FOR 
A mile thence, : He mouth of the Lechy, i is Inverlochy 
cattle, at the foot of Benevith, a aie! "45370 feet above 
the level of the fea, A poft-o was eftablifhed at 
hres in 17643 130 miles N “of Edinburgh. N. | 
48' 6. Ct; 
ae Cau ye 
n-Henry, a fort of Am 
vania, - - jae of the Blue Mountains 3 20 mi 
.of Read 
ce Soe. loud ; bie i es the eau = of a bar, 
in Mufe. See Acc 
rica, in Pennfyl- 
iles 
N.W 
Ty, an : 
OnE TE, in the Tialian Mufi fics ate fame with 
for 
FORTAVENTURA, or FuERTE-vENTURA, in Geo 
graphys one of the Canary iflands, about 50 miles oe and 
rom 8 to 24 broad. The foil is in general fertile in cern, 
roots, and fruits, and beautifully diverfified with hills and 
vallies, well weed and fupplied with a es of cee 
This ifland produc ae fides the other — mmon 
the Canaries, sie of dates, ma a elie. with 
archil for dyeing, and a {pecies ‘of fig-tree, that yields a 
medicinal balm, as white as milk, but of virtues unknown 
in Europe. In Ge et a great quantity of goat-milk 
cheefe is made; the ifland breeding annua y more than 
50,000 kids, each of which weighs between 40 a 
. The ne is fat, better coloured, od {weeter than 
wn 
ce) 
tremity ; 0 oaft there are alfo a fea-ports 
called Lan nel Tarieie, and Pozzo Negro there are 
feveral villages. The number of caiepieaaes is about 
10,000. The climate of this ifland and Lancerotta is ex- 
ceedingly falubrious. N. lat. 
ORTE, Jtal. loud, in sa a 
the feveral inftrumental parts of a mufical compotion foe 
raga the tones of a paflage ; ; to fing loud, put out the 
oduce or draw a great degree of foun m an in- 
It is likewife ufed to annul the effeet of a pre- 
a plano. 
FORTE- PIANO, an Italian compound fubftantive, of 
the fame import, in mulic, as chiaro-fc 
imitative 
We not ae {peak wis different degrees o 
animated and impaffioned, but when 
of force, wl 
calm and tranquil. 
whifper ; 
is what the Italians in pena ean by forte-piano. 
two nn tranfpofed, imply the keyed inftrument, quick, 
from its power over loud and foft, at the pleafure of the 
performer, is called a Ptano-forte, which fee, and Harp- 
SICHORD 
FORTESCUE, Sir Joun, in Biography, an Englith 
judge, third fon of fir Henry Fortefcue, lord-chief-juitice 
of Ireland, was born in the parifh of Wear Gifford im 
_ from whence he removed to Lincolu’ $ ate cad 
made ferjeant at law in 1430, he having already dif- 
tnguifhed mpiaees as a found mihi and an excellent lec- 
on the as elevated to the chief 
c] 
he faithfully adhered. "When the fuccefs of Edw 
obliged Henry to take retuge in Scotland, Fortefeue a 
tended him, and it was at this period he 
lor of England. For his general attachment to i inte- 
refts of his mafter, he was in a attainted.of high trea. 
FOR 
ve on oie — appointed chief juttice 
never acknow. ledge ed chancellor by Edwa 
ee, nor did he ever exercife the office in En 
e bea mipanied queen oe prince Edward, and - 
the adherents of the houfe of Lancafter, in their 
n his ftead. 
country. Thi was - publied till the reign of | 
ae ry VIII. face ohh t has gone through many’ 
impreffions ; the beft elena is = fd to be that of 1775, with - 
notes by Mr. Gregor. hen affairs of the houfe of 
pane feemed to take es he, in company with the 
que prince, came to England, and was taken prifoner: 
i see the battle of Tewkefbury im 14.71; which annihilated 
ao He of the houfe of Lancafter. 
ned him, but i 
of a paper he had formerly co 
rated and circulated an the right and title of the houle 
of York fter this he lived in retirement, and in his pri- 
ut he was a. in the parifh church 
n in haba which place he pof- 
ork « De La adibue le egum Angliz,” 
is written in ie in le form of adialogue, and is a valu ~~ 
record of the grounds and principles of the laws of Englan d 
as they were underftood at that time, and of various cir- 
cumftances relative to the mode of education'in the inns of 
court. » however, rathera panegyric of the common 
law than a fair comparifon of it with the civil or other fo-' 
reign fyftems. His otker work, “ On the Difference be- 
tween an abfolute an limited Monarchy,” firft publifhed 
y lord Fortefeue 
‘aglith 0 ther piece concerning the 
cleans of England, with the addition of fome obferva- 
tions meant for the. fervice of king Edward. Biog. 
ne 
Fortescue Bay, in Geography, a bay of South Ame- 
rica, in ae {traits of Magellan. 5, lat. 53° 39’. W. long. 
7 
*FORTES SSA, an ifland in the gulf of Venice. N. lat. 
44° 4o!. E. long. 14° 48! 
FORTH, one of the mott rar ag ed rivers in Scot. 
land, rifes out of two lakes at the foot of a mounta 
called Ben Lomond, inthe fhire of Diubaton: and run. 
ning nearly from weft » the whole breadth of this 
art of the ifland, almoft divides it inte ge tales The 
i Hes of ninety 
miles ; but fo finuous is the courfe,! it edehee its va- 
rious windings, the diftance cannot be lefs thantwo hundre 
and fifty. This chara¢teriftic the river affumes when only 
an inconfiderable mill, SS 7 Aisle ee the mountains, 
iles weftward ef that town. Ofi its fin 
cine idea may be formed, when it is known th ance 
from Stirling to Alloa by land is only fix miles; but by 
water twenty-four. It here feems as if unwilling to leave the 
country, prolouging its tad by lengthening its courfe ; pe 
pin 
