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FRE 
inch lowe in the water.. Phil. Tran. Abr. vol, 
Pe 304 
The dulcifying, or making of falt water frefh, is a fecret 
that has been long fought with great attention. For an ac 
count of the ae oe that have been made with 
this view, fee Sea- 
F 
an ebb-tide, re i wing out into 
the fea, often difcolouring i it o a eoaadenible diftance, and 
forming a line that feparates the two colours, and which 
may be diftinély perceived for.a great length along the 
F HFORD, in Geography, a {mall poft-town of the 
ae of Kilkenny, Ireland, which is 7 ae sfrom Kil- 
kenny on the roadto Urlingford, and 644 miles S.W. from 
blin 
— Las a bay i in the ftraits of Magel- 
lan. N. lat. 53° 2 eee 
- . Ais | of is Vie of W 
° 31'.—Alfo, a bay as ‘the E. coaft oF New- 
forall. N. lat. 49’ 10! long. 53° 30 
baker ai ATER oe a {mall land i in the Atlantic, near 
the coaft of South Carolina. N. lat. 33° 5’. W. long. 
79” ‘15 
Fresuwater Key, a {mall ifland in the Spanifh Main, 
near the Mofquito fhore. N. lat. 14° 23’. W. long. 82° 
5 PRESNAY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Sarthe, and ad ae of a _ in the diftrit of 
amers; 18 mile e e place contains 
192I,a. amd the anton: I ae ohabitant, on a territory of 
2074 kiliometres, in I2 comm N. lat. 487 17° 
long. o' 6’. 
FRESNAYE, La, a town of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Sarthe, and chief place of a canton in the dif- 
trict of Mamers, 6 miles E. of ee The place con- 
the 
RE, a town roe Tauce » in the de- 
partment of the Meufe, and chief place of a canton in the 
diftrid: of Verdun, 10 miles §.E. of Verdun. The pla 
contains 823, and the canton 12,71 15 inhabitants, on aterri- 
tory of 257% kiliometres, in 38 communes. 
FRESNE-ET Saixt-Mamez of France, 
in the department oe the Upper Bie, and chief place of 
a canton in the diftri@t of Gray, 12 miles N.E. ray. 
The place contains 5 58 and the canton 9,311 ptetants on 
a territor ry 0 oo kiliometre S, in 23 commu 
FRES 5 Le a town of Spain 
Ar‘agon, once ftrongly fortified, but bar ge and difmantled 
in the year 1706 by the troops of Philip V.; 12 miles S.S.E. 
of Alcaniz. 
_ FRESNILL “, a town of pai in the province of 
Zacatcras ; 40 miles N. of cras. 
eRESNG, a eas of een in Old Caftile ; 3 5 miles S. 
of Borgo d’Cima.—Alfo, a town of Spain, in Andalufia, 
zo miles N. of Cordova. 
FRESNOY, Cua 
poet and 4 painter, defervedly regarde 
tion in the former tha 
Pe) 
"oO 
ES ALPHONSE bu, in Biography, a 
with more eftima- 
ae province of in 
FRE 
life evinced a talte for poetry, and carried away all the 
rizes in it which were propofed in the college where he was 
cated, to excite the emulation of his fellow ftudents. His 
inclination for it increafed with exercife, and the pleafure 
he t in that, and its fifter art of painting, which pof- 
ae ual power over him, diverted ae fo much we the 
ftudies requifite for the practice of the profeffion he was in- 
tended for; that he at tat, iotwnnltdeae the oppofition 
ade emonttrances of his parents, Bayes pie oe rfuit of it, 
declaring himfelf decidedly for n he took 
At firft he employ ved himfelf in painting landicapes, build- 
ings, andancient ruins ; with great refolution perievering in 
his defire to be a painter, ie a abaiudoned by his parents. 
through os char for his rejection cfa pesteingn dey had 
chofen for him. Rome he was deilitute of friends and 
sequaintace for rt firit two years of his refidence there, and 
for the greatef rt of that time he fubfifted on bread 
and cheele, div ening a reflections by an indefatigable 
pure of paintin 
The arrival of Peter Mignard, afterwards fo celebrated, 
who had been his friend and f ellow fludent under Vouet, fet 
him more at eafe. They united in the flricteft ties of friend- 
fhip, lived iene inthe fame houfe, and were commonly 
own in y the name of the Jnfeparables. 
hey pny ftudied the works of Raphael, and the 
s: but i d 
feveral of his works; endeavou 
colouring, as he did Carracci in his defign. 
of their itudies, Mignard appeared to poffefe fi ashe ree 
in practice, while Fre{noy, who was perhaps more of 
foner, — more into the rules, the theory, and hifto 
of thea Fac communicated to the other his fentiments 
iend wit 
uring to 
re 
inftructions in the beft mode to realize his inventions with exe 
pediticn and effe&t. 
Whilft he lived in Rome, he painted feveral pictures of 
the-ruins of the Campo Vaccino. One of a young Athenian. 
woman going to fee the monument of her lover. fineas 
carrying his father, &c. &c. 
wn his obfervations ; 
and having fatisied himfele with on knowledge he had ac- 
quired of its theory, he formed the defign of writing a 
oem upon ‘it which he employed many years upon, coniult- 
ing the bett writers, and examining the beft pictures, to per- 
fect his information, and render his labours truly ufe- 
in all places through which he paffed; and particularly ta 
Albano, and Guercino, then at Bologna ; a = con, nfulied 
feveral men famed for their {killin polite literatu 
Returned te Patis-in 1656,. he met with confiderble as 
