FRO 
farts, and irregularities, in the pulfe of perfons near death. 
B a er’s Microico ope, p. 132—136. 
mong J’arriers, the fame with frufh. See Frusu. 
OG, 
nee ah in ae is "DROCHARIS. 
ces Bt ill. See 
ra 2 frog into a fifh. 
with brown, yellow, a a a » b 
ie ee "be set are webbed like thofe of a goole, but the 
fore-feet are without webs: the firft change this fi frog under- 
goes is by t the growing out of a tail; after which it gradu- 
ally sn i fhape of a fifh, the two fore-feet decteafing 
ing egrees, and then the hinder legs ; 
length, the frog is changed into a perfect fifh. The ils 
and Europeans of Surinam call thefe fifhes jakies ; they are 
ca salen. ‘ond of a fubftance like our muitela, and very 
delicate food. A bone or e back, with 
fmall bones all over the dy, a vhich is ee dea to ‘equal 
parts; they are adorned w ith beautiful ag = are firft 
of a darkith el our, and afterwards grey _ See account 
of the feveral transfor toe a this frog, illuftrated with 
drawings, and of the tr = of fifhes into frogs, in 
Phil, Tranf. vol. li. p. 2. art. 60. p. 653, &c. 
og, in Geography, a town of America, in the {tate of 
Georgia 6 miles W. of Tugeloo 
G, La hey a lake of N. America, in N. lat. 53° 15'. 
Ww. ae be gi? 
Froa, Petrified, in Natural Hiftory. Among the petri- 
fations found in the ieee limeitone, or {winefto one of 
Oering, frogs (rane) have been mentione it does not 
appe ar fae as perfe& ay a the ae - 
out. mong the numerous initances of 
at like a and toads, faid to ie found alive in- foie 
lay, and other mineral fubftances, feveral inftances of 
which have been related to the writer of this by quarry-men 
and others of veracity, fo that he can meee! doubt the 
act, at leaft of a not ag an mania from their 
s foun i ted, that 
fe€tion mpetent aneani mift, who might decide on 
al identity = the recent fpecies, in the genus to which 
y feem referable. See Toan. 
BURG, in Geogr ce a aes of Germany, in 
the circle of Leipfic, fituated o Wichra; 1 = miles 
S.S.E. of Leipfic. The inh sbitants manufacture ituff and 
earthen ware. 'N. lat. 51° 5’. EE. lon 
FROHNA, a town of Germany, in the Gece of Erz- 
geburg ; ; 8 miles N.W. of Chemnitz. 
OHNSDORYF, a town of areal in the circle 
of Thuringia; 7 miles S.E of Weiffenfe 
, a odie of Spain, in Galicia ; 22 miles 
N. N.E. of Ore 
FROIDMONT, Linert, in Biography, was born ina 
country town, fraated between Liege and Maettricht, 1 in the 
pages 1537. 
fity of oe — in 1633 was appointed dean o 
Peter’s in that . After this he was created door o 
pee and oe ond (esis eae was appointed bifhop 
pres, as interpreter of the facred fcriptures. He died 
t the age of fixty-fix. 
o SS 
gs 
¢ coer a 
corum Libri Vv Bre evis Anatomia hominis.” Latin 
commentaries on the Adts of the Apoftles, ae on the 
He was profeffor of philofophy i yn the univer- | 
t 
FRO 
epiftles of St. Paul in folio, and on other works. 
commentaries are in much repute, ee they are, in a 
meafure, abridged from the works of Efti Moreri. 
FROJERED, in Geography, a pen oF Swe ce 
Weift-Gothland ; 70 miles E. of Uddevalla. 
FROISSART, cat in Biography, an early Trench 
The 
hiftorian-and poet, was born at Valenciennes in 1337. ne 
wor os of this ie e lately been aeseaey and obtain- 
ed a molt extenfive creation ftill there is a great lack of 
his life. 
materials sof an acco 
5° 
ne period a merchant. "Tt is 
d that a was a hee Id painter, a circum- 
ee or the ee haen of the fon 
o the manners of chivalry. by 
He began his hiftory before he 
age of manhood, and continued i it till 
which he is diftinguifhed. 
had attained to the a 
which 
imagine that it did ar happen ‘tll abo i 1420, and his hifto. 
down to the beginning of that centur 
large portion of. his life was employed in travelling “from 
court to court, ber a view of collecting materials for his 
was patronized by princes of oppofite 
perfonally. sa lana _ a chief 
hich he defcribes. The which. 
pain information was ‘to roan admiffion 
both mere 9) 
pofite accounts ilippa, queen nae Edward ill of Eng 
land, wa of his earlieft and beft friends; he refided 
long at her court, and travelled over the greater part of Eu- 
se _ her expence. He was appointed mar a to this. 
21361, and continued five years in her fe ; dur= 
ing ‘which eae he viited Scotland, and was veer eues 
or fome time by William earl of Douglas. In 1366 he 
seen ae with Edward the Black Prince, and after- — 
a vifited feveral of the Italian courts. In .1369, he 
loft his kind patronefs Philippa, and retiring to: his own coun- 
a benefice in the dioc 
as 
nefs to hiftorical refearch and compofition. ad alre eady 
given confiderable {pecimens ] ae gir talents, and 
now entered into the fervice of t e of Brabant, who 
wasalfo a poet. _ a a competitions 3 his ai join- 
ed with fome of his » he or eda 
arl of Foix, by whom he was received with great cordiali« 
ty, and who liftened with intereft to the: — of his verfes. 
After fome other travels he returned home, and continued 
A e vifited aie and again,, = was in+ 
i on Richard Il., a - man w e was 
his. awn country, fixed his refidence at 
Chimay, where he was appointed casion and treafurer of the 
collegiate church. At es dee he probably died, for the: 
following verfes are foun e archives of the chapter of 
St. Monegunda,, cae ere charaGeriltic of the hifto- 
rian. 
3D2 - Gallorum 
