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^liilJIc Ages," in quarto. This work, wliicli was puWirtied (led, lead, eiitlcry, and broad cloth, biiinf; almoft the only 



at Jena in 171: 

 eluded with a 



divided into two parts, and the whole con- 

 lifeful index of all the countries, towns 



imports. riic tnide of this ifland is coiifulerahle in ivory 

 and tin. The exportation of tin is annually cllimated at 500 



villages, forefts, rivers, and mountains known in the middle tons. N. lat. 8'. E. long 98 20' 



ages. His other principal worksare, "Vita D. Mart. Lutheri >"• •"• 



ct ffCceiTuni Evangelicre Reformationis," &c. ; "Vitajohi 



Ludolphi, accedunt Epill, aliquot clariiF. virorum, nee non 



Specimen Lingua: HottentotticE ;'' " Principles of the 



Ecclefiaftical Hiftory of the Old and NcwTeftament :" and 



" Lines primx Eruditionis univerfx HiftorixPhilofophicsc," 



Gen. Bio^r 



JUNKOWADA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the 

 kingdom of Yani ; 12 miles W. of Pifania. 



The Birmans, wiihing to obtain the entire dominion of 

 the wcllern coad, as far as the territories of the Maiay 

 prince of Qneedah, made an attempt, in ijSj, to get pof- 

 fefiioii of this ifland. By fo doing, they would iiave bceii 

 able to monopolize the commerce of the pcninfula, and pre- 

 vent the Siainefc from communication v;ith India by 

 any other channel except the gulf of Siam. Bcfidcs, thf 

 ifland was dcllrable on account of its mild climate and lux- 

 uriant foil. Having fitted out a powerful armament of i i 



■. JUNKSEILON, or Junk Ceyi.ox, an ifland in the fliips and 8000 men, they attacked the fort, which is fituatcd 

 Eaft Indian fea, on the E. fide of the bay of Bengal, be- on the E. fide of the ifland, and fiicceeded, notwithllanding 

 longing to Siam, and governed by a viceroy from that court, a fpirited refiftance on the part of the Siamefe governor. 



It derives its name, accorduig to captain For: 



from a who afterwards withdrew from thu fort into the inter 



iption of " Oojong Sylan,'' fignifying, in the Malay lan- 

 guage, point or promontory of Sylan, the S. point pro- 

 jedling a little way into the fea. It ftretches nearly N. and 

 S. about JO or 60 miles long, and is about 1 j miles broad ; 

 its centre is fituated in 8 N. l.U. feparated from the conti- 



the ifland. The triumph of the Birmans was of fliort du- 

 ration : the Siamefe governor rallied iiis forcer, and drovi- 

 the Birmans to their Ihipping with great lofs. Appreheriii\e 

 of greater difaiters they returned to Mcrgui, whence the 

 fleet failed for Rangoon, and the troops marclied to Martabai). 

 nent of Malacca by an iilhmus of fand, about a mile long In the year 1786, the Birmans renewed their attack, and 

 and half a mile broad ; which iilhmus is covered only at blocked up the harbour of Junkleylon ; but in the event 

 high water, and flints up in the N. part an excellent harbour, they were completely routed by a powerful army of th- 

 called " Popra," with good anchorage round it, generally king of Siam. Symes's Embafly' to Ava, vol. i. Sec 

 on a muddy bottom. The hills of this ifland are of mode- SlAlit. 



rate height ; and in;":ead of rivers, it has creeks, running JUNO, in the .ff^aMfn il^'/io/ojj^', a goddcfs; the daughter 

 into the fea, through flat marflies of mangrove trees from of Saturn and Rhea, the filter and wife of Jupiter : (lie is 

 pleafant brooks in the interior parts. The veflels ufcd by otherwife called Lucina. According to Hofiod, file wa^ 

 the inhabitants conlift of a few prows, about the fizc of the mother of Hebe, Venus, Lucina, and Vulcan. 

 Indiamen's long boats, and fniall canoes, in which they fail Juno, as well as Jupiter, had a great variety of charaiTtcr? 

 up the creeks to the cultivated plains in the middle of the among the ancients, but the favourite one of them all, ainoii;.;; 

 ifland, abounding with rice fields. Befides Popra, there is tie Romans, was that of the Juno Matrona, drefled like th:- 

 another capacious harbour on the S. W. part of the ifland. Roman matrons in a long robe which covered her from head 

 The place where fliips generally anchor is in a good road, to foot. The figures of the Roman emprefles were oftc;'i 

 ■well fheltered behind a fmall ifland, joined at low water to formed under this character of Juno. Such is the ilatue of 



the main land. In this ifland are 17 towns or villages, 

 and the number of inhabitants is eftimated at about 12,000. 

 They have many elephants procured from Mergui, but no 



Sabina, at the Villa Mattel in Rome. This Juno was called 

 indifferently, Juno Matrona and Juno Romana. The Juno 

 Regina, and Juiio Moneta, are always rcprefented on the 



horfes ; they have bullocks and buffaloes for labour, ; wild ancient gems and medals, in a very fine and 



hogs and deer ; a few tame goats ; no flieep ; domeftic dogs 

 and cats. They have fome of the common poultry. Thee 



refs, with the inftrumcnts of coinage, and under the latter 

 appellation flie had a temple at Rome. We may obferve, 



mate IS agreeable, without extreme heat ; the rain comes on that Virgil, jEn. i. v. 17. and jEn. ii. v. 614, ipeaks of 



gently in July, and continues, but not without frequent inter- Juuo, not according to tlie appearance flie ufed to make 



mifliins, till November, when fine weather fucceed3,v,-ith very among the Romans, but according to the reprefentations 



cool N.E. winds at night, favourable to the cultivation of ve- of her in other countries. In one place, where he defcribes 



getables. The opium, formerly fold on this ifland in great her arms and military chariot, he fpeaks of the Carthaginian 



abundance, was brought in Englifli fliips from Bengal, and Juno ; and in the other he has given her an angry and war- 



purchafed by thofe who ufed Malay and Buggefs prows : like figure, wliich belongs to the Juno Argiva, or fome par- 



they fold it by retail to the natives for tin, and exchanged it ticular Juno of tlie Greeks. Howevt-r, the Juno Sofpita, 



with the Bengal veflels for opium, wliich they carried chiefly among the Romans, appears on feveral medals in a warcha- 



to Celebes and other Malay iflands. The mixed cargo riot, and with a fpear in her hand. She was called Sofpita, 



of the Malays was generally a chequered cloth, called Bug- becaufe flie watched over the falubrity of the air, the intem- 



gefs cambays, made on the ifland of Celebes, painted peraturc of which is the caufe of difeafes. Under this name 



cloths and painted handkerchiefs of Java, generally made flie lutd three temples, one at Lanuvium, and two at Rome : 



from Hindoollan long cloth, Java gongs, brafs pots, and and Cicero informs us, that the conluls, before they entered 



other utenfils of brafs made in that ifland ; China and Java upon their ofiice, were obliged to oiler a facrifice to her. 



tobacco; various porcelain; blue and white unbleached Another name of Juno was the " Queen," or " Regina," 



cloth called " kangan," and white and blue called " com- under which appellation llie had a itatue at V'eii, that was 



pow," brought from China by the junks that refort to tranfportcd to the Aventine mount, under the dictatorfliip 



Siam, Macaffar, Sooloo, Batavia, and other places. But of Camillus, where it was confccrated by tlie ladies of the 



the courfe of trade is much altered of late : opium being city. This ilatue was held in fucli reverence, that none but 



forbidden to the natives, the iinportatioii of it is prohibited, her pried could touch it. There was alfo a mild Juno, as 



and a heavy duty is laid on the exportation of tin by orders well as a mild Jupiter, among the Romans : under which cha- 



from Siam ; fo that the trade has much declined. Hindoo, rader, her face appeared more gentle and good-humoured 



ilan piece goodsj and fome European articles, fuch as iron, than ufuul : but the luoll obvious and ftriking charafter of 



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