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proportion of vital air than they po fie fled before mixture. 
But whether thefe principles combine, and form a com¬ 
pound acid, or in what other order they may be arranged, 
has not been experimentally determined, though the wri¬ 
tings of chemifts abound with conjectures upon this fub- 
ject. The combinations of earths and alkalies, and even 
of metals, with aqua regia, have not been well examined. It 
is not known whether two different kinds of lalts are formed 
apart from each other, or whether-a triple combination 
takes place, confiding of two acids united to one bale. It 
appears, however, that in home cafes the refult is one en¬ 
tire compound, and in others two feparate ones. 
Aqjja Secun'da, is a name fometimes given to an ex¬ 
ceedingly-diluted aqua fortis, ufed in the arts'for cleaning 
the furface of metals, and fome other bodies. 
AQJJA-TETRACH\'MAGO'GON,yi [of aqua, Lat. tsI 
in compounds, four, humour, and aywy®', Gr. a 
leader.] A medicine purging the four humours of the body. 
A qjj a Vitje, is commonly underdood of what is other- 
wile called brandy, or fpirit of wine, either fimple, or 
prepared with aromatics. Some, however, didinguifli be¬ 
tween them; appropriating the term brandy to what is 
drawn from wine, or t lie grape ; and aqua vita: to that drawn 
after the fame manner from malt, &c. For medicated and 
aromatic waters, fee Pharmacy. 
AQUfE AUGUST'AJ, Aqjjte Tarbel'licje, or 
Aqjten'sis Ci'vitas, in the Motitia, now Acqs, or Dax, 
a town in Gafcony, on the river Adour, famous for its 
baths. Lat. 43. 56. N. Ion. 1.40. W. 
Aqjjte Bilbilita'na;, baths twenty-four miles to the 
wed of Bilbilis. Now Banos dc Albania in Arragon. /{n- 
tbnine. 
Aqxue Cai.'idze, or Aqjj£ Sous, a place of the 
Belgte in Britain, famous for its hot waters. Now Bath, 
in Somerfetfliire. 
Aqua: Calidje, or Aquicai.den'sis, formerly a 
place in great repute, and a public bath ; whofe ruins dill 
remain tedimonies of the Roman grandeur. Now Orcnfc, 
in Gallicia, dill famous for its baths; on the river Min-ho, 
fifty-four miles fouth-ead of Compoltella. Lat. 42. 30. 
Ion. 8. 30. \V. Alio a place in the bay of Carthage,. Strabo. 
There are other Aquacaldenfes, to the north of Gerunda, 
in Catalonia. Ptolemy. 
Aqu je Cai.id^e, a colony between the rivers Serbetes 
and Savus, in Mauretania CaTarienlis. Ptolemy. 
Aqua: Celf.'nize, or Ci'linte, now Caldas, a hamlet 
on the Minho, in Gallicia. 
AQUiE Convena'rum, a hamlet of Gaul, in Aqui¬ 
taine, and on the borders of the Convents, or le Cominge, 
at the foot of the Pyrenees, near the fource of the Ga¬ 
ronne ; now Bagneres. I_at.42.20. Ion.3.39.W. 
Aqua: Cutx'i .je, a lake of the Sabines, in the terri¬ 
tory of Reate, with a moveable illand in it, fuppofed to 
be the centre of Italy. The waters were medicinal, and 
extremely cold, good for a weak domach and weak nerves ; 
they feemed to act by a kind of fuClion, which approached 
to a bite. Pliny. Vefpafian ufed them every lummer, and 
tliere lie died. Suetonius. 
Aojvje Fi.a'via:, a town on the confines of Gallicia 
and Portugal, fo called from Vefpafian and Titus. The 
inhabitants called Aquijlavienfcs. Now Chiaves, a mean 
hamlet: but the ruins of its bridge tedify its former gran¬ 
deur. Lat. 41.40. Ion. 6. 6. W. 
Aqua: Helve'tije, defcribed by Tacitus as a muni¬ 
cipal town, and much frequented for its excellent waters; 
and, though he does not mention its name, Cluverius fup- 
pofes it to be Baden, in Swdlferland, or the river Limat, 
which falls into the Aar. It is called the Upper, to dif- 
tinguidi it from another called the Lower Baden, in Alface. 
Lat. 47. 55. Ion. 8. 49. E. 
Aqjjze Me'rom, famous for the defeat of Jabin : fup¬ 
pofed to be the lake called Saniachonitis, or Semechonitis, by 
Jofephus; into which the river Jordan falls, before it comes 
*o the lea of Genefereth, or Galilee. 
AqjU/e Panno'ni.'E, celebrated baths of Audria, now 
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called Baden, twenty-eight miles to the fouth of the city 
of Vienna. 
Aqua: Patavi'nve, baths in the territory of Venice, 
near Padua, called Pontes Ap&ni ; now Bagni d' Abano. Lat., 
45. 15. Ion.13.48. E. 
Aqjj.e Quinti'ana:, now fuppofed to be Sarria, a 
town of Gallicia, on a rivulet of the fame name, three 
leagues to the fouth of Lugo. 
Aqjj/e Sex'tia:, a colony to the north of Marfeilles, 
fo called both from the founder Sextus Calvinius, and 
from its quantity of water, and number of cold and hot 
fprings; built after the defeat of the Salyes, or Salvii, 
whofe territory in the fouth of Provence reached from the 
Rhone to the borders of Italy. By an infeription the co¬ 
lony appeal’s to have been either increafed or renewed by 
Auguftus. In the Notitia it is called Civitas Aqucnfis ; now 
Aix. Here the Teutones and Cimbri were defeated with 
great daughter by Marius. Lat. 48. 4. Ion. 6.4..E. 
Aqjjte Satxei.'le, or Satiei.i.o'rum, a town in 
Liguria, on the river Bormia ; now Acqui, a town of Mont- 
ferrat. Lat. 44.43. Ion. 8.40. E- 
Aqjja: Tau'rx, hot waters or baths in Tufcany, three 
miles from the fca, faid to be difcovered by a bull, whence 
the appellation; now Aquapendentc, in Orvieto. Lat. 
42.40. I0n.12.40. E. 
AQAM'BOE, one of the principal monarchies on the 
coaft of Guinea in Africa, ftretching twenty miles in 
breadth, and ten times that fpace in length from eaft to 
weft. According to Bofman, the coaft is divided into a 
great number of petty royalties, but all of them fubjecl 
to the king of Aquamboe, who indifcriminatcly ufes an 
unlimited authority over them. His defpotifm gave rife 
to a proverbial faying, that “there arc only two ranks of 
men at Aquamboe; the royal family, and Haves.” The 
natives of this country are haughty, turbulent, and war¬ 
like; and their power is formidable to all the neighbour¬ 
ing nations. 
AQIJ A-NE'GR A, a town of Italy, on the river Chiefa, 
twelve miles weft of Mantua. Lat. 45. 12. N. Ion. 10.25.E. 
AQUAPENDEN'TE. See Fabricius. 
AQUA'PIM, a Danifli fettlement on the weftern coaft 
of Africa, founded by D. Ifert, conformable to an edict 
of his Danilh majefty, dated the 7th of November, 1792, 
which provides for the abolition of the fiave-trade in liis 
dominions, opens the Danifli African ports to all nations, 
and ordains the eflabliihment of a colony, in which the 
introduction of hired labour Ihould be attempted, and 
every labourer be free. This edict is faid to have been 
fuggefted by the humane count Bernftorff, as an experiment 
to try whether the African negroes might not be induced 
to civilization, and voluntary labour, and to embrace the 
Chriftian religion, by putting them on the fame footing 
with hulbandmen and hired fervants in free countries. So¬ 
cial improvement, indeed, is but progreffive; and, though 
its advancement may not be perceptible to vulgar eyes, yet 
the philofopher will trace it by comparing the prefent with 
the paft; and the Chriftian will reft fatisfied, that every 
real improvement which, in the courfe of Providence, has 
once been begun, will in due time, arrive at perfection. 
AQUA'RIANS, Chriftiansin the primitive church who 
confecrated water in the eucharift initead of wine. This 
they did under pretence of abftinence and temperance ; or, 
becaufe they thought it univerfally unlawful to eat flefli or 
drink wine. Eplphanius calls them Encratitcs, from their 
abftinence; St. Auftin, Aquarians, from their life of water; 
and Theodoret, w ho fays they fprung from Tatian, Hydro- 
porajlatae , becaufe they offered water inftead of wine. 
AQJJA'RIUS, in aftronomy, one of the celeftial con- 
ftellations, being the eleventh fign in the zodiac, reckon¬ 
ing from Aries, and is marked by the character TJt, rep re- 
fenting part of a dream of water, ilhiing from the velfel 
of Aquarius, or the water-pouter. This fign alfo gives 
name to the eleventh part of tire ecliptic, through which 
the fun moves in part of the months of January and Fe¬ 
bruary. The poets feign that Aquarius was Ganymede,. 
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