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tnsV^ or Fo!fl"l^'S, wove apjtiiialcd to fi'.ccotd ettih otbet in- 

 <l!:Vn;nir.nttly-, aci'oijing lo tiic oitUi" ot (uuxiniity. 



Hi-ncc, coi^iiation came to lake i:i all tlic ivhlinns of i!'-e 

 mother ns well ns father, and agnation to be rellrained to 

 thofe of tlie fatlier alone. 



A<!r.pt ivc cliiidren enjoy tlie pri\ilfge8 of agnation ; which 

 \r,'s called civi/ in tiieir rtfped, in oppofition to tlie other 

 whieh was naturah 



AGNEL, an ancient French gold coin, firft ftruck under 

 the reign of St. Louis, worth about twelve fols fix deniers. 

 The agnel is alfo called ionietimcs mouton d'or, and agncl 

 (Tor. The denomination is fuppofed to have arifen trom 

 the figure of a lamb, or llieep, ftriick on one fide. Alter 

 tlie reign of St. Louis, they bore on the reverfe tiic words, 

 " Chrllhis regnat, vincit, iniperat." 



AGNELET, an ancient French fdver coin, firft ftruck 

 under Philip Ic Bel, worth about twenty fols. 



AGNELLI, Frederic, in Bwgmphy, was an engraver 

 of Milan in the beginning of the 17th centun-. His chief 

 employment feems to have been portraits, though he fome- 

 tijnes engraved archite£lure and emblematical fubjeds. The 

 dome of Milan was engraved by him. Strutt. 



AGNE REINS, in Geography, a fmall place, which was 

 •nee the relidence of a Caftellany, in the former principality 

 cf Dombe<!, and prcfent department of Ain, in France. 



AGNES, in Natural Hijlory, a name given by Cramer 

 to a fpecies of Papilio Danaus, the Zangis of Gmelin's 

 edition of the Linnxan fyftem. 



Agses, St., in Geography, one of the Scilly iflands, 

 which, though of fmall extent, is well cultivated, and fertile 

 in corn and grafs. The inhabitants, who are poor, form 

 about 50 houiholds, and yield the proprietor 40I. a year. 

 The -church is fmall and neat, and was built by the Godol- 

 phin family. But the principal ornament and fupport of 

 this ifland is the light-houfe, whence St. Agnes is called the 

 Ii'ight-houfe ifland. This (lands on the moft elevated ground, 

 and is built with ftone from the foundation to the lanthorn, 

 whieli is 51 feet high ; the galleiy 4, the fafli-lights rii 

 feet hi^h, 3 feet z inches wide, and 16 in number. The 

 Boor of the lanthorn is brick, upon which is placed a fquare 

 iron grate, baiTcd on every fide, with one great chimney in 

 the canopy roof, and feveral lefTcr ones, to let out the fmoke ; 

 £nd a large pair of fmith's bellows is fo fixed as to be ufed 

 with eafe when it is wanted. This noble ib'ufture is plaif- 

 tered white, ar.d ferves as a day mark to fiiips coming from 

 the South. The keeper of this light-houfe has a falary of 

 40I. a year from the Trinity-houfe, with a dwelling-houfe 

 and ground for a garden. His affiftant is allowed 20I. a 

 year. The light-houfe is annually fupplied with coals, and 

 the carriage of thefe from the fea-fide to the building is a 

 benefit to the poor inhabitants. The true latitude of the 

 light-houfe is E. 49° 56'. long. 6° 46'. W. 



Agses, St., isalfo thenam.eof aCapeon the coaft of Pata- 

 gonia, in South America. S. lat. 53" 55'. W. long. 66" 35'. 



AGNETSIN or Agnetein, two contiguous towns of 

 Tranfylvania, on the river Hopefch, four leagues north of 

 Hermantladt. N. lat. 46° 45'. E. long. 25" 26'. 



AGNI-CORNU, Xy\H\-c'j.:, a promontory of Egypt, to 

 the north-eaft of the Bolbltine gulph. 



AGNIEilS, the denomination of a tribe or canton of 

 Iroquois Indians, vi-ho vigoroufly and repeatedly refilled the 

 French in their attempts to fettle in Canada. They appeared 

 for a long time among the moft determined enemies to the po- 

 pifh miffionaries.who made various efforts for their converfion ; 

 "however, in l66S,manyof them were converted to the Catholic 

 faith, more perhaps from a regard to convenience and intereft 

 ihan by conviction. Thcfe converts, amongil whom were 

 iorae diilinguilhed females, removed to the Huroa fettlemcut 



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of Tvorottc, where they were encoin-agcd to rci^de, in h.opM 

 of their fo.i-niiig a barrier againil the incuriions of their 

 lavage countrymen. But no influence or addrefs was fufiklcnt 

 to keep them ileady in tlieir attachment to the French nation. 

 Frontenac, who, in 1 6^9, was declared governor of Canada, 

 though his previous conduft had been extremely offenfive 

 and iiritatlng, planned an expedition againil tlie Agniers, 

 and refolved utterly to extinguilli them. For this purpufe 

 he employed a large army of regulars, and of fuch Cma.. 

 dians and Indians as were attached to his intereft ; viliicli 

 entered into the country of the Agniers, deftroyed three 

 villages, and malTacred moll of the inhabitants. See Ca.n aba 

 and [ROQJ.101S. 



AGNIFER is an appellation applied, by fome ^a.', - 

 Jiajlical Writers, to John the Baptift, and ufed in the fame 

 fenfe with pr.ecurfor, or fore-runner. 



AGNINA membrana, in Atiatomy, the fame as the 



AMNIOS. 



Agnina laBuca, fee Lactuca. 



AGNO, in Geography, a diftritl of Lauis, in Switzer- 

 land, containing 41 paridies or villages, and bordering on a 

 part of the Lugano lake, which is called the lago d'Agno, 

 and receives into it a river of the fame name. 



Agno, a river of Naples, which rifes in the mountainous 

 parts of Terra di Lavora, wafhes the town of Acena, and, 

 pafTing between Capua and Averfa, falls into the Mediter- 

 ranean, about feven miles north of Puzzuoli. 



AGNODICE, in Biography, an Athenian lady, who in 

 the difguife of a man, attended the leflbns of Herophilus, 

 and acquired fo much knowledge of the treatment of dif- 

 eafes, as to be in great requeft among her own fex, to whom 

 fhe difcovered her contrivance. She was particularly expert 

 in the praftice of midwifeiy. At length the phyficians, 

 jealous of her fuccefs, it is faid, and ignorant of her fex, 

 accufed her of introducing herfelf to the women under the 

 pretence of affiiling them in their labours and complaints,, 

 but in reality from views of incontinence. Being cited to the 

 areopagus, ilie made herfelf known ; and her judges were fo 

 well fatisfied with her conduft, and perhaps with the women 

 for patronizing her, that they repealed a law then exifting, 

 prohibiting women to prattife any branch of medicine, and 

 decreed that women of the rank of citizens miglit be al- 

 lowed that liberty. A phyfician, M. Hccque, Eloy fays, 

 publlfhed a volume in the year 1747, intitled, De L'inde- 

 cence aux Hommes, d' accoucher des Femmes, wTitten with 

 much ingenuity ; in which he attributes the loofenefs in the 

 morals of the prefent age, to the cuftom of admitting men 

 to the general pratlice of midwifeiy, for in particular cai'es 

 he acknowledges their aflillance to be neceffary. His book 

 has given birth to others in this countrj', written with 

 the fame view of endeavouring to excite a prejudice in 

 the women againft employing men, particularly by the late 

 Mr. Philip Thicknefs. But the virulence, and the indehcacy 

 of his writings on the fubjedl, muft have defeated his end ; 

 as it woiJd argue a greater degree of indelicacy ty have been 

 fuppofed capable of reading his book, than to pennlt the 

 practice he pretends to cenfure. The ftrongeft argument 

 againft admitting men into the general praftice is, that in all 

 ordinar)' cafes, women are perfeftly competent ; but as cafes 

 do, and muft for ever occur, in which a kind of afiiilance 

 is required that women are incapable of giving, if the men 

 were not to attend in ordinary cafes, they would not acquire 

 the cxpertnefs that is neceffary to enable them to deliver in 

 difficult and extraordinary cafes. 



AGNOET./E, ofx'vo!u, to be ignorant of, in Church Hijlory , 

 a feci of Eutychians, whofe founder is fald to have been 

 Themiilius, a deacon of Alexandria, in the 6th century-, who 

 maintained that Chrift, coniidered as to Lis human nature, 



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