FUR 
more noted than that which the fame Oreftes built 
s we may conclude to-be the 
mit the opinion of Cicero, that the goddeis 
Furina was fame with ea furies 
ufed ‘Thewile in their facri- 
ame 
"Paufanias 
tues 
/Ef{chylus, in one of his tragedies, was the firft who repre- 
fented them with that hideous air, and chofe ferpents that 
made them fo dreadful, that the frit reprefentation of his 
play proved fatal to many of the z 1 
{cription given of the furics by this poct was followed, and 
it paffed from the theatre to tem Hencefort 
they came to be reprefeated as we have above defer 
FURIGELDUM, in our Old Writers, a mul& paid for 
theft. 
URINA, in a le i river of Cuba, which runs 
into the Spanifh Main - 20° 3'. W. long. 76° 10°. 
FURINALIA, in * Mythatogy feaits evade in = 
of Furina, the goddefs of robbers among t ans. 
They were celebrated on the fixth cies before the a 
of September, The goddefs Furina had a temple at 
and a prieft called flamen "Furinalis Cicero re- 
prefents this goddefs as the fame with furies ;° and 
urnebus, in his rfaria, defends this opinion, alleg- 
ing that Plutarch, in {peaking the w confecrated to 
urina, re unger Gracchus was killed, calls it the 
wood of the a or of the furies. 
NG Lryzsare fmall lines made fafl to the top- 
fails, top-gallant-fails, and the mizen-yard-arms ; ferving to 
furl up thofe fails, ze. to wrap and bind them up eee to 
se ha tease ie jo but one furling line, but all the 
ve two, each end. ofe that are uled for 
ihe Iver es are’ eee flat, and are known by the 
name o me ke 
FU NG, an Englifh long meafure, containing the 
are sea 
The Eneitth eee is ae to 40 poles or perches, [2 
o Gunter’s chains = 1000 links 
220 Englifh yards = a 
= 7920 Englifh inches = 
880.f{pans == 2640 palms, 
inted in Henry the VI fIth’s 
time, -we read, ie fix ee feet, of five fcore to the 
hundred, make a ong. 
In Scotland the ae is equal to forty falls = 240 
Scots ells = 1,44 Eng glith Sas In Ireland the fur 
jong is = 1.2727 Englith furlon 
Hercules i is faid to have run a ines, or furlong, at one 
breath 
Funtoxg i is alfo ufed for the eighth part of an acre, or 
half a: 
Fontowe is ciate alfo ufed for a piece of land of 
more or lefs a 
VeL, XV, 
FUR 
“ Omnibus Chrifti a oe Blunt de Eye, arm 
edit Thome Cr oft o Lovel. arm. ium 
furlongum terre a eaten quatuor 
ras, &c.”’ t. 20. a Eliz. The ey as a 
aera a is generally 10 acres, according t 
cre of different counties. ‘The Englith el faba 
is =. 16 Englih acres = oods = o {qvar: 
poles = 100 f{quare Gunter’s eae = 16 = o {quare 
{taves = 1,000,000 fquare links = 48,400 fquare yards 
= 435,600 fquare feet. == 194,240 afahnes paces. See 
TBASURE. 
FURLOUGH, in sont) Language, a licence granted 
by an officer to a foldier to be abfent for fome time from 
his d ity. See Daserrers. 
LURMION, in Geography, a town of Iftria; 18 miles 
E.S.E. of Umago. 
FURNA, a fmall ifland in the Grecian Archipelago. 
N. lat. a 42. EE. long. 2 
FU RNACE, an utenfil, or yell proper to contain fire, 
or S raife or maintain a vehement fire in, whether of coal 
oO 
a 
. he re are divers kinds of furnaces, of various forms, and 
for various ufes 
The d domeltic casualty ufed in making confeCtions, &c. is 
ufually of iron, or ea 
Thofe ufed by the coldfmiths, refiners, &c. are much 
larger, and of a different {truCture. 
ofe cs lime, bricks, &c. are burnt, are called 
y 
"of ite heated air and fmoke, a 
furnaces is a fubject af the greateft. pa padi to ep em- 
ployed in chemical and metallurgic oper e yet do 
not find that any chemiit or other phtlofophical es oe oe 
iven principles, or any thing like a theory, from which 
z es might be deduced for the conitruétion of a fur 
c fo) 
of ul — that fhould with hue fulfil 
ind a , withing to build a furnace, has h 
other ite than that of clas the ex abt Geeta 
other furnace, that by mere guefs has been fo conftruéted 
as to act well, One f & we may ule as a general rule, 
that is, that fince the heat is generated by 
muft be the greateft when the gre 
‘confumed in the leat time, 
cient quantity, the heat will be in i ae to the quan- 
— of Hen paffing through the fre ina given time, ; 
a furnace as we have ia pena out, with a 
if the » kindled, the 
view ie define the parts, if the 
c 
nace 
its intention 3 
itherto had no 
¢ 
that part will become Pena lighten and will there« 
re afcen ce of the afcending air mutt be fupplied 
- a belows and if dasa he no — ing g be ow, but thro ough 
poe increafe of heat will give an additional levity td 
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