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the lighl-lioufe point, and by keepiiifj, on tVie contrary, 

 (hut in with the well fhore, a large rock on the larboard- 

 hand, and which is only I'eparated from the (liore by a 

 channel lefs than a cable's length wide. The tides in this 

 bay are very regular ; and the grtateil rife of high water, 

 which happens at half paft three on the days of new and full 

 moon, is four feet. From M. Dagelet's obfervations, the 

 governor's houfe at St. Peter and St. Paul, is fituated in 

 N. lat. 53° i'. and E. long, from Paris, 156° 30'. La Pe- 

 roufe's Voyage, vol. ii. ch. 22. p. 117, &c. Eng. Trand. 



AVATHA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Arabia 



Petraea. Ptolemy. Alfo a town of Phoenicia. Notit. 



Imp. 



AVATICI, a people of Europe, in Gallia Narbonnenfis, 

 whofe capital according to Pliny was Mar'itima; or as Steph. 

 Byz. has it, Alafiramcla. 



AVAUNCHERS, among Hunters, the fecond branches 

 of a hart's horn. 



AUAXA, or Auaza, in Ancient Geography, a town of 

 Afia, in Pontus. Not. Imp. 



AUB, in Gf'igrapky, a town of Germany, in the circle 

 of Franconia, and bilhopric of Wurzburg, on the river Gol- 

 lach, feventeen miles fouth of Wurzburg, and twenty-eight 

 north-weft of Anfpach. 



AUB ADE, Fr. in Mufic, a concert given at day-break in 

 hot climates, in the open air; generally by a lover under the 

 v.-indow of his miftrefs. The Italians term this harmonical 

 morning falutation, mattinata ; a noon fong of the fame 

 kind, g'tornata ; evening fong or concert, ferenata ; a mid- 

 night concert, notturno. 



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

 partment of the mouths of the Rhone, and chief place of a 

 canton in the diftridl of A.ix ; three leagues eaft of Marfeillcs 

 and five S. S. E. of Aix. N. lat. 43° 17'. E. long. 5° 52'. 



AUBAINE, in the French Cujloms, a right vcfttd ia 

 the king, of being heir to a foreigner, who died within his 

 dominions. 



The word is formed of auha'm, a foreigner ; which Me- 

 nage derives farther from the Latin, allLi nalus ; Cnjas, 

 from advena, which is the name foreigners bear in the capi- 

 tularies of Charlemagne ; Du-Cange, from Allanus, a 

 Scot, or Iriftiman ; becaufe thefe were anciently much given 

 to travelling and living abroad. 



The king of France, by the right of aubaine, claimed the 

 inheritance of all foreigners in his dominions ; exchifive of 

 all other lords, and even of any teftament the dcceafed could 

 make. An ambalTador, though not naturalized, is not 

 fubje£l to the right of aubaine. The Swifs, Savoyards, 

 Scots, and Portugucfe, are alfo exempted from the aubaine, 

 as being reputed natives and rcgnicolts. 



M. de Lauriere (GlotTaire du Droit Francois, art. Au- 

 baine, p. 92.) produces feveral ancient deeds which prove, 

 that in different provinces of France, ftrangers became the 

 flaves of the lord on whofe lands they fettled. Beauma- 

 noir fays (Couft. de Beauv. ch. 45. p. 254.), that there are 

 feveral places in France, in which if a ttrangcr fixes his 

 refidcnce for a year and a day, he becomes the flave of the 

 lord of the manor. As a praftice fo contraiy to humanity 

 could not fubfift, the fuperior lords found it neceflary to 

 reft fatisfied with levying certain annual taxes from aliens, 

 or impofing upon them fome extraordinary duties or fer- 

 vices. But when any ftrangcr died, he could not convey 

 his effcfts by a will ; and all his real as well as perfonal 

 eftate fell to the king, or to the lord of the barony, to the 

 cxclufion of his natural heirs. This praftice of confif- 

 cating the eftates of ftrangers upon their death, was very 

 ancient. It is mentioned, though very obfcurely, in a law 



of Charlemagne, A. D. Si 3. Not only perfons who were 

 born in a foreign country were fubjett to the droit d'au- 

 baine, but in fome countries fuch as removed from one dio- 

 cefc to another, or from the lands of one baron to another. 

 " It is fcarcely poffiblc," fays Dr. Robertfon (Hift. Ch. V. 

 vol. i. p. 397-), " to conceive any law more unfavourable to 

 the intercourfe between nations. Something fimilar to it 

 may be found in the ancient laws of every kingdom, in 

 Europe. With refpeft to Italy, fee Murat. Ar.t. vol. ii. 

 p. 14." It is no fmall difgrace to the French jurifprndence, 

 that this barbarous, inhofpitable cuftom, (hotfld have to long 

 remained in a nation fo highly civilized. 



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

 partment of the Gard, one league S. E. of Sommieres, and 

 three and a half S. W. of Nifmes. 



AUBE, a river of France, which rifes near Aubcrivc, 

 in the department of the Upper Manic, pafi'es by Fcrt fur 

 Aube, Bar fur Arbe, Dienville, Arcis, &c. and joins the 

 Seine feven miles below Mery. Aube gives name to a 

 department which it waters. This department is one of 

 the four into which the province of Chanipaigne is dif- 

 triouted. It is bounded on the north by the departments 

 of Upper Marne, Marne and Seine, and Marne ; on the . 

 eaft by that of the Upper Marne ; on the fouth by thofe 

 of Cote d'Or and the Yonne ; and on the weft by this laft, 

 and that of the Seine and Marne, The fuperficies is about 

 1,196,370 fquare acres, or 6(0,6oS heftares ; its popula- 

 tion confifts of 228,814 perfons; and it is divided into five 

 communal diftricls. 



AUBENAS, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Ardeche, and chief place of a canton, in the dillrirt 

 of Coiron, three and a half leagues S. W. of Privas. N. 

 lat. 44° 32'. E. long. 4° 32'. 



AUBENTON, a town of France, in the department m 

 of the Ailne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridl 

 of Vervins, nine leagues N, E. of Laon, and three and 

 three quarters eaft of Vervins. 



AUBERG, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 

 Auftria, on the north fide of the Danube, oppofite to 

 Lintz. 



AUBERIVE, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the dilhidl of 

 Rheims, on the Suippe, 15 miles north of Chalons. — Alfo, 

 a town of France, in the department of the Upper Marne, 

 and chief place of a canton in the diftrift of Langres, 

 1 2 miles fouth-weft of Langres. — Alfo, a town of France, 

 in the department of the Ifere, and chief place of a canton 

 in thediftrifl of Vienne, five miles fouth of Vienne. 



AUBERT, Peter, in Biography, a French lawyer, 

 was born at Lyons in 1642, and at an early age difcovered 

 marks of genius, and a tondntfs for books. He was dif- 

 tinguiftied by reputation and fuccels in his profeftion, and 

 employed in feveral offices in his native city. His library, 

 which was large and valuable, he left for public ufc to the 

 city of Lyons. He publiflied, befides a fmall romance 

 which he wrote at feventeen, intitled " Rttour de I'lfle 

 Amour," a collection of " Fattums" of various advocates, 

 in 2 vols. 4to., printed at Lyons in 1710 ; and a much im- 

 proved edition of " Richelet's Diftionary," publilhtd in 

 1728, in 3 vols. fol. Nouv. Diet. Hift. 



AUBERTIN, Edmund, a learned French divine of the 

 reformed church, was born at Chalons on the Marne, in 

 '595' cliofen miniiler of the church of Chartrcs, in l6i8; 

 and removed to the church of Paris, in 1631. His famous 

 work, intitled " L'Euchariftie de I'Ancicnne Eglife," and 

 printed in folio in 1633, was highly efteemed by the re- 

 formers, but gave great offence to the catholics. In this 



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