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convenient'}’of fi filing and exporting their commodities, 
by means of the river Pene, on which it is f'eated. For¬ 
merly it was called Tanglim, and home have fuppofed it 
to have been the feat of the Angli, mentioned by Tacitus; 
ibme of whom removed from thence to the Elbe, and from 
that to England. Anclam is 20 miles S. of Gripfwald. 
Lat. 53. 52. N. Ion. 14. 2. E. 
AN'CLE. See Ankle. 
AN'CLIFF, a village, two miles from Wigan in Lan- 
cafhire, famous for a-fpring called the burning-well , which, 
upon the approach of a lighted candle, takes fire, and 
burns like fpirit of wine for a whole day. 
AN'COBER, or Rio Corbe, a territory on the gold 
coaft of Guinea, with a river of the fame name flowing 
through it; the banks of which are adorned with fine lofty 
trees, affording a very agreeable {hade, and on the weflern 
bank there is a populous village. 
AN'CON, f [cL-yr.av, Gr.] The top or point of the 
elbow ; the backward and greater fhooting part of the 
cubit, called ulna. 
ANCO'NA (marquifate of), a province in the pope’s 
territories in Italy. It lies between the gulph of Venice 
and mount Appenine, which bound it on the nortli ; 
Abruzzo on the eafi; the duchy of Spoletto, and that of 
Urbino, on the weft. The air is indifferent; but the foil 
is fruitful, particularly in hemp and flax; and there is 
great plenty of wax and honey. It contains feveral large 
towns, as Fermo, Loretto, Recanati, Macerata, Jefi, To- 
lentino, Afcoli, Ofinio, St. Severino, Monte Alto, Came- 
rino, and Ripatranfone, which are all archiepifcopal or 
epifcopal fees. 
Ancona, a fea-port on the Adriatic fea, tire capital of 
the marquifate of that name, and tire fee of a bifliop. 
Commerce has rapidly increafed here of late years, through 
the patronage of Clement XII. who made it a free port, 
and built a mole to render the harbour fafe. It is ereCted 
on the ruins of the ancient mole,'railed by the emperor 
Trajan, and is above 1000 feet in length, too in breadth, 
and about 60 in depth, from tire furface of the fea. Near 
this ftands the Triumphal Arch of Trajan, which, next 
to the Maifon Qmrrree, at Nifmes, is the moll beautiful 
and entire monument of Roman magnificence exifling. 
Here, likewife, Clement erected a lazaretto, which ad¬ 
vances a little way into the fea, in the form of a pentagon, 
and is an elegant, as well as ufeful, edifice. The Jews 
have a fynagogue here, and are eftablifhed in great num¬ 
bers. Ancona is 116 miles N. by E. of Rome. Lat. 43, 
38. N. ion. 13-35- E. 
ANCO'NES,yi in architecture, the corners or quoins 
of walls, crofs-beams, or rafters. Vitruvius calls the 
confoles by the fame name. 
AN'CON Y,f. in the iron-works, a piece of half-wrought 
iron, of the fliape of a bar in the middle, but rude and un¬ 
wrought at the ends. The procefs for bringing the iron 
to this fiate is this : they firft melt off a piece from a fow 
of caff iron, of the proper fize ; this they hammer at the 
forge into a nmfs of two feet long', and of a fquare fhape, 
which they call a bloom ; when this is done, they fend it to 
the finery; where, after two or three heats and workings, 
they bring it to this figure, and call it an ancony. The 
middle part, beat out at the finery, is about three feet long, 
and of the fhape and thicknefs the whole is to be; this 
is then fent to the chafery, and there the ends are wrought 
to the fhape of the middle, and the whole made into a bar. 
ANCORA'RUM URBS, [Aukv^uv IIoAi?, Gr.] A city 
in the Nomos Aphroditoooiites, towards the Red Sea; fo 
'called hecaufe there was in the neighbourhood a done 
quarry, in which they hewed done anchors before iron 
ones were invented. The gentilitious name is Ancropolites. 
AN'COURT (Florent-Carton d’), an eminent French 
aftor and dramatic writer, born at Fontainbleau, Oftober 
j66i. He ftudied in the Jefuits college at Paris under fa¬ 
ther de la Rue. After he had gone through a courfe of 
jphilofophy, lie applied himfelf to the civil law, and was 
admitted an advocate at feventeen years of age. But fail- 
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ing in love with arraCtrefs, he v/-as induced to go upon the 
ftage, and he married her. As he had ail the qualifica¬ 
tions neceffafy for the theatre, lie foon greatly diftinguiffied 
himfelf: and, not being fatisfied with the applaufe only of 
an aCtor, he began to write pieces for the ffage. His me¬ 
rit in this way procured him a very favourable reception at 
court; and Lewis XIV. fhewed him many marks of his 
favour. Kis fprightly converfation and' polite behaviour 
made his company agreeable to all the men of figure both 
at court and in the city, and the moli confiderabie perfons 
were extremely pleafed to have him at their houfes. Ha¬ 
ving taken a journey to Dunkirk, he took the opportunity 
Cf paying his compliments to the elector of Bavaria, who 
received him witli the utmoft civility ; and, having detained 
him a confiderabie time, difmiffed him with a prefent of a 
diamond valued at 1000 piffoles: he likewife rewarded 
him in a very generous manner, when, upon his coming to 
Paris, Ancourt compofed an entertainment for his diver- 
fion. Ancourt began at length to grow weary of the thea¬ 
tre, which he quitted in 1718, and retired to his eftate of 
Courcelles le Roy, in Berry, where lie applied himfelf 
wholly to devotion, and compofed a tranflation of David’s 
Pfalnis in verfe, and a facred tragedy, which were never 
printed. He died the 6th of December 1726, being fixty- 
five years of age. The plays which lie wrote are fifty-two 
in all; moli of which were printed feparately at the time 
when they were firff reprefented: they were afterwards 
collected into five volumes, then into feven, and at laffinto 
nine. This laft edition is the moft complete. 
AN'CRE, a fmall town of France, in the late provirce 
of Picardy, with the title of a marquifate, feated on a 
little river of the fame name. Lat. 49. 59. N. ion. 2. 45. E. 
AN'CUS MAR'TIUS, the fourth king of the Romans, 
fucceeded by Tullius Hoftilius, 639 years before Chrift. 
ITe defeated the Latins, fubdued the Fidenates, conquered 
the Sabines, Volfcii, and Veientines, enlarged Rome by 
joining to it mount Janicula, and made the harbour of Oftia. 
He died about 615 years before the Ciiriftian aera. 
AN'CYLE, f. in antiquity, a kind of fhield that fell, 
as was pretended, from heaven, in the reign of Numa Pom- 
pilius ; at which time, likewife, a voice was heard, decla¬ 
ring that Rome fliould be miftrefs of the world as long as 
flie ffiouid preferve this holy buckler. It was kept with 
great care in the temple of Mars, under the direction of 
twelve priefts; and, left any fliould attempt to fteal it, 
eleven others were made fo like, as not to be diftinguiflied 
from the facred one. Thefe ancylia were carried in pro- 
ceflion every year round the city of Rome. 
ANCYLOBLE'PHARON,yi [_ccyy.wy l &- i bent, and {?Ae- 
(pxeov, an eye-lid, Gr.] A difeafe of the eye, which clofes 
the eye-lids. Sometimes the eye-lids grow together, and 
alfo to the tunica albuginea of the eye, from careleffnefs 
when there is an ulcer in thefe parts. Both thefe cafes 
are called ancyloblcpharon by the Greeks. This diforder 
mull be diftinguiflied from that coalition of the eye-lids 
'which happens from vifeid matter gluing them together. 
If the co lieu on is on the cornea, the light is inevitably loft. 
This hath fometimesdiappened in the fmall-pox. If there 
is Only growing together of the eye-lids, they may be 
feparated with the fpecillum, and pledgets kept between 
them to prevent their re-union. If the eye-lids adhere to 
the eye, they are to be feparated by a fine-edged knife ; 
and their re-union is to be prevented by a proper ufe of 
injections, and lint placed between them, after dipping it 
in fome proper liniment. 
ANCYLOGLOS'SUS,y. [ayxvAoyAwcrtro?, ecyvXv, a con- 
ftriCtion, and yXuo-ax, the tongue, Gr. ] A contraction of 
the ligaments of the tongue. Some have this imperfec¬ 
tion from their birth, others from difeafe. In the firft cafe, 
the membrane which fupports the tongue is too fhort or 
too hard: in the latter, an ulcer under the tongue, heal¬ 
ing and forming a cicatrix, is fometimes the caufe : thefe 
fpeak. with fome difficulty. The ancyloglolfi by nature 
are ;ate before they fpeak; but, when they begin, they- 
loon fpeak properly. Thefe we call tongue-tied. Mauri- 
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