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!3 neaicft to the Alps. Aicencliiig from the plains of Sv\at- 

 zerlatid, like the fides of a Itceu roof, to the htight of from 

 two to three thoufand feet, (which elevation it preferves 

 iic.uly for the whole of its length,) it dcfcribes an undulated 

 line, here and there divtriificd by riling hills, vliich appear 

 from fioo to loco feet liigher than the reft of the ch.iin ; and 

 ■it is feen gradually to decreafe in height towards Bnrgnndy. 

 The moil elevated parts of the Jura (according to Mefiis. 

 Tralles and Pidet) are, the Dole, 50S2 feet above the level 

 of the fca ; tlie Mont Tendre, 5170 ; and the lleculet (the 

 ■fumniitof the Thoiry) 5196 feel. 



The Jura not attaining the height of the line of fiiow, 

 is every fpring deprived of its fnowy covering ; nor are gla- 

 ciers ever feen on it, and it is only in fonie deep grottos, fuch as 

 thofe behind Nyon, and between the Travcrs and Bevine val- 

 iies, that pillars and ilabs of ice are found throughout the year. 

 The pafture-meadows of the Jura are much drier tlian thofe 

 of the High Alps ; there are, however, in fome of its parts 

 (for inftar.ce in the canton of Dade) full as btautiful and fertile 

 alpine meadows as there are in the central chains : indeed 

 the fame alpine plants are found there which in thofe diltriCls 

 are feen at the elevation of as mucli as 500 feet above the 

 level of tlie fea. The brown bear Hill inhabits the weftern 

 dcfart regions of the Jura, and is remembered to iiave feveral 

 times made a defcent into the Pays de Vaux. ' 



The whole Jura confillsof compaiS lime-llone, the ftrati- 

 ficaf ion of which affet'ts various inclinations. Marie, gypfum, 

 jpetrifaClions, and iron-ores, are frequently met with almotl 

 in every part of it ; the iinell and fcarcell petrifaftions are 

 found in the department of the Jnra, near Orgelet, in a 

 mountain called Pcroufe. Along the Whole of the E. fide 

 of the Jura a tlratum of iron-iliot clay may be followed, 

 which contains the iron-ore called bean-ore, and is wrought 

 in different places. Here and there ftrata of brown-toal 

 and fources of afplialtuin are feen in the vallies of the Jura : 

 they owe tlieir origin to forefts fwallowed up by thofe terri- 

 ble earthquakes, to which the Jura has been fubject in pall 

 ages. As geologically remarkable may likewife be men- 

 tioned the numberlefs blocks of granite and gneifs, difperfed 

 all along the call fide of the Jura, in fome parts even to the 

 height of 2400 feet. For a more detailed account, fee 

 Dr. Ebel's Ban der Erde in dem Alpen gebirge, 1 805. 



.]V R.\r AM— J //ifa cadit injurauim. See As.si>i.\. 



JUR.\TI. SeejLii.\T.s. 



JURATIS, Nonpomndo in. See Nov Pomndo. 

 ; JURATORES, DisTKiNGAs. See Distkingas. 



JURATS, JuR.'VTi, magiltrates in the nature of alder- 

 men, for the government of feveral corporations. 



Thus we meet with the mayor and jurats of Maidftonc, 



Rye, Winchelfea, &c So alfo Jcrfey has a bailiff and 



twelve jurats, or fworn aflillants, to govern the idand. 



JURBERG, in Geography, a town of Samogitia ; 20 miles 

 S.S.W.of Rofienne. 



JURBO, a river of South .-America, which runs into the 

 gulf of Daricn, N. lat. 8" 15'. W. long. 76'. 44'. 



JURBY Point, a c?.pe 011 the N.W. part of the Ifle of 

 "Man, five miles W. of Ramfay. N. lat. 54^^ 23'. W. long. 

 4^28'. 



JURE, De. See De Facto and Possession. 



}viv£. Diiino. See /J;^/j/ /o //jc Crow.n and Tithes. 



JlKE, Qjio. See Quo Jure. 



IVREA, or JuiiE.v, in Geography, a ;pwn of France, 

 in the department of the Dora, late a city of Piedmont ; 

 originally a Roman colony, cftabhflied there during the lixth 

 confulihip of Marius, and the firll of Valerius Flaccus ; 

 called Eporcdia. Ii is Htuated partly on a plain, and partly 



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on the declivity of a hill ; the number of inhabitants is sbouf ■ 

 6000 ; it was the fee of a bilhop, fuffragan of the arch- 

 bilhop of Turin, and the cathedral is faid to have been an- 

 ciently a temple of Apollo. It has a callle joining to the town . 

 and two fortrefles Befides the cathedral, it has three other 

 paridi churches, and feveral religious houfes : 20 miles N. of 

 Turin. N. lat. 45 ' 24'. E. long. 7 44'. 



JUREV PovoLsKoi, a town of Rufiia, in the govern- 

 ment of Koftrom, on the Volga ; 73 miles E.S.E. of Kof- 

 trom. N. lat. 57' 10'. E. long. 43 14'. 



JUREVSKA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Olonetz ; 42 miles N.E. of Olgflioi. . 



JURGIANY, a town of Lithuania,in the palatinate of 

 Troki ; 28 miles S. of Eirza. 



JURGISTAN, a town of Perfia.in the province of Far- 

 fiilan ; 105 miles N. of Schiras. 



JURIAGUR, atown of Bengal ; 30 miles S.W. of Ro- 

 gonatpour. N. lat. 23- 45'. E. long. 86 35'. 



JURIDICI Dies. See Dies. 



JURIEU, Peteii, in Biography, a celebrated Proteftant 

 divine, was born at Mer, a fmall town four leagues from 

 Bh>i3, in the year 1637. He received part of his educa- 

 tion in Holland, but completed his ftudies in England under 

 his uncle, Peter du Moulin. He was admitted to holy or- 

 ders in the Englilh epifcopal cluirch ; but on the death of 

 his fatlicr he returned to fuccecd him at Mer, and fubmitted 

 to be re-ordained by Prelbyteis according to the Genevan 

 form. Jurieu, though he differed in many refpefts from'the 

 reformed, fct himfelf up as a rigorous defender of ortho- 

 doxy. Either his opinions, or the violence of his temper, 

 obliged him to quit the church at Mer, and another alfo at 

 Vi ry, and proved the caufe of many mortifications which 

 he met with at Sedan, to which he afterwards went^ In 

 1OS2, through the influence of his friend Eayle, he obtained 

 the profefforfliip of divinity at Rotterdam, and in conneftiorj- 

 with this he was appointed minilkr of the Walloon church 

 in the fame city. In 16S5, Jurieu publiflied " Prejugez legi- 

 times conlre le Papifme," in two volumes ; which was fol- 

 lowed, in the year 1686, by a work intitled " ')"he Acfarn- 

 plilhment of the Prophecies, or the approaching Dclivera-^'.f; . 

 of the Church:" a work in which it is proved that "Pr^ve'i'.. 

 is the kingdom of Antichrill ; that this kingdom is ..ot far 

 from its ruin, and that this ruin is very foon to begin : t'nat- 

 the prefent perfecution cannot continue moie than three- 

 years and a h.ilf.' With the expetlation which the title of. 

 this book expreffes he publifhed " Palloral Letters," to 

 prepare the mmds of the reformed in France for the great- 

 revolution. The event foon falfified his prediftiwns ; and he 

 acknowledged he had miftaken the time, but lirmly believed, 

 that God had raifed up king William to execute his great, 

 delign of humbling the perfccutor in France, ar.J of bring- 

 ing about a ipeedy deliverance of the reformed. After this- 

 he embroiled himfelf in a controverfy with his friend Bayle,. 

 wliom he ufed extremely ill, as he did many other perlons ■ 

 who were the objects of his diflike, and who objetted to tJie. 

 extravagance of his opinions. He alfo offended his bell 

 friends by the irafcibility of his temper in charging M. Sau- 

 rin and other eminent perfons with heterodoxy. He died at 

 Rotterdam in 1713. His principal works are "The Hif- 

 torv of Calvinilm and Popery ;'' " On the Unity of the 

 Church ;" " An .A bridgment of the Hillory of the CouncU 

 of Trent ;" " Hillory of the Opiiiions and Religious Cere- 

 monies of the Jews;" "Sermon?,"' &c. Life of Bayle. 

 Moreri. 



JURIEWICZE, in Geography, a town of Lithuania,, 

 in the palatinate of Minlk ; 40 miles E. of Minflc. 



JURIEWO, , 



