FUN 
The nezzlé = = bellows is accurately adapted to the 
f the d half or two 
taaticy lon i an 
{mooth, like the lower extremity of .a glyfter-pipe, and 
nder, oy order to preyent the afhes 
o.the bellows. The bel- 
id ia a manner fimi- 
admitted. into a “notch, in a circular 
rim, upon the nozzle. The pipe projecting from th 
lower extremity “of the, bowl, locks Zin the crofs-pipe 
to which the leathern tube is affixed, in the manner of 
By, this kind pfenag le whole apparatus 
7 
bayonet. 
may, be fae ready in the fpace of a minute, and forms 
one compact boc dy, fee’ aa the hazard of falling in 
pieces, and thus interrupting ‘the operation; and ye 
ay be taken off, when the oceulion requires, 
pwl 
ae ae om once dun ing ie whole pro- 
us artift has alfo conitru€ted a ma- 
tain the above deferibed fumiga- 
recovery of perfons acre sis 
falt, {pirit of fal ammoniac, tinder-box, flin 
cloths to rub the body. This en he is light and portable, 
being not’ much larger t than a cafe of furgical inftruments. 
Repor rts of the Humane ee 17759 Pe 82, &c. See 
Drownine. | 
FUMING, in Metallurgy, the firft calcination of the ore 
of metals, intended to diveit them of their fulphurs. See 
ROASTING. 
FUMIT ORY, i in i Boieay. See FuMARIA. 
OS, Carr, in Geography, a cape on the coat of 
Africa, 1 ia the Indian fea. N. lat 27° 30’. E. long. 29° 
FUNALT, or Fuceo, a town of Japan, fituated in a bay 
on the ‘E.‘coaft of the ifland i; Ximo. N, lat. 33° 20° 
2 20'. . 
“a 
LUS, among the Romane, was what we 
eall a rope-dancer, and the Greeks, /chano 
oe ae is = ufed for ae ue leting themfles oom 
by a rope d, make their efca a 
Ee eee as is obferved by Du-Cange. 
Julius oe and toe ake nen of funam- 
buli. Acron on Horace affures us, that it was the orator 
Meffala who. firft verge: the bie — in leu 
of ang none ufed uy e Greeks 
o have had fome of thefe tina Forel from the firft 
infkitution of their ae games, which are faid to have been 
invented about the time of Icarius, he of Erigone ; or 
of Dionyfias, furnamed Liber. Pater, whom Thefeus firft 
introduced, into aan 
nambuli firft a 
ulpicius Beas and. Licinins Stolo, who were t 
en to the “thea jee. se 
In the Tonle ‘or Indi Flotales, held ead alba, there 
were, oe ephants, as we are in d by Sue- 
tonius. alfo thewed the like, in honour oF his mother 
Feet ""Vopifeus relates, the’ fame of the time of Ca ari- 
nus and Numerianus.. 
There was a eae it feems who pesforined at the. 
time when the Hecyra of as acted ; 
eomplains, that the febacle pamela the people from at- 
S ine. 
_and neat in the higheft’ degree. 
ppeared under the read 
“wine and fweatme ats. 
and the poet | 
FUN 
ns to his souk “ Ita populus ftudio flupidus in fu- 
et aa um occuparat. 
RIA, in Botany, from funis, a cord, on account 
of ie ‘twed ftru€ture, and very active hyg srometrical pro- 
pertes, of the fruit-ftalk, is a, genus of Mo fles, founded 
y Hedwig on the Mnium hygrometricum of Linneus, ia 
fo on, an rs as an angular veil, a double frin 
with oa or twilted teeth, one a ages flightly ieee 
id. enus is admit in lora — an 
two or ae new fpe ie rec eat been added to the 
original one, among w hich 4 s F. EDs a nae of 
Ireland as well as of America. 
FUNCH, Joun, in Biography, was born at Werden, near 
Nurember B in the year 1518: little is known of his early 
to ffion of the ry. was 
urt ae to Albee duke of Prufha an ane 
a turn for politics, he engaged in cabals unfavourable t o the 
interefts of the Polifh n notion For this he was pro as 
in the name of the province, and condemned to be put to 
death as a difturber of the public peace. He was beheaded 
at ee rg in 1566, in the ye le year of his age. 
e was author of a fyftem of «“ Chrono logy,’’ which went 
through feveral pe ee of «Commentaries upcn the A poca. 
lypfe;’’ of «The life of Andrew Olander, ’ his father-in-law ; 
of “The life of Vitus Theodorus,”’ &c. He is faid to have com. 
pofed the following verfes on the morning of his execution . 
“ Difce, meo exemplo, mandato munere fungi. 
Et-fuge, ceu pe vInve 
eM, Try TwoAnTeay poo 
That is, learn, from my unhappy fate, to attend to your own 
bufinefs, and avoid, as a plague, t - defire of meddling with 
too many things. "Moreri. 
FUNCHAL, or roa in Geography, a fea-port 
town and capital of the ifland of Madeira, fituated in a val- 
ley on the S. coaft of the ifland : deriving i ite ld dite from 
funcho, the Portuguefe name for fennel, which g¢ reat 
plenty upon the neighbouring rocks, | and ys Aa ek 
of Dr. Heberden lying in N. lat. 32° 33' 33” and W. long. 
16 49’. 
arger than the a of t 
ill built ; se houfes 
of the common oe e m Ws 
and very badly paved. ‘The haha is defended by (event 
It contains fix parifhes, feveral 
and fix convents, with ln tine The | 
churches are pee with ornaments, among which are many 
pictures, and images of favourite “ints, “put the pictures 
are in general es painte d the faints we ee ia 
in lace clothes. Some of the cane ae are ina r tafte, 
efpecially that of the Francifcans, which is fiat Tae 
The infirmary is a model,. 
oo sie ee ia anda in other countries with. ioe ad~ 
ntage. a finall chapel, the whole lining of 
Mere both, fie and ade. is compofed of human ae 
bon 
F ‘and d thigh bo 
The oid nele, though numerous, do not conftitute the 
‘bulk of the inhabitants 5 the Englifh and French Roman 
Catholics, — live in the Portuguefe manner, are juitly fup- - 
the others in number and wealth; under 
multitude of Mulatto and 
ull and change of the moon north,and fouth; the {prin 
f 
‘tides rife feven feet perpendicular, and the neap-tides four, - 
‘The, refrefhments which fhips may obtain here are water, 
wine, fruit of ' feveral forts, onions in plenty, and fome 
5 {we 
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