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ZIBELLINA. See Mustela Z'Mlina, and Sable. 



ZIBER, ill Geography, a town of European Turkey, in 

 Bulgaria, on the Danube ; 24 miles S.S.E of Viddm. 



ZIBET, or ZiBETii. See Zebid. 



ZIBETHA, in Zoology. See Viverra Ztbetha. 



ZIBETHUM, or ZiBETA, in Natural Hiflory, civet, 

 a perfume contained in a bladder, in the groin of a civet-cat. 



See Civet. 1 r . 



ZIBIBI^, a name given by fome authors to a large lort 

 of raifins, relembling the ftones of dates in (hape ; they have 

 much pulp, but very little moifture. 



ZIBREIRA, in Geography, a town of Portugal, m the 

 province of Beira ; 30 miles S. of Alfayates. 



ZIBRITZ, a river of European Turkey, which runs 

 into the Danube, near Ziber, in Bulgaria. 



ZIBU. See SiBU. 



ZICCARA, a name of an Indian fruit, refembling a 

 pine-cone, and containing twenty, thirty, or more kernels, 

 of no knowa ufe in medicine. 



ZICHIANS, in Geography, one of the tribes of mount 

 Caucafus, collaterally related to the Tfcherkeffians or Cir- 

 caffians. The Zichians or Tfchekians, called by the Ruf- 

 fians Yafi, are the principal inhabitants of the ifle of 

 Taman. They formerly paid a fmall tribute to the Kri- 

 mean khan ; in all other refpefts they are governed by their 

 own beys. The ifle Atfchuk or Atfchuyef is likewife in- 

 habited by Zichians. The AuchafGans and Zichians are 

 two tribes, which, properly fpeaking, are only one colla- 

 teral branch of the Tfcherkeffians, have belonged to the 

 Ruffian empire, as inhabitants of the Kuban, fince the year 

 1783. See CiRCASSiA. 



ZICKAR, a mountain of Algiers, anciently called 

 " Garaphi ;" 18 miles S. of Sherlhell. 



ZIDDIM, or Assedim, in Ancient Geography, a city 

 of Naphtali. Jofh. xix. 35. 



ZIDRACH, in Natural Hlftory, the name given by 

 Cuba, and fome other author?, to that fpecies of the fyng- 

 nathus of Artedi, commonly called the hippocampus. 



ZIECKRA, in Geography, a town of Saxony, in the 

 circle ot Neuftadt ; 4 miles S. of Auma. 



ZIEGELBACH, a river of Germany, which runs into 

 the Rhine, near Gernfheim. 



ZIEGENBALG, Baktholomewj in Biography, a 

 Lutheran German divine, was born in 1683 at Pulnitz, in 

 Upper Lufatia, and finifhed his education in the univerfity 

 of Halle. In 1705 he was ordained at Copenhagen, with 

 a view of b>-ing fent as a miffionary by Frederick IV. king 

 of Denmark to India. In 1706 he arrived at Tranquebar, 

 but he was there oppofed and imprifoned, fo that he re- 

 folved, upon his releafe, to return to Europe. In 1 7 1 5 he 

 landed at Bergen in Norway, and after having vifited Co- 

 penhagen, in order to give an account of his miffion, and to 

 receive further inftruClions, he travelled through Germany 

 and Holland into England, and from thence to India in 

 March 1716. On his return to Tranquebar, he ellablilhed 

 a Portuguefe and Malabar printing-houfe, in which many 

 of his own works were printed. In the faithful and 

 laborious difcharge of his miffionary duty he employed 

 1 3 years, at the clofe of which period his life terminated by 

 a diforder probably owing to his intenfe application. This 

 event happened in February 17 19, in the 36th year of his 

 age. His w irks were numerous, and of thefe the principal 

 are mentioned in the Gen. Biog. 



ZIEGENFELD, in Geography, a town of Bavaria, in 

 the bifhopric of Bamberg ; 1 2 miles N.E. of Bamberg. 



ZIEGENHALS, a town of Silefia, in the principality 



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of NeifTe: this place is famous for its manufaftures of 

 beautiful glades. Here are fome iron-works ; 10 miles 8. 

 of NeifTe. N. lat. 50° 12'. E. long. 17'= 17'. 



ZIEGENHAYN, a town of Germany, and chief place 

 of a county of the fame name, in the principality of Heffe, 

 It is fituated in a morafs, and can be occafionally inundated. 

 In this place were kept the archives of the fovereign families 

 of Heffe. The counts of Ziegenhayn are extinft ; 15 miles 

 S. of Fritzlar. N. lat. jo^ 50'. E. long. 9^^ 15'. 



ZIEGENRUCK, a town of Saxony, in the cjrcle of 

 Neuftadt, on the Saal ; 10 miles S. of Neuftadt. N. lat. 

 50° 32'. E. long. 11° 42'. 



ZIEGLER, James, in Biography, a learned writer of 

 the 1 6th century, was born at Landfhut in Bavaria, and 

 having ftudied in the univerfity of Ingolftadt, finiftied his 

 education by vifiting the libraries of foreig^n countries, and 

 cultivating the fociety of learned men. He refided feveral 

 years at Rome, collefting in the hiftory of Leo X. and 

 Clement VII. every anecdote that tended to the difcredit 

 of the papal court ; and in his conferences with learned 

 Swedes, materials for a corredl hiftory of Scandinavia, and 

 of the cruelties committed by Chriftian II. of Denmark. 

 It appears that, befides fome other pofts which he occupied, 

 he was for fome time profeffor at Ingolftadt, and, as fome 

 fay, of mathematics at Upfal. He was for a confiderable 

 time a teacher at Vienna, from whence, for fear of the 

 Turks, he retired to Wolfgang, bilhop of Paffau in Ba- 

 varia, under whofe proteftion he compofed fome of his 

 works ; and he died at Paffau in 1549. The earlieft of his 

 publications, whilft he was a Catholic, was written againft 

 the Waldenfes, and printed at Leipfic in 1512. His other 

 works are multifarious, confifting of geographical, hiftorical, 

 political, mathematical, and controverfial trafts, abounding 

 with literary refearches. Although he did not openly re- 

 nounce the Roman Cathohc religion, he favoured the caufe 

 of Luther and the reformers. Thuan. Hift. Moreri. 

 Gen. Biog. 



ZIELENZIG, \n Geography, a town of the New Mark 

 of Brandenburg. This town belonged in a confiderable 

 degree to the knights of Malta ; 18 miles S.E. of Cuftrin. 

 N. lat. 52^ 30'. E. long. 15° 16'. 



ZIENWALD, a town of Saxony, in the margravate 

 of Meiffen ; 4 miles S.S.W of Lauenftein. 



ZIERCKOWITZ, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 

 4 miles E.S.E. of Windifch Feiftritz. 



ZIERENBERG, a town of the principality of Heffe 

 Caffel; 1 1 miles N.W. of Caffel. N. lat. 51° 22'. E. long. 

 <f 20'. 



ZIERIA, in Botany, was fo named by the writer of the 

 prefent article, in memory of the late Mr. John Zier, F.L.S., 

 who, as Dr. Sims records in the Botanical Magazine, 

 " having been appointed to a profefforfhip in a Polilh uni» 

 verfity, was preparing to leave this country, but was pre- 

 vented by a chronic difeafe, which terminated in death." 

 That Mr. Zier was " a learned and indnftrious botanift," 

 we are moft ready to confirm by our own teftimony. He 

 was no lefs meritorious in his private charaftcr, and bore 

 with modefty and patience thofe privations, which too often 

 belong to literary merit in a foreign countrv, efpecially 

 where canting and time-ferving are out of the queftion. 

 We have been informed that Mr. Zier was the coadjutor of 

 Mr. William Curtis (fee that article 1, in part, at leaft, 

 of the celebrated Flora Londlnenjis ; taking upon himfelf 

 the technical Latin defcriptions, while Mr. Curtis was en- 

 gaged in thofe pradtical obfervations, experiments, and 

 fcientific diftinftions, which make the peculiar merit of the 



work. 



