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nver in Africa, according to Leo ; and the roots probably 



had tins name from thtir bL-iiiff found in great plenty on tl>c 

 banks of that river, the Imji always growing in wet places. 



ALZNIA, in Ger-gnshhy, a province of Afia, in Orcat 

 Armenia, towards the nver Tigris, coinprehendini; nine 

 very confiderabl: dillrias, which extend along the river to 

 Karamut or Diarbckir. 



ALZON, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Card, and chief place of a canton, in the dilhia of Vigan, 

 15 miles north-north call of Lodcve. 



Alzon, a river of trance, which runs into the Card, 

 about a lcaf;ue below Uzes. 



ALZONNE, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Aude, 2 ! leagues weft of Cai-cafFonnc. 



ALZUM, in Bohmy, a name given, by the ancients, to 

 the tree which produces the gum bdellium. It is alfo 

 written alrum and aUum, which laft fcems the proper way. 

 The gum of this tree was called, by the Amhiails, molrl, and 

 the fame word ws/r/isufed as the nameof a friiitof apalm-tree. 



AM, in Geography, a famous city of Armenia, where 

 they formerly reckoned 100,000 horfcs, and about icoo 

 mofques. It was taken by the Tartars in 12 19, and is now 

 confiderably reduced. It is thought to be the prefent Ani. 



AMA, in Ecdefiajl'ual Writers, denotes a vcfTel wherein 

 wine, water, or the like, were held, for the fcrvice of the 

 eucharift : in which fenfe, the word is alfo written amula ; 

 fometimes alfo hnma and hannila. 



Ama is fometimes alfo ufed for a wine-meafure, as a call;, 

 pipe, or the like. 



Ama, Ame, or rather Ames, au>ic, a fort of cake. 

 Ai-etaeus ufed this word to exprefs the quantity of hellebore 

 which is fufficient for a dofe in ftrong conftitulions, when 

 given in a •vertigo. 



Ama, or Am an, in Geography, a town of Syria, once the 

 celebrated city of Apamea, now reduced to ruins. 



AMA,orHAMA,a townof Germany, in the circle of Weft- 

 phalia, and bifliopric of Liege, 8 miles fouth-weft of Liege. 



AMAAD, in Scripture Geography, a town of Palelline, 

 on the borders of the tribe of Azer. 



AMABYR, or Amvabyr, q.d. in ancient F>riti(h, "the 

 price of virginity," in fome Ancient Cujloms, a fum of money 

 to be paid the lord upon mari-ying a maid of his manor. — 

 This cuftom is faid to have anciently obtained in Wales, 

 where amabyr was paid to the prince : alfo in the honour 

 of Clun belonging to the earl of Arundel, till earl Henry, 

 in the times of queen Mary, in confideration of fixty pounds, 

 relcafed it to all his tenants by the name of the cuilom of 

 amabyr and rhevage. 



AMACACHES, in Geography, a people of South 

 America, in Brafil, inhabiting the vicinity of the territory 

 that extends from St. Sebaftian to Rio Janeiro. 



AMACASTIS, in Ancient Geography, a town of India, 

 on this fide the Ganges, according to Ptolemy. 



AMACCURA, a town of Africa. 



AM AC I, a people of Spain, whofc capital, according 

 to Ptolemv, was Afturia Augufta. 



AMACK, in Geography, an ifland of Denmark, joined 

 to Copenhas^en, and confequently to Seeland, by two bridges 

 over the channel that feparates them. It is about one and 

 ©ne-half geographical mile in length, and above half a mile 

 in breadth. It is level and without woods ; the foil is uncom- 

 monly fertile, fo that it is confidered as the kitchen-garden 

 and ftore-houfe of the city ; and the inhabitants fupply it 

 twice every week with all forts of efculent vegetables, and 

 alfo with milk, butter and cheefe. The prefent inhabitants 

 occupied it in 1516, being invited hither by Chrillian II. 

 from the province of Water-land, in North Holland. The 



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whoJe ifland contnini about 800 families, and i« divided inf> 

 two paiiftica. The dialcA of the people is a iiitdlcy of ihc 

 low Dutch, German, and Danifli languages ( their mode 

 of drcfs, and of living is peculiar to thcmfclvcs. In the 

 Summer they drive their cattle forpaftiirc to a fmall neigh- 

 bouring ifland, calK-d Saltholm. There arc excellent quamci 

 of (lone for lime and building on this iHaiiJ. 



AMACORE, orAMAcuRK, a livrr of foutb Amcrira, 

 wliicli waters the Caribana, and runs into the Northern fca» 

 near the mouth of the Oroonoko. 



AMACOZOl'E, in Ornilh'ilogy, a name given by Fer- 

 nandez to a Mexican bird, fuppofed by Buffon to be a fpccict 

 of Charadrius or Plover. It is a iioify bird, the plumage 

 is mixed with white and black, and it has a double collar. 

 It is feen the whole year on the lake of Mexico, where it 

 lives on aquatic worms. 



AMACUSA, in Geography, an iHand and province of Ja- 

 pan, with a town of the fame name, that boidrts upon that 

 of Oyanau, and h fouth-wtft of the idand i^f KiiMs. It i» 

 between 31" 30' and 32" N. hit. and E. long. 129" lij' 



AMADABAD. See Ahmedadad. 



AMjVDAN, or Hamadan, a town of Perfia, in the 

 province of Irac-Agcmi, between Bagdad and Ifpahan, 

 about So leagues from one and liic other. It is featcd at 

 the foot of a mountain, whence iffuc llreams that water the 

 country ; its extent is large, as it enclofes wafte and culti- 

 vated land, though it has but one tolerable llrcet formed of 

 houfcs, that are built of brick, hardened in the fun. The 

 adjacent country is fertile, and pruduifiive of com and rice ; 

 the air is falubrious, but in Winter the cold is intenfc. The 

 Armenians have a church in this town, and th • Jews have a 

 fynagogue, near which is a tomb, where, according to re- 

 port, Ellher and Mordecai were interred. This place i* 

 reforted to by feveral pilgrims from all parts of the Levant ; 

 and in its vicinity is a mountain called Nall'iina, aboundmg 

 with various herbs, and the fick repair hither to recover their 

 health by imbibing their falutary effluvia. Amadan is aa 

 ancient city ; and it is faid that it was dellroycd by Nebuchad- 

 nezzar, and rebuilt bv Darius. The kings of Petfia retired 

 to it on account of its dehghtful fituation, and hence it ob- 

 tiined the name of the " Royal City." It was reduced by 

 the Caliph Otliman, and was nearly dellroyed by Jenghis 

 Khan in 1220. Its callle and walls are now in ruins ; and 

 it is merely dillinguifhed by its gardens and fprings. N. lat. 

 35° '5'- E. long. 47' 39'. „ . r, . 



AMADANAGEN, a town in the Hither Peninfula of 

 India, in the province of Decan. It was taken by the 

 Moguls in 1598. N. lat. iS° 10'. E. long. 74" 15'. See 

 Ahmednagur. 



AMADEUS v., count of Savoy, in Biography and 

 Hijlory, fucceedcd to the fovereignty in 1285, and obtained 

 the furname of " The Great," by his wifdom and fuccelTcs. 

 His poneflions were muih enlarged by marriage, purchafe, 

 and donation. In defending Rhodes, againft the Turks, in 

 131 1, he gained dillinguiflied honour ; and in memory of 

 this fervice, he and his fuccelTors took for their device, 

 F. E. R. T. the initials of the Latin words " Fortitudo 

 ejus Rhodum tcnuit," /'. e. his valour preferved Rhodes. 

 The grand maftcr of the knights of St. John, to whom 

 Rhodes belonged, granted him a palace at Lyons, as a reward 

 of his cffeft ual fuccour. He died after a reign of 38 years, 

 in 1323, at Avignon, where he was folie-iling pope John 

 XX i I. to publilh a crufade in favour of Andionieus, em- 

 peror of the Eaft, who had married his daughter. He wr.» 

 much loved and honoured by all the foverelgns of Europe, 

 and was generally the mediator in all their dilfercuces. Mod. 

 Un. Hift. vol. xxxiv. p. 16. 



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