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tiolcs cliannelled, ciliate ; peduncles in pairs, commoniy one- 

 flowered, reddilh, with bracles at tlie bale ; flowers crcft, 

 of a deep rofo colour, 'bell-lliaped, regular; capfule fubrO- 

 tund-ovate, acute, live-celled, margins of the valves iuflex. 

 It grows on moll of the high mountains of Scotland. 7. 

 A. piincliUii, dotted azalea. Lour. Cochinch. 113. "Leaves 

 rugged about the edge ; flow^ers dotted, heaped." Five 

 feet high, ereft, branched; leaves lanceolate, entire, fmooth, 

 alternate; corolla white; caly.t whitilh, dotted with red, as 

 are alio tlie corollas, anthers, and germ. A native of the 

 woods of Cochinchina. 



Propagation and Culture. I, 2. the Fontic and Lidian 

 fpeeics have not yet been cultivated in Europe. 3, 4. grow 

 naturally in lliade, and in moid ground ; many of the plants 

 have been feut of late years from North America to Eng- 

 land, ane produced beautiful flowers in this country. They 

 inull have a moill foil and Ihady iituation ; and can only be 

 propagated by fnoots from their roots, or by laying down 

 tlieir braT\ches, for they do not produce feeds here. Wlien 

 any of them arc laid down, it Ihould be only the young 

 flioots of the fame year, for the old branches will not put 

 out roots. The bell time for this is at Michaelmas, and if 

 they are covered with fome old tan, to keep out the froft, 

 it will be of ufe to them. The autumn is the bell time to 

 remove the plants, but the ground about the roots fliould. 

 be covered in winter ; a praftice neccffary for the old plants 

 to preferve them in vigour, and caufe them to flower well. 

 5, .6. are low plants, of little beauty, and will only thrive 

 on boggy ground upon mountains. See Martyn's Miller's 



Dia. 



AZAMA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afiica, 

 placed by Ptolemy fifteen days journey dillant from Car- 

 thage bay ; fiuith-eaft of Cirta. It is fuppofed to be the 

 preient Zantora. 



AZAMBUJA, in Geography, a fmall town of Portugal, 

 containing from feven to eight hundred houfes, feated in a 

 well-cultivated plain, on the banks of the Tagus, not far 

 from Lilbon. 



AZAMOGLANS. See Agemoglans. 



AZAMOR, in Geography, a fmall fea-port town of 

 Africa, in the kingdom of Morocco, and province of Du- 

 quella. It is feated on the river Morbeya, at fome diftance 

 from its mouth. This town is not adapted to maritime 

 commerce, becanfe the entrance of the river is dangerous. 

 It was unfnccefsfully befieged by the Portuguefe in 1508; 

 but taken in 1513 by the dnkeol Braganza, and abandoned 

 about the end of the fixteenth century. At a little dillance 

 from Azamor, facing a fpacious bay, are the ruins of the 

 ancient city of Titus, fuppofed by Chenier (Prefent State, 

 &c. of Morocco, vol. i. p- 37-) to have been one of the 

 cities founded by order of the fenate of Carthage. Near 

 the fame place are the ruins of Almedina, a town built by 

 the Moors. The cape of Azamor fl.retches out to the weft. 

 See Mazagan. N.lat. 33° 20'. W. long. 8° 20'. . 



AZAMORA, in Ancient Geography, a llrong place of the 

 Lefler Armenia, in Cataonia. Strabo. 



AZANAGHIS, in Geography, a people on the coaft of 

 Africa, near cape Blanco. They inhabit the adjacent deferts, 

 and are not far from the Arabs of Hoden. Their food is 

 dates, barley, and the milk of their camels. They acknow- 

 ledge no mafter, but the more wealthy among them are 

 treated with fome tokens of refpeft. Their geucral cha- 

 rafter is that of being perfidious and fraudulent; they are 

 poor and wretched, and live in hordes difperfcd in fcveral 

 places along the coaft. 



AZANI, in Ancient Geography, a people of Afia, in 

 Phrygia, to which they were annexed. Strabo.' 



AZANIA, one of the three grand divifions of Arcadia, 



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according to Strabo. Steph. Byz. fays, that it contained 



fcventeen towns Alfo, a part of the maritim^ coaft of 



Ethiopia. Pliny. 



AZANITIS, a country of Afia Minor, in Phrygia, 

 in which was the fource of the river Rhyndacvis. Strabo. 



AZAOTON, or Azoal, a fandy defert of Africa, in 

 Libya, almoft dellitnte of water, and which is traverfed by 

 the conipafs, like the fea. 



AZAPES. See Asappes. 



AZAR, in Ancient Geography, a mountain in Egypt. 

 Ptolemy. 



Azar, in Geograp^hy, a town of Arabia, feventy-fix miles 

 fouth-eaft of Amanzinifdin. 



AZAR A, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in Ar- 

 menia Major, feated on tlie river Araxes. Scrabo. — Alfo, an 

 ancient town of Afiatic Snrmatia. Ptolemy. — Alfo, a tem- 

 ple of l^iana, in Afl'yria. Strabo. 



AZARABA, a town of Afia, in Sarmatia. Ptolemy. 



AZARECAH, or Azarakites, in Hijlory, the deno- 

 mination of a fe£l of heretical Mufiiilmans, fo called from 

 Nafe Ebn al Azarak their founder, who acknowledged no 

 power or government, temporal or fpiiitua!. They confifted 

 of a combination or aflemblage of all who rejeftcd and op- 

 pofed the Mahometan faith ; they were fworn enemies of 

 the houfe of Ommiyah ; and committed dreadful ravages 

 in all the Moflem territories through which they pafled. 

 In the fixty-eighth year of tlie Hegira, they made an irrup- 

 tion into Irak, and carried their barbarous exceffes to f'jch a 

 height, that they murdered all perfons whom thty met with, 

 ripped open women with child, and committed every fpeeics 

 of cruelty that could be invented on people of every de- 

 fcription, without difcrimination. During this period their 

 founder died, and was fucceeded by Katri Ebn al Fojat, 

 under whofe, conduft they continued their depredations. 

 Mufab, the governor of Moulul and Melopotamia, fent a 

 body of troops againll them, commanded by Omar Ebn Ab- 

 dallah Temimi, who com.pletcly routed them at Naiiabur, in 

 C'horafan, flew many of them, and purfued the rcll as far as 

 Ifpahan and the province of Kerman. See Mahometans. 



AZAREDO, in Geography, a fea-port town of South 

 America, in the bay of Spirito Santo, on the coaft of Bra- 

 fil. This is a famous port for iugar. S. lat. 20° 18' 

 W. long. 40" 10'. 



AZARIAH, or Uzziah, in Biography, one of the kings 

 of Judah, lucceeded his father Amaziah in the year 809 

 before Chrill. The early part of his reign, in which he was 

 pious and virtuous, was profperous and happy; and he ob- 

 tained great advantages over the Philiftines, Ammonites, 

 and Arabians. He was devoted to agriculture, though he 

 had a ftanding army of 307,500 men, with large magazines, 

 well furnifhed with arms botii offenfive and defenfive; he 

 employed many hulbandmen in the plains, vine-drcffers in 

 tlie mountains, and Iheplicrds in the vallies. Towards the 

 clofe of his life, and of his reign, which lalled fifty-two 

 years, he became an idolater, died of a leproly, and was 

 buried, not in the royal Itpulchre, but in an adjacent field. 

 2 Kings, XV. 2 Chron. xxvi. There are many high-pricfts 

 and others, mentioned in fcripture, and in the Jewilh 

 hiftory, who bore the name of Azariah. 



AZARIAS, a learned Italian rabbi, lived in the fixteenth 

 century, and publiflied at Mantua, in 1574, a Hebrew 

 treatile, intitled, " Meor en Ajim," or " The light of the 

 eyes;" in which are difcufled, with confiderable learning and 

 knowledge of the Chriftian fcriptures, feveral points of chro- 

 nology and criticifin. The work contains a Hebrew tranf- 

 lation of the book of Arifteas on the LXX. Nouv. Didl. 

 HJftor. 



AZAROLUSjor AzAROLE, \t\Botany. SeeCRATA:Gus. 



AZARUM, 



