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he believed to be his intereft. He was capable of ‘fevere 
and very cruel a¢tions, and hence he was chara¢teriged by 
Valtaire, once his isa ay idol, from a ane table that 
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and. other. conquered places can teftify againit the Great c 
Frederie, to fay n oe in this place of enarmities prac- 
tiled on individuals. e Trenck, Baron.) Asanauthor, 
belides the works already referred to, he publifhed “ Mili- 
tary Inftruétions,’’ and other pieces on mifcellaneous topics, 
compofing four volumes o€tavo.under the general title 
& CBuvr ase f : 
-potthumous works in 15 vols. ie which the ae are. 
he Hiftor 
ae ies ae ory ue his oe Tim eT of the 
? War:”? and © Met moirs from the is ace of 
Priberibure to the uct of Poland in 1775.” 
thefe we have had occafion to refer, but the reader is par- 
ticularly direed for am able account of this great man and 
iiluftrious monarch, to Dr. Towers’s ** Mem. of Frederick 
king of Pruffia.”’ 
FREDERICA, in pela: , aport townof America, in 
the ftate of Georgia and cou lyan, agnaeaa | fituated 
in St. Simon’s ifland, on an eminence upon a f Ala- 
tarmnaka. nk “which forms a bay befor ie ‘cm: and 
affords a commodious harbour i veffels of the 
largett. ta, which may lie. along the wharf. It- was. 
fettled by fome Scots highlanders ee the year 1735, 
who accepted . -eftablifhment both here and at Darien. 
to defend the ae if sam again ae neighbouring 
= aniards. N. lat 15 ong. 80°. 
PPREDERICIA, a trong fargo town of Denmark, 
in North Jutland, and diocefe of ; fituated on the 
Little Belt, with a aie houfe, are all veffels p ay. al 
$ ex Lee but not filled with houfes or 
ras f 1651 by. Frederic III. ; and in 
hriftian V., in ane to increafe the number of its 
inhabitants, granted. a ae which rendered it an afylum 
for all bankrupts, both natives and foreigners, and allowed 
the Calvinitts, _Papitts, and Jews, free exercife of their reli- 
provement. ; 
apes a ae ee a fynagogue, a gramm 
d good arfenal. antity ‘of tobacco i is planted both 
within and without ae rs N. lat. 55° 35’. E. long. 
"HhepeRick, a county ‘of “Maryland, in America, 
bounded N. by Pennfylvania, W. aos N.W. by Wathing- 
ton, E.. by. Baltimore, and S.W. by poten river. 
On the Monocacy river and its branches are about 37 grift 
mills,.a furnace; iron forge, anda glafs ane enh called 
the “* /Etna glais w: orks,” which are in a thriving Mate. 
This county is more jan an 30 miles each way econ from 
the extreme parts, and is divided nto 12 towns and villa ages. 
The Cotocti from the Potewmack in a 
. 2 r vel. It contains 30,791 fearaieeiee in- 
chiding 3641 flaves. The ene of this county aré gene- 
ally rié ye, barley, corn, eee and 
It, compre- 
Berkeley, S. by y Hampf ire, and FE. 
by Shanandoah river, which feparates it from London 
Both this and Berkeley county have a good foi 
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county. It is 30 miles in lengt th, and 26 in breadth, ‘and | 
contains 16,2 57 white infiabiearita, and 5118 flaves, - It. 
abounds with iron ore, and works have been ee acre 
produce 160 tons of bar iron, and 650 tons of pig, annually. 
Between 
the Shanandoah is the 
peckan creek and 
57 of s thermome ter. Befides 
natural well of ae depth. The chief town of the 
county “ Risclg asad 
Freep ay, a bay on the coaft of New 
Poland, core by Tafman in 1642. S. lat. 43° 10% 
Freperick-Henry Cape, the north point of Adventure: 
bay, in New Holland. S. lat. 42° 42’. E. long. 147° 
cK Houfe, a trading ftation in Upper ee on: 
the head via r of Abbitibbe river. N. lat 5. W. 
lon ng: 8 
cn a fort in Wafhington county, Maryland, 
ceiated onthe N.E. bank of Potowmack river, near the 
- §, line of Pennfylvania. —Alfo, a townthip in Montgomery 
county, bees Coe containing 697 inhabitants. — 
non ide of Saffafras river in. Cecil county, 
aad aa feparated by that river from George town, 
in Kent county. It lies fix miles S. W. of Warwick. N. 
lat. 39° 22’ 30”. 
FREDERICK Poini, in oie Canada, re a sr W. fi 
of Kingfton harbour, and on of Tislda, 
mand Cove, which is made by i pone: ee none Henry. 
FREDERICKENBURG, a town of Germany, in 
oa principality of Anhalt Zexbht ; ; one mile S.W. of 
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‘FR EDERICKRODE, atown of oe in the prin- 
cipality . Ae fix miles S. of Got 
FRE CKS SB RG, a town va Denmark, in. the 
ifland of Zeal 18 miles N.N.W. of Copenhagen. N. 
lat. 55° 56’. E. long. 12° 20’. 
FREDERICKSBURG, atown of eh in the 
duchy’ of Pomerania; 25 miles N.N.E. of Stargard. 
FREDERICKSBURG, a poft town of America, in ‘Spotfyl! 
vania county, Virginia, on the S.W. bank of Rappahan 
nock river, 110 miles from its mouth in Chefapcak. bay: 
It is an incorporated town, and laid out into feveral ftreets, 
with the river, an 
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tains about < oufes, two tobacco warehoufes, and feveral 
ftores of well afforted goods. Its public buildings are, ‘an 
epifcopal c a an acadenty, court houle' and gaol, 
habitants. It has a forge in its vicinity + ‘thich oe 
about 300 tons of bar iron in a year, from pigs’ imported 
from Maryland. It is so miles S.W. of Alexandriz, 
102 5.W. of Baltimore, and 7 5. W. of Philadelphitz. 
N. lat. 38° 22'. W. long. 77° 3 
FREDERICKSBURG, a townfhip in the. coun pee of Rese 
pper Canada, which lies to the weft of Erne ns, : 
the bay. of Quinté.—Alfo, raed of Durcliel paca 
in New York, fituated between Franklin- a liptown, 
w 
and containing 1661 inhabitants. N. lat. 41% 31. We. 
ong. 73" oe —Alfo, a town of Africa, on: thie ‘Gold coaft, 
N. lat. 6° 
FREDERICKSHALL, a fea- on ‘towh: of Norway, 
on the frontiers of Sweden, at the mouth-of the-river Tiffe, 
in a bay called the Swinefund; the Epcbagad wotild-be. fafe 
nd commodious, if it were at fe the’ quantity of faw- 
duft brought down the: river fom the faw-ntlle up the 
Ours 
