F R-O- 
N. coat of the fay of Magellan. ‘Ss. lat. 54° 3 w. lorig. . 
aths. 
VEY Trea, is that which is of the fariie degree 
of texture throughout, and that which works freely: 
FROW pa CHANNEL, or the gut of ‘Canfo, in. 
Geosraphy hy, t between Nova are and, Cape eon : 
ifland, five —— leagues long, ‘and one broad. ° 
YEN, an ifland in the North fea, near he coat ‘of 
Norway i about 45 miles 1 in circumference. N. Ia 3° 45". 
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ng. 9 
FROZELIN, a care town of Fiance; im the depart- 
ment of the Creule, of Gu reret, at the conflux of 
the Great and Little aie 
st eee or Frigip 
Fro rt Northera —- poets pe cum, or Mare 
Septicim, extends from 52° or 53° N. lat. to the polar 
‘regio Between the eaftern ee reat Britain and 
of G 
the c eae of Dee and Norway, northward to the Shet- 
land iflands, it forms a gulf called the «« German fea A 
the fouthern He cniael of Norway, an arm of iia fea 
almoft ¢ s Den x ftretching eaft and north-eaft, it 
is called des 6 Baltic,” whic fee, ) 
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’ Thefe gulfs receive 
iftula, the Niemen, aad the Dwina, toge- 
oe cnaeay Lapland and 
a An ae ealtward 
from’ Ruffian Lapland, is called the « ‘White Sea,” (which 
fee,) into w 
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FROWER, ‘an edged tool, cufed i in "cleaving wood. into” . 
“+t 
” of the Ruffian empire or 
UR R-U 
alteady mentioned, sgrending fon N. to S. water th 
rom 69” ¢ .lat., and containing a adie 
of ey ‘flands, Jf the numerous iflands in this ocean 
he rioft’ Gonfiderable are Nova -Zembla and Kalgueva ; 
nm and 
both uninhabited. or a uented only 
hunters. “In this eid . onfide red as the boundary 
fue 
that of one ie is 
the moft’ res in many, places, more efpe- 
cially ny of as White me are befet ith rocks; in ee 
parts low, with fhoals which, in a ei “es accel, 
and the adi acent country is ve water in 
this fea is proportionally not very Cine eases near Arch- 
‘angel it is fo briny, that fome quantities of common falt are 
prepared from it. The ebb and flow are moderate, and i in 
‘the parts lying moft to the one 8 {carcely perceptible. The 
‘fithery 13 very confiderable, particularly of ftoek-fith, her- 
ee vhales, morfes,. porpoifes, fea-dogs, &c. Se 
Frozex Water. See WATER. 
FROZES, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 
partment of the Vienne ; 5 miles W. of Poidtier 
FRUCHI ae all ifland, near the Wet coaft 
of Scotland. N. 53’ 3. ong. 5° 10. 
FRUCT IFEROUS propery denotes oy "chin ng that 
produces fruit; but in a more large and figurative Aa is 
ufed by lord Bacon, and others, for ad experiments, in nas 
tural philofophy. as prove advantageous to the experimenter 
in point of gain or pro 
ofit. 
FRUCTIFICATION, in Botany, is ufed not only tg. 
exprefs the ftate 
while all cae ae propagation. ‘ave but the hos 
of an individual, and fooner or later terminate in its total ex- 
e parts. To | tin@tion.” See Linnaus on the Sexes of Plants, P fp: 
by the ‘north of Nova Zembla is equally im- - no ote, and Smith’s Introduétion to oe Z4A0. ‘ 
after an 
ate pee an sco pres of i ice pac udee all accefs, 
be aways, pe a fa! mn ies. 
repe elled ae the 
rman immenfe 
gulf, large traGs © which are ote by: oo 
names, ‘as Pe n’s Bay, Davis’s Strait, and Baffin’s Bay. 
The d uae Cape, and the 'N. E. . 
ance ees 
mity of artery, is about degrees or 3300 Englifh 
miles. A line from that extremity acrofs the Cae arid 
Red feas, to the Cape of Goo ope, as- uffon 
obferves, is about Pees Parifian leagues; and n cane oa 
of sl extent is to be found in the old ana. ’ Fro 
‘bea Cape to the fouth extremity of Africa are 2 es 
ea 
The “frozen fea was, by the - called Grates by 
the Cimbrians -Mate- Maru 2 the Latins, ee 
Sarmaticum, and 
jans now 
call it Ledovitoé Mate ; b es it is denominated 
Is-Hafoet, and by the Norwegians Leberfe: t borders 
/ fruétifcation,” fays ia Fea: . as is 
Linneus in Philo skin ifs ds shor 
ined for the re 
nd 
“"is.a temporary part of vegetables, de 
duction of -the tec aa : 
gi 
ir t 
which are developed in the flower nt fru lin 
ready obferved that * bloffoms are the j joy se trees, in, ‘bears 
hence he deduces the importanc th uctifica- 
tion for the purpofes of {c Ser ale y Sane principle . 
firft fuggefted by the celebrated C ef{ner towards the 
middle of the 16th century, and which all eave bota-.. 
nifts have ever fince kept-in view. . Without it the fcience 
of aang would long ago have relapfed iat utter bar - 
‘Lin nzus diftinguifhes — parts © of fruétification; fome 
of which are effential to th y nature of a flower 
ar 
proceeding inw ae thefe feven Fiat) prefent themfelves j ia 
the following ord Calyx, > Stamen, or Staminia, 
. Sige or Pi fill, eet — and Rece cephacus 
3H2 1. Calyx. 
