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, ALTI'SONANT, or Alti'sonous, adj. [ altifonus , 
Lat.J High founding; pompous or lofty in found. 
AL'TITUDE,yi [altitude, I,at.] Height of place; lpace 
meafured upward. The elevation of any of the heavenly 
bodies above the horizon. Situation with regard to lower 
things. Height of excellence; fuperiority. Height of 
degree ; higheft point. 
Altitude, in geometry, is the third dimenfion of bo¬ 
dy, confidered with refpect to its elevation above the 
ground; and is otherwife called its height when meafured 
from bottom to top, or its depth when meafured from top 
to bottom. See Geometry. 
ALTl'VOLANT, adj. [altivolans , Lat. from altus and 
volo.~] Highflying. 
ALT'KIRCH, a town in the department of the Upper 
Rhine, on the river Ille, forty-five miles fouth-wed of 
Strafburgh. Lat.47.40.N. Ion.7.20.E. 
ALT'MORE, a town of Ireland, in the county of Ty¬ 
rone, and province of Ulfier, fituated in lat. 54. 34. N. 
Ion. 7.2. W. 
ALT'MULL, a river of Germany, which hasitsfource 
in Franconia, and falls into the Danube at Kelheim, twelve 
miles above Ratifbon. 
AL'TON, Hants, is a pleafant healthy town, on the 
great weftern road from London, through Farnham, to 
Southampton and the I(le of Wight. It confifts of three 
ftreets, the principal of which is wide and modern built. 
It has afmall, but neat, church; and the river Wye runs 
through the town. Here is a charity-fchool for twenty 
boys, who are claflically educated. The new navigation 
from Bafingftoke, to Weybridge in Surrey, where it unites 
with the Thames, is within eight miles of this town. An 
increafing manufacture is carried on here by Mr. Waring, 
of barrathees, valentia, tabinets, fatin-denims, and a varie¬ 
ty of other worded articles, dyed in the wool and edeemed 
for their fuperior quality. The white yarn trade is like- 
wife carried on to a confiderable extent. Alton has alfo, 
within thefe few years, made confiderable advances in the 
growth of hops, which is dill increafing, much to the ad¬ 
vantage of its inhabitants. It has a market on Saturdays, 
and two annual fairs; one on the Saturday preceding the 
firfl of May, the other on the twenty-ninth of Septem¬ 
ber. The country round this town is remarkably fertile 
and populous, having an excellent neighbourhood. 
Alton, or Avelton, a village in Staffordlhire, five 
miles north of Uttoxeter, Famous for the ruins of a caf- 
tle, formerly a feat of the Bertram de Verdun family, for 
many generations, which fome would have to be built be¬ 
fore the Norman conqued ; but Dr. Plott is pretty certain 
that it was ereCted by Theobald de Verdun, in the begin¬ 
ning of the reign of Edward II. A great part of the 
walls are dill handing, but they are in a very ruinous con¬ 
dition. It appears from its advantageous iituationto have 
been a place of great drength; and was dedroyed, as it is 
laid, by Oliver Cromwell. 
AL'TO ET BASSO, f in law, dignifies the entire fub- 
miilion (for high and low) of all differences to arbitration. 
Alto-relievo. See Relievo. 
Alto-repieno, inmufic, the tenor of the great cho¬ 
rus, which fings and plays only now and then in fome par¬ 
ticular places. 
AL'TOGETHER, adv. [from all and together.'] Com¬ 
pletely; without redriCtion; without exception.—If death 
and danger are things that really cannot be endured, no 
man could ever be obliged to fuffer for his confcience, or 
to die for his religion ; it being altogether as abfurd to ima¬ 
gine a man obliged to fuffer as to do impoflibilities. South. 
—ConjunCtly; in company. This is rather all together : 
Coufin of Somerfet, join you with me, 
And altogether with the duke of Suffolk, 
We’ll quickly hoid duke Humphry from his feat. 
Shakefpeare. 
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AL'TORF, a town of the circle of Franconia, in Ger ¬ 
many. It has a phyfic-garden, with upwards of 2000 dif¬ 
ferent plants; a theatre for diffeCtions, which has many 
curiofities in the anatomical way; and a handfome library. 
It is fubjeCt to the houfe of Brandenburg; and is feated 
on the confines of Bavaria, fifteen miles from Nuremberg. 
Lat. 47.46. N. Ion. 9. 35. E. 
ALT-RANS'TADT, a town in Saxony, famous for 
the treaty between Charles XII. king of Sweden and Au- 
guffus elector ot Saxony, in 1706, wherein the latter re- 
figned the kingdom of Poland. 
AL'TRINCHAM, Chefhire, (by many called Altring- 
ham,) is an inland town in the parifh of Bowden, eight 
miles from Manchefter, nine from Stockport, feven from 
Knutsford, twelve from Northwich, and twelve from War¬ 
rington. There is a market held on Tuefday weekly, and 
three fairs in the year, held on the 29th of April, 5th of 
Auguft, and 22d of November. The earl of Stamford, 
whole feat of Dunhan Maffey is about two miles from the 
town, is lord of the manor, and holds a court-leet twice a 
year. In the earl of Stamford’s park are many ffately 
trees, in which the herons yearly build their neffs; and 
there are on the effate about 100,000 timber-trees. The 
principal manufactory in the town is worded yarn, and 
worded and hair ffiags; the cotton manufactory being at 
prefent in its infancy here. There are two large pieces of 
building here for picking and fpinning cotton. There is a 
turnpike-road through Altrincham from Mancheder to 
Knutsford, Northwich, and Warrington. The duke of 
Bridgewater’s navigable canal from Mancheder to Run¬ 
corn paffes through one part of the town; and the inha¬ 
bitants are W'ell fupplied with coal at reafonable rates from 
his grace’s mines at Worfley, about ten miles from hence. 
ALT'ZEG, a town of Germany in the Lower Palati¬ 
nate, the capital of a territory of the fame name, with an 
old cadle. Lat. 49. 44. N. Ion. 7. 25. W. 
AL'VA DE TORMES, a confiderable town in Spain, 
in the kingdom of Leon, and territory of Salamanca, with 
a very handfome caftle. It is feated on the north bank of 
the river Tormes. Lat. 41.0. N. lon.6.i.W. 
AL'VAH.yi the wood wherewith Mofes fweetened the 
waters of Marah, Exod. xv. 25. The name of this wood 
is not found in Scripture; but the Mahometans give it 
that of alvah, and pretend to trace its hidory from the pa¬ 
triarchs before the flood. Jofephus, on the contrary, fays, 
that Mofes ufed the wood which he found next lying before 
him. 
ALVA'RES DE LUMA, or, as fome call him, Alva¬ 
ro, the favourite of John II. king of Cadile, was famous 
for the prodigious afcendency he gained over this prince, 
and for the punifliment which at length overtook him. He 
was natural fon of Don Alvaro de Luna, lord of Canete 
in Arragon, and of a woman infamous for unbounded 
lud. He was born in 1388, and named Peter; but anti¬ 
pope Benedict XIII. who was charmed with his wit, tho’ 
yet a child, changed Peter to Alvares. He was introdu¬ 
ced to court in 1408, and made a gentleman of the bed¬ 
chamber to king John, with whom he grew into the highed 
favour. In 1427 he was obliged to retire: the courtiers 
exerted all their endeavours to ruin him : they complained, 
that a man of no military fkill, of no virtues whatever, 
ffiould, by mere artifice and diffnnulation, be advanced to 
the highed authority; and they could not bear, that, by 
the aflidance of a few upflart men, whom he had raffed 
and fixed to his intered, he diould reign as abfolutely as 
if he were king. 
They prevailed againd him, and Alvares was baniflied 
from court a year and an half: but this was the greated 
affliction imaginable to the king; who fliewed all marks of 
didrefs the moment he was removed from his prefence, 
and now thought and fpoke of nothing but Alvares. He 
was therefore recalled; and, being inveded with hisufual 
authority, revenged himfelf feverely upon his enemies, 
by perfuading the king to banifli them. Of the forty-five 
years he fpent at court, he enjoyed for thirty of them fo 
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