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'literature, correftnefs of tafte, liberality of fentiment, and 

 extenfive hiftorical and biographical knowledge. In his 

 obfervations on fanaticifra and intolerance, he has forcibly 

 evinced their dreadful effefts on government and civil 

 fociety by hiftorical facls, and approved himfelf an able 

 writer in combating perfecution, and in repreffing the pre- 

 valent fpirit of fanaticifm. 



The public library at Zuric contains about 25,000 

 volumes, and a few curious MSS., of which latter are, the 

 original MS. of Quintilian, the Pfalms in the Greek tongue, 

 written on parchment dyed of a violet colour, the letters 

 being filver and golden, and the marginal reference red, 

 fomewhat fimilar to the " Codex Argenteus" of Upfal, 

 and fuppofed to have once formed a part of the " Codex 

 Vaticanus," and feveral MSS. of Zuingle. Zuric is a dif- 

 txift 41 miles S.E. of Bale, and 36 S.W. from Conftance. 

 N. Jat. 47= 18'. E. long. S^ 25'. Coxe's Travels in Swit- 

 zerland, vol. i. 



Zuric, a lake of Switzerland, fituated in the canton to 

 which it gives name, about 10 leagues in length, and one in 

 breadth, of an oblong form ; and though not fo large as 

 that of Conftance, more thickly ftiidded with villages and 

 towns. The adjacent country is finely cultivated, and well 

 peopled; and the fouthern part of the lake appears to be 

 bounded with the high ftupendous mountains of Schweitz 

 and Glarus. The fcenery is pidturefque, lively, and di- 

 verfified. 



ZURIMACZOW, a town of Auftrian Poland ; 22 

 miles S. of Luckow. 



ZURITA, a town of Spain, in New Caftile, on the left 

 bank of the Tagus ; 48 miles N.E. of Toledo. 



ZURITO, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of Cufco ; 12 

 miles N.W. of Cufco. 



ZURLINDEN, a town of Pruffia, in the palatinate of 

 Culm ; 18 miles E.N.E. of Thorn. 



ZURMENTUM, in Ancient Geography, a town in the 

 interior of Africa Propria, S. of Adrumetum. Ptol. 



ZURNAPA, in Zoology. See CAxMelopardal. 



ZURUPALCA, in Geography, a town of Peru ; 44 

 miles S. of Potofi. 



ZURZACH, a town of Switzerland, in the county of 

 Baden, on the Rhine, chiefly celebrated for its fairs, at 

 which great quantities of goods are fold by th.e merchants 

 from Germany, France, and Italy ; 25 miles E. of Bale. 



ZURZONZA, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Mechoacan, fituated on an ifland in a lake ; 20 miles W. 

 of Mechoacan. 



ZURZURA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 the Greater Armenia. Ptol. 



ZUSAM, in Geography, a river of Bavaria, which runs 

 into the Danube, oppofite Donauwcrt. 



ZUSCHEN, a town of Germany, in the county of Wal- 

 deck ; 4 miles N.W. of Fritzlar. 



ZusCHEX, or Zuchenau, a town of Germany, in the duchy 

 of Weftphalia ; 5 miles S.W. of Medebach. 



ZUSEL, a river of France, which runs into the Roer, 

 at Sufteren. 



ZUSMERSHAUS, a town of Bavaria, in the territory 

 of Augfburg ; 13 miles N.W. of Augfburg. 



ZUSNIN, a town of Iftria; II miles N.N.E. of Pe- 

 dena. 



ZUTPHEN, a city of Holland, and capital of a county 

 to which it gives name, fituated on the river Berckel, which 

 pafles through the middle of it, fills its ditches, and imme- 

 diately joins the Ift'el.. It takes its name from the two 

 Flemifh words " Zudt Vunen," which figiiify Southern 

 Meadows. The principal buildings are, the church of 



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St. Walburge, the town-houfe, the college of the deputies 

 of the comte, and an ancient building, which they call 

 " s'Graven-Hof," or Palace of the Comte. Otho I. of 

 Naffau, acquired this country in the nth century, by his 

 marriage with the heirefs of Gerlach, count of Zutphen, fince 

 w-hich It has ever been annexed to Guelderland ; 7 miles S. 

 of Deventer. N. lat. 52° 10'. E. long. 6" 5'. 



Zutphen IJlands, a group of fmall iflands, in the ftraits 

 of Sunda. S. lat. 5° 50'. E. long. 105=42'. 



ZUTZ, a town of Switzerland, in the league of the 

 Grifons, on the Inn. This town, though not the largeft, 

 IS reckoned the principal place of Upper Engadine, becaufe 

 It contains the criminal court of juftice. This court confifts 

 of the landamman of Sotto, one of the two communities of 

 Upper Engadine, who is prefident, and fixteen jurymen, 

 called Trouadors, taken equally from each diftrift. Juftice 

 is faid to be more equitably adminiftered in this court than 

 in any other throughout the Grifons, excepting at Coire. 

 The vicinity of Zutz, and alfo of Scampf, is the fineft part 

 of the valley of Engadine ; it there produces fome rye and 

 barley, and the mountains are clothed with verdure to their 

 very fummits. 



ZUURE-VELDT, a divifion of Graaf Reynet, which is 

 an extenfive plain country, ftretching from the Sunday river, 

 in Zwartkop'd bay to the great Fifh river, and is the fame 

 kind of good arable or pafture land as the plains of the 

 Autiniequas divifion in Zwellendam ; but it is now ex- 

 clufively in the poffenion of the Kaffers, from whom it was 

 originally taken by the Boors. The great chafms towards 

 the fea-coaft, that are filled with thickets, abound in ele- ■ 

 phants and buffaloes; and in the great Fifh river are, occa-, 

 fionally at leaft, found a few of the hippopotamus, or river-, 

 horfe. 



ZUWEITA, or ZuREiTA, a town of the Arabian 

 Irak ; 35 miles S.E. of Helleh. 



ZUYDER-ZEE, or Zuider-See, a great gulf or bay 

 of the German ocean, which extends from fouth to north, in 

 the United Provinces, between Friefland, Overiffel, Guel- 

 derland, and Holland. It is fo called from its fituation 

 towards the fouth, and is faid formerly to have been a lake, 

 and that the land is fwallowed up that united North Holland 

 with Friefland. 



ZUZAN, a town of Perfia, in that part of Khoraffan 

 which extends from N. lat. 32^ 30' to 34° 40', and from 

 56° to 62° of E. long. It is the ancient " Sufa," now an 

 inconfiderable place, fituated at the fame diftance from 

 Pufhing as the latter is from Herat. 



ZUZON, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile; 22 miles 

 N.E. of Siguenga. 



ZUZYGIUM, in Botany. See Syzygium and Calyp- 

 TRANTHES, to which latter genus belongs the original Suiy- 

 gium of Browne. 



ZWAMMERDAM, or Zvvadenburgerdam, in Geo- 

 graphy, a town of Holland, on the Rhine, which was pil- 

 laged and burned by the French, in the year 1762 ; 6 miles 

 N. of Gouda. 



ZWARTE-BERG, as well as Cango and TraJa, are 

 divifions of Zwellendam, which are the Karroo plains, 

 fituated between the firft and fecond chains of moun- 

 tains, but being well watered by the piountain ftreams 

 contain fertile patches of ground. Their great diftance, 

 however, from the Cape, and very bad roads, prevent an 

 extenfive tillage. In thefe plains are numerous oftrichcs, 

 and herds of quachas, zebras, and hartebeefts. Behind the 

 firft chain of mountains, in thefe divifions, are two hot 

 fprings of chalybeate water. 



ZwARTE-BERG is alfo a divifion of Graaf Reynet, which 



