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it a portion of the mountain of the fame name, in the diftria 

 of Zwellendam, to which it ought properly to belong. 

 Sheep and horned cattle are the chief produce of the 

 farmers. , , .. .. 



ZwARTE-KOP'j River is a fertile and extenfive diviiion 

 of Graaf Reynet, lying to the fouthward of Zwarte- Rug- 

 gens, and capable of producing an abundant fupply of 

 grain, convenient to be delivered at a trifling expence at 

 the bay. About 15 miles to the weftvi^ard of the bay are 

 large foreils of timber-trees, near which is an appearance 

 of a rich mine of lead. Near the bay is alfo a fait lake, 

 which yields a plentiful fupply of that article. Wax from 

 the myrica cerifera and aloes might be furnifhed by this 

 divifion as articles of commerce. 



ZwARTE-RUGGENS, a divifion of Graaf Reynet, which 

 is a ftony traft of country to the fouthward of Camdeboo, 

 another divifion lying at the foot of the fnowy mountains. It 

 is very fcantily fupplied with water, and produces little 

 except fucculent plants, among which are two or three 

 fpecies of euphorbia. Few famihes are found in this divifion, 

 but here and there in the neighbourhood of the Sunday 

 river, which runs through it. The cattle and iheep are 

 fmall, but generally in good condition. 



ZWARTKOP's Bay. See Algoa Bay. 



ZWARTLAND, East, and Twenty-four Rivers, are 

 two divifions of the diftrift of Stellenbofch and Draken- 

 ftein, confiding of widely-extended plains, ftretching, in 

 breadth, from the Berg river to the great chain of moun- 

 tains, and to the Picquet Berg, in length, to the northward. 

 Thefe are confidered as the granaries of the colony. The 

 crops, however, in Zwartland, are as uncertain as the rains, 

 on which their fuccefs almoft entirely depends. In the 

 Twenty-four rivers, the grounds may be irrigated by the 

 innumerable ftreamlets that iffue from the great chain of 

 mountains, in their courfe to the Berg river. Thefe form 

 fwamps, that have been produftive of very fine rice. Wheat, 

 barley, and pulfe, are the principal articles that are culti- 

 vated in thofe two divifions ; but they have alfo plenty of 

 fruit, and make a little wine for family ufe. 



ZWELLENDAM, a trad of country in fouthern 

 Africa, which lies upon the fea-coaft between Breede river 

 on the W., and Camtoos river on the E., and extends 

 northerly to the fecond chain of mountains, called the Zwarte- 

 Berg, or Black mountains. The length is about 380 and 

 breadth 60 miles, comprehending an area of 19,200 fquare 

 miles, which is occupied by 480 famihes, fo that each 

 family has, on an average, 40 fquare miles of land. The 

 population of Zwellendam, afcertained on oath in the year 

 1798, confifted of 3967 Chriftians, and 2696 flaves and 

 Hottentots, making a total of 6663. The ftock and pro- 

 duce comprehended 9049 horfes, 52,376 horned cattle, 

 154,992 {heep, 220-5 leggers of wine made, 16,720 muids 

 of wheat reaped in 1797, and 10,554 muids of barley 

 and rye. 



Zwellendam, Drofdy, or village of, a divifion of Zwel- 

 lendam, fituated at the foot of the firft chain of mountains 

 that runs E. and W., or parallel to the fea-coaft, and dif- 

 tant from Cape Town about 140 miles. It is compofed of 

 about 30 houfes, fcattered irregularly over a fmall but fer- 

 tile valley, down the middle of which runs a plentiful ftreara 

 of water. At the head of the valley Hands the houfe of the 

 landroft, to which is annexed a large g;arden well ftocked 

 with a variety of fruits, and a fpacious vineyard ; the whole 

 enclofed and planted with oaks and other trees. In the 

 middle of the village a large church has been lately ereAed, 

 which is the only place of worfhip in the whole diftrift. 

 The other divifions of Zwellendam are, the country between 



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the drofdy and Gauritz river, named according to the fivers 

 that crofs it, Cango, Zwarte-Berg, Trada, MoiTel bay, 

 Autiniequas land, Plettenberg's bay, Ohfant's river, Kam- 

 naafic, Lange-Kloof, and Sitfikamma. Barrow's Southern 

 Africa, vol. ii. 



ZWENCKAU, a town of SaxOny, in the principality 

 of Merfeburg, on the Elfter. In the year 1429, this town 

 was burned by the Huffites ; 5 miles S. of Leipfic. N. lat. 

 51° 14'. E.long. 12° 18'. 



Z WENTENDORFF, a town of Auftria ; 6 miles W. 

 of TuUn. 



ZWERCHBACHLEIN, a river of Wurtemberg, 

 which runs into the Nagold, near the town of Nagold. 



ZWERNITZ, a town of the principality of Culmbach; 

 10 miles S.W. of Culmbach. 



ZWERNTLDORFF, a town of Auftria ; 6 miles E. 

 of Weikendorff. 



ZWETHAN, a town of Saxony ; 20 miles S.E. of 

 Wittenberg. 



Z WETL, a town of Auftria, at the conflux of the Z wetl 

 and the Kamp ; 26 miles W.N.W. of Crems. N. lat. 

 48° 33'. E.long. 15-7'. 



ZwETL, a river of Auftria, which rifes about four miles 

 weft from Weitra, and runs into the Kamp, at Zwetl. 



ZWETZEN, a town of Thuringia ; 3 miles N. of 

 Jena. 



ZWETZEY, a town of Croatia, on the river Mrefnitza ; 

 12 miles S. of Sluin. 



ZWEYBRUCKEN. See Deux-Ponts. 



ZWEYDRITTELSTUCK, or Piece of Tnvo-thirds, 

 in Commerce, a filver coin in Germany, worth two-thirds of 

 a rix-dollar of account. 



ZWIAHEL, in Geography, a town of Ruffian Poland ; 

 90 miles E. of Luckow. 



ZWICKAU, a town of Saxony, in Erzgebirg, on the 

 Mulda. It has a citadel, three churches, and a Latin fchool, 

 in which is a good library : here is a manufadture of cloth, 

 and another of cards, for the ufe of wool-combers ; with a 

 confiderable inland trade ; 38 miles S.S.E. of Leipfic. N. 

 lat. 50° 39'. E. long. 1 2° 25'. — Alfo, a town of Bohemia, 

 in the circle of Boleflau ; 4 miles W. of Gabel. 



ZWIELAUKA, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 

 Olmutz ; 26 miles W. of Olmutz. 



ZWIFALTEN, a princely abbey founded in the year 

 1089. In 1802, it was given among the indemnities to the 

 duke of Wurtemberg ; 58 miles W. of Augfburg. N. lat. 

 48" 17'. E.long. 8° 30'. 



ZWINGENBERG, a town of Heffe Darmftadt, fitu- 

 ated on the Bergftraffe. In 1693, the greater part of this 

 town was deftroyed by the French, fince which it has been 

 rebuilt in a better manner ; 10 miles S. of Darmftadt. 



ZWINGENDORFF, a town of Auftria; 2 miles S. 

 of Laab. 



ZWINGERA, in Botany, a genus taken from Aublet, 

 dedicated under this name to the memory of feveral Swifs 

 botanifts of the family of Zwinger, who for three genera- 

 tions have cultivated this fcience at Bafil, chiefly, indeed, 

 with a reference to the medical qualities of plants. Theo- 

 dore Zwinger, profefTor of anatomy and botany in that uni- 

 verfity, who died in 1724, aged 67, publiflied in 1696 a 

 folio German Herbal, of 995 pages, with wooden cuts, 

 borrowed from Gefner and Camerarius, which is little known 

 out of his own country. Some botanical differtations alfo 

 appeared under his prefidency. His fon Frederick gave an 

 enlarged edition of the above Herbal in 1 744 ; and has 

 publiflied in the ^da Helvetica, v. i . 50, a plate and defcrip- 

 tion of a very remarkable fungus, apparently belonging to 



Peziza, 



