FOR 
_ Ison is hammered and forged two ways; either b: 
ja - the a in which there are ufually feve: 
fons employed, one of them turning the iron, and fee 
ing likewile, and ithe r = hammeri 
the 
€ 
and works feveral huge hammers, beyond the force‘of ma 
—_ the ftrokes whereof the workmen prefent large ep 
or pieces of iron, which are fattained, at-one end, b 
ak and, at the other, by iron chains fattened to the 
cieling of the forge. 
This laft way of forging i is only ufed in the largeft works, 
as anchors for fhips, &c. which ufually weigh feveral thou- 
fand pounds. For ‘the lighter works, a fingle man {ufficts 
to hold, heat, and turn, with one hand, while he ftrikes 
with the other. ork i 
figned requires its proper hea 
not feel the weight of the hammer, as the {miths call it, i. e. 
it will not ftretch or give way ; and if it be too hot, it will 
red-fear, z.e. it will break or crackle under the hammer. 
The feveral = the {miths give to their trong, are, 1. A 
blood-red heat. 2. A sie ane heat. 3. A fparkling 
or welding heat. See — GE. 
Foreine Over, i anguage, denotes the art of 
forcing a fhip ey over a 'fhoal, by the effort of a great | 
quantity o 
FORHAD, in ee a town of Perfia, in Cho- 
rafan ; 40 miles E.S.E. of Niefabour. 
pet ie Bapan, in the ifland of Niphon; 10 
miles E. of cs 
FORIANI, a coe of the department of Golo, in the 
ifland of Corfica ; four miles S. of Battia. 
FORK-Taix, among the Fifbermen of England, a name 
given to the falmon, while: in the fourth — s growth, 
and a hy come to what they call a falmo 
p Head, in Geography, : ne on ‘the i coaft of 
pa ind of Cape Breton. N. lat. 45° 42. W. long 
ane p Deer river, a river of America, which runs 
into the Mifiippi. . lat. 35° 22’. W. long. go° It 
is about ” yards s wide, 7 miles from its mouth. 
p Beard, great, in Ichthyology, a name given on 
the coait of Cornwall to the Heauius phycis of Linnzus. 
Forxep Heads, among Hunters, thofe horns of deer 
which ee two eae on the top, or which have their 
croches doubled. 
FO 
REKEN, in pg aeeel a town of Pruffia, in the © 
“province of Samland; 4 miles N.E. of Fifchaufen. 
FORKS, a towntht of America, in Northampton 
county, ie having 884 inhabitants. 
aeons tal.in Mufic, the air of a dance of the 
very common at Venice, efpecially among the 
Its ans is 9 played with ae and the 
called Forlana from ing invent- 
ed and common in . Friuli, where the phabieae are pape 
Lf orlani. 
FORLAZZO, in lc ea a town hd aie in 
the province of Bari; S.E. of Ter 
FOR E AND, a term 
os 
t t 
ve fucceffor clean it for- a ee income. Th is 
u in di ands 
granted, as in other cafes, by leafe, but they aill ean ae 
name. 
an of Ra- 
ment of the Amona, the fee of a bifhop, fuffraga 
It 
venna; containing ten churches and many eoavene: 
per- fe 
mering, u 
of a wate r-mill, which rae i 
bu 
_ Few tto 
euticed: in fuch “-hair-breadth efcapes in the deadly breach’? 
that o be. 
FORLI, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the depave 
on 
T290. 
to be thls to fnbnit to the pop he 
rounded with ftrong walls and fia towers ; : Ge ditches 
are large, and eer with low works; 33 miles S.E. of 
Ravenna. N. lat. 13’. E. long. 12° 3’. 
FORLIMPOFOLI, a town of Italy, in the depart» 
ment of the Amona; cape | called « Forum Populi,” 
and one of the « ‘ fora”? the Via Emilia, where the 
Roman magiftrates kept t thei courts. In the 
was ruined by th 
S 
the year 1370 he re it to be fown vith falt 
arrow to pafs over its ruins; the pope alfo transferred 
= aaa fee to Bertinero, about 14 mile diftant from 
twenty years after this defolation Ordelofh, 
P rince of For re- -eftablithed the town and fortified it wen 
a good citade ut being afterwards fubjected to the 
dominion of the popes, it funk into a ftate of irrecoverable 
defolation. 
ar Hore, a defignation applied, in the Jfii- 
ever, gener 
efs than crcumltance ould warrant us to 
infta h ined in which they ae fe lane but 
little lofs, and an examination of the feveral details of 
gira after a breach has been ftormed, a wall f{caled, or 
a defperate attack made on —. Se will be 
found to throw the fevereft part of the carnage upon thofe 
troops which follow jameditly after tie forlorn-hope. 
ntrary te reafon, but ex. 
s appear curious, and c 
amination of the events ordinarily eds on fuch arduous 
duties es ae the problem. advancing towards a 
breach, tis ufual 6 keep up a heavy fire, efpecially 
7 to s whic 
the detachment is ; whereby there nfually ap- 
pears but little oppofition in that direction; the forlorn. 
hope thus advance with at leaft as much fafety as their im- 
mediate fupporters, and when they are on the creft of the 
breach often prefent an equal front with the defenders, 
But as 
fire the garrifon may be able t 
that quarter; for which purpofe every exer con though tem- 
porary ouly, is ever made. Hence every gun that can 
brought to bear, even though openly ex pofed to the fire of 
the befiegers’ batteries, or even their haa will 
open upon oe foot of the breach, which | is ever the {cite of 
dreadful hav 
rming-parties are exempt from qolameses it is, 
the crown of military glory is ound 3 confe~ 
acedy, the es is feldom taken in the ordinary 
routine of duty, but is completed by the affociation of 
men who.aim at clibelyaa an a “confequently. at promotion ; 
and 
