FUR 
be obtained from 48 degrees of — aoe ies the poles 
except that portion of territory occupied by the Rufhan 
ct 
=i 
Q 
o 
sould this coun 
left to American adventurers, who, a i. ‘yen, 
or ad ark in the rua and regardlefs 
to the intereft 
adv 
of are very fuccefsful in ne eir con- 
ly aieopes on the eftablifhment of a 
lar abe ated trade; and nearly the whole traffic in furs 
and would circulate through the. channels of Britifh 
Conners: 
Some fcheme or other, upon a grand {cale, it is effential to 
adopt, if it-be defirable to preferve the fur trade in the hands 
of the Hudfon’s Bay and Canadian merchants. For fince the 
fetting up of the New York company, the difcoveries on 
the north-weft coaft of America, and the finding what a pro- 
fitable concern bes ay of = was in the Chinefe and other 
eaftern market an merchants have made it an 
important bjt a their fpeculations. For the piace of 
collecting in an intercourfe with 
Lewis and Clarke, belonging to the army of the United 
States. The voyagers, for it was performed greater part 
of the way in canoes, {pent the years 1804, 1805, and 1806,' 
in oe the object: « of their purfuit, which was, to find 
duces the fineft and moft valuable fur. 
come poffefied of the power of competition with the inhabit- 
ants of the northern ftates fubject to Britain ; and are likely, 
if the Canadians ftill continue ‘to be circumfcribed by the 
tenacity of the Hudfon’s Bay company, to outrival the 
ritifh merchants in their own market. 
ee “ Voyages from al on the River St. Lau- 
rence, through — Continent of North America to the 
Frozen. and Pac ceans, In the Years 1789 and 1793,’ 
by Alexander Ties zie, efq.3 “ Anna Commerce, 
anufactures, Fifheries, and Navigation, > by David Mac- 
pherfon ; — ccount.of fix Years’ ‘Refidence in Hud. 
n’s Lys ae. and aha to oe i 
Trade ;”? «“ Letters from Canada, written during the Years 
1806, 1807, and 1808,” by Hugh Gray; Invoices of car- 
goes in the fhips oe to - Hudfon’s Bay company ; 
Invoiees of cargoes of the fhips employed in the fur trade 
rom Canada; and pers of = refpective fales. 
Fur, in Heraldry. See Fur 
FUR 
For, in Ornithology, a name given by Bartholine to the 
Lanus parafiticus. 
UR-Slice, in Agric culture, a term employed in the northern’ 
parts of the ifland to fignify the rong narrow flice of earth 
turned a P bY the p he Be ROW- 
>i Ceara 5 7 pe land near os welt pasion of 
en ‘five miles W drigill Head.—Alfo, n- 
tain of Afric a, in Mocaranga, rich in gold ; 30 i. pa 
flap 
Ma 
FURAJANNA pee a town of Africa, in Fooladoo. 
Nelat. 13°16. W.1 
FURANS, a river of Rance, which runs into the fies 
near Romans. 
-FURBA, Valky of, one of the five diftri€ts of the county - 
of Bormio, in Switzerlan See Bormio. 
FURBISHER, a a ae who ee or polifhes arms, 
and gives them a brightnefs 
In the general fenfe of ave nee it aaa what we now ‘ 
call armourers and f{word-cutlers; in a more reftrained fenfe, 
t is appropriated to thofe who clean and 
shy tae guns, and — = lel them in order 
ng the officers er there is a fucbifher of 
fmall a arms, another of fwords ; ; and the like there is in moft 
other armories of Englan 
FURBIS 
Hicks ecu from furben, which, 3 
ancient Franks, figmfied to clean and polifh : 
it fre ee Ger 
give a nets 
ee is principally performed with emer 
FURCA, Fork, in Antiquity, a kind of punifhment, or 
rather an inftrument of punifhment, amon omans. 
The form of the Roman furca is very obf{curely defcribed by 
the ancients, and much controverted by the moderns. - All 
we know for certain is, that it was of wood, and refembled a 
i ou 
fork ; whence it is called, in writers, £07 d.rawy sae 
SWupov, that is, Lgnum duplex, bicornutum, geminu a dou 
rke ned, timber. arch, ative Gk ae furca, 
rc wherewith the 
: he adds, that is the ee 
timber put are the yoke of the wa ck, 
rom thefe accounts, Godwyn wage the furca to have 
been the beam of a waggon, to which the yokes are fale 
ene 
he e punifhment of a fitea is of three kinds ; the firft 
only ignominious, was when a matter seh hey erat = 
fmall | offences, to carry a fur s fhoulde 
about the city ; confefling hia “fault, and eee eer S 
beware of the like: whence fuch fervanit. come to be deno-. 
ie urcifer. 
econd kind was penal; when the party, having the 
furca on his ae was icc about the circus, or other place, 
the 
of t 
changed, and made like our As or gallows. 
Cross ; 
FURCA, 
