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mnde confidcrable proficiency in tlic Greek and Latin 

 cluflics, he became a Ihidtnt of tlieoWv in 1727; but 

 applied chit-fly to mathematics and philoPophy. 1" three 

 years he removed to tiic univerlity of Jena ; and in 173^, 

 i-etnrned to Gricfswalde, wliere he read a courfe of lec- 

 tures on mathematics and philofophy. In I743> lie be- 

 came an adjuncl of the philofophical faculty in tiiat place, 

 :uid nine 3\"ar3 after was choleji jirofe'lor ; he alfo preaclied 

 often wit'i great approbation. He largely contributed to 

 the critical refearchcs of the fociety at Gricfswalde, of 

 .which he was a member. He founded alio the order of 

 the Abehles, and wrote a treatife on the occailon, entitled, 

 " The Abclite." His otlier principal works are, " Con- 

 fidcrations on the Confellion of Angfburg ;" "Thoughts 

 on the Powers of the Human Underllanding ;" " An 

 Inlrodnftion to Philofophy ;" "A Treatife on the Im- 

 mortality of the Soul ;" and " Brontotheologia, or 

 Thougltts on thunder and lightning." He is faid to 

 have been fo accurate in his compofition, that he never cor- 

 redled what he had once written. He died March I ft, 

 1 791. Gen. Biog. 



AHMED K/.'jn, one of the race of Jcnghis or Zingis, 

 was the Ion of Hulaku, and brother of Abaka khan, whom 

 he fucceeded as emperor of the Moguls, in 1282. He 

 aflumed the name Ahmed, on his embracing Mohammcdifm ; 

 and on this occafion, he offered protection to all Mufl\d- 

 mans, in a letter to the Sultan of Egypt and Syria. This 

 change of religion offended the princes of his family to 

 fuch a degree, that he could never regain their afleCtion. 

 His nephew Argun railed an army againit him, but he was 

 foon defeated and taken prifoner. He was afterwaids re- 

 leafed by forae confpirators, and having killed the em- 

 peror's principal officers, he purfued and overtook him ; 

 and delivered him up to his mother-in-law, who, in revenge 

 for the lofs of her own fons whom Ahmed had caulcd to 

 be flain, put him to death, after a reign of two years and 

 two months. A. D. 1284. Mod. Un. Hill.' vol. iv. 

 390, &c. 



AHMEDABAD, or Agmed's Cily, in Geography, 

 the capital of the province of Guzerat in India, fo called 

 from Sultan Ahmed, who was king of that province, and 

 kept his court in that city; It is 224 nieafured coss dillant 

 from Delhi, and 86 coss from Surat. The city is fituated 

 in a delightful plain, watered by the little river SabremeUi. 

 The walls are built with brick and done, flanked at cer- 

 tain dillanccs with large round towers and battlements. 

 It has 12 gates ; and, including the fuburbs, is about four 

 and a half miles in length. On the well fide is the caille, 

 walled with freellone, and as fpaeious as a little city : the 

 caravanfary is on the fouth of the king's fquare, which is 

 700 paces long and 400 broad, planted round with trees, 

 and is its chief ornament. Near this fquare is the king's 

 palace with apartments richly ornamented ; and in the midll 

 of the city is the Engliih faitory. The Hindoos have in 

 this place, whieh, from an eminence, appears like a wood 

 being full of gardens, an hofpital for fick birds, and an- 

 other for fick bealts. For magnitude and wealth, this 

 city is little inferior to the beil in Europe ; and the reve- 

 nue which it yields, is generally reckoned to be ten times 

 es much as that of Siu-at. Frafer's Kuii Khau. p. 29. 

 Mod. Un. Hift. vol. V. p. 293. 



AHMEDNAGUR, a city in the province of Dowla- 

 lahad in Ir.dia, difta.nt from Delhi 2 So mcafured cofs. 

 Auringitebe died in this city. Frafer's Kuli Khan, p. 3J. 



AHMELI^A, in Botany. See Acmella. 



AHOLIBAH and Aholah, in Scnplnrc H'tjlory, are 

 two fcfntd names, ulcd b)' V^zekiel (ch. xxiii. 4.) to denote 



Vol. f. 



the two kingdoms of Judah and Samaria. They are re- 

 preiented as fillers of Egyptian cxlraclion : Ahola being 

 Samaria ; and Ahohbah, Judah. 'i'hey both proilituted 

 themfelves to the Egyjjlians and Afiyrians, by imitating 

 their idolatrous and wicked practices ; and for that reafoii 

 they were made captives and reduced to the moll ignomi- 

 nious and cruel fervitude. 



AHONl, in Geography^ a fea-port town of Africa, on 

 the eoall of Benin. 



AHOUAl, in Bolnny, the name of a genus of plant», 

 called by Linn.cus curbera. 



AHOUAS, Ahwas, or Ahuaz, in Geography, a towli 

 of Perfia in the province ot Chufillan ; about 240 mile* 

 wefl-fouth-wcll of lipalian. 



AHR. SccAher. 



AHRABAN, a town of Afia in the province of 

 Diarbekir, 30 leagues fouth of Diarbekir. 



AHRENSBECK, a town of Germany, in the duchy 

 of Holilcin ; 12 miles north-north-well of Lubeck ; and 

 alfo a bailiwick. 



AHRENSDORF, a town of Germany, in the middle 

 mark of Brandenburg ; fix miles louth-fouth-eaft of Potz« 

 dam. 



AHRIMAN. See Arimakius. 



AHRWEILER, a fmall town of Germany, in the 

 cleAorate of Cologn, featcd on the river Ahr, and furnilli- 

 ing good wine. It is eight leagues north-well of Coblentz. 

 E. long. 6° 43'. N. lat. 50° 35'. 



AHSAorAHAsA. See AiiouAS. 



AHIJ, in Zoology, the ibex capenfis of Kolben, the 

 kevel of Buffon, the Jlat-hornsd antelope of Pennant, 

 and the antilope Kevella of Gmelin's Linnxus. 



AHUCYATLI, the name of an American ferpent, 

 approaching to the nature of the haemorrhus and rattle- 

 fnake, but larger than the former, and wanting the rattle 

 of the latter ; it is as fatal in the effecl of its poifon as 

 any known fpecies of ferpent. Ray. 



A-HULL, in Scu-latiguage, denotes the fituation of a 

 fliip, when all her fails are furled, on account of the vio- 

 lence of a llorm, and when, having lallied her helm to the 

 lee-fide, flie lies nearly with her fide to the wind and fea, 

 her head being fomewhat inclined to the direction of the 

 wind. 



AHUN, in Geograp/j)', a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Creufe, and dillricl of Gucret ; three leagues 

 fouth-eaft of Gueret. E. long. 1^ 52'. N. lat. 49° 5'. 



AHUYS, a town of Gothland, in Sweden, in the pro- 

 vince of Schoncn ; about two leagues fouth-fouth-eaft of 

 Chrillianlladt, near the Baltic fea. This is, as it were; the 

 warehoufe where the goods dcilgned for Chrillianlladt are 

 depofited. It has a good harbour, and was formerly a 

 llrong town, but is now decayed. E. long, i 4*^ 10'. N. iat. 

 56° 20'. 



AI, called by the LXX Gai, by Jofcphus Aina, and 

 by others Ajah, in Scripture Gio^rap!}y, a town of I'a- 

 leiline, iituate well of Bethel, and at a fmall dillancc north- 

 weft of Jericho. The 3000 men, full I'eni. by Jolhua ti> 

 reduce this city, were rtpulled, on account ol Achan'i 

 fin, who had violated the anathema pronounced againll 

 the city of Jericho, by appropri;iting fonie of the fpoil. 

 A. M. 2553. After the expiation of this olfenec, the 

 whole army of Ifrael marched againll Ai, with orders to 

 treat this city as Jericho had been treand, with this dif- 

 ference, that the plunder was to be given to the army. 

 Jolhua, having appointed an ambuih of 30,000 men, 

 marched againll the city, and, by a feigned retreat, drew 

 out the king of Ai with his troops; aiid upon a ftgril 

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