238 ALB 
Albanus Moss, to the north of Iftria, called Albius 
by Strabo; the extremity of the Alps, which, together 
with the mountains to the eaft, joining it, called Montes 
Bebii, feparates the farther Liburnia and Dalmatia from 
Pannonia. 
ALBANY, a Britifh fortrefs feated on the S. W. of 
Budfon’s bay. W. Ion. 84. 20. N. lat. 53. 20. 
Albany, a city of North America, the capital of one 
of the ten counties of the province of New York, which 
goes by the fame name, is a well-built place. Here the 
fachems, or the kings of the Five Nations of Iroquois, 
met the governors of the Britiflt plantations, when they 
entered into any treaty with them. It contains Coo hou- 
fes, and 4000 inhabitants, many of whom are the defcend- 
ants of the nrft colonies, the Dutch ; but, adventurers 
from various parts are led here, by the advantages for 
trade, which the place affords, it being Iituated on one of 
the lined; rivers in the world, and the Aore-houfe of the 
trade to and from Canada and the Lakes. It is 160 miles 
N. of the city of New York. Lat. 42. 36. N. Ion. 75. 
30. W. 
ALBARA, f. in botany. See Canna. 
ALBARAZIN, a ftrong town, and one of the mod 
ancient, of the kingdom of Arragon in Spain. It is the 
feat of a bifhop, and produces the bed wool in all Arra¬ 
gon. It is about 100 miles ead of Madrid. E. Ion. 2. 
10. N. lat. 40. 32. 
ALBARI 1 , in antiquity, properly denoted thofe who 
gave the whitening to earthen velfels, &c. In which fer.le 
they dood contradidinguiflied from Dealbatorcs, who whit¬ 
ened walls. 
ALBARIUM OPUS, in the ancient building, the in- 
crudation or covering of the roofs of houfes with white 
plaider, made of mere lime. This is otherwife called opus 
album. 
ALBATEGNI, an Arabic prince of Batan in Mefopo- 
tamia, who was a celebrated adronomer, about the year 
of Chrid 880. He is all’o called Mukammed benGeber Alba- 
tani, Mahomet the fon of Gcber, and Muhamedes Aradcnfs. 
He made aftronomical obfervations at Antioch, and at 
Racah or Aradfa, a town of Chaldea, which fome au¬ 
thors call a town of Syria or Mefopotamia. Finding that 
the tables of Ptolomy were imperfeft, he computed new 
ones, which were long ufed as the bed among the Arabs : 
thefe were adapted to the meridian of Aradta or Racah. 
Albategni compofed in Arabic a work under the title of 
The Science of the Stars, comprifing all parts of adronomy, 
according to his own obfervations and thofe of Ptolomy. 
This work, trandated into Latin by Plato of Tibur, was 
publifhed at Nuremberg in 1537, with fome additions and 
demondrations of Regiomontanus ; and the fame was re¬ 
printed at Bologna, in 1645, with this author’s notes. In 
this work, Albategni gives the motion of the fun’s apogee 
ilnce Ptolomy’s time, as well as the motion of the dars, 
which he makes one degree in feventy years. He made 
the longitude of the fird dar of Aries to be 18 0 2'; and 
the obliquity of the ecliptic 23 0 33'. And upon Alba- 
tegni’s obfervations were founded the Alphoniine tables of 
the moon’s motions; as is obferved by Nicholas Muler, 
in the Tab. Frificas, p. 248. 
ALB ATI EQUI, an appellation given to fuch horfes, 
In the games of the ancient circus, as wore white furniture. 
ALBATROSS, in ornithology, a fpecies of the dio- 
jnedea. See Diomedea. 
ALB AZIN, a town of Greater Tartary, with a drong 
caltle. It is Iituated upon the river Amur, and belongs 
to the Mufcovites. E. Ion. 103. 30. N. lat. 54. o. 
ALBE,y. a fmall piece of money, current in Germany, 
worth only a French fol and feven deniers.i 
ALBEIT, adv. [a coalition of the words all be it fo.~\ 
Although; notwithdanding ; though it fhould be.—He, 
who has a probable belief that he fhall meet with thieves 
in fuch a road, thinks himlelf to have reafon enough to 
decline it, albeit he is fure to fudain fome lefs, though 
yet conliderable, inconvenience by his fo doing. South. 
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ALB 
ALBEMARLE, or Atimarle, a town of France, in 
Upper Normandy, in the territory of Caux, from whence 
the noble family of Keppel takes the title of earl. The 
ferges of this town are in high eftecm. It is feated on the 
declivity of a hill, on the confines of Picardy, thirty-five 
miles N. E. of Rouen, and feventy N. W. of Paris. E. 
Ion. 2. 21. N. lat. 49. 50. 
Albemarle, the mod northern part of the province 
of North Carolina in America. 
ALBENGUA, a town of Italy, in the territory of Ge¬ 
noa. It is the fee of a bifhop ; and is a very ancient hand- 
fome town, but not well peopled on account of the infa- 
lubrity of the air. It is a lea-port, about thirty-eight 
miles S. W. of Genoa. E. Ion. 8. 13. N. lat. 44. 4. 
ALBERNUO, a kind of camblet, brought from the 
Levant by the way of Marfeilles. 
ALBERONI (Julius) was the fon of a gardener near 
Parma, and when a boy officiated as bell-ringer, and at¬ 
tended upon the parilh-church of his village. The rec-. 
tor, finding him a flirewd (harp lad, taught him Latin. Al- 
beroni afterwards took orders, and had a fmall living, on 
which he refided, little thinking of the great fortune that 
was one day to await him. M. Campidron, a Frenchman, 
fecretary to the Duke of Vendome, who commanded the 
armies of Louis XIV. in Italy, was robbed, and dripped 
of his clothes, and of all the money that he had about 
him, by fome ruffians, near Alberoni’s village. Albe- 
ronl, hearing of his misfortune, took him into his houfe, 
furnifhed him withclothes, and gave him as much money 
as he could fpare for his travelling expences. Campif- 
tron, no lefs imprefled with his drength of underdanding 
than with the warmth of his benevolence, took him to the 
head-quarters,_and prefented him to his general, as a man 
towhom he had very great obligations. M. de Vendome, 
finding Alberoni to be a man of parts, gave him a petty 
employment under him, and took him with him to Spain. 
By degrees he obtained themarfhal’s confidence, and pro- 
pofed the daughter of his fovereign the duke of Parma to 
him, as a fit match for the king of Spain. Alberoni’s 
propofal was attended to, and the princefs was demanded 
in marriage by that monarch, then Philip V. The duke 
of Parma confented with great readinefs to a match that 
was to procure his daughter the fovereignty of fo great a 
kingdom as that of Spain. When every thing was fettied, 
and immediately before the princefs was to fet out for her 
new dominions, the miniftry of Spain had heard that the 
princefs was a young woman of a haughty imperious tem¬ 
per, and extremely intriguing and ambitious. They 
therefore prevailed upon the king to write to the duke, to 
requeft another of his daughters in marriage, to whofe qui¬ 
et difpofition they could not poffibly have any objedlions. 
The king did as he was delired, and fent his letter by a 
fpecial meflenger. Alberoni, who was then at Parma, 
hearing of this, and afraid that all his projects of ambi¬ 
tion would come to nothing, unlefs the princefs whom he 
recommended, and who of courfe would think herfelf 
highly obliged to him for her exalted fituation, became 
queen of Spain, had the meflenger flopped at one day’s 
journey from Parma, and gave him his choice, either to 
delay his coming to Parma for a day, or to be aflaflinated. 
He of courfe chofe the firft of thefe alternatives, and the 
princefs fet out upon her journey to Spain, and became 
queen of that country. Aberoni was foon made prime 
minifter of Spain; a cardinal, and archbifliop of Valen- 
tia; and exercifed his miniflry with the mod complete 
defpotifm. One of Alberoni’s projects was to difpoffefs- 
the Duke of Orleans of the regency of France, and to be¬ 
llow it upon his own fovereign, as the oldeft reprefentative 
of the houfe of Bourbon ; to place the pretender on the 
throne of England, and add to Spain the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples and Sicily. His projedt was however difcovered by 
the regent, and one of the conditions he made with the 
king of Spain was, the banifhment of Alberoni from his. 
councils and his kingdom. With this he was obliged to 
comply, and the cardinal received -orders to leave Madrid 
