FR E. 
nities 5 goods landed for exportation pay no duty, unlefs 
o pened for home confumption ; and then they are charged 
with the ufual impofts n the fummit es an almoft per- 
pendicular rock, which overhan t 
own, s 
2 fertrefs of = Frederickftein, 
ftrong and hitherto al ghee a 
ath of the northern lion, as 
rendered memorable by t 
Charles is fometimes emphatically ia 52 miles S, 
of Chriftian 
" FREDE RICKS 
in the government of Wiburgh or Viborg, for merly belong- 
ing to. Sweden when it was only a {mall Meer in the pro- 
vince of Finland, but ceded to the Ruffians by the peace of 
Abo. The town is {mall and regular; in the centre is a 
{quare, from which the ftreets extend-at right angles 
houfes, excepting one of tek , are all bui 
neate 
manner. rtifications 
=a 
rx 
carry ona fmall commerce with England ad 
Holland, ie planks and tallow, and importing 
falt and tob In 1783, ieee pabiene 5 was the fcene 
i i of Ruffia and 
FREDERICKSHOLM, a fortrefs of Norway ; three 
miles’S. of Chriftianfand.. 
ca 
‘-FREDERICKSTADT, a fortrefs and fea-port town 
E 
This is the moft regular 
of Norway, and contains an — 
mply fupplied with arms for the militia, in cafe o 
ce with Sweden. was built i in 1567 by Frederic TL, 
- fince e gradually enlarged 
rn fyft he ramparts 
ache a the population 
of the town, ny ineluding the a fuburbs, amounts to no 
more than 800 perfons. The inhabitants ei planks, and 
a few {mall a Clofe to Frederickfadt is e new for- 
trefs of Kongfteen, on a-rocky eminence, < s of: 
taining a garrifon of 300 men3;_ fevéral co 
n rms, legs, and bodies ; the 
chains: round thei ms are rivetted’ to a wheel-barrow, 
-which is never loofened. ia oor is 43 miles.S. of 
‘Chriftiania, N. lat. 59° 2. E. oe 
CKSTADT, atown of Den 
utch Arminian € igra 
rt. he in meer confilt of a Lu- 
and © 
 EREDERICHSTADT. . See BERL. 
HAM, a town and fortrefs of Ruffia, ne 
oad oreateft offenders have an ~ 
P 
ws. E.b a {wick and the eth ocean, S, by F Fl 
FREDERICKSTHAL, a town of Saxony, in the 
- margraviate of Meiffen ; fix miles W. of Senf . 
FREDERICK UND, a {ea-port town of D ¥ 
inthe ifland of Zealand, fituated in the gulf of Ranta’ 
Its chief trade is in corn ; a miles N.W. of Copenhagen. 
N. lat. 55° 5o0'..E. long. 12 
FREDERICKSVORN, a a town .of Norway, in the. 
province of Aggerhuus ; 3 miles S. of Laurvig. 
.FREDERICKSWALDE, a town of Germany, in. 
the oo of Pomerania, on the Ihna; five miles N.W. of 
Stargard 
FRE DERICKSWERK, i apart town of Denmark, 
fituated near the atay a bay of the fame fea on the 
northern fhore of Ze ere general Clauffen, on the 
€tories, a foundery for 
eee and hene pie place was c 
The general alfo plied the adjacent country, for the {pace 
of feveral miles, which was either a morafs, or cover red wit. 
: fertilizing this wa 
which before only fed thirty-two. cow 8, now y 
fides a large quantity of fire-wood, in i eacourtle feafon, 
above 500. loads of hay. 
FREDERICKSWERTH, a town. Germany, i in 
the principality of Gotha; 5 miles N.W. of Gatha. 
FREDER _ a cag oe of Ame- 
rica, in the provinc Ne unfwi -90 miles: 
up a John’s river whieh is ‘fo far ek for 
fice 
“ FREDERICKTOWN, a rn of Maryland, and. 
capital of peek county, fituated on both -fides of Car- 
rol’s creek, a ream that difcharges itfelf into Mono-. 
bridges. Th 
angles. welling fous are about num- 
ber, of which feveral are commodious and handfome. ‘The. 
public edifices are one church for Prefbyterians, two churches. 
for German Lutherans and Calvinifts, and one for Baptifts, 
aol, and convénient market- 
S.W. by W. from Philadelphia. N. lat, 
39° 24" 
FREDOLFO,: ‘a torrent of Switzerland, in the courity 
of Bormio, which, pafling ul the town Bormio, falls at a 
{mall diftance into the a. 
FREDON, Fr. in Mufic, an old w ord for a rapid’ pa af 
fage or divifion. Roulade is at prefent ufed for the fame 
purpofe, with this difference, that the roulade is. of longer 
duration,. and is written, whereas the ae was an extem- 
poraneous flourifh at a paufe, ad libitu 
FRE DONIA, i in Geography, a generic name whi ae 
Dr. Morfe’s Gazetteer as proper forcomprehend 
of the 
r Canada, 
ori, 
ulf of “Mexico, W.b exico and the 
g s, which divide the Glee waters | 
“Miffifippi from thofe which fall into the Pacific ocean. This 
territory lies between 28° and 50° N. Tat. and 66°and 116° W, 
nes 
da and the 
