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of her luidiaiid, Cne was never able to vanquKh the difficul- 

 ties of this piece, by Dr. Bull. And fevcral of Dr. Pc- 

 pufch's friends and pupils, wiio went frequently to his apart- 

 ments at the Charter-houfe, have allured us, that though 

 this manufcHpt was conftantly open upon her harpfichord 

 deflv, (he never advanced to the end of the variations ; as 

 feems likewife manifeft from the colour, as well as wear 

 and tear, of the leaves, which are much more clean and 

 entire in every other part of the book, than at the firli; 

 ftrains of this compofition. , 



Queen Mary II. joint fovereign with William III., 

 feems to have done little more for muiic, than patronife 

 Mrs. Arabella Hunt, and the old Scots tune of « Cold 

 and raw the wind doth blow." See Mary. 



Queen Anne, in Geography, a poll-town of America, 

 in Prince George county, Maryland, lituated on the W. fide 

 of Patuxent river, acrofs which is a wooden bridge. This 

 fmall town is laid out on a regular plan, at the foot of a 

 hill. It contains a few ftores, and warehoufes tor the infpec- 

 tion of tobacco ; 25 miles E.N.E. of Wafliington. 



Queen Anne's, a county of Maryland, bounded W. by 

 Chefapeak bay, and N. by Kent county ; containing 16,648 

 inhabitants. Its chief town is Centerville. Belonging to 

 this county is Kent ifland, 14 miles long from N. to S. and 

 6i broad from E. to W. It is low, but the land is fertile, 

 and its eaftern fide is bordered with fait marfh. 



Queen Catherine' j- Fonland, the northernmoft point 

 of Terra del Fuego, at the eaft entrance into the ftraits of 

 Magellan, difcovered by Frobiflier in 1576. 



Queen Charlotte'j- Foreland, the S.E. extremity of 

 New Caledonia. N. lat. 22° 15'. E. long. 167° 14'. — 

 Alfo, the S.W. point of New Hanover, in the Eaft Indian 

 fea, fo called in 1767 by Capt. Carteret. The land about it 

 is remarkable for a number of little liummocke, or hills. S. 

 lat. 2° 29'. E. long. 148° 27'. 



Queen Charlotte'j' JJland, an ifland in the Pacific 

 ocean, about fix miles long, and one broad, difcovered in 

 the year 1767, by captain WalUs. It is defcribed as fandy 

 and level, full of trees, without underwood, and abounding 

 with fcurvy-grafs. The canoes of tliis ifland appeared to be 

 about 30 feet long, 4 feet broad, and ji deep. The inha- 

 bitants were of a middle ftature, and dark complexion, with 

 long black hair, hanging loofe over their fhoulders. The 

 ■ men were well made, and the women handfome. Their gar- 

 ments were a kind of coarfe matting, faftened about their 

 middle, and capable of being brought round their fhoulders. 

 The men who landed faw no appearance of any kind of 

 metal, but oblerved feveral tools made of fhells and ftones, 

 (harpened and fitted into handles, like adzes, chiflels, and 

 awls. They faw feveral repofitories of the dead, in which 

 bodies were left to putrefy, under canopies, and not depo- 

 fitedin the ground. The ifland was taken pofleflion of by 

 captain Wallis and his crew, in the name of liis Britannic ma- 

 jelly. They alfo left fome hatchets, nails, glafs bottles, beads, 

 /hillings, fixpences, and halfpence, as prefents to the natives. 

 S.lat. l(f 18'. W. long. 138° 4'. 



Queen Charlotte'j IJlands, a group of iflands, difco- 

 vered in 1767 by Capt. Carteret, confiding of Egmont's 

 ifland or New Guernfey, Lord Howe's ifland or New Jer- 

 fey, and feveral others. A quarrel having occurred in confe- 

 quence of the imprudent conduft of the mafier of Capt. 

 Carteret's fliip, between the crew and the natives, feveral of 

 the latter were killed, and four of the former died in confe- 

 quence of their wounds. This unfortunate event prevented 

 any intcrcourfe with the inhabitants of thefe iflands. Egmont 

 ifland, fays Capt. Carteret, who called it by this name in 

 honour of the earl, is the fame with the Santa Cruz of the 



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Spaniards ; and the place in which the fliip had lain he called 

 Siualloiu bay ; about ten miles W. from this bay is a fmall 

 ifland, near the coafl, called Portland's ifland ; and to the bay 

 fi.rther wefi., where the (hip's cutter iiad been attacked by 

 tlie Indians, he gave the name of Bloody lay. In this bay, 

 is a fmall rivulet of frefh water, and here were feen many 

 houfes, and near the water-fide, one much longer than any 

 of the reft, which feemed to be a kind of common hall, or 

 council-houfe, and was neatly built and thatched. The fides 

 and tile floor of this edifice were covered with a kind of fine 

 matting, and bundles of arrows were hung up in it ready for 

 ufc. At this place there were alfo many fine gardens and 

 plantations, inclofed by a fence of ftone, and planted with 

 cocoa-nut trees, bananas, plantains, yams, and other vege- 

 tables. About three miles W. of this town was another of 

 coiifiderable extent, in the front of which, near the water, 

 was a breall-work of ftone, about four feet fix inches high, 

 angularly formed like a fortification ; from which, and 

 from other circumftances, there is reafon to believe that the 

 natives have frequent wars among themfelves. At the 

 diftance of two or three miles farther weftward was found a 

 fmall bight, receiving a river, which was called Granville's 

 river, and weflward of it is a point, to which was given the 

 name of Ferrar's point. From this point the land forms a 

 large bay, near which is a town of great extent, and appa- 

 rently very populous. About feven m.iles W. of Ferrar's 

 point is another, that was called Carteret's point, from which 

 a reef of rocks, that appears above water, runs out to the 

 diftance of about a cable's length. To the W. of this was 

 another large town, fronted like the laft, and the people who 

 thronged to the beach while the fhip was palling, performed 

 the fame kind of circular dance with thofe of the former 

 place. They were furniflied with a number of canoes of dif- 

 ferent fizes. ■ The inhabitants of Egmont ifland are ex- 

 tremely nimble, vigorous, and aftive, and feem as well qua- 

 lified to live on the water as on the land, for they were in 

 and out of their canoes almoft every minute. With their bows 

 and arrows they do execution at an incredible diftance. Tlieir 

 arrows were pointed with flint, nor was there feen among 

 t' em any appearance of metal. The country, in general, 

 is woody and mountainous, intermixed with many vallies ; 

 feveral fmall rivers flow from the interior part of the country 

 into the fea, and uppn the coaft there are many harbours. 

 S. lat. 9° 50' to 11° 20'. E. long. 163' 30' to 165° 10'. 

 Hawkelworth's Voyages, vol. i. p. 349, &c. 



Queen Charlotte'j IJlandf, called by Capt. Gray, of 

 the United States, who vifited them in 1789, and by Ame- 

 rican navigators, " Wafhin^ton iflands," a group of iflands 

 on the N.W. coaft of America. See Queen Charlotte'j 

 IJland. 



Queen Charlotte'j Sound. See Queen Charlotte'j- 

 Sound. Mr. Anderfon, who vifited this found four times, 

 has made the following remarks on the country near it. The 

 land is every where uncommonly mountainous, rifing imme- 

 diately from the fea into large hills, with blunted tops. At 

 confiderable diftances are valhes, or rather impreffions on the 

 fides of the hills, which are not deep, each terminating towards 

 the fea in a fmall cove, with a pebbly or fandy beach, be- 

 hind which are fmall flats, where the natives generally build 

 their huts, at the fame time landing their canoes upon the 

 beaches. The bafes of thefe mountains, at leafl towards the 

 fliore, are conftituted of a brittle, yellowifli fand-ftone, which 

 acquires a blueifh call, where the fea wafhes it. It runs, in 

 fome places, in horizontal, and, at other places, in oblique 

 ftrata ; being frequently divided, at fmall diftances, by thin 

 veins of coarfe quartz. The mould, or foil, which covers 

 this, i» of a yeUowifh call, not unUke marie, and is com- 

 monly 



