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appoLitcd by the empci-or diaries V. in i J26, in favoni- of 

 the Morclcoes, this was one, that the Moicfeoes (huulJ iia 

 longer fpeak Algavareia, /'. e. Moorilh, or Araliic, but 

 (hould all fpeak Aljameia, /. e. Spanifh, as it was called by 

 the Moors, and all their writings and contrails fliould be in 

 that languaaje. Geddes's Mifc. Trafts, torn. i. p. 23. 



ALIANA, in Geography, a biihopriek of Phrygia, fiib- 

 (.jiTI: to the metropolis of Laodlcea. 



ALIANNELO, a town of Italy in the kingdom of 

 Naples, and province of Bafdicata, 27 miles call of I'o- 

 tcn/.a. 



ALT ANO, a town of Naples, in the province of Bafdi- 

 cata, 23 miles fouth-eall of Potenza. 



Aliano is alio a town of Naples, in tlic country of JLa- 

 vora, two miles weft of Gaeta. 



ALIANSKOI, a fort of Ruffian Siberia, in the govern- 

 ntent of Kolivan, 120 miles fouth fouth-well of Kolivan. 

 N. lat. 52° 50'. E.long. 79= 34'. 



ALIARBUCHA, in NcUura! Hlflory, the Arabian 

 name for a large kind of rat, the Jerboa of other writers, 

 common in that country, and good to cat, according to Bo- 

 chart, who thinks it the fame as the fnphan, mentioned in 

 Leviticus, and there declared unclean. Levit xi. 5. 



Dr. Shaw thinks the faphan to be the daman Jj'ratl, or a 

 fpecios of rabbit. 



ALIARDII, in Ancient Geography, a people of Africa, 

 according to Ptolemy. 



ALIARIA, a town of Comagena, placed by Antonin, 

 in the route from Nieopolis to Edefla. 



ALIARTUS. SccHaliartus. 



ALIAS, in Laza, a fecond or farther writ ifTued from 

 the courts of Wcilminiter, after ccplas, &:c. fued out with- 

 out effect. 



ALIBiVCA, in Ancifnt Geography, a town placed by 

 Ptolemy, in the Pentapolis. i 



ALIBANI, or Alibinali, in Geography, a town of 

 Arabia, 14.0 miles foiith-eaft of Amanzirifdin. 



ALIBAG Rem, a tovn of European Turkey in Bulga- 

 ria, eight leagues eaft of Slliftria. 



ALIBI, in Law, denotes the abfence of the accufed 

 from the place where he is charged with having committed 

 a crime : or his being elfeuuhere, as the word imports, at 

 the time fpecified. 



ALICA, in the Ancient Phyfic and Diet, a kind of food; 

 but the various accounts given of it by authors, make it 

 uncertain what it was; fome reprefenting it as a fort of grain, 

 and others as an aliment made of grain. 



The Greek word for alica was X'"'^P'''> which term, and 

 wTio-o-avij, feem to have been general names for all fpelt or 

 hulhid grain, beaten or ground into a pulp. 



Ray, in his hiftor)-, fays the alica diifers from the xo»- 

 'Jp;, as the ^™«j- from \\\^fpecies. 



ALICA, in Geography, a town of Italy in the duchy of 

 Tufcany, 29 miles well fouth-weil of Florence. 



ALICANDRA, or Alidraca, in Ancient Geography, 

 a town placed by Ptolemy in Media. 



ALICANE, in Geography, a river towards the fouth- 

 •weft part of the illand of Ceylon, nearly eaft from Barberine 

 ifland, and fouth from Caliture. 



A Lie ANT, a fmall, but well-built, rich, populous, and 

 fortified fea-port town of Spain, in the kingdom of Valen- 

 cia. It is fituated on the Mediterranean, between a moun- 

 !um, on which the caftle ftands, and the fea ; and it is well 

 defended by ftrong baftions. This mountain is white, and 

 being vifible at a great diftance, feems as a guide to pilots. 

 The bay in which it ftands is (heltered on the eaft by Cape 



de la Huerta, and to the weft by Cape St. Pa\il, and the 

 illand ot Tabarea. Veifels unciu)r about a iiiiie from the 

 mole, which is large and commodious, in water from fix to 

 10 fathoms, and may enter and go out with any wind. 

 This bay is faid to have been the famous gulf of Ilici, iv 

 called from a Roman colony, now Elehe ; but tha declin- 

 ing ftate of that port, and the improvements of Alicant, 

 gave it the name which it now bears : it begins at Cape St. 

 Martin, and terminates at Cape Palos. Tlie couft is 

 guarded by watch-towers againft tiie incurfions of tlic Cor- 

 lairs. Alicant was taken from the Moors in 1264. The 

 caftle was taken by the Englifii in 1706, and retaken in 

 I 708, by tiie Spaniards. The adjacent territory is fertile, 

 and produces wlilte and red wines that arc much valued. 

 The export trade, which is confidtrable, confifts of barilla, 

 antimony, alum, anifeed, cummin-fced, dried fruit, wool, 

 and wine. As the duli>s of cntiy are lower tiinn thofe at 

 Valencia and Carthagena, this circumftance has contributed 

 to the increafe of its commerce and riches. Linen, from 

 France, Switzerland, and Silefin, and caniblets and woollen* 

 from France, are the chief imports. Tlie Englifli, French, 

 Dutch, and fome Italian States have ufually had a conful at 

 Alicant. N. lat. l^" 34'. W.long. o'' 7'. 



ALICARItE, in Ancient Hijlory, a term fynonymouj 

 with proftitutcs. 



ALICANUM, or Halicanum, in Ancient Geography, 

 a town of Pannonia. 



ALICASTRUM, in Botany. See Brosimum. 



ALICATA, in Geography, a fmall town of Sicily in 

 the valley of Noto, built partly upon a flopc, and partly 

 on the beach, at the end of a long chain of hills ; 19 miles 

 eaft fouth-eaft of Girgenti, and 60 fouth-weft of Catania. 

 This is a place of little ftrength, the caftle of St. Angelo 

 on the brow of the hill being ruinous, the town walls much 

 decayed, and the fortrefs on the peninfula wanting repairs. 

 It forms two fmall bays for the bai'ges that carry out the 

 corn to fliips that lie in the offing, it has great conneiSlions 

 with Malta in the corn trade. The town contains 10,000 

 inhabitants. The populace pay great refpecl to the facer- 

 dotal charafter ; the women and children falling on their 

 knees in the ftreets before a clergyman, touching his gar- 

 ments with a finger and then kiffing their hands with great 

 veneration. Alicata is faid to poflefs fome ancient Greek 

 manufcripts relating to the ancient city of Gela : the moft 

 remarkable is a pfephifma, or decree of tiie fcnate, for 

 crowning Heraclides diredor of the pubhc academy. This 

 town was plundered by tlie Turks in 1543. N. lat. 37" 

 11'. E.long. 13° 51'. Swinburne's Travels into Sicily, 

 vol. iv. p. 39. 



Alicata is alfo a mountain of Sicily not far from this 

 town, in which, as it is thought, was fituated Dxdalion, 

 where Phalaris kept his bra/en bull. 



ALICHORDA, or Alicodra, a town, placed by 

 Ptolemy in Baftriana. 



ALICE, a river of Sicily, was the ancient boundaiy of 

 the Locrian ftate. Immenfe quantities of anchovies fre« 

 quent the mouth of this ftream and the adjacent coaft : it 

 is therefore probable that either the fifli derived its Latin 

 name Halic from the river, or the river was called after the 

 fiffi. 



ALICONDA, in Botany, an African tree, growing na- 

 turally in the kingdom of Congo, of fuch bulk that la 

 men cannot fathom it round. The natives called it bondo, 

 and as the wood ealily rots, they do not build their huts 

 near it, left its fdl ftiould crufli them to death, or its fruit, 

 whicli is of the fize of a large gourd, and ealily broken {j-oiTj 

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