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Furca, in Geography, a mountain of adel on the 
N.E. extremity of the Vallais, the afcent of which is fteep 
and difficult. A number af rugged and forked a 
piled one above another, = occationed, it is faid, this chain 
to be called the “ Furc Near the fummit, the height of 
which is eftimated at ene feet, between the Blaueberg 
if ble than any of the neighbouring m 
it itretches from their foot, fills up the — chafm, 
and reaches almo its. The r Rhone 
i e {mall nes already 
eral roan lofes itfelf under 
lacier, 
is confiderably augmented, and is the great and pee 
fource fr ee when a the Rhone takes its rife. 
Furca &F fAlagel lum, in our Old Writers, denotes the 
eo of all tervile tenures, ten the bondman was at the 
difpofal of his lord for life an < sae tenet in alee 
magio ad furcam & a ae m de wane fuo, & c, 
Furca, and Fo our Ane. 
and pit, denoted a right or jaidcen of punithing felons) 
viz. men with han ging, women with drowni 
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CHE, in Her aldry, a crofs forked at the ends. 
‘FURCONIUM, in Ancient Geograph by, a town of Italy, 
an Samnium, belonging to the Veftini; at fome diftance 
S. of Amiternum : it was alfo called ie "urconia. 
FURCULA, in Anaiomy, the fame with clay 
Furcuta, iv ae yy a moat of haclinareeg ; 13 
miles W. of Chiav 
FURET,-in Zoalgs the ferret or Musrera A furo 
Lge eae in Medicine, ae literally bran, in the 
zuec?, has been applied to various excrementitious 
creas peferiblin bran; more bee to the little frag th 
ments of the cuticle which fe er certain morbid 
{tates of the au and are alfo called feurf, se >&c. The 
term was alfo u y Hippocrates to denote a fort of bran- 
like particles or (iene: in urine ; 
ht fedimentum, &c ym t 
URFURA mitueiaosc, a term ufed by Galen, and 
a fubfequent writers, to denote certain {caly eruptions 
of the fkin; it is ufed alfo to fi iat the falling off of {curfy 
{cales in combing, &c. See Piryriasis. 
ER, in Geography, a a of Hindooftan, on the 
road from Agra to Oajein, in the pergunnah of Shajawul- 
pour, which js divided from that of Schore by the river ' 
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Parbutty 
FURIA, in Zoolegy, a Linnean genus of the Vermes, pof- 
ea according t . Beier ep ee ee natural the follow- 
ing effential chara the body linear, equal, filiform, and 
ciliated each fide sith a oun row of rh sted prickles preffed 
clofe to the body. 
One fpecies only of this genus is defcribed, that bears 
the eric of the inferna aot uria infernalis), a 
name very amply merited, fhould the relations of its terrific 
powers, as delivered to us by Linneus, be confi dered as 
ered corre 
of Bothnia and Finland, 
ane fhrubs or fedges, and 
‘thofe coats is = occalonll driven, or carried 
r progrefs, as may naturally be 
imagined, is fometimes igtercepted by man or animals, and 
bitant. “of 
nt Cuftoms, i.e. gallows a 
moft extraordinary ian is defcribed as an inha- to admit, 
af m 
3 FUR e 
when they happen to fettle on any expofed part which is 
not perpendicularly fituated, they inftantly penetrate’ the 
fin, and bury them mfelves in the fleth fo deeply, as only to 
_ This 
is foon 
the ut anaedy bed 
applying a ene of ae, or paler: 
gerous cafes, by Roce | ss oe the calle 
where it ee 
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it appears, in imminent anger 
the learned world, 
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conceived it to be a true ve ; 
feeble in body, and with his mind dee 
recollection of the agonies he had’ fu feted: 
danger he had fo narrowly rn ae very euphaelle ave 
it the name of the eemed to mae i 
eing fo pay sean by the ancients. 
o Upfal, he made known this umftance in an academi- 
cal thefi, and a seanely inferted ittin the « = ema Nas. 
ture,’? under . ne name of infernalis. 
All the inha- 
ery lately writ ubject, in- 
forms us, that it is generally conclude ong “ie Swediflt 
naturalifts that their illuftrious a man was in error: 
they admit that in the fenny parts of Sweden fuch a diforder* 
is known to prevail in autumn, .and it is acknowledged alfo. 
that i it excites the moft excruciating torments, and often ter- 
he vulgar opinion is, that it owes. 
its origin to a eee matter injected into the flefh by the 
fting of an infed, the family of which is not at prefent 
afcertained. Others believe that Linnzus was in fome man- 
ner impofed upon, ane conceive that the -objeét  iaacapuete 
to him muft be the a of an infect; -or perhaps o 
of the Neves, ck w hich, from its dre d and iemied 
ate, —— The latter idea we are hardly inclined. 
re . {earcely probable in our mind = this 
able eee could have been fo far mifl might. 
alfo add, fo grofsly impofed upon, though at the nc time es 
muft be admitted poffible that fuch an error might 
arifen from an accidental caufe, and that — any cea 
of impofition.ga the part of his communic 
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