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excellent fruits and corn of every kind, as is evident from 

 the delicacy of the beef, veal, mutton, pork, and poultry 

 of Quito. One of the principal foods ufed by the inha- 

 bitants is cheefe, of wliicii it is computed that the quantity 

 annually coiifumed amounts to between icventy and cicfhty 

 thoufand dollars of the money of that country. The vici- 

 nity alfo aflords excellent butter. The manufaftures of this 

 province are cottons, fome white, called tucuyos, and others 

 ftriped bays and clotiis, which meet with u good market at 

 Lima, for hipplying all the inward provinces of Peru ; and 

 the returns are made partly in filver, and partly in gold and 

 filver fringes made in tiiat city, wine, brandy, oil, copper, 

 tin, lead, and quieklilver. The produfts ot the earth are 

 chiefly confnmcd within the province ; except the wheat, 

 part of which is fent to Guayaquil. But this trade is 

 carried on by Mcllizos and poor people. Goods, manu- 

 fadlured by the public, or woven by private Indians, are fent, 

 together with fome kinds of proviiions, to the jurifdiftion of 

 Barbacoas. Thefe provifions are exchanged for gold, found 

 in that country, and which is afterwards fent to Lima, and 

 difpofed of at a greater price. Their ftuffs find a vent in 

 the governments of Popayan and Santa Fe. The coaft of 

 New Spain fupphes this province with indigo, of which a 

 great quantity is coiifumed ; blue being univerfally the co- 

 Sour which thefe people affedt in their apparel. They alfo 

 import, by way of'Guayaquil, iron and Heel, both from 

 Europe and the coaft of Guatemala. S. lat. o° 13' 27". 

 W. long. 78° 10' 15". Ulloa's Voyage, vol. i. 



QUIT-RENT, q. d. qu'ut rent, a certain fmall rent, 

 payable yearly, by the tenants of moft manors, in token of 

 fubjeftion ; upon the payment of which, they ai'e quiet, and 

 free. It includes both rents of aflife and chief rents. 



Thefe rents differ very greatly in different manors, being 

 in fome a mere trifle, while in others they are very heavy 

 and oppreflive to the tenants. This part of the feudal 

 fyftem is now confiderably on the decline. 



In fome ancient records it is written white rent, becaufe 

 paid in filver, to diftinguifli it from rent-corn, rent-pepper, 

 &c. 



QUITTA, in Geography, a town of Africa, -on the 

 Slave coaft. N. lat. 6°. E. long. 0° 8'. 



QUITTANCE. See Acquittance. 



QUITTER, or QuiTTOR, in horfes, is an ulcer formed 

 between the hair and hoot, ufually on the infide quarter 

 •of a horfe's foot ; it often ainies from treads and bruifes, 

 fometimes from gravel, which by working its way up- 

 wards, lodges about the coronet ; if it is only fuperficial, 

 it may be cured with cleanfing dreffings, bathing the coronet 

 every day with fpirits of wine, and drefiing the fore with 

 lime-water, or a detergent apphcation, fuch as red precipi- 

 tate. But where tlie matter forms itfelf a lodgment under 

 the hoof, there is then no way to come at the ulcer but by 

 taking off part of the hoof; and if this be done well, the 

 cure may be effefted without danger. 



When the matter happens to be lodged near the quarter, 

 the farrier is fometimes obliged to take off the quarter of the 

 hoof, and the cure is then for the moft part but paUiative ; 

 for when the quarter grows up, it leaves a pretty large feam, 

 which weakens the foot ; this is what is called a f alfe quarter, 

 and a horfe with tliis defeat feldom gets quite found. 



If the matter, by its confinement, has injured or deftroyed 

 thecofTin-bone, which is of fo foft and fpongy a nature that 

 it faon becomes carious, it will be neccffary to enlarge the 

 opening, cut away the fpongy flefli, and apply the aftual 

 cautery, or hot iron, pointed pyramidically, dreffing the 

 bone with dolfds of lint dipped in tindlure of myrrh, and 

 the wound with the green or precipitate ointment. When 

 *hc fore is not enlarged by the knife, which is the beft and 



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lead painful method, fublirnate is generally applied ; or blue 

 vitriol powdered, and embued with a few drops of oil, is 

 alfo ufed for this purjiofe, and is faid to aft as effeftually, 

 and with Icfs pain to the animal. 



In the time of the aftion of thefe cauftic remedies, the 

 foot fliould be kept in a poultice. And where finufes form 

 they fliould be laid open by a knife, and be afterv/ards fti- 

 mulated by the application of fome detergent ri;medy. The 

 following has been advifed by a late writer: Take of corro- 

 five fublirnate, red precipitate in fine powder, of each equal 

 parts ; honey fuflicient to form a pafie. 



The wound is advifed to be afterwards drefTed with com- 

 mon digeftivc ointment, preliure being given by means of a 

 bandage. It is fometimes written qmttor. 



QuiTTKR-iSonc, another term applied to the fame difeafe 

 by fan-iers and perfons engaged in hufbandry. 



QUITY, m Botany, a Brafilian name ufed by fome au, 

 thors for the fapindus, or foap-berry tree of the Weft 

 Indies. 



QUIVER, feemingly corrupted from the Fr. couvrir, 

 to cover, a cafe or fheath for arrows. 



QUIVISA, in Geography, a town of Hindoottan, in 

 Baliar ; 25 miles S.W. of Bettyah. 



QUIVISIA, in Botany, from the vulgar name of this 

 tree or fhrub in the ifles of Bourbon and the Mauritius, 

 hois ik qii'ivi. Jufl". Gen. 264. Cavan. Dilf. 367. (SeeGlt-- 

 LIBERTIA.) One cannot but wonder how a writer of Juf- 

 fieu's learning could, for a moment, tolerate fo faulty a, 

 name ; efpecially as his authority leads heedlefs perfons into 

 the adoption of fuch, for want of reading his preface ; 

 where, in a note to p. 24, he decb.res thefe rude and bar- 

 barous names to be merely borrowed for a time, till the ge- 

 nera to which they belong are better determined. 

 I QUIXOS, in Geography, a jurifdiftion of South Ame- 

 rica, attached to the province of Quito, on the eaft fide of 

 the Cordillera of the Andes. Quixoson the north fide bor- 

 ders on the jurifdiftion of Popayan ; reaching eaft ward to 

 the river Aguarico, and towards the weft feparated from the 

 jurifdiftions of Quito, Latacunga, and the town of San Mi- 

 guel de Ibarra, by the Cordilleras of Cotopaxi and Cayam- 

 buro. This country was firft difcovered.in 1536, by Gonzalo 

 de Pineda, one of the officers fent from Popayan by Sebaftian 

 de Belalcazar (or Benalcazarl, to trace the courfe of the river 

 Magdalena ; and in coniequence of his report, Gonzalo Pi- 

 zarro, in 1539, reconnoitred its whole extent, and cfta- 

 blifhed fettlements in it. But upon the failure of his expe- 

 dition, the conqueft of this country was fufpended till the 

 year 1549, when the marquis de Cauete, viceroy of Peru, 

 gave a commiflion to Gil Remirez Davalos, a man of un- 

 daunted courage, for reducing the Indians, and making fet- 

 tlements in the country. This objeft he accompliflied, and 

 founded the town of Baeza, the capital of the government, 

 in the year 1559 ; and this was foon followed by other 

 towns and villages, the principal of which are Archidona 

 and Avila. The temperature of this country is hot and 

 moift, the rains being aim-oft continual. It is covered with 

 thick woods, fome trees being of a prodigious magnitude. 

 In the S.W. part of thejurifdiction of Quixos is thecanela or 

 cinnamon tree, which led Gonzalo de Pineda to call the country 

 Canelos, a name which it ftill retains. The other produfts 

 of Quixos are the fame with thofe in all the other lands under 

 the fame climate as this government. Adjoining to this is the 

 diftrift of Macas and Maynas. See Macas and Maykas. 



QUIZA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, in 

 Mauritania Cvefarienfis. This was a fortrefs, according to 

 Pomponius Mela and Pliny. Antonine makes it a muni- 

 cipium, and places it between Portus Magnus and Arfe- 

 navLi. 



QUIZAMA, 



