QUA 



be unanimoufly chofen provincial mafter of all England. 

 He died at Bruzard, in Sufi'olk, in 1369. 



The title of the trafts in tlie Oxford Catalogue of MSS. 

 has occafioned the great diverfity of opinions about the 

 writer of the Quatuor PrincipaUa ; for N° 515 is entitled 

 " De Mufica continua et difcreta, cum Diagrammatibns, 

 per Simonem Tunltede, A.D. 1351." However, in the 

 beginning of the volume, the author propofes to treat " De 

 quatuor Principalibus in quibus tocius Mufica radices con- 

 fiftunt," &c. which exaaiy agrees with the other MS. ; 

 and there is no difference from the beginning to the end, ex- 

 cept in the omiflion of a kind of prologue, or argument to 

 the work, which appears in the traft afcribed to Tewkef- 

 bury (Digby 90.), beginning " Quemadmodum inter Tri- 

 ticum," and is omitted in that to which the name of Tun- 

 flede is prefixed. Bodl. 515. 



What the author calls the " Four Principals of Mufic," 

 will beft appear from his own manner of dividing the work. 

 In the firll part or principal, confifting of nineteen chap- 

 ters, he treats of mufic in general, its conftitucnt parts and 

 divisions. II. Of its invention, intervals, and proportions, 

 twenty-four chapters. HI. Of plain chant, and the eccle- 

 fiailical modes, fifty-eight chapters. IV. Of meafured 

 mufic, or time ; of difcant, and their feveral divifions. This 

 laft principal is divided into two feclions, of which the firll 

 contains forty-one chapters, and the fecond forty-nine. 

 The whole treatife fills a hundred and twenty-four folio 

 pages ; the diagrams, which are very numerous, are beauti- 

 fully written, and illuminated with different coloured inks ; 

 and it feems to be in all refpefts the moil ample and com- 

 plete work of the kind which the fourteenth century can 

 boaft. 



Quatuor Hom'mis Prepofiti. See Prepositi. 

 QuATUOR-ViR, in Anliquity, frequently written nil. VIR, 

 a Roman i.iagiftrate, who had three colleagues joined with 

 him in the fame adminiftration. 



To the quatuor-vir was committed the charge of con- 

 dufting and fettling the colonies fent into the provinces. 



Upon unlucky accidents, and other dangerous affairs, it 

 was ufual to create quatuor-viri, with commiflSon to take 

 care ne quid detrimenti refpublka caperet, that the republic ivere 

 not prejudiced. 



There were alfo quatuor-viri appointed to infpeft and 

 take care of repairs, &c. 



QUAUCHOCHOPITLI, in Ornithology. See Picus 

 Tricolor. 



QUAVER, in Mnf.c, a meafure of time, equal to one- 

 half of the crotchet, or one-eighth of the femi-breve. 



The quaver is marked by the charafter -A 



The Englifh quaver makes what the French C2!\ crochue, 

 ■ crotchet, becaufe of the hook at bottom. See Crotchet. 



The quaver is divided into two femiquavcrs, noted M 



and four demifemiquavers, marked S. See Characters. 



QUAVERING, the aft of trilling, or ihaking ; or the 

 running a divifion with the voice. 



QUAUHAYOHUATLI, in Botany, a name by which 

 fome authors have called the tree, whofc fruit is the caffia 

 fiftula of the (hops. Hern. p. 87. 



QUAUHCILUI, in Ornithology. See I^Ierops Ci- 

 nereus. 



QUAUHIOYAMATL, in Zoology. See Sus 7a- 

 jajfu. 



QUE 



QUAUHTECALLOTLQUAPACHTLI. Sec 

 Sci URL'S f^iiriei;alu}. 

 QUAUHTECHALOTT-THLITTIC. See- Sci- 



VAVS Niger. 



OUAUHTLA-COYMATL. See Sv^ Tajafu. 

 QUAUHTZONECOLIN, in Ornithology, the Ame- 

 rican name for a bird called by moil a quail, but efteemed by 

 NiL-rcmberg a Ipecies of partridge. 



It is of the fize of the European partridge, and of a 

 brownifli colour, and ornamented with a creft upon its 

 head. 



There are alfo in America two otlier fpecies of partridge 

 much allie<' to this : the one with a yellow body, and black 

 and white head ; the other fmall and brown, and without a 

 creft. See Tetuao Cri/lalus. 



QUAUHYAC OcuiLENsiuM, in Botany, the name of 

 a very large Indian tree, bearing leaves rcfembling thofe of 

 the citron. The bark is aftringent, licating, drying, and 

 of a ftrong fmell : it reitraius a diarrhoea, and excites a 

 fweat. The juice, fnufTed up the nofe, caufcs fneezing, 

 purges the head, and thus removes fevers, and pains in the 

 head: for which reafons, it is preferved in families as a 

 popular remedy. Nieremberg. 



QUAVITL, a name given by fome authors to the cocoa- 

 tree. Hern. p. 79. 



QUAUTOTOPOTLI, in Ornithology. See Picus 

 Canadenfis. 



QUAY, Kav, a fpace of ground paved on the fhore of 

 a river, or port, deftined for the loading and unloading of 

 merchandize. See Kay and Wharf. 



QUEAGA, in Geography, a town of Pegu, on the Ava ; 

 18 miles S. of Lundfey. 



QUEBEC, a city of America, the capital of the lower 

 province of Canada, as Niagara is of the upper, was 

 founded by the French in the year 1608, and is fituattd on 

 a very lofty point of land, on the N.W. fide of the rivtr St. 

 Lawrence, at its confluence with the river St. Charles, 

 about 320 miles from the lea. Nearly facing it, on the op- 

 pofite fhore, there is another point ; and between the two 

 the river is contrafted to the breadth of ihree-quarttrs of a 

 mile ; but after pafling through this ftrait, it expands to the 

 breadth of five or fix miles, taking a great fweep behiiid 

 that point on which Quebec Hands. The city derives its 

 name from the word Quebec, or Quebeio, which, in the 

 Algonquin tongue, fignilies a fudden contraftion of a river. 

 The wide part of the river, immediately before the town, 

 is called " the Bafon," and it is fufhciently deep and fpa- 

 cious to float upwards of 100 fail of the line. Quebec is 

 divided into two parts, called the upper and the lower 

 towns. The upper town is lituated on a rock of lime- 

 ftone, on the top ot the point ; and the lower town, built 

 round the bottom of the point, clofe to the water, on land 

 which has been gradually gained from the river. The rock 

 on which the upper town flands rifes, in fome places towards 

 tlie water, nearly perpendicularly, fo as to be totally inac- 

 ceffible ; in other places it is not fo ftcep as to prevent a 

 communication between the two towns, by means of llreets 

 winding up the fide of it ; though here the afcent is fo 

 great, that there are long flights at one fide of the ftreets, 

 for the accommodation of foot-pafTengers. The lower town 

 lies very much expoled to an enemy, being defended merely 

 by a fmall battery towards the bafon, which, at the time of 

 high tides, is nearly on a level with the water ; and by bar- 

 riers towards the river, in which guns may be planted, when 

 there is any danger of an attack. 



The upper town is a place of imm.enfe ftrength. To- 

 wards the water it is fo itrongly guarded bv nature, that 



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