holland), Mr Pitt, 
afterwards Earl of Chatham), Sir Charles: Hanbury 
illiams, and sevéral other distinguished characters, 
who ever afterwards cherished a warm r for him. 
By an assiduous application to study, the cultiva- 
tion of strong natural talents, he is said to have also 
acquired an uncommon knowledge of the Greek and 
Latin classics, during his residence at that seminary of 
education ; and when about eighteen years of age, he 
repaired to the University of Leyden, where he studied 
under the most celebrated civilians for about two years, 
at the expiration of which period, he was 
in consequence of the failure of remittances, to return’ 
to London, 
His father, General Fielding, having greatly in- 
creased his family by a second marriage, found it im- 
possible ‘to afford his son an ae: Peet to” 
the expence attending those fashi leasures in: 
which he had too great a to indu The 
vivacity of his temper, the brilliancy of his wit, and 
his relish of all kinds of social ent, made him 
a most desirable companion in the circles of literature 
and fashion ; but having no disposition for economy, 
' and his finances being inadequate to the draughts made 
upon him in this career of dissipation, he soon found 
himself involved in difficulties, from which, however, 
he hoped to extricate himself by the exertion of his 
genius. Accordingly, he commenced a writer for the 
stage, in‘1727, when he had just completed his 20th 
ear. 
* His first dramatic attempt was a comedy, called Love 
in several Masques, which met with a very favourable 
reception, although it laboured under the disadvan 
of succeeding the long and crowded run of the Pro 
uer. ‘ 
Fieldin received the rudiments of his education at 
Fiars 
Fielding. 
