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of tkc Upper Saone, and chief place of a canton in the 

 diftrid of Juifcy, two lcii;4-.'.e3 call of Jiiffey. 



AMAND, Mark Anthony Gerard, Sif.ur he 

 Saint, in Biography, a French poet of the 17th century, 

 was born at Rouen in Normandy in 1594. His father com- 

 manded a fquadron of ftiips in the fervice of qvieen EHzabeth 

 for 22 years, and his two brothers were killed in a battle 

 againll the Turks. As for hlmfelf, his whole life was fpjnt 

 in a fucceffion of travels in Europe, Africa, and America, 

 which, whatever might be the anudement or information he 

 derived from them, were injurious to his fortune. His 

 works iverc chiefly mifcellaneous poems, mod of wliich are 

 of the comic or burlefqne, and of the gallant or amorous 

 kind. Three volumes of his poems were publilhed in 4to, 

 at Paris ; the firll in 1627, the fecond in 1643, and ^^'^ '^''"''^ 

 in 1649, under the title of " Les Qiuvres de St. Amand ;" 

 and they have pafled through feveral editions. His " Stan- 

 zas upon the Pregnancy of the Queen of Poland and Swe- 

 den" were printed in 1650; his " Mofes faved, a heroic 

 Idyllium," Paris, 1653, 4^°' ^'"^ 1660, l2mo : his " Stan- 

 »-,as to Monf. Corneille, upon his Imitation of Jefus Chrill," 

 Pans, 1656, 4to ; and his " Rome ridicule," printed feveral 

 times in 4to and 1 2mo ; and when it was printed claudeftincly 

 at Paris in 1643, the printer was thrown into prifon. The 

 earlier part of Amand's life was licentious and debauched ; 

 but towards the clofe of it he was reformed, in confequcncc 

 of the penuiy and diilrefs of his circumftances. M. Broffete, 

 in his notes upon Boileau, fays, that he wrote a poem upon 

 " the Moon," in which he complimented Lewis XIV. 

 upon his flvill in fwimming, in which he was accuftomed to 

 exercife himfelf in the Seine ; but the king could not bear 

 to hear this poem read to him ; and this circumilance is faid 

 to have mortified the author to fuch a degree that he did not 

 long furvive. He died in 1661, at the age of 67 years. 

 He was admitted a member of the French Academy from 

 its firll foundation in 1633 ; and he was excufed from m.ik- 

 ing a fpeech upon his introduftion, on condition of liis 

 compihng the comic part of the Didlionai^ which the Aca- 

 demy had undertaken, and colledting the groteique and bnr- 

 lefque terms. Boileau reprefents the genius of St. Amand 

 as adapted to works of low humour and fatire ; but he adds, 

 that he fpoils all by the mean and trivial circumftances which 

 he introduces. Gei. Diit. 



Amand, Pierre, born at Riez in Provence, about the 

 middle of the 17th centur}^ praftifed midwifery with 

 credit at Paris. In the year 1705 he publifhed " Nou- 

 velles Obfervations fur la Pratique des Accouchmens," 

 in 8vo. of which a fecond edition appeared in the year 

 1715. He relates the cafes of feveral women who had extra- 

 uterine foetufes, and gives an account, accompanied with en- 

 gravings, of a kind of net he had invented for extracting the 

 heads of fcetufes, when left in the uterus, feparated from the 

 body. The invention is ingenious, but has long been laid 

 afide for the crotchet, by which the extraction is performed 

 with much greater eafe and certainty. Vide Eflais Hillo- 

 riques fur I'Art des Accouchmens, par M. Sue. 



Amand, St. in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of Cher, feated on the river Cher, 20 miles fouth 

 of Bourges. N. lat. 46^ 45'. E. long. 2° 30'. 



Amand, St. is alfo a town of France, in the department 

 of the North, in which was lately a celebrated abbey. When 

 the combined forces of Pruffia and Auilria invaded France 

 in 1792, it was taken by them, but evacuated afterwards in 

 their memorable retreat. It was given to France by the 

 treaty of Utrecht. It is feated on the river Scarpe, ieven 

 miles north of Valenciennes. N. lat. 50° 27'. E. long. 

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Amand, St. a fmall town of Fiance, in the diocefe tif 

 Auxerre. — Alfo a fmall tov.-n in the diocefe of Clermont. 



AMANDA, in Ancient Geography, a country' of India, 

 which, according to Piiay, contained various people, under 

 the denominations of Sauiarabrije, Sanibruceni, Bifambrili, 

 Ofii, Antixeni, and Taxill;*;. 



AMANDAVA, in Ornithology, a fpecies of Fringilla 

 that inhabits Afia, and is coiicifely defcribed by Linusus, as 

 being of a brown and reddiili colour, fix)tted with wliite. 

 It is about the fize of a wren, or four inches in length : 

 the upper part of the plumage brown, with a mi>;ture of 

 dull red, the under part of the fame colours, but paler, 

 except the middle of the belly, which is darkeft. Every 

 feather in the upper wing-coverts, bread, and iides, has 

 a white fpot at the tip. The bill is dull red, tail black, 

 and legs pale yellow. The female has a mixture of white 

 on the throat and fore-part of the neck, and the belly is 

 pale yellow. 



This fpecies is frequent in Bengal, and has been called 

 the Bengal finch (or Amaduvade). In allufion to this, Brii- 

 fon names it Bengalus puntlatus, and Buffon Bengale pi- 

 quete. 



There is a variety of this fpecies, the Amandava /?. 

 of Linnseus, hitherto found only in Bengal, which is 

 faid to be entirely brown, and without ipots. This is 

 the Bengalus fufcus of Briffon, and Bengale Brun of Buf- 

 fon. PI. enl. 115. f. 2. but it feems this variety is not al- 

 ways immaculate. Some have a fmall white fpot at the tip 

 of each of the wing coveit feathers, and there is in general a 

 little white on the breaft alfo. The female ia brown, with- 

 out white fpots : the legs, as in the preceding, yellowilh. 



AMANDRA, in Ancient Geography, a tovvn of Edii- 

 opia, placed by Suidas in the territories of king Cepheus. 



AMANGO Cape, in Geography, lies on the fouth-eaft part 

 of the ifland of Corfica, and forms the limit of Bonifacio 

 bay. It is eafily known by a large caille, and two rocks, 

 which are fituated juft below the haven. 



AMANGUCHI, a town of Japan, the capital of 

 the kingdom of Nagaro, and one of the richell towns 

 of Japan. 



AMANIA, in Ancient Geography, a name given to Ara- 

 bia Felix, or to that part of it called Yemen. 



AMANIBO, a town of South America, on the coaft of 

 Guiana, between Paramaribo and Cayenne. 



AMANICyE, or Amanid.^, porta: or pyhn, in Ancietit 

 Geography, denote defiles in the mountain Amanus. 



Amanita, in Botany. See Agaricus. 



AMANNTA. See Ammannia and Peplis. 



AMANOA, mBotany, a genus of the pentanelria monogynia 

 clafs and order. Its charafters arc, that the calyx is quinque. 

 partite ; no corolla ; the germen is triangular, the ftigma 

 trigonous, concave, and fimbriated. There is one fpecies, 

 vi%. A. guianen/ts, Aubl. pi. gui. 



AMANOBII, in Ancient Geography, a people placed by 

 Ptolemy in Sarniatia, in the vicinity of tlie Roxolance. 



AMANOIDES, a promontory ol Cilicia, between the 

 rivers Pyramus and Cidnus. 



AMANTEA, a fea-port town and bifhop's fee of 

 the kingdom of Naples, on the well; coaft of Calabria 

 Citra, near the bay of Euphemia. N. lat. 39° 15'. E. long. 

 16° 21'. 



AMANTHONTE, in Entomology, a fpecies of Papilio 

 in the feftion Danai Candidi, with rotund wings, white and 

 black at the tips. The margin of the poilerior wings on 

 the under fide is brown. Inhabits South America. 



AMANTIA, in Ancient Geography, a town in that part 

 of Epirus called by Ptolemy Ortiiidcs, and fiiice denomi- 

 nated 



