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fntooth, and of a fea-green colour. It is found wild in 
fome parts of Italy, and in the Archipelago, from whence 
Touraefort fent the feeds to the royal garden at Paris: 
but, being a plant of no great beauty, it is feldom culti¬ 
vated, except in botanic gardens for variety. 
2. Andrachne fruticofa: erect, llirubby. This fort ri¬ 
les twelve or fourteen feet high ; the branches have fpear- 
Ihaped', pointed, fniooth, leaves; the flowers are fmall, of 
an herbaceous white colour, fome of which are male, and 
others female, but, when the latter are fituated at too 
great a diftance from the former, there are rarely any feeds 
within their covers; though they feem very fair to light; 
whereby feveral perfons have been deceived, who have 
fown them without railing a (ingle plant. Native of the 
Ealt Indies and China, alfoof La Vera Cruz in New Spain. 
3. Andrachne arborea: Item aborefeent; leaves ovate, 
obtufe, hoary underneath. It has a llrong woody (lent, 
which rifes more than twenty feet high, fending out branch¬ 
es on every fide, which have oval blunt leaves, hoary on 
their under fide, and having pretty deep furrows on their 
upper, placed alternately on the branches. It was difeo- 
vered by the late Dr. William Houfion growing naturally 
at Campeachy. There is alfo another fort railed from 
feeds, fent from Jamaica; the whole form of the feeds 
agrees with thole of the third fort, as do alfo the plants, 
but the leaves are fomewhat like thofe of the laurel, only 
much larger; this has not as yet flowered in Europe. 
Propagation and Culture. If the feeds of the firft fort are 
fown on a moderate hot-bed in March, they will arife in 
about a month after, when they may be tranfplanted each 
into a fmall pot, and plunged into another very moderate 
hot-bed to bring the plants forward, but in mild weather 
they lhould have plenty of air admitted to them, and be 
often refrefhed with water: in June they will produce 
flowers, and the feeds will ripen in Auguft and Septem¬ 
ber, foon after which the plants will decay. The lecond 
and third forts are very tender plants, fo that, when good 
feeds can be obtained, they fhould be fown in pots, plung¬ 
ing them in a hot-bed of tanner’s bark, obfervingto wa¬ 
ter them as the earth becomes dry in the pots; and when 
the plants come up, and are fit to remove, they fhould each 
be planted in a fmall pot, plunged into a tan-bed, fliading 
them until they have taken frefli root, after which they 
fhould have free air admitted to them in warm weather, 
but muft conflantly be kept in the bark-ftove. See Ar¬ 
butus. 
ANDRAGHI'RA, a river of Sumatra, on which the 
Dutch have'a faftory. 
ANDRAPODIS'MUS, f. in ancient writers, the fell¬ 
ing of perfons for flaves. Hence alfo andrapodijles , a deal¬ 
er in flaves, more particularly a kidnapper, who ffeals 
men or children to fell them; a crime for which the Thef- 
falians were noted. 
ANDRAPODOCA'PELI, f. in antiquity, a kind of 
dealers in flaves. The'^andrapodocapeli had a particular 
procefs for taking off moles and the like disfigurements on 
the faces of the Haves they kept for fale, by rubbing them 
with bran. At Athens, feveral places in the forum w'ere 
appointed for the fale of flaves. Upon the firft day of 
every month,themerchantscalledai'o£! 27 ru 2 ci>:a?rr,;\oibrought 
them into the market, and expofed them to fale; the crier, 
handing upon a flone erected for that purpofe, called the 
people together. 
ANDR A'RUM, a town of South Gothland, three miles 
fouth of Chriftianftadt; here is thegreateft alum-work in 
Sweden. 
ANDRE'A (St.) a fmall village on the Malabar coaft 
in the Eaft Indies, founded originally by the Portuguefe. 
It takes its name from a church dedicated to St. Andrew. 
On the fliore of St. Andrea, about half a league out in the 
fea, lief Mud-bay, a place which few in the world can 
parallel. It is open to the wide ocean, and has neither 
illand nor bank to break the force of the billows, which 
come rolling with great violence from all parts in the 
iotuh-weft ntonfoons: but on this bank of mud they lofe 
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themfelves in a moment; and fhips lie on it as feeure as in 
the beft harbour, without motion or dilturbance. It readi¬ 
es about a mile under fhore, and has been obferved to 
fliift its place from the northward about three miles in 
thirty years. 
ANDRE'AS (John), a celebrated canonift in the 14th 
century, was born at Mugello, near Florence ; and was 
profeffor of canon-law at Padua, Pifa, and afterwards at 
Bologna. It is laid that he macerated his bod)' with fad¬ 
ing ; and lay upon the ground every night for twenty years 
together, covered only with the fkin of a bear. Andreas 
had a beautiful daughter, named Novella, whom he loved 
extremely : and he is faid to have inftrufted her fo well in 
all parts of learning, that, when he was engaged in any af¬ 
fair which hindered him from reading lectures to his fcho- 
lars, he fent hjs daughter in his room ; and, left her beauty 
fhould prevent the attention of the hearers, Ihe had a lit¬ 
tle curtain drawn before her. To perpetuate the memory 
of this daughter, he intitled his commentary upon the 
Decretals of Gregory IX. the Novellx. He married her 
to John Calderinus, a learned canonift. The firlt work of 
Andreas was his Glofs upon the Sixtli Book of the De¬ 
cretals, which lie wrote when he was very young. He 
wrote alfo Gloffes upon the Clementines.; and a commen¬ 
tary in regulas Se.xti , which he intitled Mercuriales, becaufe 
lie either engaged in it on Wedneldays (diebus Mcrcurii), 
or becaufe he inferted his Wedneldays difputes in it. He 
enlarged the Speculum of Durant, in the year 1347. This 
is all which Mr. Bayle mentions of his writings, though 
he wrote many more. Andreas died ot the plague at Bo¬ 
logna, in 1348, after he had been a profeffor forty-five 
years ; and was buried in the church of the Dominicans. 
Andreas (John), was born a Mahometan, at Xativa 
in the kingdom of Valencia, and fucceeded his father in 
the dignity of alfaqui of that city. He was enlightened 
with 1 the knowledge of the Chriftian religion by being pre- 
fent at a fermon in the great church of Valencia on the 
day of Alfumption of the bleffed Virgin, in the year 1487. 
Upon this he deiired to be baptized; and, in memory of 
the Calling of St. John and St. Andrew, he received the 
name of John Andreas. At the defire of Martin Garcia, 
bifliop of Barcelona, he undertook to tranllate from the 
Arabic, into the language of Arragon, the whole law of 
the Moors; and, after having finiflied this undertaking, lie 
cotnpofed his famous work of The Confnlion of the SeCb 
of Mahomed : it contains twelve chapters, wherein he 
has collected the fabulous ftories, impoftures, forgeries, 
brutalities, follies, obfeenities, abfurdities, impofilbilities, 
and contradictions, which Mahomet, in order to deceive 
the fimple people, has difperfed in the writings of that 
feCt, and efpecially in the Alcoran, which, as he fays, was 
revealed to him in one night by an angel, in the city ot 
Meke ; though in another place he contradicts himfelf, 
and affirms that he was twenty years in compofing it. An¬ 
dreas tells us, he wrote this work, that not only the learn¬ 
ed amonglt Chriftians, but even the common people, might 
know the different belief and dodtrine of the Mooys ; and 
on the one hand might laugh at and ridicule (rich indolent 
and brutal notions, and on the other might lament their 
blindnefs and dangerous condition'. This book, which 
was publilhed at firft in Spanilh, has been tranflated into 
feveral languages; and all thofe who write againft the 
Mahometans quote it very much. 
ANDREI'NI (ifabella), a native of Padua, .was an ex¬ 
cellent poetefs, and one of the beft comedians- in Iraly, 
towards the beginning of the 17th century. The Intend' 
of Pavia thought they did their fociety an honour bv ad¬ 
mitting her a member of it; and (lie, in acknowledgment 
of this honour, never forgot to mention amongft her ti¬ 
tles that of acadcmica infanta: her titles were thefe, “ Ifa¬ 
bella Andreini, comica gelofa, acadcmica infanta, detta 
l'accefta.” She was alfo a woman of extraordinary beau¬ 
ty; which, added to a fine voice, made her charm both 
the eyes and ears of the audience. She died of a miftar- 
riage, at Lyons, the fbth of June .1604, in the 42d year 
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