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AUF.RCORN, afmiU town of Gawia, i:i Air.crica, on 

 the Sav:>nnjli river, alioiit lliirtccn miles N. W. of Savannah. 



AUKRCROMHY, rhsma', M. D. in Bhgrnphy, was 

 born at Forfar, in the county of Antjns, in 1656, anil 

 educated at St. Andrews and Leyden, in which latter place 

 he took his degree in i6Sj. I'pon his return he renounced 

 his religion at the requi-ll of James II. and was appointed 

 one of the court plivlici.ins. After the revolution he ap- 

 plied to the iludy of' antiquities, and wrote the Martijl At- 

 cliievenient3 of Scotland, in i vols. fol. His Treatiie on 

 Wit is not much ellecmcd. He died at Edinburgh in 1726, 

 aged 70. Riotj. Diifl. 



ADKRCROMCY, D.^vJ, m Uhgraflh, a Scotch phy- 

 fician, pnbli'hcd, in if)84,a 'I'rep.tire on the Venereal Difeafe, 

 under the title, Tiit:i et eflie.ix Luis Venerex, fxpe ablqiie 

 Wercurio, et fcmpcr abfque Snlivatione Mercuriali, curandx 

 Mcthodin, 8vo. This was followed by another book on 

 the fame fubJLcl, in the year 16S7. He alio publilhcd, De 

 Pulfus Variatione, an. 1685; and, in the fame year, Ars cx- 

 plorandi medicas facultates Plantarum, ex folo fapore. 

 His works however are of little value. 



ABERDARON i9aj', m Geography, is fituated within 

 the S. W. point of Caernarvon county in Wales, and N. E. 

 from Bardfoy idaiid. 



ABERDAVINE, in Ornithology, a name fometimcs 



flven to a fpecies of Fr i s o i l i, A , more generally ciUcd Siskin. 

 ec Spin us. 



ABERDEEX, in Geography, the name of two cities in 

 Scotland, called the Old and New Toivn, fituated on the 

 German ocean. This is a place of great antiquity ; as it 

 appears, that privileges were conferred upon it in the reign 

 of GregO'.y, about the year S93 ; and a bilhoprick fcund- 

 ed by Malcolm H. in 1004, at a place in Banffthire, 

 was transferred to old Aberdeen by David I. ; and, in 

 1163, a new charter was obtained from Malcolm IV. 

 Another charter was gianted by Alexander II. in 1217. 



Old Aberdeen lies at the mouth of the river Don, over 

 which is a fine Gothic bridge of a fingle arch, reftlng upon 

 two oppofite rocks, which has been much admired, and 

 which is faid to have been built about the year 1290. The 

 principal building in this town is the King's College, which 

 is built round a fquare, with cloifters on the fouth fide. 

 Tl'.is college was founded in 1494, and from the circum- 

 ftance of King James IV. claiming the paU-onage of it, it 

 derives its prefent name. This and the Marilchal College 

 in the new town form one univerfity, called the Uni-verjlty 

 ef King Charles. The library is large, but has not many 

 curiofities. The firft principal was Heclor Boethius, who 

 was fent hither from Paris on an annual falary of 40 Scots 

 rni-rks, at thirteen pence each. 



The Ne-M Town is the capital of the (hire of Aberdeen, 

 and exceeds in extent, trade, and appearance, any town in 

 the north of Scotland. It is fituated about one mile from 

 the old town, on a rifing ground, in a fmall bay formed by 

 the river Dee, deep enough for a flilp of 200 tons, and 

 about two miles in circumference. There is an elegant 

 bridge over the river, confiding of feven arches, which is 

 faid to have been built by Dunbar, who was bifhop about 

 the year i joo. The chief public building in this town is 

 the Marifchal College, founded by George Keith, Earl 

 Marifchal, in 1594, and augmented fince by many addi- 

 tional buildings. In this college there are about 1 50 ftudents, 

 who are inftniaed, as well as thofe of the king's college, by 

 able profefTors. Befides two pariOi-churches, and the col- 

 lege kirk, there is an elegant epilcopal chapel, with feveral 

 meetmg-houfes. The other public buildings are a handfome 

 town-houfe, a grammar fchool, Gordon's hofpital, and an 



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infirrtiar)'. The harbour is defended by a fining done pier, 

 lately erefted under the dircftion of Mr. Smcaton. The 

 trade of Aberdeen is now confiderable, and capable of im- 

 provement by an attention to the white filhcries. Its im- 

 ports are from the Baltic, and a few merchants trade to the 

 Weft Indies and North America. Its exports are (lockings, 

 thread, falmon, oatmeal, and pickled pork. The two rirll 

 articles are very important branches of mnnufaclure in this 

 town and neiglibourhood. The falmon filherits on the Dee 

 and Don, and particularly thofe of the Dte, are vei-y produc- 

 tive; and Mr. Knox oblerves, that if the ir.e chants would, in 

 addition to the fiih fupplied by thefv, export the cargoes of 50 

 or6ove{rels,conltaiitly employed in the herring anlwhite lidie- 

 ries, the port of Aberdeen would in a few yia^'S become the 

 moll celebrated mart of filh now exilling. The number of 

 inhabitants in Old and New Aberdeen is eftimated at 25,000. 

 There are two fprings near this town, one of pure water, 

 and ;inother of a quality refembling the German Spa. Aber- 

 deen, with Aberbrothick, Brechin, Montrofe, and Inver- 

 bervie, returns one member to parliament. Aberdeen is 84 

 miles N. E. of Edinburgh. W. long. 2^ 8'. N. lat. 57° 9', 



ABERDEENSHIRE, a county of Scotland, which 

 comprehends the diilrifts of Mar, Garioch, Strathbogie, 

 and the greater part of Buchan. It is w-afhed on the eaft 

 and north by the German ocean, and abounds in fea-ports, 

 which are convenient for commerce. The rivers are numer- 

 ous, and the banks exhibit many natural woods and ex- 

 tenfive plantations. In the high parts there is much 

 excellent pafture, and in the level trafl, called Strath- 

 bogie, there are many well cultivated fields. This county 

 fends one member to parliament. 



ABERDOVEY, a fmall fea-port in Merionethihire, at 

 the difeharge of the river Dovey into the bay of Cardigan. 

 Its export trade, which is not confiderable, confifts of flan- 

 nels, Welch webs, oak bark, and other produclions of the 

 vale of Dovey. 



ABERDOUR, a fmall town of Fifefhire, in Scotland, 

 on the Frith of Forth, about ten miles N. W. of Edinburgh. 



ABEREMURDERjAb ERE MURDRUM, \a Ancient Law 

 Books, denotes murder that has been proved, or made ma- 

 nifeft by a judiciary procefs. 



The word is Anglo-Saxon, compounded of cbere, proved 

 or clear, and morlh, killing or homicide. 



In this fenfe, aberemiirder, called alfo eberemurder, a- 

 momits to the fame with probahim murdrum, or murder 

 ivhich needed proof ; and ftands oppofed to open murder, which 

 was murder fufficiently known by the notoriety of the faiSl. 



Lambard explains abercmurdcr by manifejlum murdrum ; 

 and Spelman, by csdei manij'ejla : others, by apertum murdrum. 



Aberemurdrum was one of thofe crimes which could not be 

 expiated by money, as moll others might be. 



ABERFORD, in Geography, a market-town in the well 

 riding of Yorkfhire, 1 84 miles N. N. W. of London. W. 

 long. 1° 2t'. N. lat. 53° 50'. 



ABERFRAW, a village in the i(le of Anglefey, where 

 the princes of North Wales had formerly a palace. W. long. 

 4° 0'. N, lat. 33° 5^. 



Abergavenny, an in-egularly built town of 

 Monmouthfhire, beautifully fituated in the midll of a range of 

 meadows, at the confluence of the rivers Ufl< and Gavenny, 

 and fun'ounded by feveral projefting hills. It contains about 

 500 houfes. Its public buildings confift chiefly of a long 

 Gothic bridge, the impertctl fragments of a caille, and an 

 ancient church adjoining to the priory. It is a place of re- 

 fort in fummer for goats' whey, and is a great thoroughfare 

 to the weftern parts of South Wales. It is about 143 

 miles W. by N. of London. W. long. 3° 5'. N. lat. 51^ 50'. 



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