is 568 feet. In the middle of the 
the building is an old tower 
in the 10th or 11th cen The 
is —_— — and if the A 
thriving state. An Account o, N= 
2 Provines of Moray. (j) 
Asrnronomy, Conic Sections, and 
tiquittes, 
FOCUS. See 
Optics. 
FOG. See Merronotocy. : 
FOGGIA, a town of Naples, in the province of Ca- 
pitanata. In ence of the destruction of the old 
town by an uake in 1732, the present town was 
built with great regularity and neatness. The houses 
are well built with white stone, and the streets are 
The granaries, in which the corn is preserved, 
are built beneath the streets and squares ; 
ithi with stone, and the orifices closed 
with earth and stones. On account of the insalubrity 
of the climate, the town is in a great measure deserted 
in summer, but in winter it is supposed to contain 
about 20,000 inhabitants. ( 2 
FOLKSTONE, the Lapis Populi of the Romans, and 
the Folcestane of the Saxons, is a town of Eng- 
land in the county of Kent, It is situated on unequal © 
ground near the sea, and consists of three i 
streets, built chiefl SS atyeed, te peiecioall 4 
houses, many of which are good, are principally t 
of brick: The church, which stands directly on the 
cliff above the town, is dedicated to St Mary and St 
Eauswith. Ee ee annnton ualaamiaee 
tower rising from erent phn 
Frosh Which epeing: pemnted arc es, with lain 
large piers, 
mouldings. The market-house has been recently built 
at the of the Earl of Radnor. A free school 
was founded here in 1674, for 20 poor children. The 
Baptists, Quakers, and Methodists, have each a meet- 
ing-house in the town. There is also a custom-house 
Ks oto enjors mete good came wie isn 
F joys a coasting ,and shij d- 
ing is carried on here to a considerable extent. é in- 
i are, however, Sr ed in fish- 
an 
ing. ak is of : nara’ jan ae 
mackerel, herrings, soles, whi' , conger eels, ice, 
cipally by The ~ "was aml, = ed pine 
eipally by jetties ; but it recently much im- 
proved. Before the town there is 1 anchorage, 
with eight or ten fathoms of water. Folkstone is a 
member of the cinque ports, and is governed by a 
mayor, 12 jurats, and 24 common councilmen, '&c. 
This town was formerly very large, containing 5 pa- 
rish-churches ; but the part of it has been car- 
ried off by the sea. About a mile and a half to the 
north of Folkstone, on the top of a high hill, is an an- 
cient camp, corm ing nearly two acres. The 
small of Sandgate, is about a mile and’ 
a‘half west of Fol eA martello tower lias’ 
been erected in the centre of the castle of Sandgate ; 
and at Shorn Cliffe, on the hill above Sandgate, an ex- 
tensive range of barracks has been recently built, In 
the year 1511, there were in the town of Folkstone, 
Inhabited houses ..........5. 765 
"GIRS eae ay 841 
Do. employed in agriculture ..... 23 
BE Se ais oes se OR 157 
FONDI. See Funor. : 
FONTAINEBLEAU is a town of France, in the 
—— of the Seine and Marne. It is beau- 
tifully situated in the forest of the same name, and 
consists of a princi i ‘al smaller o 
Fontainebleau is chiefly celebrated for its royal 
which is built at the south end of the towr 
i 
= 
a 
qine 
four distinct chateaus, each of which has a garden, 
contains no fewer than about 900 its, most 
which are fitted up in the host ipl 
Pope was 
I odes i 
abdicated the throne 
8 
fos 
e 
? 
woe 
aes 
in which Ponape 
> of France ; and | 
t before he set off for 
ai a6 x3 : 
? ese, 
cae Haart 
” foc beta 
. had not received 
ye since the revolution. The theatre is re 
. ibly e bai adorn th Bde aod geil 
° middle 
ad 
a 
forest of Fontainebleau is almost round, 
tains about 25,000 acres. It covers several small 
and plains, and the surface of these hills is covered with 
thrown there accident. Many 
Re se 
talent for until his twenty-second year ; at which 
TARAS ACCOM BUWEEY GFE i bo have besa Kinled 
the perusal of some of the odes of Malesherbes. His 
first essays he was in the habit of submitting to the 
judgment of a relation of his own, who encouraged him 
to proceed, : uently used to read with him Quin- 
ie ta an é- best ron oars yk on- 
taine also endeavoured to improve his genius, by an ac- 
aintance with the Frerichi“aiid ‘Ttalian writers ; ana, 
uthors, he 
n the works of the most eminent Greeks author 
drew many of those fine moral oa 
among his 
which he has inte ples. 
A desire of enjoying the conversation of men of let- 
ters induced him to remove to Paris, where the inten- 
dant, Fouquet, soon procured him a pension. He was 
afterwards appointed gentleman to the Queen Henrietta 
of England ; but the corte Oe of that unfo: 
princess put an end to all his hopes of court 
maxims, 
t. 
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