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frofz, and each grofchen is divided 

 'he florin alfo contains 2^ Ikoftacks, 



nto 18 pfcnings. 

 90 fchillings, or 

 36 

 3 



12 grofchen, or 

 and a fchillincr. 



270 pfenings. A fltoftack is worth 

 fchillings ; a grofchen, 3 fchillings ; 

 pfenings. 



ZMEINOGORSKAIA, in Geography, a fort of 

 Ruffia, on ihi river Porobalika ; 200 miles S. of Kolivan. 

 N. lat. 51° 10'. E. long. 82° 10'. 



ZMILACES, in Natural H'ljlory, a name given by 

 Pliny to a ftone found in the river Euphrates, refembling 

 marble, and of a blueifli-green colour. 



ZMILAMPIS, the name of a gem, defcribed by Pliny 

 and the ancients, which they tell us was very hke the Pro- 

 connefian marble, except that in the centre of the ilone 

 there was always a blueiih fpot, refembling the pupil of an 

 eye. 



The Proconnefian marble of the ancients was of a fine 

 clear and elegant white, variegated with irregular black 

 veins. Pliny's defcription is fo fhort, that it has been fup- 

 pofed from him that the zmilampis was a fort of marble ; 

 he only fays of it, that it was like the Proconnefian marble, 

 but blue in the middle. Many had inferred from this, that 

 he meant no more by it than that this was a ftone, which 

 had blue veins inftead of the black ones in the Proconnefian 

 kind. But when we examine the reft of the ancients, and 

 find that it was a fmall ilone, found in the river Euphrates, 

 and worn in rings, and that its blue fpot was like a pupil of 

 an eye, we may eafily determine that it was one of thofe 

 gems which we call oculus belt, or bellocchto ; of which there 

 is a vaft variety found in the rivers of the Eaft Indies, and 

 many have a fine opaque white ground, and a blueifh or 

 greenifii fpot for the pupil. 



ZMILANTHES, a name given by Solinus and fome 

 others to a gem called by the more correft writers 

 zmilampis. 



ZNAMENSKOI, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in 

 the government of Tobolflc, on the Irtifch ; 28 miles 

 N.N.W. of Tara. 



ZNAYM, a town of Moravia, in the circle of the fame 

 name, near the river Teya. This town was built about the 

 year 1222, at a little diftance from another town, laid 

 wafte by the Bohemians. It contains a citadel, four cloiiters, 

 and a college ; the circle borders on Auftria ; 68 miles 

 S.W. of Olmutz. N. lat. 48° 48'. E. long. 15° 51'. 



ZNENDEI, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the 

 Vitim, N. lat. 53°. E. long. 115° 14'. 



ZNIN, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 20 miles N. 

 of Gnefna. 



ZNONIGRAD, a town of Croatia ; 36 miles S. of 

 Bihacs. 



ZOAGLI, a town of Genoa ; 20 miles E. of Genoa. 

 ZOANA, in /Indent Geography, a town of Afia, in the 

 Lefler Armenia, upon the route from Satala to Arabift'us, 

 between Tonofa and Gundufa. Anton. Itin. 



ZOANNES, a name given by Strabo to a people half- 

 favage, that inhabited the mountains of jhe Colchide. 



ZOAR, ZoARA, Segor, or Bela, a city of Pentapolis, on 

 the fouthern extremity of the Dead fea. It was preferved 

 by deftruftion from fire by means of the interceffion of 

 Lot. (Gen. xiv. 2.) Its name before thib circumftance 

 was Bela ; but when Lot requefted it to be fpared as a 

 place of refuge for himfelf, he reprefented it as a fmall 

 place ; and hence it had the name Zoar, or Segor, which, 

 in Hebrew, fignifies fmall or little. The Romans kept a 

 garrifon at Zoar. St. Jerom obferves, that the name Bela 

 was given to this city, becaufe, as foon as Lot left it, an 

 earthquake caufed it to be {wallowed up ; bela in Hebrew 



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fignifying to fwallow up. Jerom alfo fays, liiat the 

 Hebrews thmk that Zoar bears alfo the name of Sha- 

 liftia. (i Sam. ix. 4.) They pretend that this city has 

 been often demoliftied by earthquakes. 



Zoar, m Geography, a town of Arabia, in the province 

 of Hedsjas, on the fouth coaft of the Dead fea, at the 

 mouth of the Safia ; 30 miles N. of Karac. 

 Zoar. See Tsor. 



ZOARA, a town of Africa, in the country of Tripoli ; 

 60 miles W.N.W. of Tripoh — Alfo, a town of Africa, in' 

 the country of Barca ; 140 miles S.W. of Tolometa. N 

 lat. 32° 35'. E. long. 11° 56'. 



ZOBAYA, a town of Mexico, in the province of Gua- 

 timala ; 30 miles N. of Guatimala. 



ZOBEIR, a town of the Perfian empire, in the pachalic 

 of Bagdad, about 10 miles W. of the city of BafTora, 

 fituated on the dry canal of the Djurre Zade, fuppofed to 

 be the former bed of the Euphrates. It is by fome faid 

 to be the ancient Bafra, and derives its prefent name from 

 Zobeir, who was defeated and flain in the battle of the 

 Camel, fought near this place. 



ZOBELN, a town of the dnchy of Courland ; 20 miles 

 E. of Goldingen. 



ZOBERA, a town of Arabia, in the province of Yemen ; 

 35 miles S.E. of Chamir. 



ZOBERN, a town of Saxony, in the Vogtland ; 8 miles 

 W. of Oelfnitz. 



ZOBIN, a town of Germany, in the principality of 

 Oettingen Wallerftein ; 6 miles W.N.W. of Nordlingen. 



ZOBING, a town of Saxony, in the margravate of 

 Meiffen ; 15 miles S. of Deflau. — Alfo, a town of Auftria ; 

 3 miles N. of Crems. 



ZOBLITZ, a town of Saxon)', in the circle of Erzge- 

 birg. This place confifts of no houfes, and the inhabit- 

 ants fubfift principally by working the ferpent-ftone, 

 which is found here, into pitchers, bowls, tea and coffee 

 dirties, mortars, cups, &c. The ferpent-ftone is dug juft 

 above the town, and farther on to the eaft of it is found a 

 red fpecies, which is reckoned among the fineft, and for 

 that reafon is alfo confidered by the fovereign as his property, 

 together with a yellow, green, grey, and black fort. In 

 the eleftoral red quarry is alfo found albeftos of divers 

 colours and granites; 17 miles S. of Freyberg. N. lat. 

 50° 36'. E. long. 13° 11'. 



ZOBOWITZ, a town of Pomerelia ; 14 miles S. of 

 Dantzic. 



ZOBTEN, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 

 Schweidnitz ; 9 miles E.N.E. of Schweidnitz. N. lat. 

 50" 48'. E.long. 16° 41'. 



ZOBTENBERG, a mountain of Silefia, fituated in a 

 country otherwile level, 2424 Paris feet above the level of 

 the fea, near Zobten. 



ZOCCO, ZoccoLO, Zock, or Sock, in Jrchiteaure. See 

 Socle. 



ZOCELAR, in Geography, a town of Croatia ; 2 miles 

 S.W. of Bihacs. 



ZOCHINACAZTLIS, in Botany, a name by which 

 fome authors have called the^o^r auricula, a flower of New 

 Spain, i.fed in making of the Spanifti chocolate. 



ZODIAC, ZoDiACUs, in 4/lronomy, a fafcia, or broad 

 circle, whofe middle is the ecliptic, and its extremes two 

 circles parallel to it, at fuch diftance from it, as to bound, 

 or comprehend, the excurfions of the fun and planets. 



The word is formed from the Greek (fi«, animal, by 

 reafon of the conftellations in it, which have the forms of 

 animals given them ; others derive it from i^u>n, life, from 



