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dation was afterwards appointed profefTor of botany at 
the apothecaries’ garden of Peterfburgh. When Ihe im¬ 
perial academy of fciences was preparing, in 1768, the 
plan of its learned expeditions, it engaged Mr. Falk in 
its fervice. In 1771, he was recalled from his travels; 
but having only got to Kafan in 1773, he there obtained 
permillion to go and life the baths of Kifliar, from which 
lie returned to Kafan at the end of the year, apparently 
much better. His difeafe appeared to be a fixed melan¬ 
choly, under the fatal influence of which he deftroyed 
himfelf on the 31ft of March, 1774. His fate was gene¬ 
rally and juftly lamented. His papers were found in the 
greateft diforder; they however contain very ufeful and 
important matter. He made the Kirgifians and other 
Tartar nations particular objedls of his refearch ; and as 
he frequently remained nine months in the fame place, he 
was enabled to obtain fatisfaftory information refpedting 
them. In 1774, the imperial academy of fciences at Pe¬ 
terfburgh appointed profefTor Laxman to arrange his ma¬ 
im fcripts, and prepare them for the prefs, which was 
accordingly done. They were publifhed under the title 
of Bcitrage zur topograpkij'chen Kenntnifs dcr RuJJifchen Reic/is , 
3 vols. 4to. with plates, Peterfburgh, 1785. 
FAL'KENAU, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Neyfle : four miies and a half fouth of Grotkau. 
FAL'KENAU, or Falkenow, a town of Bohemia, in 
the circle of Saats, on the Eger; where are manufactures 
of alum, fulphur, and vitriol: twelve miles north-eaft of 
Egra r and fixty-fix weft of Prague. 
FAL'KENBERG, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Stiria : ten miles north of Oberwoltz. 
PAL'KENBERG, a fea-port town of Sweden, in the 
province of Halland, fituated at the mouth of the Athran, 
on the Scaggerac : the chief trade of the inhabitants is 
fiihing. Near it a battle was fought between the Danes 
and the Swedes, in 1365, in which the former were de¬ 
feated : fifty-two miles north of Helfinborg. Lat. 56. 54. 
N. Ion. 12. 27. E. Greenwich. 
PAL'KENBERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Lippe : two miles fouth of 
Horn. 
FAL'KENBURG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and New Mark of Brandenburg: fix 
miles eaft of Dramburg, and 124 north-eaft of Berlin. 
Lat. 53. 29. N. Ion. 33.45. E. Ferro. 
FAL'KENHAGER, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and duchy of Pomerania: five miles 
fouth of Rumelibnrg. 
FAL'KENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria, with a caftle, the proprietor of which 
has a right to coin money : ten miles north-weft of Zif- 
teiTdorjf. 
FAL'KENSTEIN, a town of Germany, imthe arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria : ten miles fouth of Aigen. 
FAL'KENSTEIN, or Valckenstein, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in Upper Bavaria, fituated on the Inn: eight 
miles north of Kuffstein, and twenty-four fouth-weft of 
Traunftein. 
FAL'KENSTEIN (county of), a fmall country of Ger¬ 
many, on the confines of France. It was fold by the laft 
count, in 1667, to the duke of Lorraine, from whom it 
came to the emperors elected from that houfe. When 
the emperor Francis Stephen ceded Lorraine to France, 
in 1735, he referved the county of Falkenftein. It-teok 
its name from a caftle, not now in exiftence: and contains 
the town of Winweiler,. a town of its own name, and 
about fifteen villages: the inhabitants are principally Lu¬ 
therans ; with Tome Roman catholics. 
FAL'KENS'I PIN, a town of Germany, in Lower Ba¬ 
varia : fifteen miles north of Staubing, and nine fouth- 
weft of Cham. 
FAL'KENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, in the Vogtland: two miles fouth of 
Auerbach. 
FAL'KENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
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of the Upper Rhine, and county of Falkenftein : twenty- 
four miles weft of Worms, and twenty-feven north-eaft of 
Deux Ponts. 
FAL'KENSTEIN, a town and caftle of Swiflerland, 
in the canton of Soleure; formerly the refidence of its 
particular lords, which bore the fame name : the family 
has been long extindl. 
FAL'KENSTEIN (John Henry), a vol uminous Fran¬ 
conian writer, borp in 1682. After ftudying at fome of 
the German and Dutch univerfities, he went through va¬ 
rious viciflitudes, and in 1714 was appointed director of 
the revived academy of the nobility at Erlangen. In 171k 
he entered into the fervice of John Anthony, bifhop of 
Eichftadr, who placed unlimited confidence in him ; and 
he had free accefs to the archives and public records', in 
order that he might.write a hiftory of that bifhopric. The 
death of his patron, however, having produced many 
changes in Eichftadt, he loft his employment in 1730, and 
was taken into the fervice of Charles William Frederic, 
margrave of Anfpach. In this (ituation he remained till 
the lime of his death, which took place at Schwabach, 
on the 3d of February, 1760. His principal works are: 
1. Antiquitates Nordgavitnfes \ Eranckfort and Leipfic, 1737, 
with cod. diplom. 3 vols. folio. 2. Dclica topographica No- 
rinibergenfes ; or, Geographical Defcription of the imperial 
City of Nuremberg, 1733, folio. 3. Antiquitates Sudga - 
vienfes ; or. An hiltorical Defcription of thofe Diftridts 
known under the general Name of Sudgau, 1733. 4. 
AnaleEla Thuringo-Nordgavienfia ; Schwabach, 1734—1747, 
8vo. 5. Antiquitates & memorabilia Nordgavia veteris ; or, 
An Account of the Antiquities of the Town of Nordgau: 
Part I. Schwabach, 1734; Part II. 1736 ; Part III. 1^43, 
folio ; with a great many plates and portraits of the mar¬ 
graves of Brandenburgh: a fourth part was publifhed 
after the author’s death. 6. Civitat. Erfurt hijloria critic a 
& diplom. or, A diplomatic Hiftory of Erfurt; 1739, 4to. 
7. Chronicon Suabacenfe ; or, A complete Defcription of the 
Town of Schwabach ; Eranckfort, 1740. 8. Defcription 
of the City of Nuremburg ; Erfurt, 1750,410. 9 .Anti, 
quitates & memorabilia Marchia Brandenburgenjis ; or, The 
Antiquities and Hiftory of the Marche of Brandenburgh ; 
17 5 U 1 75 2 > tw o parts, qto. After his death were pub- 
lilhed, Vollflandige Gejchichte des Grojfcn Rerzogthums und 
ehemaligen Konigreichs Bayern ; A complete Hiftory of the 
Dukedom and former Kingdom of Bavaria; Munich, 
1763, and Ingolftadt and Augfburg, 1776, 3 vols. folio. 
Antiquitatum Nordgavienfmm codex diplomatics-, four parts j 
Ne.uftadt on the Aifch, 1788, folio. 
FAI.K'IA.y. [fo named by Thunberg in honour of 
John Peter Falk, profeffor at Peterfburgh. ] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs pentandria, order digynia, natural order 
of campanaceas, (borragiaete, JuJf.) The generic charac¬ 
ters arc— Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, fomewhat in¬ 
flated, five-cornered, fhorter by half than the corolla, five- 
parted; angles widened in the middle, comprefied, (land¬ 
ing out; divifions ovate, acute. Corolla : one-petalled, 
bell-fliaped, crenate-tep.-parted ; border fpreading. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments five, filiform, inferted into the tube of 
the corolla, erect, unequal, fhorter than the corolla; an- 
therte ovate, comprefied. Piftillutn : germs four, fupe- 
rior, fmooth j ftyles two, capillary, divaricate, tire length 
of the corolla; ftigmas capitate, obtufe, fimple, orbicu- 
late, peltate. Pericarpium: none. Seeds: four, globular, 
arilled, at the bottom of the calyx.—. EJfential CharaElcr. 
Calyx bell-fliaped, five-cleft; corolla bell-lhaped ; ftigmas 
orbicular, peltate; feeds four, arilled. 
Falkia repens, or creeping falkia, a (ingle fpecies. It 
refembles Convolvulus in the herb and ftrudlure of tire 
flower; but it differs totally in the feed. Native of the 
Cape of Good Hope; obferved there by Thunberg and 
MafFon. Introduced in 1774. It is perennial, and flowers 
from May to Auguft. It may be increafed by parting 
the roots, planting in loamy earth, and watering freely in 
fu miner. 
FAL'KIRK, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
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