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Furniture confifling of chairs, bedlleads, &c. (hould be 

 fcoured and fumigated with fulphur and faw-duft for twenty- 

 four hours, firft removing every perfon out of the apartment, 

 as no li\-ing creature can exift in the fumes for any length of 

 time. 



Houfes and apartments fhould be fumigated in hke man- 

 ner, and be afterwards purified by the admiflion of as much 

 air as is prafticable, and alfo by fcraping and wafhing the 

 walls with lime-water, and the floors with plenty of cold 

 water. 



And laflly, we cannot inculcate too much the fad, that 

 the beft preventive of infeftious difeafe, and the fureft mode 

 of diminifhing the efFefts of its contagion, is by the free 

 admiflion of pure air, even in the room of the fick, who, to 

 admit of its free circulation, fhould not have bed or window- 

 curtains, and by the greatefl; attention to cleanlinefs. By 

 the removal of the reft of the inhabitants from the Cck 

 houfe to a place of obfervation, for the fpace of twenty days, 

 and by the fick being alfo confined for an equal length of 

 time, having perfons appointed to prevent his efcape, and to 

 tave a nurfe afligned to him. Articles neceflary for his 

 fupport muft be dehvered by means of bafl<ets or planks, as 

 well as thofe received from the houfe, and all money received 

 in payment to be dipped in vinegar. 



Large aflemblies fhould not be permitted to meet while 

 towns are infefted, and the theatres, churches, and markets 

 fliould be clofed ; and if thefe precautions are ftriftly ad- 

 hered to, we are confident that if the contagion cannot be 

 wholly prevented, its fpreading may be greatly confined, 

 and its malignity confiderably lefTened. 



QUARTZ. See Quartz, and Mineralogy, Ad- 

 denda. 



QUASSIN, in Chem'ijlry, the name which has been given 

 to a bitter fubflance extrafted from quaffia. See Bitter 

 Principle. 



QUEEN Axke's. Add— It contains 16,648 inha- 

 bitants, of whom 6381 were flavcs in 1810. 



OUEMAKO, a townfhip of Somerfet county, in Penn- 

 fylvauia, having 1392 inliabitants. 



QUERCITRON. See Quercus Tmaoria, and Print- 

 ing on Calico. 



QUILOA. At the clofe, add — An ifland of Quiloa was 

 vifited bv captain Beaver in 1812. He defcribes this ifland, 

 which has been the feat of royal refidence, fince the found- 

 ation of the kingdom, at leaft 700 years, as being about fix 

 miles long and three broad ; low and fertile, extending longi- 

 tudinally acrofs the mouth of a deep bay, having at either 

 end an opening for two arms of the fea, and thus containing 

 a peninfula which projecls from tlie main land, forms two 

 fafe and magnificent harbours, capable of containing, in per- 

 feft fecurity, the largeft fleets. Of the ancient fplendour 

 and magnificence that fubfifted when the Portugucfe firft 

 ■vifited this ifland, not a veftige remains. The prefent city, 

 if it dsferves the name, confifts of a number of fcattered 

 tuts from the borders of the fea to jlie (hore. Here captain 

 Beaver found the deputy of the Imam of Mufcat, who con- 

 trouls the miferable Moors or Arabs who are in poflTeflion 

 of the fea-coaft, with his half a dozen of foldiers, fituated in 

 a round tower, mounting three guns, which pointed direftly 



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to the king's houfe, and at the diftance of a mufl<et-(hot 

 from it. By thefe means, he keeps the king of the extenfive 

 kingdom of Quiloa in awe, and levies a tribute in flaves, 

 ivory, gold-duit, and many other articles exported from this' 

 part of the coaft. The Moorifli king is only the nominal 

 fovereign both of the iflands and of the fliores of the con- 

 tinent. 



QUINCUNX, I. 21, add — The notion, however preva- 

 lent, that plants thus fet have greater fcope than when fet 

 at the fame diftance without alternation, is perfeftly ima- 

 ginary : thus below it is evident, that the /quare mode be- 

 comes a quincunx when viewed angularly, and the quincunx 

 in like manner, becomes a fquare ; and the diftance of the 

 plants is the fame in both. 



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QUINTAL, col. 2, 1. 3, add— The Caftilian quintal is 

 divided into 4 arrobas, or 100 lbs. ; the lb. into 2 marcs, or 

 1 6 oz. ; the marc into 8 drachmas, 16 adarmes, or 576 grains. 

 The merchants commonly reckon 100 lbs. Caftilian weight 

 equal to 102 lbs. avoirdupois; but the more accurate pro- 

 portion is as 123 to 125. 



QUIRA,orQuiuiA,in Gw^ra/Aj;, a province of the ancient 

 kingdom of Colchos enclofed by the end of the Mofllan hills. 

 It is a pleafant and fruitful country, and, from the ruins 

 that ftill remain, we may conclude, that it was formerly 

 flourifhing and populous in an extraordinarj- degree. The 

 refidence of the prince of Quiria is Titi-zighi or Ighina 

 (the ancient Pityus), fituated on the fliores of the Black 

 fea, with a fecure and fpacious harbour. The only con- 

 fiderable river of Quiria is the Boas, which rifes 30 verfls 

 from Titi-zighi, and after a courfe from E. to W. empties 

 itfeU" into the Black fea. 



QUIRILIA, the only river of confequence in Im- 

 mertia, or, as it is now called, Iberia. It rifes in the Soanni 

 ridges and being increafed by the fnow-ftreams which de- 

 fcend from the Georgian fide of the Caucafus, eaters the 

 Phafis, in the neighbourhood of Cotatie. 



