FRA 
grefs itr thé arts tari in morals, and their indiiffsy is more 
advanced than that of the inliabitants of the South fea iflands, 
copa excepted, They are acquainted’ with the me- 
d - of forging iron aud mong sa Cd » They {pin the 
r of various | animals needle, form of that 
fit ma . our re With this web 
otter-fkins, eehich gives to their 
neft filk-fhag. They are pe- 
culiayly {kilful in the manufaGture of ftraw hats and bafkets ; ; 
of the remeee i 
a lance of sss ve i id a bow 
pales pointed with copper. Seven large ca- 
ecked at the mouth of the ane led M. 
la Péroufe to @ conde that Port de Fran‘ 
ay en art 
her wr atticlese oe ee a 
took eke ead thee co nea 
rica; fornifhing it with iro 
witl 
t' advantage to nga the otter-fkins which. 
D 
they ee) aly de defire 
The language of this People, fays M:. de Lamianon, who 
particularly examined it, manifefts no refemblance to- that.of 
Alafka, Norton found, Nootka, Gr eenland, or the Efqui- 
not perhaps relgenge that. this language may have a com- 
or r origin ve that a Mexico: but . this be the = ag 
origin mn ve neient, fnce their words have 
femblanee, cet in ‘their emeas. a not in their. figai 
fieati tion. 
No trace of cannibalifm was perceived among thefe 
people, though it is- fo general a cuftom among the Indians 
of America; but-poffibly it might have been otherwife, if 
they had bec at war, Or had taken any prifoner's, during 
the ftay of our navigators among them. La Péroufe’s 
Voyage, vol. i 
FRANCAIS » La, atown of France, in the depart- 
mient of the ait aa chief place of a canton, iri the diftri€ 
of Montau niles . of Montauban. The place 
contains _ oi and the canton 5,808 inhabitants, on a ter- 
f TAS. kiliomettes, in 5 communes. - 
© 20'. 
N. ia al a 
ne ftery above the ground-flod 
ie are well planted with" sees wiih “ffasd'a ‘ann. t aghecable 
ade. The inhabitants, about 12,000 it niitriber, fibfitt’ 
by the fale of: oil-and een of which laft' the eV make very” 
fines ftockin gs: xe to his‘ raiféd int ‘cOtifidérable 
qwantity in - the vieiity; is is mati ifattited into" a kitid’ oF 
fo rete ther Seni in cdldut and’ avOUE Thi 
nde Prin ay or Fait’ twit, front'a’co2 
lany aire hee 
Feasetrt 8; 
xemaprion - Font aety an gave'it 
5 
I 
ene dé to" tf cients ears’ 
afi oteectree: the etbletiy 
B of Axio price of, is” 
ee 
adjoining manors were purchafe 
fro harles Borr rromeo, archbi 
faid | to ee diftributed in one day the oe purchafe-money 
to the poor of his diocefe, afflicted at that time with pefti- 
lence and famine; 15 miles E.N.E. of Taranto.—Alfo, a 
town of Naples, in the Bafilicata; 11 miles S.W. of Turf. 
aples, in Calabria Ultras 13 miles 
Squillace.—Alfo, a town of Naples, in Cala-. 
; ras 4 miles N.E. oF Caffano.—Alfo, a town o 
Naples, in Abruzzo Citra; g miles N.E. of Civita di 
Chieti.i—Alfo, a town of Sicily, in the valley of Te 3: 
12 miles W. = of Taormina.—Alfo, a town of Genoa 
6 miles S. of Nov 
apes in fort y and Hy coin is fituated between’ 
as om. ana to fouth, or from thé Maes and the Wale te 
the frontiers of Catalonia in Spain, its extent is 309 leagues 
in length; and from to welt, or from Strafburgh te 
Bieft, 250 leagues in. eaane Accordin to Mr, Necker, 
the whole extent of France, without the i land of Corfica, 
but without’.Genoa, Puan, and, the Papal dominiéns, 
lately added to the French empire, is computed at 7624625, 
{quare.kiliometres, or 30,505 {quare leagnes. 
are, on the north fide, ‘the 
1 of Holland ;- on the 
ee ba is feparated from 
Gan ny, or the {tates forming the w Confederation’ of 
the Rhine; on-the eaft fide, that as a mountains called. 
the Jura, which feparates France from Switzerland ; -on the 
fouth-eaft fide, the Alps, by which it is feparated’ from the 
kingdom of Italy; on the fouth see the Mediterranean fea, 
and that chain of mountains-called the Pyrenees, by which . 
: is plane from Spain; and on the welt fide, the At- 
antic 0 
Fr nee, which by the Romans was denominated Trant 
alpine Gaul, or Gaul beyond the Alps, to. a oe 
from " Cilalpine Gaul;. on the Italian fide of the Al 
srobably peopled originally from Italy, to which it’ ies con: 
i uropean nations, - foon. becante: a 
k 
vf ca better afcertained, or more 
ea from 
to be: theta than, 
eS a very eee ve dinition was was nevetil con- 
Ddz 
erably 
