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UBENITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Prasha- 



-itz ; 7 miles E. of Prachatitz. 



UBERAU, a town of HefTe Darmftadt ; 6 miles S.E. 

 of Darmftadt. 



UBERE, a town of Sweden, in Well Gothland; 15 

 miles S.W. of Skara. 



UBERKINGEN, aiown of Bavaria, in tlie territory of 

 Ulm ; 13 miles S.W. of Uhn. 



UBERLINCEN, a town of Baden, fituated on a rock, 

 in a bay of the lake of Conflance, which takes its name 

 from it, and its moats are formed of fo many ftone-quarries. 

 This town is divided into three parts ; viz. the Lower 

 Town, the Upper Town, and the Gallenberg ;» in the !aft 

 of which are vineyards. It contains in it a collegiate 

 church, a houfe of the order of St. John, a hofpital, three 

 convents, and two other churches. Near the town is a good 

 mineral fpring. Uberlingen was an imperial town fo early 

 as the time of the emperors of Swabia. Charles IV. and 

 Wenceflaus engaged to maintain it in its immediate inde- 

 pendency on the empire; br.t in 1802, it was given to the 

 duke of Baden ; 22 miles N. W. of Lindau. N. lat. 47° 43'. 

 E. long. 8° 49'. 



UBERSKO, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Chrudim ; 10 miles E.N.E. of Chrudim. 



UBERTI, Fazio, (Bonifacio,) Drgli, in Biogniphy, 

 an Italian poet, born at Florence, who flourilhcd in the 

 14th century. His charafter is reprefented as amiable, 

 allowing for his difpofition to frequent the courts of 

 tyrants and to pay adulation to the great'; but his poverty 

 in a ftate of exile, as one of the Ghibelline party, has been 

 adduced as an apology for his conduft. He wrote various 

 poems, and according to the account given of him by Vil- 

 lani, he was the firft who employed with effeft that fpecies 

 of poetical compofition called by the vulgar " frottole," or 

 ballads. His principal work, however, written in his ad- 

 vanced age, was a defcription of the world in verfe, intitled 

 " Ditta Mondo." This is divided into fix books, but 

 was left in an unfinidied ftate, though written at different 

 periods from the year 1355 to 1364. It was firft printed 

 at Verona, and afterwards at Venice in 1501. He is 

 reckoned fuperior to the Italian poets of his time in energy 

 of ftyle. Some of his Canzone have b?en publifhed in col- 

 leftions. He died and was interred at Verona. 



UBES, St., in Geography. {See Setuval.) This 

 town would be more confiderablc if it were not fo near to 

 Lifbon, and the trade carried on through Lilbon houfes ; 

 for here, it is faid, tliere are only fifteen mercantile firms. 

 Its trade confifts in wine, of which various kinds are ex- 

 ported. Oranges are likewife exported : but the beft 

 commeraial article of St. Ubes is fait, which is taken 

 principally by Danifti and Swedilh (hips. The falt-pans 

 lie in great numbers along the Sado or Sandao, and its 

 branches, being called in Portuguefe " marinhas." They 

 are dug fquare, about three feet deep, and falt-water is 

 introduced on one fide from the fea, at flood, through 

 canals which extend in innumerable branches, and are fhut 

 when the pans are full. The water is often previoufly 

 coUefted in large refervoirs called " governos," from which 

 it is afterwards diftributed into the marinhas, where being 

 evaporated, the fait is coUedied in the month of June, and 

 kept either in wooden fheds, or in heaps, which are pro- 

 tected from the rain by rufhes. This fait is large-grained, 

 becomes but little moift by the air, and excels in purity 

 the marine fait coUefted in other provinces of the fouth 

 of Europe, or in other parts of Portugal. The fifhery of 

 St. Ubes was formerly celebrated, but has of late much 

 declined. 



Oppofite to St. Ubes, on the narrow llrip of land that 

 forms the entrance of the harbour, are the remains of an 

 ancient city, called Troya. Tradition reports that this place 

 was buried in fand ; and that the inhabitants removed and 

 built St. Ubes on the oppofite fide. 



UBI, or Uby, an idand in the Eaft Indian ocean, in the 

 gulf of Siam, near the coaft of Cambodia ; about 2i miles 

 in circumference, with plenty of wood and good water. 

 N, lat. 8'^ 26'. E. long. 105° 56'. 



UBIGAU, a town of Saxony ; 6 miles N.W. of Lie- 

 benwerda. N. lat. 51° 34'. E. long. 12° 20'. 



UBII, in Ancifiit Geography, a people whofe firll abode 

 was on the other fide of the Rhine, being feparated from 

 Gaul by the river. Being afterwards preffed by the Suevi, 

 they had recourfe to Casfar. Agrippa pafTed the Rhine, 

 according to Dion Cafiius, and tranfported them to the 

 hither bank of tlie river and eftablilhed them, with a view to 

 the fecurity of the adjoining frontier of the empire. Under 

 the reign of Claudius, an Agrippine colony was founded 

 among them, and they voluntarily affumed the name of 

 Agrippienfes, as their attachment to the Romans excited 

 the enmity of Civilis. Their territory extended along the 

 Rhine, from the Treveri to the borders of the Gugerni, 

 who had been a branch of the Menapii. The Ubiane, on 

 the right bank of the Rhine, were continually haraffed by 

 the Sicambri, and in order to avoid the hoftility of fuch 

 neighbours, they were induced to crofs the river. Agrippa 

 caufed them to build a town, which was called " Civitas 

 Ubiorum," in which he planted a Roman colony, deno- 

 minated " Colonia Agrippina." This town is the prefent 

 Cologne. The Ubii formed a part of the Germanic body, 

 which they abandoned in order to enter into a league with 

 the Celtic people. This feparation of the Ubians is re- 

 ferred to about the thirty-feventh year before our era. They 

 worftiipped the god Mars. 



UBIQUISTS, Ubiquitaiiiks, or Ubiquitarians, 

 formed from ulique, every ivhere, in Ecclejtajl'ical Hijlory, a 

 feft of Lutherans, which rofe and fpread itfelf m Ger- 

 many ; and whofe diftinguiihing doftrine was, that the body 

 of Jefus Chrift is every where, or in every place. 



Brentius, one of the earlieil reformers, is faid to have 

 firft broached this error, in 1560. Luther himfelf, in his 

 controverfy with Zuinglius, had thrown out fome unguarded 

 expreflions, that feemed to imply a belief of the omnipre- 

 fence of the body of Chrift ; but he became fenfible after- 

 wards, tliat this opinion was attended with great difficulties, 

 and particularly tliat it ought not to be made ufe of as a 

 proof of Chrift's corporal prefence in the eucharift. (Lu- 

 ther, Oper. torn. viii. p. 375. ed.Jenenf. ) However, after 

 the death of Luther, this abfurd hypothefis was renewed, 

 and drefled up, in a fpecious and plaufible form, by Brentius, 

 Chemnitius, and Andrasas, who maintained the commu- 

 nication of the properties of Chrift's divinity to his human 

 nature. 



Melanfthon declared againft it ; maintaining that it in- 

 troduced, with the Eutychians, a kind of confufion into the 

 two natures of Jefus Chrift ; and protefted, that he would 

 oppofe it as long as he lived. 



On the other hand, Andrseas, Flacius lUyrius, Schmide- 

 lin, Ofiander, &c. efpoufed Brentius's party ; and aflerted 

 the body of Jefus Chrift to be every where. 



The univerfities of Leipfic and Wirtemberg, and the ge- 

 pierahty of Proteftants, fet themfelvcs againft this new 

 herefy, but in vain : the Ubiquitarians grew ftronger and 

 ftronger. Six of then- leaders, Andrseas, Selneccer, Muf- 

 culus, Chemnitius, Chytrxus, and Cornerus, having a mecU 

 irg in 1576, in the raonaftery of Berg, they there com- 

 g pofed 



