Y U T 



Eafteni fea, 30 miles in circumference ; about two miles 

 and a half from the continent. N. lat. 34' 3S'- E. long. 

 119° 19'. 



yVOY. See Carignan. 



YUPURA, a river of Peru, wliich branches off from 

 the Caqueta, about N. lat. 1°, and after an eallerly courfe 

 of about 500 miles, runs into the river of the Amazons by 

 many mouths, 100 miles W. of Fort Rio Negro. S. 

 lat. 4°. 



YURATZKOI, the denomination of the (hore that lay 

 between the rivers YenifFey and Oby. 

 YURCUP. SeeURCui'. 



YURE L'EvEQUE, a town of France, m the department 

 of the Sarte, on the Huife ; 3 miles E. of Le Mans. 



YURIEF, a name given by the Ruffians to Dorpat, 

 built by order of Yaroflaf in the year 1030. 



YURIMAGUAS, a town of South America, in the 

 audience of Quito, on the Guallaga ; 60 miles S. of La 

 Laguna. 



YURNA, a fmall ifland on the coaft of Brafil, at the 

 mouth of the river Amazons, near the equinoftial line. 

 W. long. 50" 40'. 



YVRY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Eure ; 1 1 miles N. of Dreux. 



YUSDROME, in Commerce, a weight of Turkey, the 

 oke being the 44th part of the cantaro, quintal, or kintal, 

 containing four yufdromes, or chequees, or 400 druns ; the 

 chequee of cotton yarn being := iii ounces avoirdupois ; 

 the chequee of goat's wool = jibs. 10 oz. avoirdupois; 

 and the chequee of opium = 27 oz. 10 dr. avoirdupois. 



YUTHIA, in Geography, the capital city of Siam, 

 fituated on an ifland formed by the river Meinam. See 



SlAM. 



Y Z Q 



YUTI, a town of Paraguay, on a river of the fame 

 name, which runs into the Paraguay, 115 miles S.E. of 

 Affumption. 



YU-YANG, a town of Corea ; 15 miles S. of Kang. 



YXIR, a word ufed by fome of the old chemifts to ex- 

 prefs any thing good in medicine. 



YZQUAUHTLI, in Ornithology, the Indian name for 

 a bird defcribed by Nieremberg, and called the crefted 

 eagle. 



YZQUIEPATL, in Zoology, lh.t name of an American 

 animal of the weafel kind, with a fliort flender nofe ; fhort 

 ears and legs ; black body, full of hair ; long tail, of a 

 black and white colour ; its length from nofe to tail is about 

 eighteen inches. It inhabits Mexico, and perhaps other 

 parts of America. It lives in the caves and in the hollows 

 of rocks, where it breeds, and brings up its offspring. It 

 feeds on worms, beetles, and other infefts, and fmall ani- 

 mals : when purfued, it breaks wind backward with an in- 

 fupportable flench. See Conepatl. 



Profeffor Kalm was one night in danger of being fuffo- 

 cated by one that was purfued into a houfe where he 

 (lept ; and it affefted the cattle fo that they bellowed 

 through pain. 



Another, which was killed by a maid-fervant in a cel- 

 lar, fo affefted her with its ftench, that (he lay ill for fe- 

 veral days ; and all the provifions in the place were tainted to 

 fuch a degree, that the owner was obliged to throw them 

 away. 



Neverthelefs, the flefh is reckoned good meat, and not 

 unlike that of a pig ; but it muft be flcinned as foon as 

 killed, and the bladder taken carefully out. Pennant. 



z. 



ZThe laft letter in the alphabet, and one of the 

 ^ double confonants, both among the Latins and 

 Greeks. 



Its pronunciation is much more foft and obtufe than 

 that of the * ; which makes Quintilian call it jucundij/ima, 

 and dulcijfima. Neverthelefs, the found was not always 

 the lame as it is now ; which is but, as it were, half that 

 of an J : or, that, exprelTed by its name 'fz.%ard or s hard, 

 of an / uttered with clofer compreffion of the palate by the 

 tongue, zi freeze, fro%e. 



It had fomething originally in it of the d ; but only what 

 founded very fmoothly : thus, Mezentius was pronounced 

 as if it had been Medfentlus, &c. 



The Z had alfo an affinity with the g : thus Capella, 



" z a Graecis venit, licet etiam ipfi primo g Graeca ute- 

 bantur." 



Z begins no word originally Enghfh ; although it is 

 found in the Saxon alphabets, let down by grammarians, it 

 is read in no word originally Teutonic. Johnfop. 



Z was alfo a numeral letter, iignifying two thoufand ; 

 according to the verfe : 



" Ultima Z tenens, finem bis mille tenebit." 



When a da(h was added at the top, Z, it fignified two 

 thoufand times a thoufand. 



This letter formerly flood as a mark for feveral forts of 



weights. Sometimes it figniiied an ounce and a iialf, and 



very frequently it flood for half an ounce : fometimes for 



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