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bay has a fine fundy (Irar.J, and good anchorage ground. 

 Oil the fi)u'Ji fide of it arc two villages. 



ALVARADO, a town of America, in the province of 

 Guaxaca, filiate at th^- nunith of a river of the fame name, 

 ;^o niiies fouth-eail of Vera Cruz. N. lat. 1 8^ 40'. W. 

 long. 96' 36'. 



Alvarado, a river of New Spain, rifes in the moun- 

 tains of the Zapotecas, and making a circuit through 

 the province of Maz.'.ltan, and receiving fcveral fmallcr ri- 

 v.frs a:id llreams, runs into the Gulf of Mexico, about the 

 dillance of 30 miles from Vera Cruz. The mouth of the 

 river is about a mile wide ; but for more than two miles from 

 the fliore it is almoft clioalied up with faiid. 



ALVARE, a town of Arabia Fehx, according to Pto- 

 lemy. 



ALVARES, a town of Portugal, in Eftremadura, con- 

 taining about I 200 inhabitants. 



ALVAREZ, Francis, in B'tosraphy, a Portuguefe 

 prieft, was chaplain to Emanuel, king of Portugal, and 

 fent by him as ambafFador to David, king of Ethiopia and 

 Abyffinia. Having continued fix years in this counti-y, he 

 returned with letters to king John, the fuccelFor of Ema- 

 nuel, and to pope Clement VII. and gave an account of 

 hisembaffyat Bologna in 1533, in the prefence of Charles V. 

 He died in 1 540 ; and the account of his embalTy, with 

 a defcription of the cuftoms and manners of the Ethiopians, 

 was printed at Lifbon, in folio, in the fame year, and tranf- 

 lated into Latin by Goez, under the title " Dc fide, re- 

 gione et moribus Ethiopum," and at Antwerp in 1558, 

 in Frencli, 8vo. He was the firft writer who gave any 

 certain information concerning Eth'cpia ; but his account, 

 though reprefented by fome as true and accurate, is not 

 entitled to implicit credit. Gen. Dift. 



Alvarez, Emanuel, a learned Jefuit, was born in the 

 ifland of Madeira in 1546. He became fucceffively reftor 

 of the colleges of Coimbra, Lifbon, and Evora, at which 

 place he died in 1582. His Latin Grammar, " De Infti- 

 tutione Grammatica," is much elleemed, and is ftill ufed by 

 the Portuguefe Jefuits in their colleges. It was pubhfhed 

 in 4to. in 1599, and has paffed through feveral editions. 

 Gen. Dia. 



Alvarez de Paz, James, an eminent Jefuit of the 

 ! 7th centuiy, and author of feveral devotional treatifes, 

 was born at Toledo in Spain, and educated in the fchools of 

 the Jefuits, among whom he entered himfelf at I 7 years of 

 age. Having finifned his courfe of theological iludies at 

 Alcala de Henares, he removed to the kingdom of P^ru, 

 in South America, and read leftures in divinity and philo- 

 fophy at Lima, which were much applauded. He was 

 likewife reclor of the colleges of Quito, Cuzco, and Lima, 

 and governed the whole province for fix years, connefting his 

 public offices with the regular dilcharge of his private duties. 

 At Potofi, where he was much revered, he \%'as feized with 

 a difeafe, which proved fatal, A. D. 1620, in the 60th year 

 [if his age. Gen. Dift. 



ALVARID, among the Spanifii Moors, denoted a 

 judge. The word is alfo written al-vari/i/i : in this Icnfe «/- 

 •var'ulns amounts to much the fame with what is otherwife 

 called Ate A ID. 



ALVARISTS, in Church Hlftory, a feft or branch of 

 n:>odern Thomifts, denominated from Alvares, whofe me- 

 thod and principles they follow. 



The ylharijls differ from the ancient Thomifls, in that the 

 former are aflertors of fufficient grace, the latter of effica- 

 cious grace. The former come near to the Jefuits, the latter 

 to the Janfenifts. 



ALVAROTTO, James, in Biography, an eminent civi- 



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lian, was born at Padua, and became profefTor of law in that 

 city, in the 15th century. Bel'ides other treatifes, he wrote 

 " Commentaria in Libros Fcudorum," printed at Fr.mkfort 

 in folio in 1587, a work much eflcemed, and often cited by 

 the Italian lawyers. 



ALVAYAZER A, in Geography, a fmall town of Portu- 

 gal in the province of Beira, containing one parilh, and near 

 1000 inhabitants. 



ALUCITiE, in Entomology, z fubdivifion of infefts, with 

 digitated wings, belonging tu the genus of thal^na, and 

 of the hpidoptera order in the Lmniean fyllem: compre- 

 hending 12 fpecies. 



ALUCO, facred owl, in Ornithology, a fpecies of the 

 owl, or STRix, with nifty head, black irides, and the pri- 

 mary wing-quills ferrated at the edges. This fpecies, the 

 La Hulotte oi ViuSon, the Uhda of BrifT. Gefii. and Aldr. 

 the black owl of Albin, and the brown owl of Pennant and 

 Lewin, is 15 inches long; its head is large and round, 

 without tufts, and face funk, as it were, within the plu- 

 mage ; the beak of a yellow or greenilli white ; the upper 

 part of the body of a deep iron grey, mottled with black 

 and whitifli fpots, the under part white, with longitudinal 

 and tranfverfe black fpots or bars ; and the legs white, 

 fprinkled with black points. It flies lightly, and not ruft- 

 hng with its wings. The outmofl feather of the wing is 

 two or three inches fhorter than the fecond, and this fliorter 

 than the third ; and the longeft of all are the fourth and 

 fifth. Its cry is a kind of howl, refembling that of wolves, 

 whence its name uhda, and the German huhu, or hoo-hoo. 

 It inhabits Europe and Tartary, and is faid to be confidered 

 as facred by the Calraucks, for having contributed to pre- 

 ferve the life of their great monarch, Jenghis Khan, though 

 Mr. Pennant attributes this to another fpecies. In Summer 

 it lodges in the hollows of decayed trees in the woods, and 

 in Winter approaches human habitations. Its mofl ufual 

 prey is field-mice, which it fwallows whole. It generally 

 lays four eggs, of a dirty grey colour, in the nefts of other 

 birds, fuch as buzzards, buflards, crows, and magpies. 

 GmeHn's Linn. BufTon's Birds, vol. i. p. 291. 



Aluco, in Entomology, a fpecies of Phal^ena Bom- 

 by:;, with brown wings, cinereous at the apex, found at the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



Aluco is alfo the name of a fpecies of the Phal;ena 

 Nodua, with dentated wings, brownifii, undulated with 

 black and three marginal fpots, found in China. 



Aluco is alfo the name of a fpecies of Murex, in the 

 cl.ifs of Vermes tejlacca, with tuberculated fpiral windings, 

 the middle ftria fpinofe, the columella uniplicate, and the 

 tail afcending. There are feveral varieties of this fhell. It 

 is found in the Southern Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and At- 

 lantic, about four mches long, whitifh, fprinkled with 

 ca;rulean or brownifii dots, the windings tranfverfely f\ri- 

 ated, the lip roundilh, and the aperture oval. 



ALUDDA, or Alydda, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 of Afia Minor, in Phr)-gia Major, upon the confines of 

 Lydia. 



ALUDEL, Ahdel, Fr. — SulUmirtopfe, Germ. — Alu- 

 dtHe, Ital. — Capitella fublimatoria, Lat. The aludel of the 

 chemifts is a kind of pot or cucurbit, generally made of 

 earthen ware, but fometimes of glafs, open at both ends for 

 the purpofc of colkfting the produfts of dry fublimations. 

 The matrafs or cucurbit, containing the fubttance to be 

 fubhmed being fixed in a fand bath, is covered with an alu- 

 del, fo difpofed as that the neck of the cucurbit may be 

 received into the body of the aludel, this again is covered 

 in like manner with another aludel, and fo on increafmg the 

 feries according to the volatility of the fubftance operated 

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