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the fecond of November, in commemoraiion of all the 

 fjitliful deceafcd. 



The fcall of jl/ Sou/s was firft introduced in the mh cen- 

 tury, bv Odilon, abbot of Cluny, who enjoined it on his own 

 order ; but it was not lonjT before it became adopted by the 

 neighbourinj; churches. Othcrpfaythntitwiiseftabhihcd A.D. 

 99S. Seejoxtin's Ren , on Eccl. Hill. vol. v. p. 11. p. 34. 



ALLA, in dogrjpky, a fmall town of Italy, in the val- 

 lev of Trent, upon a fmall river which falls into the Adige. 



N. lat. 45'' 40'- E- lonp. 13° 42'- 



Ali-A, or Ai-LK, a river of Poland, in Ducal Prulua, 

 which runs into the Pregel, about five leagues above Ko- 

 nigfbei-g. 



Alla, Ital. joined to, or rather following, a fubftan- 

 tive, has the force of the word ULc in Englitli ; ns nlla Fran- 

 Cfj'c, like the French, or in the French ilyle or manner ; 

 «lLi Fenetiann, in the Venetian manner. Thus, in mufic, 

 aila breve implies a quick time, though the notes look flow, 

 as when breves are played or fung like or as quick as fcmi- 

 brevea, •femibre-.cs like minims, and minims like crotchets. 

 This mcafure is fc'klom fouinl in fccular niuilc compofed by 

 authors fubfequcnt to Corelli, Geminlani, and Handel. A 

 bar in alia breve time contains two femibreves, performed as 

 quick as minims ; and as few bl.ick notes appear in fuch 

 movements, which are generally fiigato, or in fugue ; mufi- 

 cians, in fport, term them ivhite fugues. Alia Scozze/e, in 

 the Scots ftyle ; Mi Pohrcca, Polilh ; alla xoppa, limping, 

 as in movements full of binding or driving notes or liga- 

 tures ; all' ottavn, in the oftave ; all' otiava piu alto, an oc- 

 tave higher ; piu bnjfo, lower. In paffkges for the addi- 

 tional keys to piano-fortes, all' %vo.. implies that all the 

 notes from this indication, included under the line drawn 

 over them, till the words in loco (the ufual pitch) occur, 

 are to be played an oftave higher. This precludes tlw 

 trouble and fatigue to the eye of leger lines, as afcendiag 

 to C in altiflimo would require fi\e additional lines and 

 fpaceato be piled on the ufual llaff of five lines. Choral muiic 

 is faid to be alla Palejlrina, when the ftyle of compofitioa 

 refembles that of this venerable fatherofecclefiaftica! harmony. 



ALLABA, or A^LAVA, in AmkiU Geography, a town 

 of Sicily, on the fouthern fide of it, near the mouth ot a 

 river of the fame name, and not far from Heraclea Minoa. 



ALLAH, or Alla, an Arabic word, and the name 

 which all who profefs Mahometanifm give to God, and 

 make frequent repetitions of in their prayers. 



ALLAHABAD, in Geography, a foubah or province 

 of Hindoftan, about 160 miles in length and 120 in 

 breadth, bounded on the eaft by the province of Bahar, on 

 the north by Oude, on the fouth by Berar, and on the weft 

 by Malwa and Agra. It contains, according to the diftri- 

 bution of Akbar, recorded in the Ayetii-Akbeiy, 10 cir- 

 cars or counties, divided into 177 pergunnahs, or hundreds. 

 Its revenue, according to the ftatement of Maurice, in his 

 Indian Antiquities, is 3,310,695 ficca rupees. It furnilhes 

 11,375 cavalry, 237,870 infantrj-, and 323 elephants. The 

 greater part of it is in the poflellion of Azuph Dowlah, a 

 tributary ally of the Britilh pov/er. The principal cities 

 are Allahabad, Benares, and Iconpour. 



Allahabad, a city of Hindoftan, fituate at the 

 confluence of the two great rivers Jumna and Ganges. It 

 is compofed of two towns — the old, which is near the Gan- 

 ges, and the new, about a mile long and half a mile wide, 

 near the Jumna. It was called Allahabad by the emperor 

 Akbar, who erefted a ftrong fortrefs of ftone in it, which 

 occupies a large fpace of ground, and of which we have an 

 elegant delineation by Mr. Hodges, in No. IV. of his Se- 

 Jedt Views in India. The toinb of fultan Khufru is alfo an 



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excellent fpecimcn of Mahometan aa;hlteflure ; and a pil- 

 lar 40 feet high, of one ftone, coveredwith illegible infcrip- 

 tions, is afcribed by tradition to Bima, one of the heroes of 

 the Mahabarat. Allahabad is a feat of devotion fo noted 

 that it is denominated " the king of worlhippcd places." 

 We alfo learn from the Ayeen-Akbery, that the territory- 

 round it, to the extent of 40 miles, is deemed holy ground. 

 The Hindoos believe, that when a man dies in this place, 

 whatever he wiflics for he will obtain in his next regeni. ra- 

 tion. Although they teach that fuicide in general will be 

 pnnrflied with torments hereafter, yet they confiderit as me- 

 rltorious for a man to kill hlmfelt at Allahabad. There are 

 various objefts of veneration in and about this city, which 

 are ftiU vilited with great devotion by an immenf^: number of 

 pilgrims. Dr. Robertfon is of opinion, that the ancient 

 Palibothra is the modern city of Allahabad ; but major 

 Rennell has placed Palibothra on the fame fite with 

 Patna. Robert fon's India, p. 39. p. 356. N. lat. 25° 27'. 

 E. long. 82° 5'. 



ALLAKNANDARA, a river of Thibet, which runs 

 into the Ganges, about 20 miles fouth of Sirinagur. 



ALLAM, Andrew, in Biography, a writer of the 

 17th century, was born of mean parentage at Garfmgdon 

 near Oxford, in 1655 ; and after previous education at a 

 private grammar fchool, was entered at St. Edmund's Hall 

 Oxford, in 167 1 ; where he became tutor, moderator, lec- 

 turer in the chapel, and at length vice-principal. In 1680, 

 he took orders, and in 1683 was made one of the mailers of 

 the fchools. He died of the fmall-pox in 1685. He 

 wrote epiftles prefixed to the publications of other writers 

 and additions to a book, entitled, " Anglice notitia," and 

 to " Helvicus's Hiftorical and Chronological Theatre ;" 

 and he alio trandated the " I-,ife of Iphicrates," laid the 

 foundation of a " Notitia Ecclefix Angllcanoe," which was 

 left uufinilhed, and affifted Mr. Anthony Wood in compil- 

 ing the " Athenas Oxonienfes," by whom he is mentioned 

 with great commendation and refpeft. Biog. Brit. 



ALLAMANDA, fo called from Mr. F. Allamand, a 

 Dutch furgeon, who vifited Guiana about 1769, and Ruf- 

 fia about 1776, and fent defcriptions, fig'ures, and fpecimens 

 of plants to Linnjeus, in Botany, a genus of the pentarntria 

 nionogyiiia clals and order, of the natural order of covtorts, 

 and apociiiea of Juflieu ; the charafters of which are, that 

 the calyx is a perianthium one-leafed, five-parted, parts ovate 

 and acute ; the corolla one-pctalled, funnel-ftiaped, tube 

 cylindric, border femiquinquefid, fweUing, diviiions fpreading, 

 obtuie ; the Jlamina, with fcarcely any filaments, anthers 

 five, fagittate, converging, in the throat of the tube ; the 

 pijlillum has a gen;i oval, furroundcd with a ring, ftyle fili- 

 form, of the length of the tube, ftigma headed, contrafted 

 in the middle ; pericarpium, an orbicular, lens-fhaped, echi- 

 nate, one-celled, two-valved capfule ; the feeds very many, 

 imbricate, orbiculate, flat, edged with a membranous wing. 

 There is one fpecies, i;Js. A. cathartica, galarips of Alla- 

 mand, oreha grandiflora of Aublet, a milky (hrab, with 

 ftem twining and climbing on trees, which grows wild at 

 Cayenne, in Guiana, &c. by the fea-fide. The leaves are 

 cathartic, and an infufion of them is ufed at Surinam, in the 

 colic : introduced in 1 7 85 by Baron Hake. Marty n. 



ALLAMP, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Meurte, and diftrift of Toul, three leagues 

 fouth of Toul. 



ALLAN, a river of Scotland, which runs into the Frith 

 of Forth near Stirhng. Allan Water is alfo a river of the 

 fame country, which runs into the Tweed, about a mile 

 north-weft of Melrofs. 



ALLANCHE, a town of France, in the department of 

 4 Cantal) 



