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gregation was diiTolvfd, their charter revoked, and they were 

 ordered to kavc the kingdom. Some few of them remained 

 with two of tlieir teachers ; but the greater mimher fought 

 refuge in foreign countries. Ahil'co, and many of liis com- 

 panions, embarked for Denmark ; but when it was under- 

 ilood that they were of the Helvetian confcfhon, tliey were 

 nquired to depart in the midtl of winter witliin two days. 

 I'Vom thence they emigrated, firll to Lubeck, then to Wif- 

 mar, and afterwards to Hamburg ; where difputes about the 

 mode of Chrift's prefence in the facrament excited fuch ani- 

 mofities, that after much barbarous ufage, they were baiiiilicd 

 out of all iliefe towns, and could find no fettlement, till the 

 fpring of the following year, when they were kindly re- 

 ceived at Embden, ia Friefland, and permitted to rcmair\ 

 unmolefted. Such were the eminent talents and virtues of 

 Alafco, that, during liis (hort refidence in England, he had 

 formed a friendlhip with feveral confiderable perlons ; and 

 his charaAer was io highly efteemed by Queen Elizabeth, 

 that when {he came to the crown, he wrote Tetters of advice 

 and encouragement to her on the reformation of rehgion. 

 Among his friends were Melanfthon and Erafmus. Tiie 

 farmer addrefles him in terms of high refpedl, and calh him 

 his patron, and apprehending the neceffity of feeking an 

 efylum with him, he aflures himfelf of an hofpitable recep- 

 tion with one who could adopt the fentimcnt of the exiled 

 queen. " Non ignara mali, miferis fuccurrere difco." 



" Touch'd with misfortunes I myfelf have known, 

 I view with pity woes fo like my own." 



Virgil, JEn. i. 634. 



Erafmus, in a letter written in 1527, fays of him, that 

 he found him " a man of fo amiable a difpofition, that he 

 fhould have thought himfelf lufficiently happy in his fingle 

 friendlhip ;" and in another letter, after enumerating hi,; 

 excellent qualities, he adds, " that which the young ought 

 to learn of the aged, I, an old man, have learned of this 

 youth." Tlie friendlhip between them continued as long 

 as Erafmus lived ; and Alafco was probably with him in his 

 lail ficknefs, as he purchafcd of him, when he lay on his 

 death-bed, his valuable library. 



Alafco, by the favour of Sigifmund, patTed his laft years 

 in his native country, wiiere he died in iy6o ; " having, in 

 times and circumllances of peril, fupported a confiltent, 

 amiable, and refpeftable character." Burnet's Hid. Reform. 

 Vol. ii. p. 154 — 250. Gen. Biog. See Alascasi. 



ALA Shakr, i. e. beaiiliful city, in Geo^rnfthy, a name 

 given by the Turks, to tl>e ancient city of Philadelphia, on 

 account of its beautiful fituation. 



AIjASIA, a province of Thibet In Afia. 

 ALASSAC, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Correze, and diitritl of Brive, two and an half leagues 

 north north-well of Brive. 



ALATA, a name given by Ptolemv to two towns , one 

 ia Arabia Dcferta, and another in Arabia Felix. 



ALATA Castra, a town of Britain, placed by Pto- 

 lemy near the jElUiaiy of Bodotria, fuppofed to be the fite 

 of Edinburgh. 



ALATAMAHA, a navigable river of Georgia in 

 North America, rifes in the Cherokee mountains, traverfcs 

 tlie hilly country though a dillance of 250 miles, and then 

 pafhiig through the flat cmmtry, imdcr the name of Oak- 

 mulgee, for 150 miles, and receiving the Oconee, ad'umes 

 the name of Alatamaha. After this junftien, it flows with 

 a gentle current for ico miles, and difcharges itfelf by 

 feveral mouths into the Atlantic, The north channel enters 

 the ocean between Sapelo and Wolf lllands ; the South 

 tliaiuiel, which ii tlic largeR and deepelt, purfuct il« courle 



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between M'lntofli and Broughton irtauds, and by the weft 

 coall of St. Simon'; found, between the fouth end of the 

 idand of that name, and the north end of Jekyl illand. At 

 its confluence with the Atlantic, it is JOO miles broad. 



ALA'i'ED, or wiNGKn, in liolnny, an epithet applied 

 to the feed, item, or leaf-llalk. A feed is alated, when it 

 has an aia or membrane affixed to it, which by its flying 

 ferves to difperfe it. See Srrn. The foot-llalk, or petiole 

 of a leaf, is alated, when it fpreads out on the fide-., or it 

 winged with membranes. Alated leaves, arc thofe made 

 up of ieveral pinnated ones, or when the fides of a linglc 

 petiole conneit many folioles. Sec Leaf. 



Alati.o i:htadnipeds, in Zoiilog\\ Sec QuADnuptn. 

 ALATERNOIDES, in Boiar.y. See Ph i-uca, Clu- 

 TiA, CrANoTui's, and Mvrica. 



ALATERNUS. See Rhamnus and Phvlica. 

 ALATLI, in Ornhhukgy. See Achachactli. 

 ALATRL or Alatro, an ancient cilv of Italy, in the 

 Campagna di Roma, which is the fee ot a bifhop, and a 

 dukedom, five leagues fouth-call of Agnani, and 16 fouth- 

 eall of Rome. iC lat.4i° 44'. E long. 13° 12'. 



ALATUNGA, in Ichthyology, a fpccies of the Scom- 

 ber, with the firll peitoral fins very long, and feven fmall 

 fins on each fide of the tad. It is found periodically grega- 

 rious in the Mediterranean. 



ALATYR, in Geography, a town of Ruflia, in the go- 

 vernment of Kafan, and circle of Alatplk, 80 miles well- 

 north-well of Simbirfl<. N. lat. 54° 55'. E. long. 46" 14'. 

 Ai.ATVR, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Sura, 

 near Alatyr. 



ALAVA, EscLiivEL, Diego, \a Biography, a SpanifK 

 divine, biiliop ot Cordova, was born at Viitoriajn Abva, 

 and adiiled in the council of Trent, where he propofed the 

 prohibition for holding livings in coirmcnJam, and of all cc- 

 clefiallical pluralities. He died in 1562 : and wrote a valu- 

 able work, intitled " De Confiliis Univerfalibus, &c. ";. r. 

 or general councils, and the regulations that feem ncceiTary 

 to reform the religion and Hate of the church. 

 Alava, in Gcsgrapky, See Alaba. 

 ALAUDA, in Entorr.oh.~y, a fpccies of Cukcvlia, 

 cinereous ; fubglobofe thorax, liack marked with a t:-anf- 

 vcrfe band and black fpots, and brown legs : found in Po- 

 mcrania. 



A LAV da non aijlata, in Ichtl-yologv, a name given by 

 Rondeletius and Gtfner to the Blexmus phalis of Liu- 

 narus, or y/HM//) Blenny. 



Alauda, Lark, in Ornithology, a genus of birds of the 

 order oi pajfcrcs ; the charafters of which are, that the beak 

 is cylindrical, tubulate, and ftraight, bending towards the 

 point ; the mandibles are of equal fize and opening down- 

 wards at their bafc ; the tongue is bifid ; and the hinder 

 claw is llraightcr and longer than the toe. Pennant adds, 

 that the noihils are covered with feathers or brillles, and 

 the toes divided to their origin. 



The name alauda is, according to Pliny, Suetonius, and 

 Varro, of Gaulifli extr^dtion ; and hence the French term, 

 aloiifttc. 



The Greeks were acquainted with two fpecies of larks ; 

 the one had a tuft on its head, and waa denominated xofin.;.-, 

 or Mpi^Kyi/;, from nifij, a hehnet, which the Latins render 

 galcrita, or caflita ; the other, a common lark, wanted thit 

 tuft : though Willughby and Pennant fay, that it fomctime* 

 brilUcs the feathers on its head fo as to form an occafional 

 crell, which M. Bufion affirms alfo, from his own obferva. 

 tion, with refjittl to the male. The Germans call it terche, 

 pronouncing it fomctimcs Icriche, in imitation of itr. notes ; 

 lor, acoordiiig to Linnvrus, it prolongs its tiriky firilr, tiri/r. 

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