FOY 
oe Defirh ot Karagan, has a ftraight tail, with the 
bod colour, and black ears. It inhabits the 
eae belonging to the Kalmucks and Kirgifes. 
Fox-hou See Doc and Hownp, 
Fox, Siberian. See Lac 
Fox, Silvery, G. Vulpes cinereo-ar, -genteus, has a ftraight 
tail, the body of a filver-grey co sel and the fides of the 
neck of a -yellowith brown. This animal is fmaller than 
the common fox, but — with . in figure and manners, 
It inhabits North 
rey Prulpes Vane, has a ftraight tail, 
and the ioe cor ae use colour. This fpecies inha- 
bits Carolina, lives in the-hollow trunks of decayed trees, 
and is eafily ta ; 
Fox, Sea, V ulbe es marina, in Ichthyology, the name given 
by authors to a large fifh, c alled the fea-fox yus. In 
the Artedian fyftem it is ie {qualus, with a tail longer 
than the body, See Squatus Vulpes. 
Fox-glove, in Botany, the common name ofa large well- 
ow plant. See Dicirauis. 
Fox-tail Grafs, the common name of a qian fort of 
natural meadow grafs. See ALoprcurRus ae Grass. 
FOXBOROUGH, in Geography, a tow me- 
rica, in Norfolk county, and ftate of Matlachufete; 3 26 
miles S. of Bofton: incorporated in 1778, and_containing 
79 inhabitants. 
“OXERNA, a eal of Sweden, in Weft Gothland; 
24 ine N. of Gothenburg. 
ORD, a imall post town of the county of Mayo, 
ere — on the river Moy, and about two miles from 
Lough Conn. It is 113 miles W. by N. from ice, 
and eleven from Caftlebar, on the road to Sligo. 
FOXTOWYN, a town of ich in the ftate of North 
Carolina: 30 miles S. of Newbern.—Alfo, a town of the 
ftate of New York; 24 miles his of New York. 
FOY-LA- GRANDE, SAINTE, atown of France, in 
the department of the Gironde, and chief place of a canton 
in the diftri@ of Libourne. The place contains 2,830, an 
the canton gi inhabitants, on a territory of 145 a 
metres, in 17 communes. 
FOYERS, or hea a {mall river of Invernefsfhire, 
which takes its rife am the mountains of Abertarff, 
aS Arsen dene waterfall. 
mantic a aaa as perhaps can be imagined, the Foyers pours 
its waters between lofty mountains, covered with ‘pentile 
birch trees, exhibiting their naked, abrupt, and broken 
fronts, from which huge fragments have been detached, 
The torrent, confined on the recky fides, precipitates itfelf 
profound beneath, forming a 
for oe the obje& 
in a ete an e foot of the rocks 
beneath. Thefe, with the expanfive arch of the bridge, 
ex shibit a fine piGturefque fore-ground, behind which, at 
the diftance of about twenty yards, appears the firft portion 
of the fall; the central and largeft break is a few yards 
nearer, and the third is over a ledge, almoft under the arch. 
-From accurate meafurements taken of this, which is called 
wn, the river rufhes 
‘over another ledge, with a ce like aes into the abyfs 
Vou. XV. 
FRA 
ss « Among the ete a and ragged woods, 
- The roaring Fyers pours his ma y i ds ; 
Till full he dahon on ae rocky m 
Where through a fhapelefs beach ie ream cunts, 
As high in air the burfting torrents flov 
As deep recoiling furges foam below, 
Prone down the rock the whitening fheet defcends,< 
And viewlefs echo’s ear, aftonifhed len 
im feen, through rifing mifts and bari fhowers, 
T oary cavern, wide furrounding low’rs. 
Still through the gapt ruggling river toils, 
And ftill below the horrid cauldron boils.?? - 
oo ae Dr. Garnet obferves, from whofe Tour the 
ccount has been ex tracted, “is undoubtedly one of the 
highelt falls in the ail and though the immenfe body 
of water which falls down ie celebrated cafcade of Niagara 
n No merica gives a fuperiority to that, yet it muft 
ae to this in. a - height; the former fall being 140 
feet, and the latte 
YLE, a river of gee formed by the confluence 
of the rivers Derg and Fin near Lifford. It paffes the 
city of Derry, and a miles elo it expandsinto Lough 
Foyle. - It is. ae by large vee to the quay of 
3 
XYLE 
of Ireland, aL 
river Foyle. 
t is twelve miles 
locked on all fides, ie entrance Suen ot 
here is a channel in the le, which is Vinca fathoms 
Veffels turning in 
with a fouth-wefterly or wefterly wind alfo run fome haza rd 
of being ftranded on the beach of Magilligan. This cir. 
cumflance is very area to the trade of Der 
fometimes 
éd or fummer fallow. 
ing; but which at preferit is Glan employed. 
Foy ine, among Sle geal a = ufed for the foot- 
fleps of a tag, on the grafs or | 
FOYNA, in Zoology, a name oe n by y many to the 
martin or martes, an anim al of the weafel kind, commoa 
with us. Must 
OZ, in nie 2a aoe of Portugal, in the province 
of Alentejo t the conflux of the Zatas and Tagus; 
24 mil oF 
ifbon. 
ANO, a Panis of the ifland of Corfica 3 3 four 
miles N, of Sarfan 
FRACASTORIUS, Hreronimus,.in Biography, a 
celebrated phyfician of Verona, se he was born in 1483. 
He feemed to be born for ftudy ; for fuch was the ardour 
with which he applied, and the rapidity with which he ad- 
vanced in the itudy of the pre tepe the belles lettres, and 
the fciences, that he early attained a high degree of excel- 
ral as a poet, a philofopher, an aftronomer, and a phy- 
ficjan. Thefe qualities procured him an univerfal efteern. 
The general. of the Venetian forces gave him his entire ‘con- 
U- fidence, 
