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by Bremner. He loft his place in the church at Perugia, 

 by having appeared on the Albcrti ftage at Rome, as a 

 ■finger in an opera of his own compoiition, and that, nierely 

 to fupply the place of the principal tenor, who had run 

 away, and to prevent the piece from being ftopped : he 

 however married afterwards a pretty woman, who fung 

 well, and indemnified him for the lofs of his place. 



Since his marriage he has compofed feveral fuccefsful 

 operas, in which fignora Zanetti has performed the princi- 

 pal female part, particularly one at Milan in 1785, in which 

 (he was much applauded, as well as her hufband's mufic. 

 He has compofed much natural and pleafmg mufic for in- 

 ftruments ; as fix viohn trios, fix quintets for three violins, 

 and two violoncellos, &c. 



7. fiL'HYAKP^,m Geography. See Zamfara. 

 Z ANGARISA, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra ; 

 6 miles N.E. of St. Severina. 



ZANGESAIR, or Sanguseer, a fea-port of Hin- 

 dooftan, in Concan, with a good harbour, but not much 

 frequented; 15 miles S. of Severndroog. N. lat. 17° 38'. 

 E. long. 72° 54'- 



ZANGUEBAR, a name given to a large territory of 

 Africa, bordering on the Eaftern fea, including many king- 

 doms ; the name is faid to import " the coaft of the ne- 

 groes," all the inhabitants being blacks, with curled 

 woolly hair ; extending from two degrees north to the 

 twenty-firft degree of fouth latitude. The principal king- 

 doms on the coaft have been feparately fpoken of and de- 

 fcribed. Of the country in general little is known ; the 

 whole traft is reprefented as barren and unhealthy, the 

 lands lying low, and interfedted with rivers, lakes, thick 

 woods, forefts, and marfhy grounds. The fruits of it are 

 very unwholefome, their rivers, for the moft part, covered 

 or choked up with weeds, bullies, and thickets ; all which 

 fo ftagnate the air, and corrupt the produfts of the earth, 

 and render the inhabitants fo fickly and indolent, that they 

 receive little or no benefit from its produce. The Bedouin 

 Arabs are the only people who make advantage of it by 

 breeding multitudes of cattle, and living moftly upon their 

 flefh and milk ; whilft the negroes, or Zanges, content 

 themfelves with feeding upon wild beafts and fowl, which 

 fwarm all over thofe parts. To fupply the want of 

 corn, pulfe, roots, and other wholefome food, of which 

 they are deftitute, the Divine Providence hath inter- 

 fperfed that whole country with mines of gold, eafily 

 got, by the help of which they can purchafe all the ne- 

 ceffaries and conveniences of life from other parts : but 

 this is the very circumftance that makes them fo ex- 

 tremely jealous of letting ftrangers penetrate into the in- 

 land ; more efpecially fince the Portuguefe have made 

 themfelves mafters of fuch a number of places along this 

 coaft. They are in their nature fierce and Itout, igno- 

 rant and brutifti, without religion, efpecially the negroes ; 

 upon which laft account they have the name of CafFers. 

 As for the Bedouins, they have fome kind of rehgion, 

 or rather obferve a variety of fuperftitious rites, but are 

 no lefs ignorant and uncivilized than the Caffers ; yet 

 they chiefly herd among themfelves, and live at a great 

 diftance from the coafts, and by the fides of lakes and 

 nvers, for the convenience of pafture for their numerous 

 herds. They go all naked, both CafFers and Arabs, ex- 

 cepting that they wrap a piece of cotton cloth round their 

 middle, which defcends a little below the knee ; but thofe 

 who live along the coafts are fomewhat more civihzed, af- 

 lect a little more finery in their drefs, and inftead of 

 cotton cloth cover themfelves with the fkins of wild 

 beafts, more or lefs rich, according to their rank, with 



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the tails of animals trailing behind on the ground ; they 

 likewife adorn their necks, arms, and legs, with a variety of 

 beads, bugles, and other trinkets, of amber, jett, glafs, and 

 other materials, which they purchafe from the merchants 

 with their gold, furs, ivory, and other commodities. There 

 are among thefe coafters a great number of Mahometans, 

 but a much greater number ftill among the iflanders along 

 the coaft ; they being for the moft part defcended from 

 thofe Arabs who were baniftied out of their country. The 

 countries are, Melinda, Mongala, Jubo, Mofambique, and 

 fome others. 



ZANHAGA, or Zanzaga, or Zenhaga, a province of 

 Africa, in the country of Sahara, bordering on the 

 Atlantic. 



ZANIA, in jlnc'tent Geography, a town of Afia, in the 

 interior of Media. Ptol. 



ZANNA, the name of a medicinal earth, defcribed 

 by Oribafius : he fays it is found in Armenia, in that 

 part which borders on Cappadocia ; and that it is very 

 drying, and of a pale colour, and eafily difunited by water, 

 falling into a fine powder hke lime. 



It is called by the natives zarina, and the mountain from 

 which it is taken is near the city Baganona. It is of a 

 drying and aftringent nature. 



ZANNICHELLI, John Jerome, in Biography, a 

 phyfician and naturalift, was born at Modena in 1662, and 

 fettling in the medical department at Venice, he publifhed 

 a work on the preparation of chemical medicines, entitled 

 " Promptuarium Remediorum chymicorum." In 1702 

 he was created, by a patent of the duke of Parma, doftor 

 of medicine, furgery, and chemiftry. He afterwards 

 formed a mufeum of natural hiftory, and made many j 

 journies in order to coUeft foffils and other fubjefts for this 

 repofitory. Some of his excurfions were undertaken by 

 public authority, as he was nominated by the chamber of 

 health, phyfician-naturalift to all the ftates of Venice. He 

 died in 1729. During his life-time he publiftied feveral 

 trafts relating to botany and lithology ; and after his death 

 his fon John James edited from his MSS. " Opufcula 

 Botanica Pofthuma," 1730, and " Iftoria della Piante che 

 nafcono nel lidi intorno a Venizia," 1735, being a de- 

 fcription, with figures, of the plants on the Venetian (hores. 

 Haller. Eloy. 



ZANNICHELLIA, in Botany, was fo named by 

 Micheli, in compliment to John Jerome Zannichelli, an 

 eminent apothecary at Venice, who fpared no expence or 

 labour, even at an advanced age, in the ftudy of botany, on 

 account of which he undertook feveral hazardous and diffi- 

 cult journies. He was particularly devoted to the obferv- 

 ation of marine produftions, as well animal as vegetable. 

 In purfuit of thefe he was Micheli's companion and guide, 

 among the iflands and ftiores of the Adriatic ; and has 

 wrote an account of the plants there to be found ; which, 

 with the hiftory of fome of his mountain tours, were printed 

 after his deceafe. Zannichelli publiftied a pamphlet on the 

 medical quahties of Rufcus, as well as various chemical 

 and geological works. He died in 1729, aged 67. His 

 fon, John Jacob ZannicheUi, wrote on the properties of the 

 horfe-chefnut, as well as an account of his own and his 

 father's mufeum. — Mich. Nov. Gen. 70. t. 34. Linn. 

 Gen. 476. Schreb. 616. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 181. 

 Mart. Mill. Did. v. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 5. 229. Sm. 

 Fl. Brit. 955. Prodr. Fl. Graec. Sibth. v. 2. 22J. 

 Purfti 4. JulT. 19. Poiret in Lamarck Dift. v. 8. 836. 

 Lamarck lUuftr. t. 741, Gsertn. t. 19. ( Graniinifolia ; 

 Dill. Gen. 168.) — Clafs and order, Monoecla MonaiiJriii. 

 Nat. Ord. Inundata, Linn. Naiades, Jufl". 



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