AVE 



AVER-SILVER, a name formerly given toacuftomor 

 rent. Cowel. 



AVERSION, compounded of a, from, and wrlcre, to 

 turn, denotes abhorrence, or diflikc. Some oppofe it to 

 defire ; others, ividi lord Kairnes, to affection. Sec Anti- 

 pathy. 



AVERSIONE vcnrre, or /ocare, in Writers of the Civil 

 Law, feems to denote the felling, or letting tilings in tlie 

 lunip,_witl;out fixing particnlar prices for cacii piece. 



AVERSPERG, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 Caniiola, eleven miles north-eall cf Cirknitz. 



AVERTI, in Horfema-i/hip, is applied to a regular (Icp 

 or motion enjoined in the leffons. In this fenfc they (ay, pas 

 averti, fometimes pgs ecoute, and pas d'ecoh; wliich all de- 

 note the fame. Tiie word is mere French, ajid fignifies ad- 

 'vifcii. 



AVERTO, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the gulf of 

 Venice, near the coall of Friuli. N. lat, 4;° 4.')'. E. lor."-. 



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A\ ERY, a place where oats, or provender; are kept for 

 the king's horfes. Sec Averia. 



AVES. See Avis. 



AvES, ot Birds, IJland of, in Geography, an ifland uf the 

 Weft Indies, nearly well from Dominica, and fiiuth from 

 the Virgin iflands ; fo called from the number of birds 

 which breed here, and lay their eggs in the faiid. N. lat. 15" 

 26'. W. long. 66° 20'. — Alfo, a imall ifland, not far from 

 the coall of Terra Firma, fouth-ca'l from Bonair ifiand. 

 N. lat. 11° 50'. W. long. 67" 25'. On the north fide it 

 has a good harbour for careening Ihips, and fome wells. It 

 is about four miles long, and half a mile bmad at the eafl 

 end. Witliin three miles there is a dangerous reef of loeks, 

 extending from eaU to north, and then trending to the weft. 

 — Alfo, an iilaad near the eaReni coaft of Newfoundland. 

 N. lat. so" 5'. 



AVESA, a river of Italy, which runs into the Adriatic, 

 near Rimini. 



AVESBURY, Robert of, m Biography, an ancient En- 

 glifh hiftorian, flouriihed in the fourteenth century. He 

 was regifter of the archbifhop of Canterbury's court, and 

 wrote a hiflory of England in his own times, intitled, 

 " Mirabilia Gella Magnifici Regis Angha; Domini Edwardi 

 Tertii, &c." As this hiilory reaches only to the 30th of 

 Edward III. A.D. 13^6, the author was probably prevented 

 by death from finifliing his plan. He appears to have tjken 

 great pains in procuring the mod authcntx information ; his 

 fafts are authenticated by original papers ; his dates are ac- 

 curate ; and the dtfeit of his ilyle is compenfated by his 

 candor and impartiality as an hifiorian. Tliis valuable 

 work lay long concealed ; till, in the year 1720, the inde- 

 fatigable antiquary, Thomas Htarne, printed it at Oxford, 

 from a MS. belonging to lir Tlionias Seabright, which liad 

 been formerly in the hands of archbifliop Parker, "and two 

 other MSS., or.e in the HarlcinU l.brary, and the other in 

 the uuiverfity library at Cambridge ; all which are thought 

 to be as old as the time when the author flouriihed. Mr. 

 Tvrreil, in the preface to the third volume of his General 

 H'iltory of England, cites tliis hillorian, and fays, that he 

 was a confiderable writer of that age, and very exact in his 

 account of king Edward's aftions beyond the fea, as having 

 taken them from feveral original letters of perfons'of note. 

 To Hearne'o edition is added an appendix, containing feveral 

 curious pieces in Englidi antiquities, uuconnefted with the 

 work itielf; and particularly, a tranfcript of the love-letters 

 between Henry VIII. and Anne BuUen, taken from the 

 originals kept in the Vatican at Rome, A.D. 16S2. Biog. 

 Brit. . , , 



AVESNE, in Geography, a town of France, m the dc- 



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partment of tht flraits of Calais, and chief place of a 

 canton in the dillrict of St. Pol, three league? well of Arras. 



AVESiSfES, a flrong town of France, in the department 

 of the North, and principal place of a dillrict. It is fitu- 

 ated in Hainault, on the fmall river Hcfpre. Its fortiBca- 

 tions were repaired by Vauban ; and it was ceded to the 

 French by tiic Spaniards in 1659. It is diflant ten leagues 

 call from Cambray, f^ven from Valenciennes, and tortj 

 north-eafl from Paris. N. lat. 50° 7'. E. long. 3- 48'. 



AVEYRON, a department of France, comprehendiag 

 part of the pi'jviixe of Guyeiine ; bounded oa the north by 

 the department of Cantal ; on t!ie eaft, by thofc of Loyere 

 and Gard ; on the fouth, by thofe of Card, Herault, and 

 T.irn ; and on the weft, by thofe of Tarn and Lot. Its 

 fuperficies is about 1,767,424 fquare acres, or 90l,~64 

 liedares.. Its population conlills of about 332,090 perfons ; 

 and it is divided into five communal di.lricts. Its chief 

 city is Rhodes. 



AVEZARAS, a river of France, in Gafcogny, waters 

 the territory of Aire, and difcharges itfclf into the Adour, 

 between Grenade and St. Sever. 



AVEZZANO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 

 Naples, and province of Abruzzo Ultra. This town was 

 founded in 860, and contains 2700 inhabitants. It is built 

 on an almoll imperceptible declivity one mile from the lake 

 of Cehino, to which an av-enue of poplar leads from the 

 baronial calUc, which is a fquare edifice, flanked with 

 towers, at a Imall diilance from the town. 



AI)FED0, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 

 and provinceof Abruzzo Ultra, twenty-one miles W.S.W. 

 of .'\guila. 



AUFENA, or AtJriNA, in Ancient Geography, Ofena, a 

 town of Italy, in Samnium, belonging to the Vellini ; fouth- 

 eaft of Amiternum. 



AUFENTE, in Geography, a river of Italy, in the Cam- 

 pagna of Rome, has its fource near Sezzu, and its mouth 

 in t!ie fea, near Terracina. 



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

 Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton in the di.lrift of 

 Dieppe, fix leagues north of Rouen. 



AUFIDENA, in Jn.'!int Geography, jHfJena, a town 

 of Italv, in Samnium, and the capital of the people called 

 Caracei'ii, fituate near Sagrus. The inhabiunts were called 

 Aufidfnates. 



AUFIDUS, a riverof Italy, the moft confiderable iir 

 Apuha. For the juftnefs of the defcription given of it by 

 Horace, feeOpANTo. 



AUFTNA, or Au7iNUM. SeeAuFEsA. 



AUFNAY, in Geography, a fmall ifland of SwilTerland, 

 in the lake of Zurich, containing two churche«. 



AUG.£A, in Ancient Geography, a town of Macedonia, 

 in the Ch.aleidic territory. Ptolemy- 



AUGALA, a town of Afriea, in Mauritania Csfarien- 

 fis, at f.)me diilance from the fea. Ptolemy. 



AUGAI.I, a people of Afii, in Sogdiana. Ptolemy. 



AUCJARA, a town of Afia, in Aria. Ptole-my. 



AUGAR HAS, in Geography, a pecpU of South America, 

 in Brafil, in the province orgovenimtnt of Puerto-Scguro. 



AUGE, in Entomology, a fpecics of Sphisx (Zygrna 

 Fabr.) of a black colour, with fanguineous hair on the fides 

 of the abdomen ; wings tranfparent, black behind ; and the 

 antennx- pcainated. Fabricius. Ohf. This is PapiFn eujrut 

 of Craxer. It is a native of America. 



AuGE. This fpecific name Cramer has given tea variety 

 oi PapiHo bolina. Linn. 



AvcE, in Geography, a di(lr£t of France, in the late 

 province of Norn:andy, extending from Faiaile and Argen- 

 ton, a: far as the fea,' between the rivers Dives, Vie, and 



Tongues, 



