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the Porte, and guaranteed both by the Turks and Ruflians. 

 Corfu, Cephalonia, and fonie others lately in the pofleffion 

 of Venice, were of this number. The illand produces ex- 

 cellent wine, and that fpecies of grapes called currants, 

 olives, figs, melons, peaches, and other choice fruits : to- 

 ward* the coafts, the ifland is in general mountainous, but 

 level in the interior parts. It is much fubjeft to earth- 

 quakes. N. lat. 37° 40'. E. long. 21° 4'. 



Zante, a town and capital of the ifland of Zante, 

 fituated on the N.E. fide, with a harbour fafe and commo- 

 dious for vefiels of any fize. The town ftretches between 

 the harbour and the foot of a mountain about a mile in 

 length, but narrow ; the ftreets are not paved, and. the 

 houfes in general low. On a mountain above the town is a 

 citadel, which commands the harbour, and contains a little 

 city within its walls. It is to be afcended with difficulty, 

 is ftrong, and well fupplied with ftores, and furnifhed with a 

 garrifon. This is the reiidence of the governor and officers. 

 Zante is the fee of a Greek and Latin bifhop. There are 

 feveral churches, and the Jews have a fynagogue ; 21 miles 

 S.S.W. from the towr. of Chiarenza in the Morea. N. 

 lat. 37° 50'. E. long. 21° 8'. 



ZANTHENES, in Natural Hi/lory, a name given by 

 the ancients to a foffile fubftance found in Media. Pliny 

 quotes Democritus for faying, that if rubbed in palm wine 

 and faffron, it became foft as wax, and yielded a very fweet 

 fmeU. 



ZANTHER, in Cetgraphj, a town of Pomerelia ; 10 

 miles S. of Marienburg. 



ZANTHORRHIZA, in Botanj, L'Herit. Stirp. 

 Nov. t. 38. See Xanthorrhiza. 



ZANTHOXYLUM, Linn. Gen. 519. See Xan- 



THOXYLUM. 



Zanthoxylum, in Gardening, contains plants of the 

 hardy and tender exotic fhrubby kinds, in which the fpecies 

 cultivated are, the Canada tooth-ache-tree, or Hercules's 

 club (Z. clava Herculis), and the Chinefe tooth-ache-tree 

 (Z. trifoliatum ) . 



The firft is a plant of the tree kind, of which there is a 

 variety ; the a(h-leaved tooth-ache-tree, with oval-oblong 

 folioles, and prickly mid-ribs. 



And the laft is a woody branching plant. 



Method of Culture. — Thefe plants may be increafed by 

 feeds and layers. The feeds Ihould be fown in the fpring, 

 either in an eaft border, or in pots placed in the morning 

 fun all the fummer, being ftiekcred in a frame in winter ; 

 and in the fpring following removed to the full air till Ofto- 

 ber, giving proper waterings all the fummer ; and towards 

 winter be placed again under fhelter from froft till March, 

 when the young plants may be potted feparately ; and thus 

 continued for a year or two, being (heltered in the winter, 

 ■when they may be tranfplanted mto the fhrubbery, where 

 they are to remain. 



The layers of the young wood may be laid down in 

 autumn or early fpring, and when they have ftricken root be 

 taken off and managed as the feedlings. 



They alfo fucceed by cuttings in fpring or fummer, 

 planted in pots, afiilled by a hot-bed, in wliich they foon 

 flrike, when they fhould be inured to the full air ; and the 

 young plants will be fit for planting out in the autumn, or 

 the fpring following. 



The firft is a very ornamental plant in the borders and 

 other dry parts of (hrubberies, and the latter among potted 

 plants in the green-houfe coUefkions. 



ZANTOCH, in Geography, a town of the New Mark 

 of Brandenburg ; 8 miles E. of Landfberg. 



ZANZALUS, in Biography. Sec BaradjEUS. 



Z A R 



ZANZIBAR, or ZANGlBAR.in Geography, an lOar.d of 

 Africa, in the Indian fea, near tlie coaR of Zanjru-bar 

 governed by a kmg, who is tributary to the Ponuirucfe' 

 o. lat. 6". E. long. 41"^ 15'. '' 



ZANZOUR, a town of Africa, in the counlrv of 

 Tripoh ; 15 miles W.N.W. of Tripoli. 



ZAOIE, a town of Egypt, on the left bank of the 

 Nile ; 13 miles N. of Benifuef. 



ZA-OSTROG, a town of Morlachia, near the coaft • 

 15 miles S.E. of Macar/lva. ' 



ZAOZERSKOI, a town of RufTia, in the govern- 

 MU of Novgorod, on the Sula ; 28 miles W. of 



mc 

 Tchertpovetz. 



^AP-^TA, or Sapata, a kind of feaft, or ceremony, 

 held m Italy, in the courts of certain princes, on S». Ni- 

 cholas's day, in which people hide prefents in the flioes or 

 flippers of thofe they would do honour to ; in fuch manner, 

 as to furprife them on the morrow, when they come to 

 drefs. 



The word is originally Spanilh, capato i and fignifies a 

 (hoe, or flipper. 



It is done in imitation of the praAice of St. Nicholas ; 

 who ufed, in the night-time, to throw purfes of money in at 

 the windows, for portions to poor virgins in their marriage. 



F. Meneftrier has defcribed thefe zapatas, their origin, 

 and different ufagcs, in his Trealife des Ballets Anciens et 

 Moderns. 



ZAPATERO, in Geography, a fmall ifland of Mexico, 

 in lake Nicaragua, near the weft coaft ; 30 miles S.E. 

 of Grenada. 



ZAPATILLA Lagoon, a bay on the eaft coaft of 

 Yucatan. N. lat. 18° 52'. W. long. 89° 32'. 



ZAPETRA, in .Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 the mountains of Coniagene, upon a fmall river, which dif- 

 charged itfelf into the Euphrates, S. of that town. 



ZAPFENDORF, in Geography, a town of Bavaria, in 

 the bifliopric of Bamberg ; 9 miles N. of Bamberg. 



ZAPHOR, a name given by fome writers to Zafftr ; 

 which fee. 



ZAPOROGIAN Cossacks, in Geography. Se« Cos- 

 sacks. 



ZAPOTITLAN, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Tlafcala ; 62 miles S.E. of Puebla de los Angelos. 



ZAPOTLAN, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Mechoacan ; 25 miles N. of Colima. N. lat. 20* 10'. 

 W. long. 104° 36'. 



ZAPPANIA, in Botany, was fo named by Scopoli, in 

 honour of Paul Anthony Zappa, an Italian botanift, to 

 whom the public garden at Pavia was indebted for many 

 valuable communications. The French, not always exaft 

 in orthography, will have it Zapania, and they have mifled 

 our more accurate countr)'mai\ Mr. Brown, who follows 

 JufTieu and Lamarck in adopting this genus, in his Prodr. 

 Nov. Holl. V. I. 514. Scopoli publifhed it in his Delicis 

 Florx et Faunz Infubricae, v. i. 34. t. 15. The fpecies, 

 on which he founds the genus, and which he erroneoufly 

 tufpeAed might be the Lantana involucrala of Linnxus, 

 is the Verbena globiflora of L'Heritier. (See Verbena, 

 n. 3.) We do not find it neceffary or expedient to retain 

 Zappania as a diftinft genus. 



ZAPUNTELLO, in Geography, a town of the ifland 

 of Melada, which fometimes gives name to the ifland. 



ZAQUALPAN, a town of Mechoacan, in the province 

 of Mechoacan ; 6 miles S. of Zacatula. 



ZARA, a city and fea-port of Dalmatia, fee of an arch- 



bifliop, fituated in a diftrift, called " The County of Zara," 



which was purchafed of the king of Naples, in the year 



S 2 1409, 



