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of herpes, which others call the zini>^illa, and we term the 

 Jh'wglei. 



ZONCHIO, in Geography, a cape of European Turkey, 

 on the coaft of the Morea ; 12 miles N.N.W. of Navann. 

 N. lat. 37° J2'. E.long. 21° 30'. 



ZoNCHio, a fea-port town of European Turkey, in the 

 Morea: the harbour is large, but not commodious ; b miles 

 N. of Navarin. 



ZONCOLCUCAN, a mountain of Mexico, in the pro- 

 vince of Guaxaca. 



ZONDAGS, a river of Africa, which runs into the 

 Indian fea, N. lat. 31° 20'. E. long. 29°. 



ZONDORO, a town of Hungary ; 26 miles S.W. of 

 Cafchau. 



ZONE, Zona, imn, q. d. belt, girdle, in Geography and 

 Mronomy, a divifion of the terraqueous globe, with refpeft 

 to the different degrees of heat found in the different parts 

 of it ; formed by the two tropics and two polar circles, 

 which divide the furface of the earth into five parts. 



The zones are denominated torrid, frigid, and tem- 

 perate. 



Zone, Torrid, is a fafcia, or band, furrounding the ter- 

 raqueous globe, and terminated by the two tropics. 



Its breadth, therefore, is 46° 56'. The equator running 

 through the middle of it, divides it into two equal parts, 

 each containing 23° 28'. 



The ancients imagined the torrid zone uninhabitable. 

 Zones, Temperate, are two fafcia;, or bands, environing 

 the globe, and contained between the tropics and the polar 

 circles. The breadth of each is 43° 4'. 



Zones, Frigid, are fegments of the furface of the earth, 

 terminated, the one by the antardic, and the other by the 

 arftic circle ; or included between thefe circles and the 

 poles. The breadth of each is 46" 56'. 



The difference of zones is attended with a great diverfity 

 of phenomena. 



1. In the torrid zone, the fun paffes through the zenith 

 twice a year ; and his recefs from the equator towards the 

 pole, which is above the horizon, is twice a year equal to 

 the height of the pole. 



2. In the temperate and frigid zones, the leaft. height of 

 the pole exceeds the greateft diftance of the fun from the 

 equator ; and therefore, to the inhabitants of it, the fun 

 never pafles through the zenith ; yet if, on the fame day, 

 the fun rifes, at the fame time, to a greater lieight, the 

 height of the pole is the lefs, fince the inclination of the 

 circles of diurnal revolution to the horizon is lefs. 



3. In the temperate and torrid zones, the fun rifes and 

 fets every natural day, becaufe the diftance of the fun from 

 the pole always exceeds the height of the pole ; yet every 

 where but under the equator, the artificial days are unequal, 

 and the inequality is the greater as the place is lefs diilant 

 from the frigid zone. 



4. Where the temperate zone's terminate on the frigid, 

 the height of the pole is equal to the fun's diftance from 

 the pole, when in the neighbouring tropic ; and confe- 

 quently, once a year, the fun, in its diurnal motion, per- 

 forms an entire revolution, without going down under the 

 horizon. 



5. Every where, in a frigid zone, the height of the pole 

 is greater than the leail diftance of the fun from the pole ; 

 and therefore, during fome revolutions of the earth, the 

 fun is at a diftance from the pole lefs than the pole's 

 height ; and, during all that time, does not fet, nor fo 

 much as touch the horizon. Where the diftance from 

 the pole, as the fun recedes from it, exceeds the height 



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of the pole, or latitude of the place, the fun rifes or 

 fets every natural day. 



Zone, Cingulum, or girdle, part of the ecclefiaftical drefs 

 of the Roman Catholic minifters. The ufe of it being de- 

 rived from the chi.rch of Rome, it \\3iS called zona 

 Romana. 



Zone, Ciliary, in Anatomy, the black impreffion of the 

 ciliary proceffes on the vitreus humour. See Eye. 



Zone, Greater and Smaller, of the Iris, arterial circles pro- 

 duced by the anaftoniofes of the arteries. See Eye. 



ZONGHAN, in Geography, a town of Cochinchina, 

 near the fea. N. lat. 14° 30'. E. long. 108° 48'. 



ZONGO, or MoKENA, a river of Africa, which runs 

 into the Atlantic, near Old Benguela. 



ZONITES, in the Materia Medica of the Ancients, a 

 name given to a kind of tutty, called alfo placitis. It had 

 the latter name from the Greek CTAaxo?, a crujl, it being 

 formed by way of cruft on the fides of the furnaces. 

 The latter name zonites was given from its being formed 

 of feveral coats, which, when broken tranfverfely, had the 

 appearance of belts or zones. See Tsaphari, and 



TuMEX. 



ZONITIS Cadmia, a name given by fome authors to 

 a kind of cadmia fornacum, from its ufually furrounding the 

 upper parts of the furnaces like a girdle or belt. 



ZoNlTis, in Entomology, a genus of the coleoptera or derni 

 infefts, the characters of which are, that the antennae are 

 fetaceous ; the palpi four and filiform, and fliorter than the 

 whole jaw ; and the lip cmarginated. There are two fpe- 

 cies ; -viz. 



Chrysomelana. Yellow, the wing-flieaths having a 

 point in the middle, and the apex black : found in Egypt 

 and the Eaft. 



Flava. Reddifh, with wing-ftieaths yellow, and black 

 at the apex. 



ZONNAR, a kind of belt, or girdle, of black leather, 

 which the Chriftiaiis and Jews of the Levant, particularly 

 thofe of Afia, and the territories of the grand fignior, 

 are obliged to wear, to diilinguifh themfelves from the 

 Mahometans. 



The word is corrupted from the vulgar Greek ; a con- 

 traction of ^x-jy.fnv, or ^!i»»i, girdle. 



It was Motavakkel X. kalipli, of the family of the Abaf- 

 fides, that firft enjoined the Chriftians, &c. to wear the 

 zonnar. 



The ordinance to this effeft was publifticd in the year of 

 the Hegira 235. 



Hence, as moft: of the Chriftians of Syria, Mefopotamia, 

 &c. are either Neftoriaiis or Jacobites, thofe feftaries are 

 often called Chrijlians of the girdle. 



ZONOSBIO, in Geography, an Indian town, belonging 

 to the Seneca tribe ; 2 miles N. of lake Seneca. 



ZONS, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Roer, fituated on the Rhine, with a caftle : at this place a 

 river-toll is paid; 13 miles N.N.W. of Cologn, N. lat- 

 51° 4'. E. long. 6° 43'. 



ZOOGRAPHY, formed of ^mv, animal, and ypaCx, I 

 defcribe, denotes a defcription of animals. 



ZOOLATRIA, ZwoAocTpict, compofed of ^i^ov, an animal, 

 and XxTfia, tuorjhip, a fpecies of idolatry, in which divine 

 worftiip was ottered to animals. 



ZOOLOGIA, Zoology, Zwo^.oyia, compounded of f^>;, 

 life, or iuov, animal, and Xoyoc,fpeech, difcourfe, a difcourfe or 

 treatife upon animals, or living creatures. 



Zoology makes a confiderable article in natural hiftory, 

 comprehending what relates to the form, ftru&ure, me- 

 thod of living, feeding, propagating, &c. of the divers 



fpecies 



