FOS 
“Yn Gallia oe ; ay to be Borgo Lavizaro, in 
the duchy of M ty Regio, a town of Italy, in 
F ae Licinile Ly Piewe # lncine. atown sie ‘Tialy, 
n Galli ia 'T ranfpadana, in mae canton of the il. 
Limi icoruin te de dima, a town of Spain, in che me 
‘of the Callaici Baca, ed on. the Tia a—— 
Forli, a town in the S.E. part. of Gallia anes 
aforum, at o pe ee the territory of the Cal- 
laici, towards the cenfines of Lufitania, S.E. of Aq 
>» Forcalquier, a town of Gallia Nar- 
bonnenfis, N.E. of Catuiaca. ovum, Forneve, a town 
‘of ae Cifpadana, age the fouth, near the Tarus. 
— atown of Italy, nium, N.E. ne- 
enue and ata fm Its ruins appear 
near Paduli. “Alfos a a town = mek in the country of the 
F orum n Desi. — Papi 
m Livii. —Alfo; a town of Italy, in Lucania, S.E. 
Seeuhanorains a town of Gallia Celtica; now 
Feuris on Forez—— empronii, F i ating: (which, ae 
a town of Italy, in Ombria, upon t etaurus, 
Urbinum Metuarenfe.—— Stati a, Villa de: Fo, 2 a au 
of Italy, in Liguria Tiberii, Keyferjtulh, ‘Germ. de 
noting the throne of Cz wh Oo De Celtica, be- 
longing to the Helvetians, fituate he ee ne, not - 
from the ‘ftontier of the Rhetii and Vindelici ——Truen- 
tinorum, atown of Gallia Cifalpina, in Emilia. “Bis, 
a town of Gallia Cifalpina, in the country of the Tau- 
rini. oeonit, le Ganet, a town. of Gallia sleet ia 
z mile of Forum Julii hen the fenate of . 
was delivered from the horror of profcriptions, it eau G : 
be ereéted in this place a temple Clemency, in which 
they fet oa - flatue of this virtue, together with that of 
Ceefar, t m. fhe prefen ted her hand. ‘uleani, Sol- 
fatara, a place of italy, in ae near Puzzuoli. 
‘Pliny calls it the the Campi Phlegre 
Bae ARD, a a word of command, led i in our nected 
contr a- 
t the 
eads of EvoiuTIon at ae Cee ne rmer pee the 
wheeling ‘body to be thrown in advanc of its — oe 
tion ; the latter a it ia the ine it had o pied. 
Fhe many m on. wheelin Baad 
ave ‘occafioned aa oe . ‘be lefs ufed than formerly ; 5 
wheeling Ligabue being found. to anfwer far better in all 
cafes where there-may be fufficient ee towards the rear to 
admit of the aa ieien pine » &c. being. thrown 
ba ck. No la arger ody pee a ‘grand ve dae which we 
fuppofe to contain nearly 200 men, ought ever to ~~ 1 
forward 3. nor more than a fingle company, rat ted at 100 
men, to ‘whee 1 backward. 
FORZA pez reves in Geography a ales of Sicily, in 
the vii of Demora; 20 miles S: of M 
A, St. Leon ave. a town of- aaplet,i in “ Abruzzo 
Citra: GH ES f Valva 
FOS 
pi Novo, a town of Etruria, and agiw: of a mare 
rid to which it giv es name; 4m of. 
AGNO, a town 0 of Italy, ‘in phe county of ‘Bor- 
mio pe IGN. N.W. of Bor 
- Bic Sane ‘Micu4z ae in " Biography, anoble Ve- 
» born in 1728, was Garoee ‘by his government to to 
: tintin the hiftor y of Venice by His part of the 
ork forms the ak rlume "of the « Colleétion . Hitto- 
réans of Venice.” It is and e year 
3718. He died in 1692 “ein likewife behind: him, ee 
: es ne main i 
FOS 
baa api ave printed among thofe of tne Academy of 
Incog1 
OSENO, in ills hy, a {mall ape inthe North fea, 
near the coait. of Nor N. lat Sl 
oe a town oe inet, 20 fet 8.S.E. A Mah- 
mudpou 
. FO- SHAN, or Fo.cuan, a village of = fo called 
becaufe it is not inclofed by walls, and hs a particular’ 
ited although it carries on a grea ry and contains 
ve houfes and inhabitants than even Canton itfelf. This 
aed whichis diftant four leagues from Canton, is reckoned 
to be three leagues in circumference, and i contain a million 
of inhabitants, who are oceupied i in various manunfaGtories, 
or Fosse, a river of England, which runs into 
ee Oule near York, 
¢ Navigation, is the parliamentary name of an inla nd 
ravigaton, porfuing the yaa . the Fots river in the 
Nort 1 Riding e Oude river ba York 
Poe 
Sce 
ion, a Trench ee eal 
age; and efpecially 
i nar or 
Fortificat 
meaning a ditch, adopted in our langu 
goo to the ditch ormoat furrounding rid fae 
the front of ee &e. urpofe 
preening pens and of protracting the a Ae meee 
the garrifon. Under i a of Consrruction, Agi- 
fitary, the proper dimenfions and form of ak excavation 
which fan nifhes foil for the formation of the ramparts, and 
which becomes the foffe, will be ‘found exemplified a ccord- 
re to the os adopted by the moit eminent engineers ; 
ould therefore be fuperfluous to repeat in this place all 
tha ae deta prlues under the: ticle referred to 
y be feen, not only abftraéte Uh but according to the feve~ 
rl elation = fot Te bearsto tI 1 
a 
» Her 
{3 + £. +f 
sq 
+ a 1 
aus 
aes the ‘opportunity may offen | it Toul. be mada 
a rule to conftruct the ditch fo-that it could be filled with 
water at pleafure. For this purpole, amp ices ought 
to be laid, fhutting with gates in tl Qordinary manner, but 
effectually fecured from the enemy; Who might therwife 
choa on siete and aan ent the a si opening; or, 
if it thor enle er fuit thei op 
fo as 
M. wile 
ditch iy ing between the. ane a and the raveline in its fr ont, 
> be a tenaille, a that e in- 
tended to ai yak = as to allow a Pac: 
bodies of troops pro the principal, or bedy of 
the place, the Sails ay a that to aa eer or 
vice ver, fit it will be neteffary to throw mbankments 
in the form of demi-caponnieres, from that ae of ae re- 
ne ances the orillon, to the interior line of the ram. 
part ; thus cutting off the i of water, and confining it 
to thofe parts of. the ditch in front of the feveral baftions, 
and under the ravelines, &c. into all which it fhould flow 
through proper arched channels. 
‘hat fpace 
until.the enemy. may b 
crett of. - pel is hgeee io 
the bata: efficie eans 2 irexen ens s 
» that aus es bani cc edin 
In order to. ftrengthen the defences {till more, it is com. 
mon to fink ‘channele called eunetfes, or cuvettes, in the cen- 
tres of the ditches, parallel with the faces. of. the ‘baflions, 
hefe 
