FUN 
dae cents, — realizes and 
ake and ¢ 
er an plain 
maak ‘cloathin ng the na 
e and infirmities, is placed in their hands without the 
are of providing the n 
DAMENT, ale anus or aperture through which 
an 1 animal voids his excrements 
FUNDA , fomething a ferves as a bafe, 
reft, fupport, or foundation, for thin 
he apoftles creed contzins re aan points e 
-The law is the fundamental law of the 
a fon ng 0 eit ee ie whic are in fome 
ee ey and by which they y are a ed; called alfo 
the ey of the fon 
Pe) oes “Bafi. 
FoNDAMENTALE. 
UNDAMENTAL Concords are of three kinds; viz. the 
fe&t concord, the concord of the fixth, and the —- 
a the feventh. The firft or perfec concord: is greater 
sie according as the third is greater or lefs. ‘The cond 
of three forts: in the two firft forts the fixth is always 
pared and the third greater or lefs, as the mode is greater 
or lefs.; Thefe- two concords differ only by their third. 
Between thefe de page is eee lek which o on many 
occafions produce ery goo and. is particularly 
fafed by the Itz ian 3 Ww es it.is ‘called ie ages of the 
fuperfluous fixth, or of the Italian fixth.’ It is compofed 
of a greater thir n or fuperfluous fourth, or aces anda 
greater third, as fa la fire ®. There are feveral oe of 
the fundamental feventh : : the firft fy forme ‘s of a eater 
See Basse Fondamentale, and 
a greater third, as.f ré fa la; the fourth is = 
greater third, one lefler, and one greater, ie mt fol fi ; 
the fifth i is called the concord of te Evinthed eau. and 
See Conc: ORD. 
erm 
ufe d | wan, and by many o e' German geo 
logifts,. ee aie batis or folid nucleus of the « ear ce on n which 
the fuperficial ftrata have been dep ofit ed: T his fu 
cco 
4 to §.4) which eas and 
t experiments have fhewn to belon gto the terra~ 
mee globe. See Eanti and Gravir 
-FUNDAMENTO, in the Stelan i is in general 
every part that plays or fings the bafs; but the thotough- 
bafs is more aad fo" called, becaufe itis the bafis or 
foundation of all harmony. 
FUN in Cossrae yy a town of Portugal, in 
the province of Beira 2 ‘miles WwW. e Alfa ayat 
pons See Fox 
UNDO, a town “ft Evropean euken in Moldavia; 3: 
series WNW. of Bi lat 
e 
of 
as plat. 
ing the 
. that nearly 10,000 barrels are expe ried annual 
F UN 
FUNDUCL A, an Aigyptian coin, a fort of fequin, of 
3 the value of a hundred and forty-fix medines. “Poeoe Ke’s 
Egypt, p. 175. 
FUNDULUS, in Zoology, a name afed by thany for ‘he 
{mall fifh, called by others pet barbatila; and by the gene- 
- rality of people in England the 
ach. 
unpDuLus' is ufed alfo by Schonevéide and fome others: 
to exprefs the common gudgeon, or Crprinus gabio 
FE in Geography, a large bay in Ne i Am 
which opens ‘between the iflands in Penob{eot b 
a 
rojed into de aaa in W. 
rthu ig anes fies a very nar niting’ 
the continent, where he. divifion "tine ee 
between veg “province and New he n{wick, ra rol 
of Maine, are a nu ays and iflands on both fides, 
hus far it contracts a eae gradually. It is 12 
— pee from St. Joh n New Brun{wick to the 
gut of Annapolis, in Nova Soe where the tides are rapid, 
and rife 30 feet. Above this it preferves nearly an equal 
readth, until its waters are formed inte two. arms by a penin- 
fula, the eae ee of whichis called Cape Chigneeto. ' 
th the north-caftern army called Chigné ceto 
c banneh which forms w ca bay Verte the sith eas; the tides’ 
rife 40 The = ides are fo rapid as to overtake aoa 
feeding on nthe fhor 
or FYES, an ifland of Denmark; at the entrance - 
N. to 
FUNEN, o 
of the Baltic, nearly of an oval ferm, extending from 
E. 
S. about 35 miles, and from o 'W. about 30; it-is 
fertile and pleafant ifland, in which many of the Danith 
bility have feats. The foil yie 
elds great crops of corn, fo 
ly to Norway 
Sweden, exclufively of the iomecont cues: The. 
inhabitants keep large ftocks of bees, and with the honey 
they make mead, which forms a confiderable article of trade. 
In on hayes are feveral lakes one rivers abounding i In ue 
but n yem are navigable: great quantities of cod, “ 
1 he oie pees and other fifh are eetight in the bays eee 
the coatt. ca capital is Ode N. lat. aS; 7' to. 
5536. IE. long. 9’ 40! to 10” 
FUNERAL, the ceremonies ae atan ya ; 
or ag a offices paid te the deceafed. See Burra 
word is formed of a Latin funus ; and that of fis 
1 ount orches (w ich were funes, cera 
circumdati) ufed in the cree of the Romans; though 
s derive funus fr reek Govo:, death or bier. 
foie ages. See Pyramip 
n-died amo 
sane and entertainments. This mournin “ated f 
forty:to feventy days, during which time: ae embalmed the 
ny was finifhed, the embalmed body 
was reftored to the parents, wlio place it ina kind of open 
cheft, which was cuales either in ae how fes,-or in the 
fepuleh res Of — s. ‘Before. 
lowed to: bé depofi ted it the tomh,: ee underwent a: 
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