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of his Geography, to whicli we refer for fome fiirtlicr par- 

 ticulars relating to the projefted paflage by tiie lake of Ni- 

 caragua bstwcen the two fore-mentioned oceans.. — Alfo, a 

 to"ivn of South America, in the Audience of Quito; i ;; 

 miles N.W. of St. Joachim de Omaguas. — Alfo, a river of 

 l>r.payan, which runs into the Pacific ocean, N. lat. 332'. 



.liJAN- Batiijla, St., a town of South America, in the 

 ■ . vince of Chiquitos ; 250 miles E.S.E. or Santa Cruz 



hi Sierra la Nueva. — Alfo, an illand in the Pacific ocean, 



>overed by Quiros in 1606. S. lat. 26'. W. long. 149"^. 



!uAN i!i Bu^tiavl/ia, a town of the ifland of Cuba, on the 

 : , , coaft. N lat. 22" 2'. W. long. 77^ 57'. 



Juan Capijlrano, St., a Spanidi fettlemcnt and miffion in 

 New Albion, termed in 1776; fituated in a fmali cove on 

 the Pacific ocean. 



Juan Ji C-nii'.ua, St. See Cixaloa. 



ivA.'S dc Dies, St., a town of New Nivarrc ; 240 miles 

 W. of Cala Gi-aiKle. 



Juan Femnnd.s. See Fbrnandes. 



Juan th la Froutcra, or de la Cordiila-a, a town of Chili ; 

 120 miles N.N.E. of St. Yago. In its neighbourhood are 

 goldmines. S, lat. _:;3^ 2j'. W. long. 68 ' 55'. — Alfo, a 

 dillriil of South America, lying to the call of the Andes, 

 with a town of the fame name ; called alfo Cliacapoyas — 

 Alfo-, a town of Peru, and capital of a jurifdidion in the 

 diocefe of Truxilio. S. lat. 6' 1 2. W. long. 77^ 28'. 



Juan de Fucci, Straits of, a large bay or gulf of the North 

 Pacific ocean, on the W. coail of North America. In 1792 

 ciptain Vancouver gave it the name of the gulf of 

 Georgiifi which fee. Its entrance lies in N. lat. 48^ 2j'. 

 W. long. 122" 55'. 



Juan de Goava, St., a town of the iiland of Kifpaniola ; 

 So miles N.W. of St. Domingo. 



JuAS de N'ovj, two fmall iflands in the Indian fca. S. 

 lat. lo- 20'. E. long. 52- 45'. 



Juan de los Llanos, St., or San, a province of South 

 America, in New Granada, which forms a confiderable 

 dillricl, if it be extended as far as the Orinoco ; but as the 

 capital town is on the wellern llvirts, the extenfion given by 

 La Cruz feems very arbitrary, there being no Spanifh fet- 

 tlement in that direftion. This territory eonfills of prodi- 

 gious plains, extending for 2 or 300 leagues. The town 

 was founded in 1555, and was formerly celebrated for gold 

 mines, which have now declined ; and the inhr.bitants fcarccly 

 exceed 50 ; 50 miles E.S.E. of Santa Fe de Bogota. N. 

 lat. 3-. W. long. 73' 26'. 



Juan del Oro, St., or Carav.iya, a town of Peru, and ca- 

 pital of a jurifdiftion, in the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres, 

 and diocefe of Cufco ; 150 miles S.E. of Cufco. N. lat. 

 14' 40.' AV. Ions;. 69' 36'. 



Juan de Pajh, St. See Pa.sto. 



JuaN de Porto R'lco, St., a town and capital of the ifland 

 of Porto Rico, fituated on a peninfula in the N. coall of 

 the illand, having a good harbour, defended by a citadel and 

 tallle ; populous and well built, the fee of a bifliop and 

 xefidence of the governor. The town was founded in the 

 year 1514 ; but in 1594, when it was in a flourifhing flate, 

 I't was attacked by fir Francis Drake, who deftroyed all 

 the fliips in the harbour, but could proceed no farther. 

 In 1597 it was taken and plundered by the earl of Cum. 

 bfrland. N. lat. iS' 30'. W. long. 66 20'. 



Juan del Rey, St., a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Guaxaca ; 25 miles N. of Guaxaca. 



Juan Rio, a town of the ifland of Cuba ; 26 miles E.S.E. 

 of Spiritu Santo. 



Juan d'Ulua, St., a fmall ifland in the gulf of Mexico, 

 >-C2r the coaft of Tlafcala, at the mouth of the river Vera 



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Cruz. On this little ifland is a fortrcfs to defend the cn- 

 tr.mcc into the harbour of Vera Cruz. 



IVANGOROD, a town of Rulfia, in the government. 

 of Petcrfburg, on the Pliufa, near the Baltic, oppofite 

 Narva, built by Ivan Bafilowitz ; furrounded by a treble 

 wall, and defended by a number of fmall towers- '52 miles 

 S.W. of Peterfljurg. N lat. 59; 16'. E. long. 2S ' 14'. 



IVANITS, a town of Croatia, on the river Lorsia ; 42 

 miles N.E. of Carliladt. N. lat. 46 '. E. Ions. 16 ix' 



JUANNA. See Hinzuan. 



IVAPECANGA, in Boiim; a hame given by foni- 

 authors to the climbing plant, of' which the farfaparilia, nfed' 

 in medicine, is the root. 



JUAR, in Geography, a- town of Hindooftan, in the 

 fubah of Delhi ; ) 7 miles S. of Sccundara. 



JUBA I., in Biography, king of Numidia, the fon of 

 Hiempfal, a defcendant of Mairir.ifFa, favoured the can'ie 

 of Pompey againft Juhus Csfar. He defeated Curio, one of 

 Caiar's lieutenants, in Africa, whoperiiTied in the action ; 

 and after the battle of Pliarfalia he united his forces to 

 thofe of Scipio. They were joined by Cato, who rc- 

 prefled the pride of Juba, by preventing him taking place 

 above Scipio. He was conquered in a battle at ThapfuF, 

 and was totally abandoned by his fubjects. Seeing that all 

 was loft, he killed himfelf, as did Petreius, who had fnared 

 his good fortune and his adverfity. His kingdom became 

 a Roman province, of which Salhift was the firll governor. 



Juba II. king of Mauritania, fon of the preceding, 

 being very young at the time of his father's death, was led 

 as a captive in Ca;far's triumph. The conqueror requited 

 him for this aft of humiliation by affording him the advan- 

 tages of an excellent education, in confequence of which he 

 became one of the moft learned men of his time, and attained 

 a conipicuous place as an author, by which he attained to 

 more glory than he could have derived from the inherit, 

 ance of a kingdom. He gained the hearts of the Ro- 

 mans by the co'jrtcoufnefs of his manners, and Augullus 

 rewarded his fidelity by giving him in marriage Cleopatra, 

 the daughter of Antony, by conferring upon him the title of 

 king, and making him mailer of all the territories which 

 his father once poffefled. Juba governed his dominions 

 with a fpirit of juftice and lenity v.hich gained him the 

 elleem of his fubjects. He diflingui.licd himfelf as a writer 

 by various learned works, which related to the hiftory and 

 antiquities of the Arabians, Affyrians, and Romans. He 

 wrote alfo the hillory of theatres, of painting and painters, 

 of the nature and properties of different animals, and a par- 

 ticuhu- treatife on the virtues of the herb Euphorbia. He 

 died about the year 24 of the Chrillian era, leaving a fon, 

 Ptolemy, afterwards put to death by Caligula. Juba i^ 

 quoted with great applaufe by Pliny, Str.ibo, Plutarch, 

 Tacitus, and lome other authors. His popularitv, as a fo- 

 vereign, was fo great, that the Mauritanians rewarded his 

 benevolence by making him one of th.cir gods. The Athe- 

 nians railed him a llatue, and the TEthiopiaiis did him homage 

 as a deity. Univer. Hill. Suet. 



Juba, in Geography, a town of Syria, on the right 

 banks of the Euphrates, on a narrow flip of land, formed by 

 the \vinding of the river ; 90 miles W.N.W, of Bagdad. 

 N. lat. 5:; • 42'. E. long. 41* 58'. ° 



JUBAL, an ifliind in the Red fca, N. lat. 27-30'. E. 

 lo'ig- 33' 4°'- 



JUBBIL, a town of the Arabian Irak, on the Tisri.^; 

 50 miles S.E. of Al Modain. 



JUBBRA, a town of Bengal ; 45 miles W.N.W. of 

 Ramgur. N. lat 23 jS'. E long. 84'-' 58'. 



JUCE, t\\Q Aido, RoodFoft, m ^d\\ir\ over the. choir 

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