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of St. Dominica. iS. A. tuberofum, yellowifli and tube- 

 rous, with the apices frequently luliJiviileil, and tubulous 

 pores, found adhering to rocks in the idand of Mauritius. 

 19. A. gorgonoiiles, cinereous, fandy-flefliy, with radiated 

 warty cellules, found, witli 12 niys of cellules, adhering to 

 coi-als and rocks, in the ifland of CuraiToa. 20. A. ajbejli- 

 num, with a roundilli Hem, and oblong pores fcattercd over 

 every part of it, found, in the fea wafliing the American 

 coail, veiT porous, whilifli and within rofc-eoloured. 21. 

 A. alhunmm, white, very ramous, attenuated and fubdi\4ded, 

 ■with tubulous terminal pores, found in the Indian lea. 22. 

 A. papilloj'um, crullaceous, with large papill;c thickly fet 

 and convex, the boletus marinus of Ivlarligli. 23. A. ecu- 

 g/omerat:u!i, gelatinous, convex, with conglomerated fingers, 

 and terminal mouths without teeth, found in the Corniili 

 feas. 24. A. aJliciioiiLs, crulhiceous, coriaceous, with dif- 

 perfed papilla, and two fubdentated mouths, found in the 

 Cornifli feas. 25. A. fynoiciim, with many eylindric flelhy 

 flems, and an orifice ilellated at the apex, found on the 

 northern fliore of Spif/.bergen. 26. A. i-irmiciJiin; gtxen, 

 ramous, with eylindric obtufe pyramidal branches, found on 

 the rocks of the ifiand of Niiitn, oppolite to Neapolis. 27. A. 

 JliUatiim, with two ftellated terminal inouths. 28. A. corn'icu- 

 latum, with four ftellated mouths, encompalTing a papilla, and 

 four fmall eredl terminal horns, found in the fea of Holland. 



From a feries of experiments made by Mr. Hatcliett, on 

 a few fpecies of alcyonium, -vhz. aftjcftinum, ficus, and 

 arboreum, he was led to conclude, that they were all com- 

 pofcd of a foft, flexible, membranaceous fubilancc, (lightly 

 hardened by carbonate, mixed with a fmall portion of phof- 

 phate of lime. Phil. Tranf. for 1800. P. ii. p. 364. 



Alcyonium is alfo a name given, with various epitliets, 

 to the TuBiPORA mujica of the Linnaian fyftem, and alfo to 

 feveral fpecies of Millepora. 



Alcyonium is alfo a name given by I^loyd to a peculiar 

 kind of foffde coral, of the AsTROirrs kind, found in 

 Wales. It is veiy plentiful in that country, and puts on the 

 appearance of a fort of marble, being bedded in a marbly 

 matter for its matrix. Phil. Tranf. N". 252. 



Alcyonium Mare, in Ancient Geography, a name given 

 to that part of the gulf of Corinth, which ftretched itfelf 

 between the weftern coall of Bocotia, the northern coail of 

 Megaris, and a fmall part of Corinth, as far as the pro- 

 montoiy of Olmia. 



Alcyonium was alfo the name of a lake in Corinth, 

 of unfathomable depth, and which Nero attempted imfuc- 

 cefsfully to fuund. Bacchus is faid to have defcended to hell 

 through this lake to bring back Semele. Near this lake 

 was a temple conftrufted by the Oropians to Amphiaraus, 

 the Sorcerer. Paul'anias. Ed. Kuhnii. p. 200. 



AI.DABARAM, in Ofleology, a name given by fome 

 to the fefamoide bones of the great toe. 



ALDAN, in Geography, a river of Siberia, which rifes 

 in the mountains of Okhotflc, on the borders of China, N. 

 lat. 55° 50', and E. long. 12 5° 14', and taking a north-eall 

 courl'e to lat. 63°, changes its direction to weft-nurth-weft, 

 and at N. lat. 63' 25', E. long. 128^ 24'. joins the Lena. 



AEDARU, in Botany, a name given by Aviccnna, 

 Serapion, and other Arabian writers, to the lentisk tree. 



ALDBOROUGH,inGf<-^/-<;/./.v,a fea-port town of Eng- 

 land, in the county of Suffolk, deriving its name from the river 

 yllil, near it, and pleafantly iituated between the fea on the 

 call and a high hill on the weft, on which the church 

 ftands. The fifliery of this town in the feafon is eonfider- 

 able, and near it there is a quay, with warehoufes for the 

 fifli, and conveniences for dr)"ing thofe of the north fea. 

 Herrings and fprats are tiie principal obji.cts of attention ; 

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and it is faid that this is the only place for curing red 

 fprats. The town is corporate, and fends two mcmlv, rs 

 to parliament. Its markets arc on Wcdncfday and Satur- 

 day. It is 94 miles north-eall of London. N. lat. 52° 16'. 

 E. long. 1° 42'. 



ALDiiOROucH is alfo amarket town in the Weft Riding_ 

 of Yorkfhire, on the river Oufe, 15 miles north-well of 

 York, and 208 miles north of London. N. lat. 54° 15'. 

 W. long. 0° 20'. It fends tv;o mcir.bcrs to parliament. It 

 was formerly a Roman llation, called Ij'ur'r.m Briganttim, 

 and probably the capital of the Brigantes. It» market d.iy 

 is Wcdnefdav. 



ALDE, or Oldk, a fmall idand on the weft-coaft of 

 Norway. N. lat. 61° 25'. E. long. 5° 9'. 



Ai.DF, Henry Van, in Biography, a painter who 

 flouriihed in 1650, and excelled in portraits. 



AI^DEA GalUga, q. d. GaUidan •village, a fmall market 

 town of Portugal, m Eftr<:madura, fituate in a kind of 

 illand formed by the Tagus, north of Setuval, and fouth- 

 caft of Lilhon. On an eminence, a league from Aides 

 CJallega, is a church dedicated to Noffa Ser.horada Aleliya, 

 our lady of the watch-tower j to which the negroes in 

 Lilbon annually make a pilgrimage ; and tlii.^ black pro- 

 cefTion is attended by a great concourfe of people. N. lat. 

 38° 45'. W. long. 8^ 31'. 



Aldfa el Muro, or del Poco, a town of Spain, in 

 Old Caftile, on the frontiers of Aragon. 



Aldfa etel liin, a town of Spain, in the province of 

 Andalufia, and diftrift of Cordova, fituatc on an eminence, 

 to the iouth oi the Guadalquiver ; eight miles north-weft 

 of Cordova. 



Aldea riz'er is on the coaft of Brav.il, in about S. lat. 

 19° 40'. W. long. 40" 5', on which Hands the town and 

 port of Reys Magos. Thcie is a large cape to the fouth 

 of it. 



Aldea ile Trinu'ad, lies on the coaft of Brazil, called 

 Paraguay, to the north-eaft part of the gulf of Santos, 

 in S. lat. 24° 30'. W. long. 46'' 30'. 



ALDE AS buy is about 16 leagues north-eaft from Cape 

 Negro, on the fouthern part of the weft coaft of Africa, 

 in S. lat. 15° 25'. E. long. 11° 25'. The bay is fmall but 

 fecure ; and European fhips, trading to the coaft for flaves, 

 frequently touch at it. 



ALDEBAC, in the M.-!feria Medica of the ancient 

 Arabian pliyricians,the namebywhich they have called bird- 

 lime, and which tliev reckoned among the vegetable poifons. 



AI>DEBARA'N, in AJlrommy, the Arabian name of 

 a fixed ftar, of the firft magnitude, in the eye of the con. 

 Ilellation Taurus, or the bull; and hence popularly called 

 the bull's eye. For the beginning of the year l8ooit» 

 Right afcenfion was - - 66^ 6' 51", to 

 Amuial variation in AR. -00 51, 31 

 Declination ... - i6 5 52, 00 N. 

 Annual variation in decl. - 008, 3 

 ALDEBERT, or AnELiiFRT, in Biography, a native 

 of France, who, in the eighth century, deluded the people 

 by pretended vifions and revelations. He cxercilld epif- 

 copal dignity without the authority of Boniface, the pope's 

 legate, and among other irregularities, with which he was 

 chargeable, both as to his principles and condud, he forged 

 a letter, addrefted to the human race;;!, which he pretended 

 to have been written by Jcfus Chrift, and to have been 

 tranl'mittcd to him by the archangel Michael. He alfo 

 remitted fins without confcffion, and required his followers 

 to quit the churches, and to worfnip God in lioufes wliich 

 he erected in the fields, and to knee! before croftes which 

 he placed in wood> and near fountains. His popularity 



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