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ZABERN, CoNRAKt) DE, in Biography, born in Ger- 

 many about 1450, was a very learned man, and much re- 

 fpeaed for his morals. He wrote two treat.fes on mufic ; 

 the firft of which is entitled " De Monochordo, and the 

 fecond " De Modo bene Cantandi." He was much be- 

 loved by the emperor Frederic HI. 



ZeBERN, in Geography. See BeRGZABERN. 



ZABl, or Zaba: m Ancient Geography, a place of 

 Africa, in Maurita.ua SitifenCs, on the route from Carthage 

 to Cjefarea, between Ars and Macn. Anton Itm. 



ZABII.or Zabians. See Sab^vns and Sabaism. 



ZABIN, in Geography, a town of Lithuania ; 30 miles 



N.E. ofMinfk. fA/;, in 



ZABIRNA, in Ancient Geography, a river of Afia, in 



Mefopotamia, which difcharges itfelf into the Tigris. 

 ZABLOTOW, in Geography. See Sablotow. 

 ZABLOWICZE,atownof Iwithuania; 86 miles E.S.E. 



ZABOLA, a town of Tranfylvania ; 10 miles N. of 

 Cronftadt. 



ZABORE, a town of Ruflia, in the government ot 

 Jrkut/k ; 36 miles S.S.W. of Kirenfk. 

 ZABRZEH. See Hohenstadt. 

 ZABULISTAN. See Sablestan. 

 ZABULON. SeeZEBULUN. 



Zabulon, Tribe of, in jincient Geography, was bounded 

 on the N. by the tribes of Afher and Naphtali, on the S. 

 by the torrent of Kilhon, on the E. by the fea of Galilee, 

 and on the W. Ly the ocean. Almoft all the towns of this 

 tribe were on the plain of Galilee. 



Zabulon, a town of Judea, fituated on the plain of 

 Galilee, in the tribe of the fame name, according to Jolhua 

 and the book of Judges. Jofephus fays, that Ceilius, 

 though he admired its beauty, took, pillaged, and burnt it. 

 It was fituated S.E. of Ptolcmais. 



ZABUR, a country of Afia, in Babylonia, in which was 

 the town of Seleucia. 



ZABUS, Zabatus, or Zerlis, (Great Zab or Zarb,) a 

 river, which is the fame with the Lycus, flowed from a 

 fource towards the 36th degree of latitude, and direfted 

 its courfe firft to the N.W., then to the W., afterwards to 

 the S.W., and finally to the S., difcharging itfelf into the 

 Tigris, about lal. 35° 45'. Xenophon fays, that this river, 

 at its entrance into the Tigris, appeared to the Greeks com- 

 parable to the Tigris itfelf. See Zab. 



Zabus Minor, or Caprus, (Lejer Zab, or yfltun-Sou,) 

 a river of Afia, which had its fource E. of Arbelles, and 

 jran towards the S.W., difcharging itfelf into the Tigris, 

 over againft Coene, below or S.S.E> of the greater 

 Zabus. See Zab. 



ZACA, in Geography, ztovin of Egypt ; 17 miles N.E. 

 of El Arifh. 



ZACANTHA, in Jncient Geography, a town of Hif- 

 pania, in Iberia, faid by Steph. Byz. to have been taken by 

 Hannibal, and to have been called Zacynlhus or Saguntum. 

 ZACAPA, in Geography, a town of Mexico, in the pro- 

 vince of Vera Paz ; 42 miles S. of Vera Paz. 



ZACAPULA, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Chiapa ; 130 miles S.E. of Chiai)a dos Efpagnols. 



ZACATECAS, a province of Mexico, bounded on the 

 north by New Bifcay, on the eaft by Guafteca, on the 

 fouth by the provinces of Mechoa. an, Guadalajara, and 

 Cliiametlan, and on the weft by Ch ametlan and Culiacan. 

 It is well inhabited, and abounds with large villages. Part 

 of it lies in the temperate and part in the torrid zone : it 

 is about J 00 leagues in length, and 45 in breadth. The 

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weftern part of it is an aridtraft, and would not be inhibited 

 were it not for the mines, which were formerly reckoned the 

 richeft in America ; but the eaftern part abounds with 

 corn, and fruits of various kinds, and its forefts are full of 

 deer. 



Zacatecas, the capital of the fore-mentioned dif- 

 trift, the importance of which has declined with the mines. 

 It formerly contained about 12,000 families of Spaniards 

 and mixed breeds, though confiding chiefly of one ftreet, in 

 a deep paflage between high rocks, crow nc d with cottages. 

 Luis de Potofi on the S.E. is faid by Alcedo to tontain 

 only 1600 families of Spaniards, Mulattoes, and Indians, 

 though it has fix magnificient churches. The ridge of 

 St. Peter, five leagues from the city, contained rich mines 

 of gold and filver ; but they are now in part exhaufted, and 

 the fuel has become fcarce. The opulence of this city- 

 has in courfe declined, and the chief trade is in goat-fkins 

 and tanned leather. 



Zacatecas. See St. Louis Je Zacatecas. 

 ZACATLAN, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Tlafcala ; 30 miles N. of Puebla de los Angelos. 



ZACATULA, or Sacatula, a town of Mexico, in 

 the province of Mechoacan, on a river of the fame names, 

 near the Pacific ocean ; 95 miles S. of Mechoacan. N. 

 lat. 18° 35'. W. long. 103°. 



Zacatula, a fmall but fertile province in the dominion 

 of Mexico. — Alfo, a river of Mexico, which runs into the 

 Pacific ocean, near the town of Zacatula. 

 ZACCARIA. SeeTEVO. 



ZACCHIA, Paolo, in Biography, an eminent phyfician, 

 was bom at Rome in 1585, and in the progrefs of life was 

 diftinguifhed by his learning, and by his fkill in mufic, 

 painting, poetry, and eloquence, as well as in the more 

 appropriate fciences relating to his own profcflion. He was 

 phyfician to pope Innocent X., and celebrated among his 

 contemporaries by various publications ; of which the prin- 

 cipal is intitled " Queftionet Medico legales, in quibus omnes 

 materiae medicse quoj ad legales facultates videntur pertinere, 

 proponuntur, pertraftantur, refolvuntur ;" a work which 

 has been often reprinted. He wa? alfo the author, in 

 Italian, of two efteemed works, " Del Vilto Quadragefi- 

 male," 1637, the fubjed of which is the regimen of diet 

 in Lent ; and " De' Mali Ipocondriachi," 1639, a diffufe 

 treatife on hypochondriacal afFeftions. He, died in 1659, 

 aged 75. Haller. Eloy. Gen. Biog. 



ZACCONI, P. LoDOVico, of Pefaro, author of an 

 ample treatife of mufic, entitled '* Prattica di Mufica," the 

 firft part of which was printed at Venice, 3592, and the 

 fecond in 1596 ; a publication in which the author not only 

 propofes to give inftruftions for the regular compofition, 

 but the accurate performance of every fpecies of mufic. 

 The idea is fplendid ; but the world has been fo frequently- 

 deceived by the titles of books, that authors are obliged to 

 abate in their promifes, in proportion as the expeftations of 

 the public are diminifiied. If arts and fciences could be 

 acquired by the dead letter of filent inftruftion, every one 

 who could read, in Italy, might, during the times under 

 confideration, have been a mufician. But though no inge- 

 nious occupation was perhaps ever yet completely taught 

 by books, without a mafter, or by a mafter, without books, 

 yet they are excellent helps to each other. It is hardly 

 poffible for a didaftic work to fatisfy all the iloubts that 

 arife in an inquiring mind during lolitary med'tation ; par- 

 ticularly in the firft ftages of a ftudent's journey through 

 the rugged roads of Icience. But when he has made fome 

 progreis, if he Ihould be feparated from his guide, the way 

 becomes daily fo much more ftraight and fmoothj that by 



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