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jcdts are Mahometans ; the latter partly black and partly 

 tawny. They all fpcak the Arabic and feveral other 

 languages, which they learn from the nations they traffic 

 uith. Their drefs is that of the Arabian Turks : the wo- 

 men elpecially afFeft finery, with variety of ornaments 

 .•;bout their neck?, arms,\vrifts, and ankles; particularly 

 bracelets made, of ivory, curioudy wrought, which upon 

 the death of a parent, hufband, or near relation, they 

 break in pieces, in token of forrow, whilft the men expreis 

 theirs by fnaving their hair, and abftaining from food. The 

 «-apital of the kingdom is fituated on an illand near the mouth 

 of the Coavo, and is faid to be large, rich, and well built. 

 The houfes are of flone and mortar, handfome, and after 

 the Spanifh manner. They are feveral ilories high, and 

 have each a pleafant garden behind, well watered and culti- 

 vated, here being plenty of fprings of frefh water. The 

 houfes are finely furnifhed within, and terraces on the top, 

 with a kind of hard clay, and the ftreets fo narrow, that one 

 may eafily ftep from one fide to the other. On one fide of 

 the town is the citadel, where refides the Mahometan prince. 

 It is adorned with ftately towers, and furrounded with a 

 ditch and other fortifications. It hath two gates, one to- 

 wards the port, whence one may fee the fhips lailing in and 

 out ; the other loeking towards the land. The country 

 about Quiloa, though low, is yet very pleafant and fertile 

 in rice and millet, fruits and <jood pafture ; fo that tiiey 

 breed abundunce of cattle, befides poultry of all forts, both 

 wild and tame. They have fifli likewife in great plenty, 

 and very good. The climate is likewife affirmed by moll 

 travellers to be very temperate and healthy ; Sanut being 

 the only author we know of who hath ventured to afic-rt the 

 contrary in all thefe refpefts. S. lat. 8° 35'. 



QUILONNE, a province of Africa, in the kingdom of 

 Sabia. 



OUILOVIA, a fmall ifland in the Indian fea, near the 

 coaTl of Africa. S. lat. 13°. 



QUILTAINEN, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 

 Oberland ; 8 miles S.E. of Holland. 



QUILTAON, one of the La-cadive iflands, in the In- 

 dian fea. N. lat. 12°. W. long. 72*45'. 



QUILTING denotes the operation of weaving a fort 

 of coat or texture, formed of the ftrands of rope, about 

 the outfide of any vellel, to contain water, &c. as ajar, callc, 

 bottle, &c. 



QUIMICHPATLAN, in Zoohgj. See Sciurus Vo- 

 luctlla. 



QUIMINATIN, \n Geography, a fmall ifland in the fea 

 ofMindoro. N. lat. 10° 55'. E. long. 120° 40'. 



QUIMIRI, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of Lima; 40 

 miles N.E. of Nafca. 



QUIMO, a fmall ifland on the eaft fide of the gulf of 

 Bothnia. N. lat. 63° 17'. E. long. 21° 52'. 



QUIMPER, a city of France, capital of the depart- 

 ment of Fmillerre, and chief place of a diftrift, feated on 

 the Oder ; before the revolution the fee of a b'.fhop, the feat 

 of a governor, an admiralty, &c. The place contains 6608, 

 the canton 17,028 inhabitants, on a territory of 90 kilio- 

 metres, in feven communes. N. lat. 47° 59'. W. long. 

 4° I'. 



QUIMPERLE, a town of France, and chief place of 

 d dii'tridt, in the department of the Finifterre. The place con- 

 tains 4162, and the canton 9128 inhabitants, on a territory 

 of 125 kiliometres, in 15 communes. 



QUIN, Dr., of Dublin, in Biography, an eminent phy- 

 fician, and one ot the mod enlightened dilettante muficiaus 

 with whom we liave ever been acquainted. This gentleman, 

 who, during his travels, refided in Italy fome years, had 



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heard and (ludied mufic with fucii taile and inteUigeiiCc, 

 that his opinions and converfation on the fubjeft wert; equally 

 entertaining and itiilrudtive. He refided in Dublin at the 

 timj of H:uidcl's arrival in that city, 1742, and perfectly 

 remembering his performance, perfwn, and manners, in 1788 

 wrote us word, that" he (Handel) was received in Ireland 

 by perfons of the firit dillinction with all poliible marks of 

 elleem, as a man, and admiration as a perlormer and com- 

 pofcr of the highelt order." And adds, " the Meffiah, 1 

 am thoroughly convinced, was performed in Dublin for the 

 Jirjl time, and with the greatell applaufe. Mrs. Gibber and 

 fignora Avolio were the principal performers. Thefe, with 

 the affillance of the clioriilers of St'. Patrick's cathedral and 

 Chrift-church, formed the vocal band ; and Dubourg, with 

 feveral good initrumental performers, cornpofed a very re- 

 fpeftable orcheftra. There were many noble families here, 

 with whom Mr. Handel lived in the utmoil degree of friend- 

 fhip and familiarity. Mrs. Vernon, a German lady, who 

 came over with king George I. was particularly intimate 

 with him, and at her hoiifc I had the pli.-afure of feeing and 

 couverfing with Mr. Handel ; who, with his other excel- 

 lencies, was poileiTed of a great llock of humour ; no man 

 ever told a ifory with more. But it was requifite for th-:; 

 hearer to have a competent knowledge of at leaft four 

 languages : Englifli, French, Itahan and German ; for in 

 his narratives he made ufii of them all." 



QuiN, James, was born in London in 1693. He was 

 the Ion of an Irifli gentleman, and received his education in 

 the capital of that country. His father had, ignorantly, 

 married a woman fuppofed to be a widow ; whole hufband, 

 after a long abfence, returned and claimed her. The fubjcdt 

 of this article was the offspring of this conne£tioii, and was 

 accordingly illegitimated, and upon his father's death, in 

 1710, was left almoft deititute. For want of education he 

 was, at the age of twenty-one, without a profeffion, and 

 was under the neceffity of appearing on the ftage at Dublin, 

 in the very lowefl charafters. He difplayed, however, 

 rifing talents, which induced a friend to advife him to at- 

 tempt fome better parts in London, and he was accordingly 

 admitted into Drury-lane company in 1 71 5. After the ex- 

 perience of a year or two, he entered lumfelf under Rich at 

 Lincoln's-Inn theatre, where he continued to perform during 

 feventeen years. He was allowed, by the moii competent 

 judges, to fhine both in tragedy and comedy. His utterance 

 was weighty and impreffive, which, however, was accom- 

 panied with various defects. He was, from caufes not well 

 aicertaincd, continually changing from one theatre to another, 

 and perhaps he may be ranked among that number with 

 whom it was difficult to keep terms. His paffions were 

 ftrong, his temper irritable, and his language often coarfe. 

 He was of convivial habits, and, it has been faid, grofsly 

 attached to the pleafures of the table. There was, however, 

 a fund of generofity in liis temper, which fhewed itfelf in 

 manly fentiments, and, occafionally, in benevolent aftions. 

 The circumllance of his giving a 100/. to* the poet Thom- 

 fon, when he was under an arreft for debt, has often been 

 told to his honour. It was the comm(fncement of a flrong 

 friendihip between them. After Thomlon's death, he ap- 

 peai-ed in that poet's tragedy of Coriolanus, and fpoke a 

 prologue, written on the occaiion by lord I,,yttleton, with a 

 pathos that did honour to his feelings. His laft perform- 

 ance was the favourite part of Fallfaff, for the benefit of 

 his friend Ry.in in 1753. He novi' retired to Bath, where 

 his fund of anecdote, and flrong pointed fenfe, rendered his 

 company much fought after. He had good breeding, which 

 fitted him for the highelt f6cictics, when he chofe to 

 aft the gentleman, J and his fenfualify and coarfenefs were^ 



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