Z A L 



any farther. For the lengths of the courfe of the raoft 

 noted rivers, fee River. 



ZAKA. See SCHAREDSJE. 



ZAKEPH GADHOL, Rex Pauperrimus, one of tL: 

 Hebrew accents, iometiraes denoting no kind of pauie, and 



marked over a letter thus ( j ) . 



Zakeph Kctin Rex. one of the Hebrew accents, confti- 

 tuting either a comma or femicoloii, and marked over a letter 



thus (5). 



ZAKERZEZIN, in Geography, a town of Kurdiftan ; 

 26 miles N.N.W. of Van. 



Z AKIEH, a town of the Arabian Irak, on the Tigris ; 

 10 miles N. of Korna. 



ZAKLIKOW, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia ; 

 40 miles S. of Lublin. 



ZAKROCZYN, or Sakrotschim, a town of the 

 duchy of Warfaw, on the Narew. In 1794 the confede- 

 rate Poles were defeated here by the Ruffians ; 40 miles 

 N.W. of Warfaw. 



Z AL Aleksakdrovskoi, a bay of the Cafpian fea ; 260 

 miles S.S.E. of Aftrachan. N. lat. 43°. E. long. 51° 14'. 



Z ALA, in Botany, fo called by Loureiro, Cochinch. 405, 

 from ^jiXv, a tcmpejl, or agitation of the fea, becaufe the plant 

 floats, and is driven about, at the mercy of the winds and 

 waves. This is no other than the Pistia of Linnaeus (fee 

 that article ) ; where the generic charafters, as correfted by 

 Schreber, come fufficiently near to thofe of Loureiro, to 

 leave no doubt in the mind of the reader, allowance being 

 made for the peculiarities of ftrufture in fo fingular a 

 flower. 



Zala, in Ancient Geography, z. town fituated in the 

 vicinity of Amafaea, which was a town of the Peloponnefus, 

 in Achaia Propria. 



Zala, in Geography. See Wadan. 



ZAL ACA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in the 

 interior of Media. Ptol. 



Z ALACUS, a town of Africa, in Mauritania Cxfariana. 

 Ptol. 



Z ALACUS Mons, {Van-nafli-reefe,) mountains of Mauy- 

 tania, at fome diftance from and to the S. of the river 

 Chinalaph. Ptol. 



ZALAKNA, in Geography, a town of Tranfylvania ; 

 14 miles W. of WeifTemburg. 



ZALAMEA, a town of Spain, in the province of 

 Seville ; 38 miles W.N.W. of Seville. 



Zalamea de la Serena, a town of Spain, in the province 

 of Eftremadura. This town was anciently called Ilipa, 

 and many veftiges remain of its former fplendour ; 27 miles 

 N.E. of Llerena. 



ZALANTZ, a town of Hungary ; 10 miles S.E. of 

 Cafchau. 



ZALAPA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa 

 Propria, S. of Adrumetum. Ptol. 



ZALESCE, in Geography, a town of Auftrian Poland, 

 in Galicia ; 32 miles S. of Lemberg. 



ZALEUCUS, in Biography, a philofopher and legidator 

 of Greece, and founder of the Locrian ftate, flourifhed in 

 the 7th century B.C. He was of obfcure birth, and lived 

 in fervitude as a fhepherd ; but his extraordinary abilities 

 and merit attraAed notice even in his humble ftation, and 

 advanced him to the government. His laws were deemed 

 fevere, but being adapted to the circumftances and manners 

 of the Locrians, their conftiturion was for feveral ages 

 highly celebrated. His difcipline was rigorous, fo that he 

 prohibited the life of wine, otherwife than as a medicine ; 

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and he ordained, that adulterers ihould be punifhed with 

 the lofs of their eyes. W^hen his fon had incurred this 

 penalty, lie blended paternal lenity with a pretence of main- 

 taining the authority of the laws, by ordering his fon to be 

 deprived of one eye, and by fubmitting to the lofs of one of 

 his own e-; .^. In order to fecure the permanent ftability of 

 his fyftem of legillation, he requi.-d that a perfon who pro. 

 u n-^ •^'-2"ge in any or.e of them fhould come before 

 the aflembly with a cord about 'i^z neck, tliat he might be 

 mitantly ftrangled, if upon examination the old law were 

 preferred. Valer. Max. Diod. Sic. Laert. Brucker by 

 tnfield. ■' 



ZALGIN, in Geography, a town of the ifland of Cuba : 

 47 miles R of St. Jago. 



ZALIKARA, the moft confidcrable city of Mingreha, 

 fituated on tne right bank of the Hippus, which rifes in 

 the higheft mountain of the Soane, not far from the fource 

 of the Phafis, flows through Letfghuani, divides Mingrelia 

 from Iberia, and enters the Phafis near the Tredia : an 

 open place, at the confluence of the Hippus and Phafis, 

 well peopled by different nations, particularly Jews. 



ZALISCUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Afia, ia 

 Galatia. The mouth of this river in the Euxine fea lay 

 between Cyptafia and Galorum. 



ZALISSA, a town of Afiatic Iberia. Ptol. 



ZALLANT, in Geography. See Salland. 



ZALSSING, a town of Auftria ; 5 miles N.W. of 

 Aggfpach. 



ZALUZIANSKIA, in Botany, fo named by Necker, 

 m " Aa. Palat. v. 3. phyf. 303," according to Willd. 

 Sp. PI. v. 5. 538, is no other than Marsilea quadrifoUa, 

 which the reader will find in vol. xxii. The above name 

 is defigned, as we prefume, to commemorate a Polifli 

 botanift, author of Methodi Herbarix, publiftied at Prague, 

 anno 1592, in 4to., and at Frankfort in 1604. This work 

 is fpoken of by Haller, Bill. Bot. v. 1. 387, as a tranfpo- 

 fition of the arrangement of Dodonasus, without any im- 

 provement or additional information. 



ZAM, in Geography, a town of Grand Bucharia ; 8; 

 miles N.W. of Balk. 



ZAMA, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of Arequipa ; 

 30 miles N. of Arica. 



Zama, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa Propria, 

 5 journeys from Carthage. This town, to which ancient 

 authors give the title of royal and a fortrefs, is famous in 

 the wars of Jugurtha and Juba, and more efpecially on 

 account of a battle between the Carthaginians under 

 Hannibal and the Romans, commanded by Scipio, in the 

 year 551 of the RepubUc. At the time when this town 

 was in a flourilhing ftate, it was affignedto Numidia. Cor- 

 nelius Nepos fays, that it was 300 miles from Adrumetum. 

 Appian fays 3000 ftadia. It was fituated on a plain, and 

 owed its ftrength to its fortifications more than to its fitu- 

 ation. Hirtius fays, that it was the ordinary refidgnce of 

 king Juba, where he had his wives, children, and treafures. 

 Phny fays, that it became a Roman colony. 



Zama, a town of Cappadocia, in the prefecture of 

 Chamane. — Alfo, a town of Afia, in Mefopotamia. Ptol. 



ZAMAMIZON, a town of Africa Propria, between 

 the town of Tabraca and the river Bagradas. Ptol. 



ZAMBOSE, or Cumana, in Geography, a river of 

 Africa, which rifes in the interior parts of Mocaranga, and 

 runs into the Indian fea at feveral mouths : the principal of 

 which takes the name of Luabo. S. lat. 19°. E. long. 37". 



Z AMBOZIN, a town of Congo ; 24 miles S.S.W. of 

 St. Salvador. 



ZAMBRANO, Juan Luis, in Biography, a Spanifh 

 R painter. 



