FOS 
But as they Bro, differ in: sia hari and in-their manner of 
eating and’ deftro ying lea mall ones, which eat bu 
‘lowly, and gnaw their “7 in'e “a furrows, are called 
by him ert iee pares ando ie contrary, thofe which 
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eat away a t_ lies before them, and are of a fome- 
what larger are called foffores magni, See Asca- 
BRIDES. 
FOSSUM, in Geography, a town of Norway, in the 
dient of Agger erhuus; 23 miles W. of Chriftiania. 
OSTA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Smaland ; 
21 miles E. of fal. 
FOSTAL, in Agriculture, is a term fignifying the 
way that leads from the main road to a farm-houfe. 
FOS 
T, ‘called alfo ya vee ee el. Atik, and by 
ld 
the Venetian ier mae and a 
Cairo, in Geography, a an 
Grand Cairo and the Nile, ae halt a i from 
Inthe pe year of the Hegira, fays Elma:in in his hiftory 
of the Arabs, Amron, fon of Eleas, built Mafr Foftat on 
the fpot oe ere he ha 
befieging Alexandria 
sap ean laid the oe of a town there, to which 
ve the name of ** Foftat,”’ ee in Arabic “ tent.”? 
Aferwards the Sia aa fent by the caliphs made it their 
: den It too 
place of re the furname of ‘ Mafr’?’ 
as He is faid, from Mizraim, the fon of Ham, who fettled 
in Egypt ; a name which Memphis had borne before, and 
which the Arabs always beftow on the capital of Egypt. 
Its fituation onthe banks of the Nile, and near a canal that 
communic icat ted with the Red fea, rendered it in a fhort time 
ery flourifhing. It was about two leagues in circumfer- 
ee een. Schaouar, 500 years yeiee its foundation, de- 
livered it up to the flames, in order to prevent its falling 
under the conticn of the ts power terminated 
ha. ith it its com- 
merce andits riches. It wasthen that Grand Cairo, having 
become the eaepes of the grandees and the kings of the 
c ved the eae epithet of Mafr; and that 
Foftat auned that of El- » which fignifies “ the an- 
nt, which i 
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now half a league in c 
pulous, and has confiderable tra ae 
ere 
Mahometan mofques, the i have a fynagogue, and the 
Catholics a convent and a church; but the Copts ha 
referved to themfelves that which is pocene by the devout 
the moit precious {pot : this isa grotto, or low chapel, in 
which, according to tradition, the virgin lived fome time 
with the infant Jefus, when they were obliged to flee into 
This beaciaan is a fource of protit to the Copts, 
who charge fees for admiffion into this chapel. At O 
= are to be feen Jofeph’s Se eleea if this apes tion 
y be given to a large {pace o » furrounded by 
walls 20 feet high, a divided into courts ‘without any root 
or covering 3 in whic is dépofite dt iad a Nes from 
Upper Egypt as ase fifcal duties, a wh t becomes 
the food of a multitude of birds, and the pera of their 
dung. The lee are tapes! setae sees ; nor has-this build- 
a antiquity, fo that nothing but the 
could Nek attributed the ereétion of 
it to the patriarch Res r of the 
Arabs, which is remarkable Tor the boldnefs as well as the 
beauty of its conftruction, and the only one worth feeing 
in the ancient city of Cairo, is the aqueduét that. conveys 
the water of the Nileinto the caftle, It is fupported by 
of 
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3 350 narrow and very lofty arcades. The’ vine is raifed by a 
in-pump with four wheels, which is werked by oxen. 
fe aoe of Old Cairo the Nile leaves, in ae middle of its 
bed, an ifland of about five hundred yards in breadth, where is 
built the «« mekkias,”’ fignifying Meafure Sie. VILOME- 
TER he extremity of Mafr-el- Atik, near the waters 
cattle, commences hg khalig or canal, which ¢ 
Cai iro 
FOST ER, 3. en in pa ,3 reali preacher, 
was born at Exeter i inthe yea wher was edu- 
cated ; and fo ae was his ae that the af Se of the 
fchool boafted of him as his moft promifing pupil ; from 
the grammar {chool he was fent to an academy for educat- 
ing diffenting minifters, en under the fuper ea itsadance of 
hea Jofeph Hallet, where, by his abilities, aL and 
mprovement, he quickly acquired the admiration of his 
eae and fellow ftudents, e commenced eable preacher 
in the year 1718, and was foon diftinguifhed among his bre- 
thren for popular Cia At this per eriod, d 
one to re matiz 
it prudent to remove | 
mi 
i. ea fettlement as minifter was” 
elaine the 
er, content to re- 
ot 
at 
er num. 
= owev 
_mainin obleurit ‘ and i in ot hi ‘the comforts of life, pro- 
vided he could enjoy the fatisfaGion which arofe from: bis. 
ee He found abundant refources in his own mind,- 
though without any profpetts of extended ufefulnefs, 
applied himfelf to 
ofter pub- 
n Fu indamentals, with a particular res- 
gard to the ieee: ee the ever-bleffed Trinity,” &c. 
this eflay he fubjoined a fermon, entitled « The a er 
rift,”? pro 
an 
produced no difference betwee 
‘Trowbridge ; fo fmall, however, was his 
eth difheartened at the paucity of ‘his attendants, that he.: 
entertained ferious thoughts of quitting the miniftry, and be- 
elie himfelf ta fome fecular’ emplayment. While deli- 
erati nthe future courfe of his son ne te 
he ae upwards of twenty years. @ open- 
eda Sunday evening leGture in the Old Jewry, whl he care - 
ried on be to his vale pias an unexampled degree of 
populari ttended by crowds of perfor ns of. 
all a ftations, and F qualities, In the year.1744 he was: 
chofen.. 
