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FREEMAN, a townfhip of Maine, in Somerfet county, 

 havino- 237 inhabitants. 



FREEPORT, 1.5, r. 2184. 



FREEZING,!. 15, r.-^. 



FRENCH Creek, in Geography, a townfhip of Mercer 

 county, in Pennfylvania, hanng 183 inhabitants. 



FRICTION, Calculation of the Quantity of, col. 2, 1. 22, 

 J-. a third part of its own weight. 



FRIENDSHIP, in Geography, a town of Maine, in the 

 county of Lincohi, having 480 inhabitants. 



FRODSHAM, 1. 11 from the bottom, r. 181 i ; I. 10, r. 

 262, and 1344. 



FROME, 1. I 7 from the bottom, r. 181 I — 1722; I. 16, r. 

 9493, and dele But this eftimate is glaringly defe£live. 



FRUIT-Flies, col. 2, 1. 14, r. thefe fnails. 



YiWlT-Stones, 1. 5 from the bottom, for cuts r. coats ; 

 I. ult. r. thefe feeds, &c. were carried off. 



FRYBURGH, 1. 2, for York r. Oxford ; 1. 4, r. 

 1004. 



FUNGI, Chemical Properties of the. Braconnot has lately 

 detected three diftintl new principles in this clafs of plants. 

 Two of thefe are acids, one ot which lie has denominated boletic 

 acid, the oxXier fingic acid ; the third is a principle neither acid 

 nor alkaline, to which he has given the name oifingin. We 

 fhall briefly defcribe here the leading properties of each of 

 thefe principles. 



Boletic jicid. — This was obtained from the juice of the 

 boletus pfeudo-ignarius. Its colour is white ; it is not altered 

 by expofure to the air, and its cryftals ai-e irregular four- 

 fided prifms. Its tafte is fimilar to that of tartar. It is 

 foluble in 1 80 times its weight of water at a temperature of 

 68°, and in 45 times its weight of alcohol. The aqueous 

 folution reddens vegetable blues. It combines with the 

 different bafes forming boletates, which have been but little 

 examined. The boletate of ammonia cryftaUizes in flat 

 four-fided prifms, and is foluble in 26 times its weight of 

 water at 68°. The boletate ol potafti is very foluble in water, 

 and cryfl;allizes with difficulty. The boletate of lime cryf- 

 taUizes in flat four-fided prifms, and is foluble in about no 

 times its weight of water at 72^°. No one hitherto appears 



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to have repeated the experiments of Braconnot on tliis 

 acid. 



Fungic j4cid. — This was extracted from the boletus juglandis, 

 and other fungi. This acid is colourlefs, does not cryftal- 

 lize, has a very four tafte, and when evaporated to drynefs, 

 deliquefces on expofure to the air. The fungaUs ai potafh 

 and foda do not cryllallize, are very foluble in water, but 

 not in alcohol. The fungate of ammonia cryftaUizes in re- 

 gular fix-fided prifms. TXm fungate of lime is not altered by 

 expofure to the air, and is foluble in about 18 times its 

 weight of water at 73°. 



Fungin This fubftance approaches woody fibre in its 



properties, but feems to be fiifficiently diftinguiflied from it 

 by various characters, particularly by conftiaiting a nou- 

 ridiing article of food, and by being lefs foluble in alkaline 

 leys. 

 'FUNGUS of the Antrum, 1. 13, for he ;-. fhe. 



FURCRjEA, in Botany, after M. Fourcroy, the great 

 chemift — Venten. in Uft. Annal. v. 19. 54. Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. V. 2. 302. — Clafs and order, Hexandria Monogynia. 

 Nat. Ord. Coronariie, Linn. Bromeliis, .Tuff. 



Efl". Ch. Petals fix, fuperior, fpreading. Filaments 

 fhorter than the corolla, obovate in their lower part. Style 

 triangular, thickened at the bafe. 



F. gigantea, De C. PI. grafs. (Agave fcetida, Linn.) and 

 F. tuberofa, (A. tuberofa, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 194.) are the 

 -only fpecies. 



FURIES, col. 3, 1. 22, r. thofe ferpents. 



FURR, in Heraldry, the 4th paragraph, r. Furrs either 

 confift of one colour (which is white, but cannot be ufed in 

 arms fingly), or more than one; and thefe either two, or 

 more than two. 



FURRINGS, in ArchlteBure. Add— Joifts are furred, 

 by which operation the uneven joifts of an old floor are 

 levelled for the reception of the flooring boards. 



FURZE, col. 4, 1. 18, for l/. i6x. r. 3/. 12s., the furze 

 being cut only every other year. 



¥uRZE-Mill, col. 2, 1. 20, for melted cake r. melted coke. 



FUSION, col. 2, 1. 20 from the bottom, dele aU and 

 except gold. 



G. 



Gl. 21, aher'/wg, Sic. add — It has been afferted, 

 • however, by an ingenious correfpondent, that he finds 

 this fo far from the fad, that G hard is eafily founded with 

 any of the vowels, either before or after it, whilft the 

 tongue is probably kept at the bottom of the mouth ; nor 

 does he beUeve that the prelfure here defcribed is at any 

 time necetfary for the pronunciation of this letter. It does 

 indeed take place in two of the three examples here 

 given, -viz. gate, go, and geld; but it is for the formation of 

 the letters t and /. This preffure takes place alfa with the 

 G foft. 

 GADUS. Obf. Some fpecies, viz. Molva, Albidus, 



Tau, Lota, Muftela, Tricirratus, and Cimbrius, aU bearded, 

 are arranged in the fame divifion, the character of which is 

 li'ithout beards. 



GAGE, in Carpentry, 1. 9, for a ftaff /-. the ftick ; for 

 to ftrike r. or ftrike ; 1. 10, for ftaff r. ftuff ; 1. II, for 

 it r. the tooth. 



GAINSBOROUGH, 1. 9 from bottom, for quadi-an- 

 gular ;-. quadrangle, 



GALANGAL, 1. 3, .idd— See Alpinia, Addenda. 



GALAPAGOS, col. i, 1. 5 from bottom, for 68° 

 r. 86^ or 89° ; dele the paragraph. 



GALARDIA, in Botany, Lamarck Did. v. 2. 590. 



lUuftr. 



