FOS. 
“© Po Forum Appii thence we fteer, a place 
Stuff’d with rank boatmen, and with vintners hafe. - 
Francis. 
monks, 
before the sone of the bolas ene off the faint’s head, 
and annexed another in its room; the true head was hid in 
the, wall of the convent, and afterwards found, a3 the 
monkith fable reports, as frefh as the day when 7 was cut 
off, in confequence of fome fcratching and knocking which 
occafioned the ‘walls a pulled down. Foffa Nuova is 
two miles S. of Piper 
FOSSAGLIO, a ‘oun of ule in al department of 
the Upper Po; five miles 
FOSSANO, a town of Crane m nthe department of 
the Stura, feated on the Stura, denominated, on account of 
i famous f{prings, ** Fons Sanus,’? whence by corruption 
as formed Foflano; erected into a bifhopric, under the 
by the 
vigliano Antiquity, a kind een in the eaftern 
church, ars bufinefs was to inter 
Ciaconius relates that Gian pei 950 foffaries, 
whom he took out of the divers colleges or companies 
tradefmen: he adds, that ae were exempted from taxes, 
fervices, burthenfome aes 
n his es on . eek Eucl nologion, 1 in- 
finuates ae the folfari were oftebtithed i in the times of the 
apoftles; and that the young men who carried off the body 
of Ananias, a thofe perfons full of fear of God, 
who interred tephen, were of the number. 
St. Jerom ae that the rank of foffarii held the 
rft place among the clerics ; but he is to be underftood of 
thofe clerks only who ie the dire€tion and intendance of 
the interment of the devou 
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ug, 
FOSSAT, in Geogr ws atown of France, and chief 
place canton in the lau of the ha riege, an 
Fitri of irepoix Mirepo The town 
2 poi 
contains 889, and ie senor pee inhabieants, on an extent 
of 170 kiliometres, an m 
FOSSE, Cuarres La, cae a aiadt io 
hiftory and landfcape of oe ee ity in France, 
not very juitly entitled to his fame ; as may be feen . one 
of his works now on a cieling at the Britifh Mufeum, 
painted originally at the ae of Ralph, duke of 
Mont a in the reign of James II. 
as born at Pari eae and was a difciple of Le 
Raa ; but was ices fent by Lowis XIV. to ftudy 
jn Italy. He formed his tafe more upon the Venetian 
than the Roman ftyle ; for which reafon his works have 
far lefs of corretuefs in.drawing, than richnefs of colour ; 
and by i means, perhaps, he obtained a good reputation, 
cilful men, whole 4 alents were directed to 
her obje d have b eglected. We have 
particularized him here becaufe he was the artiit employed 
to de Trianon, Mai rly, and the palaces of 
many of the nobility . dion when it was the fafhion to 
load ftaircafes and with abfurd allegories and 
taftelefs compofitions fi tractus (eee La Fofle died 
in ha age 
SE, ANTHONY BE LA, was born at Paris in 1653, 
FOS 
nown a 
is oer feilty of t the Bolonneis. Fe wrote Italian with 
he utmoft te 
ccna Gh 
demy Degli Apatift at Florenc 
pofitiens were tragedies ee of which, particularly’ 
ee oe ee a ney s Capitolinus," > were ornare on n the 
xtremely laboured, and are faid 7 ita him more 
satnoin exprelion than in the thoug 
n Gardening, is a fort wy fank fence, is arge ditch, 
or rea ert on the outfides or boundaries of orname nted 
grounds, in cal to a the profpe& in an igen upted 
manner. of this nature are formed of different 
depths and breadths, according to cir 
or oa — in depth, and ten or fifteen a 
e extent of oe re-ground is 
inconiderable thefe fences give the particular parts of the 
garden or grounds an air o ele Few than they really 
Polciesas at a diftance nothing of them is feen, fo that 
the adjacent fields, &e. appear to be connedted ae them : 
where the pleafur dock 
or any fpaciaus field open to an agreeable ‘prof ect, they 
are often continued round, as far as they are apreeable, from 
the walks of the pleafure-grounds or other garden 
grounds. 
Works of this kind are formed in different vy oe 
always fo as to ferve the purpofe of fences, and a 
a a se view of the whole rea of the ee 
od of nal 
fide next ae gar rden 
mote fo as to a the declivity as eafy and impercep- 
tible as poflible, both to take off all ftiff and ditch-like 
ae eas and that when in a field or park, no ground 
oft from its being c being converted inta 
gr The top of the ne ts fide fhould e made neany 
on a level with the adjacent oa afure- ground, and always 
a Tittle higher than the to he flo the oppofite ¢. 
lide, being laid with grafs corvelpondiog ms the adjoining 
gar en or P eafu ae Paste esi it Ts hone convenient 
ave an agreeable ap- 
pearance to the fight at all feafons. 
Where in sine this kind of fofle, by reaion of water’ 
ereGed alon 
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