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where he became a member of tlie College of Pliyficians, 

 and wa? io f^rcat reputation for learning and abilities. He 

 gave an inllance of his frood fcnf; in detecting the impofture 

 .of one Ann Gnnter, \vl>.o ivas affeded with llrange and lin- 

 gular fymptoms, which were imputed to witchcraft. Dr. 

 Jorden removed, after foir.c time, from London to Bath, 

 where he fpcnt all the latter part of his life, univerfally 

 refpeited as well in his private clnraiTter as in his medical 

 capacity. The (liidious and fedentary life which he led, 

 aggravating the diford-rs to which he wa.- con'.Utiitionally 

 fubjeft, the gout and Hone, he di?d in his fixty-third year, 

 .on Janiiarv 7tli, 1632. He was author of two publications.: 

 *' A brief Difcourfe of a Difeafe called the Suffocation of 

 the Mother, 5cc." Lond. 1605 ; and 2. " A Difcourfe of 

 Natural Baths and Mineral Waters;" Lond. i6ji, 4to. 

 Tiiis foon went through a fecond edition, and v/as afterwards 

 reprinted in 16S9. in 8v3 , by Dr. Guidott, and a^^ain in 

 1673. It is a work of confiderable learning and ingenuity, 

 written in a clear ftyle and judicious method. Aikin's 

 Biog. Mem. of Med. 



j'ORE, in Gecgraphy, the higheft mountain in the Che- 

 rokee country, through which the Teqeflec river forces its 

 waters. , 



JORGA, a town of Afiatic Georgia, in the province of 

 Kaket ; 85 miles S.E.of Tefii,:. 



JORGE Greuo, a fmall inland near the coail of Brafil. 



Jorge, St., a town of Brafil, in the government of St. 

 Salvador, aud chief place of the capitaincy of lUicos, fituatcd 

 pn land projecting into the Atlantic. S. lat. 14 45'. W. 

 long 22 40'. — Alfo, a to An of New Mexico, on the Bravo; 

 20 miles E. of Sumas. 



Jorge (/c" Olanchi, Si., a town of Mexico, in the province 

 of Honduras; 100 miles E. of Valladolid. N. lat. 14' 

 35. W. long. 86 36'. 



JORGEN, a unv.\ of Norway, in the diocefe of Ber- 

 gen ; j3 miles S \V. of Ron.fdal. 



.ToiiGEy, Si., a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 14 

 miles S S.E. of Gratz. — Alfo, a town of Aullria ; 12 miles 



S.E. of Ips .Alfu, a tov.-n of the duchy of Bremen; 8 



miles N.N E. of Bremen. 



JORGEN.-\W, a town of Pruffia, in the circle of Na- 

 tangen ; 22 miles S.S.E. of Konigiberg. 



JORGENBURG, a to«a) of Auilna ; 14 miles S.S.W. 

 of Stevr. 



JORGENTAL, a town nf PruOia, in the psovince of 

 Oborknd ; 6 miVs S.W. of Leibltadt. 



JORGENTHAL, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Leitnieritz ; G miles N.E. of Kimnitz. 



JORJAN, or CoRC.VN-, a town of Perlia, and capital of 

 a dillrift, to which it gives name, in the weftern part of 

 Chorafan, bordering on the Cafpian fea, fituated on the 

 Abifcoun. It was anciently the capital of Hyrcania, and 

 named Syringes; joo miles N. of Ifpahan. N. lat. 36' 

 54'. E. long 54 54'. 



JORKO >V, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Saatz ; 

 J3 miles N. of Saatz. N lat. 50° 28 . E. long. 13 26. 



JOROPOUR, a to\vn of Bengal ; 38 miles N.N.E. of 

 Ca'cutta. 



JORQUERA, a town of Spain, i.i New Caftile, on 

 th^' Xncar ; 38 miles S.S E. of Alar^on. 



JORR.ACH, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hedf- 

 jas ; iSS miles S.S.E. of Mecca. 



JORSA, one of the fmaller weftern iilands of Scotland, 

 between Scai-ba and Kerrcra. 



JOR TIN, JoHV, in Biography, born in London in 1698, 

 was fon of Rcnatus Jortin, a native of Bretagne, in France, 

 who came over <is arefugee on the repeal of the edit'l of Nanus, 



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and who was appointed one of the gentlemen of the privy- 

 chamber to king William III. in 1691. He was afterwards 

 fecretar)' to admiral Riiflel, earl of Orford, and fir Cloudef- 

 ley Shovel, and periihed with the latter when his (hip Uruek 

 on the rocks of Sciily. This was in Otlober 1707, when 

 his fon John, only nine years of age, was fent to the Charter- 

 houfe as a day-fcholar, where he laid the foundation of a:i 

 exaA .and elegant clalTical talle. In 1 71 5 he was admitted 

 penli.iner of .lefus college, Cambridge, and fo diftinguiflied 

 liinifelf by his talents and application, that, v.-hile he was 

 nnd^.^-graduate, h.i was engaged, by the recommendation of 

 Dr. Tiiirlby, to tranflate fonie of Eiiftathius's notes on 

 Homer for Mr. Pope. He performed the work to the 

 fatisfadlion of tlie poet, who, however, did nut think it worth 

 while to make any perlonal enquiry after a young (ludent 

 at college. •' I was," fays Mr. Jortin, " in fome hopes, 

 in tliofe days (for 1 was young), that Mr. Pope would make 

 enquiry about his coadjutor, an j take fome civil notice of 

 him. But he did not, and I had no notion of obtruding 

 myfelf upon him — I ucver faw his face." Mr. Jortin was 

 admitted to the degree of bachelor of arts in January 

 171S-19, and v.-as eleded fellow of Jefus college in Odober, 

 1 72 1, and in the following year he took his degree 0I' 

 M. A. In this latter year he was appointed one of the 

 moderators at the difputations, and appeared likewife as a 

 writer, by the publication of his " Liifus Poetici," a collec- 

 tion of Latin poems, which have been ranked among tlie 

 moil elegant and truly claflical compofi.ions of the kind 

 produced by a modern fcholar. They have been frequently 

 reprinted, and retain their original reputation. He was 

 admitted to prlell's orders in 1724, and in 1727 was pre- 

 fented by his college to the vicarage of Swavefey, near Cam- 

 bridge. In 1730-1, he religned his vicarage, and fettled in 

 London, where he fervcd a chapel belonging !o St. Giles in 

 the Fields, in New-ilrect, Bloomlbury, about fixteen year-. 

 His firil publication, after his arrival in the metropolis, con- 

 fided of four fermoiis on the trurh of Chrillianity, which 

 have fince been incorporated in fome of his fubfequent pub- 

 lications. In the years 1731 and 1732, Mr. Jortin, in con- 

 junaion with bifhop Penric, Dr. Taylor, Mr. Upton, Dr. 

 Thirlbv, and others, publilhed, in a feries of twenty-four 

 fix-penny numbers, " Mifeellancous Obfervatiors upon 

 Authors, ancient and modern," which were highly ap- 

 plauded by the learned of his own country, and which were 

 tranllated into the Latin language at Amllcrdam.' He next 

 puhlifhed " Remarks on Speiifer's Poems," to which were 

 fiibjoined " Remarks on Milton ;" he publilhed likewife " Re- 

 marks on Seneca." In 1747 he was appointed by his frieixl 

 Dr. Pearfe, then redor of St. Martin in theFields, to be after- 

 noon preaclter at a chapel in Oxendoii-llreet. In 1749, Mr. 

 Jortin, at the recommendation of archbifhop Hernng and 

 birtiop Sherlock, was appointed preacher of Boyle's lec- 

 ture. The fubrtance of the difcourfes which he delivered 

 on this occalion, was afterwards inferted in his " Remarks, 

 upon Ecclefiaftical Hillory." Of this work, the liril vo. 

 lume was pi.blilhed in 17 Jl, and the fecond and third in the 

 years 1752 and 1754, the other volumes were given to the 

 world after tl'.e author's death. In i 751, he had been pre- 

 feuted by nrehhilhop Herring with the redory of St. Dun- 

 llan in the Eall ; and in the year 1755 he was prefcntcd by 

 the fame prelate with a Lambeth degree of D. D. The 

 principal work of Dr. Jortin was his " Life of Erafmus," 

 of which the firll part was publilhed in 1758, in one volume 

 4to ; the fecond volume, printed in 1760, confilied only of 

 obfcrvations on the writings of Erafmus. The ground- 

 work of this piece of biographv, is one drawn up by the 

 celebrated Le Ckrc, and publilhed iu hi» «' Bibliothequc 

 3 C 2 Choific." 



