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and captivity of Lewis, has traced with the pencil of na- 

 ture tlic free portrait of his virtues as well of his failings." 

 The moil valuable edition of this work is that of Du Cange 

 in i6SS ; but the text of the Paris edition in 1761 is reckon- 

 ed the moft pure and authentic. It has been lately trandated 

 into the Englifh, and publi(hed by Mr. Johnes of Hafod. 

 Moreri, Gibbon. 



JoiS'viLLE, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Upper Marne, and chief place of a canton, 

 in the diftriel of WafTy, fituated on the Marne ; ij miles 

 fi.E. of St. Dizier. The place contains _:;o86, and the canton 

 7476 inhabitants, on a territory of 145 kiliometres, in 15 

 comminics. N. lat. 48' 27'. E. long. 5° 13'. 



JO I RE, St., a town of France, in the department of 



Mont Blanc ; 4 miles S.E. of Chambery Alfo, a town in 



the fame deparlment ; 15 miles S.E. of Geneva. 



JOISTS, or JovsTs, in Architdhirc, thofe pieces of tim- 

 ber framed into the girders and fummcrs on which the boards 

 of floors are laid. 



Joifls are from fix to eight inches fqnare, and ought fcldom 

 to lie at a greater diilance from ' each other than ten or 

 twelve inches ; nor ought they ever to bear at a greater length 

 than teti feet ; or to lie lefs into the wall than eight inches. 

 See Chimney. 



Sometimes the carpenters furr their joills, as they call it ; 

 that is, they lay two rows of joifts, one over the other. 



JOKALAY, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 

 government of Abo ; 22 miles N.W. of Abo. 



JOKES. See Jesting. 



JOKI, in Geography, a town of Japan, in the ifland of 

 Niphon ; 50 miles N. of Meaco. 



JOKIOS, a town of Sweden, in the province of Tavaft- 

 land ; 28 miles W.S.W. of Tavallhus. 



JOKKAS, a town of Sweden, in the province of Ta- 

 vaftland ; T07 miles N.E. of Tavallhus. 



JOKKATO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 

 Barra. 



JOKO, a town of Africa, in fcarta. N. lat. 14' 3 o'. 

 W. long. 8 . 



JOKOMI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon ; 

 25 miles N. of Jedo. 



JOLCOS, or, a:i Homer calls it, Ja-Jcos, in Ancient Geo- 

 graphy, a tov.'U of Theflaly, in Magnefia, at the lower extre- 

 mity of the Pelafgic gulf, feveu lladia from Demetrias and 

 the fea. It was anciently coniiderable, and had a famous 

 port. Pliny fays that Adralte at this place invented the fu- 

 neral games ; and Strabo reckons it in the number of thofe 

 towns which were deftroyed in order to people the town of 

 Demetrias. Jafon, the fon of Efon, was king of .Tolcos, and 

 from hence the Argonauts took their departure; and it is 

 faid that on their return they found the town in the poffcflion 

 of Pclias, brother of Jafon, who had him put to death. 



JOLIAN, in Geography, a town of Hindooilan, in Gu- 

 zerat ; 20 miles N. of Gogo. 



JOLIB\, denoting, in the language of the Negroes, 

 " great water," is a name which they give to the river Niger, 

 calKd by the Moors " ISiil il Abud,'' or the river of Slaves. 

 When Mr. Park, in his interelting Tour, firft difcovered this 

 river, it appeared to him as broad as the Tiiames at Weft- 

 minder, and flowing majellically, but flowly, from weft to 

 eaft, through the middle of a very exteniive town, called 

 Sego. This cnterprifing and ingenious traveller pnrfued the 

 tcu'le of the Joliba from W. long j" 30' to Silla, long. 

 1" 30', the utmoll extent of his expedition. See GuiN 

 an4 Niger. 



JOLlTIiUS., in Botany, from m, a violet, and ?,iSor, 



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ajlone, a cryptogamic plant, referred by Linnxus to the 

 genus Bvffiis, by fome others to that of Lichen. It is found 

 in the form of broad crimfon patches, when moift, fmelling 

 llrongly of violets, or rather of Orris root, clothing the 

 fnrface of Hones in clear fprings, as at Holywell in Flintlhire, 

 Tunbridge, and other places. Nothing is known concern- 

 ing the fruflilication. 



JOLLONE Key, in Geogr/tphy, a fmall ifland among 

 the Bahamas. N. lat. 26' 12'. W. long. 77- 2'. 



JOLO, or SoERE Cart.\, a town of Java, and capital 

 of the kingdom of Soefoehoenam. 



JOLUCAR, a town of Spain, in the province of Gra- 

 nada ; 7 miles N.E. of Motril. 



JOLUT, an ifland near the weft coaft of Eaft Green- 

 land. N. lat. 60° 56'. W. long. 46 ' 50'. 



JOLY, Claude, in Biography, a French writer, was 

 born at Paris in 1607. He was precentor of the cathedral 

 of Paris, and died in that city in the year 1 700. He was 

 author of a book entitled " Maxims for the Education of a 

 Prince," which was condemned by tlie judicature of Paris, 

 and was burnt by the hands of the common hangman in 

 1665. He iikewife wrote feveral other pieces, chiefly theo- 

 logical. 



JoLY, GuY', a French writer of memoirs, was counfel- 

 lor to the king, and fyndic of the renters of the hotel de 

 ville, in Paris. He was attached to the cardinal de Retz, 

 whom he followed, for a confiderable time, in all his various 

 fortunes. After the return of that minifter from Rome, 

 Joly quitted him on account of want of mutual confidence. 

 He drew up "Memoirs from 164810 1665," in two volumes 

 l2mo. which are chiefly an abridged account of what the 

 cardinal himfelf has recorded in his own memoirs : but they 

 are written in a more exaft ilyle than thofe of the cardinal, 

 and contain many additional curious fafts. Joly was en- 

 gaged to defend the rights ot the queen, and drew up 

 " Remarks on Two Treatiies written by Peter Stockmans 

 in oppofition to her Claims on Brabant and the Low Ceun- 

 tries." He was author of another work, entitled " In- 

 trigues of Peace, or Negociations at Court by the Friends 

 of M. le Prince, after his retreat in Guienne." Moreri. 



JoLY", in Geography, a port on the S. coaft of Nova 

 Scotia. 



JOMELLI, NicoLO, in Biography, one of the moft in- 

 telligent, learned, and affeAing dramatic compofers of mo- 

 dern times, was born at Avellino, a town about twenty-live 

 miles from Naples, in vi'hich city he had his inufical educa- 

 tion under Leo and Durante. The firft opera to which we 

 find his name, is " Riccimero Re de' Goti," compofed for 

 the Argentina theatre at Rome, 1740: and between that 

 period and 17J8, he compoled for that city ibnrteen operas, 

 befides others for Venice and different Italian theatres. 



From 1758 to about 1768, he refided in Germany, being 

 engaged in the fervice of the duke of Wurtemburg, at 

 Stuttgardt, or rather at Ludwigfl)urg, his new capital, 

 where .Tomelli's works were performed. Here he produced 

 a great number of operas and other compofitions, by which 

 he acquired great reputation, and totally changed the taltc 

 of vocal mufic in Germany. On his return to Italy, he 

 left all thefe produdtions behind him, upon a fuppofltion 

 that he flionld again refume his ftation at Ludwigfljurg, 

 after vifiting his native country. But as he never returned 

 tliither to claim thefe compofitions, they fell into the hands 

 of his patron, the duke of Wurtemburg, who preitrved 

 them as precious relics of this great mafler. 



Propofals were publifticd at Stuttgardt, in 1783, and in 

 Cramer's ^33. 5cr. ^UB, for September of the fame year, 



for 



