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water in glazed earthen pans ; and when U has been wel ZAGL See Zeoi. 



ftirred about, let it fettle and pour off the water: repeat ZAGILLONITIS, in ^ncent Geography, a 



this wafhing often, and the foulnefs of the zaffer w.U be of Af.a, m Cappadoc.a. Strabo. 



thus wholly feparated. Dry the powder, and keep it for Z AGING, in Geography, a town of Auftria ; 3 



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ZAFFRAM, a word ufed often by authors to exprefs 

 faffron, but fometimes as the name of other things of a 

 yeUow colour ; thus ochre was called by this name. 



ZAFFRAMEN, a word ufed by fome medical writers 



to exprefs fafFron. r a /- • m 1 



ZAFRA, in Geography, a town of Af.atic Turkey, m 

 the government of Marafch ; 15 miles S.W. of Tarfus, 

 — Alfo, a town of Afiatic Turkey, m the government ot 

 Trebifond, on the Black fea ; 50 miles N.W. of Trebi- 

 fond.— Alfo, a town of Spain, in Eftremadura ; 22 miles 

 E. of Xeres de los Caballeros. 



ZAFRANIA, in Colours, a term ufed by the Greeks 

 to exprefs the yellow of faffron. The barbarous writers 

 of the after-ages tranflated it into the Latin crocietas, or 

 faffron colour. 



The later Greek writers only ufe it, and they have taken 

 it literdly from the Arabians, Avicenna, and Serapio. This 

 was a term ufed by them to exprefs the colour of the fine 

 bole-armenic of Galen, which they tell us ftained paper to a 

 fine and beautiful gold colour. 



ZAGA, in Botany, Poiret in Lamarck Dift. v. 8. 831. 

 (Zaga Pohon, or Corallaria latifolia, Rumph. Amboin. 

 V. 3. 175. t. no.) — This is one of thofe trees, whofe hard 

 red feeds are ufed for ornament, in the form of necklaces, 

 bracelets, &c. by the natives of tropical climes, and even 

 by the inhabitants of the moft poli(hed countries of Europe, 

 as fafhion, from time to time, is pleafed, in her capricious 

 wifdom, to ordain. Such are the beautiful red and black 

 feeds of Abrus precatorius, of which there is a pearly white 

 variety, of rare occurrence. Such alfo are thofe much 

 larger feeds, of the fame combination of colours, produced 

 by the Weil Indian genus Ormosia. ( See that article. ) The 

 Zaga of Rumphius and Poiret is evidently a papihonaceous 

 plant, with pinnate leaves, compofed of about three pair of 

 elliptic -oblong, entire, ffalked, rather large leaflets, with 

 an odd one. Flowers in panicled terminal clufters. Le- 

 gumes elliptic-oblong, pointed, hard and fmooth, each con- 

 taining one, rarely two, hard, fhining, ronni feeds, all over 

 of the colour of red coral, larger than thofe of Adenanthera 

 pavonia, being as broad as the fore-finger nail, and deftitute 

 of the defined circumfcribed area, for which the feeds of the 

 Adenanthera are remarkable. 



ZAGALA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Eftre- 

 madura ; 25 miles S. of Alcantara. 



ZAGAN, a town of the principality of Georgia, in the fruB't pruniforme. 



N. of St. Polten. 



ZAGIRA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Paphlagoiiia, at a fmall diftance from the fea. Ptol. 



ZAGLIA, in Geography, a town of the ifland of Cor- 

 fica ; 8 miles S.E. of Calvi. 



Z AGORA, a town of European Turkey, in Romania, 

 on a lake which communicates with the Black fea ; 12 inile& 

 S.W. of Burgas. 



Zagora, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Paphlagonia, on the coaft of the Euxine fea, between Ca- 

 rufa and the mouth of the river Halys, according to the 

 Periplus of Arrian. 



ZAGOROLO, in Geography, a town of the Popedom, 

 in the Campagna di Roma ; 3 miles W. of Paleftrina. 



ZAGOROW, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 20 

 miles S. of Kalifch. 



ZAGRAB. SeeAoRAM. 



ZAGROS, Mount, a mountain of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Irak, along the brink of which extends the dif- 

 trift of Kurrend, from the vicinity of Holwan to the vil- 

 lage of Goour. It is covered with forefts of oak, and 

 inhabited by an extraordinary race of men, among whom 

 fubfift cuftoms fimilar to thofe of the Kadmufia in Syria, 

 defcribed by Volney. It is faid that in their nofturnal 

 feftivals, the garments of the fair fex, at the expiration of a 

 certain period, are thrown into a heap, and jumbled to- 

 gether. The lights are then extinguifhed, and the clothei 

 being regularly diftributed among the men, the candles arc 

 relighted; and it is fettled by the rules of the fociety, 

 that the lady muft patiently fubmit to the embraces of the 

 perfon who has become poffeffed of her drefs, whether 

 father, fon, hulband, or biother. The lights are then 

 once more extinguifhed, and all of this licentious tribe 

 pafs the remainder of the night in the indulgence of the 

 moft promifcuous luft. 



ZAGRUS, or Zagrius Mons, in Ancient Geography, a 

 mountain of Afia, in Media. It made a part of mount Tau- 

 rus, commencing in Armenia, and extending as far as the 

 Chalonitide, between Media and Adiabene. Pliny. It is 

 reckoned by Ptolemy one of the moft confiderable coun- 

 tries in Media. According to Strabo, it was this chain of 

 mountains which touched the Niphates, and feparated Media 

 from Babylonia. 



ZAGU, in the Materia Medica, the name given by 

 fome authors to the fago-tree, the todda pauna, or palma 



province of Kaket ; 3 miles N. of Teflis Alfo, a town 



of Perfia, in the province of Irak; 12 miles S.W. of 

 Hamadan. 



ZAGARA, a mountain of Greece, in Livadia, an- 

 ciently called Helicon. 



ZAGATHAI, a name given from the fecond fon of 

 Zingis to Great Bucharia ; which fee. 



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

 the Colchide, according to Arrian, wlio fixes its mouth be- 

 tween Athense and Anchiane Regia. 



ZAGAWA, in Geography, a city of Africa, in Bornou, 

 on a river which runs into the fame lake, where the Niger 

 is by fome fuppofed to be loft. N. lat. 19° 10'. E. long. 



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ZAGGOS, a mountain of Africa, in which are fome 

 mines of fait ; 100 miles S. of Algiers. 



ZAGHARA, a town of Africa, in Bornou. 



ZAGUANANAS, in Geography, a river of confider- 

 able length in New Mexico, which flows from the fame 

 fources with the Rio Bravo, and joins the Colorado; which 

 fee. 



Z AGYTIS, in Ancient Geography, a country of Africa, 

 in Libya. Steph. Byz. 



ZAHARA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the 

 province of Seville. In 1407, this town was taken from 

 the Moors ; about two years after the Moors retook the 

 town, but not being able to reduce the citadel abandoned 

 it. In 1481, it was furprifed by the Moors, in a dark 

 ftormy night ; moft of the inhabitants were put to the fword, 

 and the reft fent flaves to Grenada ; 36 miles S.E. of Se- 

 ville. N. lat. 36° 50'. W. long. 5° 33'. 



Zahara. See Sahara. 



ZAHIA, a word ufed by th« Arabian phyficians to 

 exprefs a fort of dyfentery, in which there was a very 



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