FAY 
FAY 
and Loire : four leagues and a half fouth of Chinon, and 
four eaft-fouth-eaft of Loudon. 
FAY BILLO'T, a town of France, in the department 
of tlie Upper Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftriCt of Langres : four leagues fouth-eaft of Langres. 
FAY I,E FROID, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Loire, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftriCt of Le Puy-en-Velay : five leagues eaft-fouth- 
eaft of Le Puy. 
FAYA'L, one of the Azore ifiands, about nine leagues 
long, and three wide. The climate is good, and the air 
always mild and pure. The cold of winter is never felt, 
and the heat of fummer is tempered by refrelhing winds. 
It produces plenty of pafture for cattle ; birds are nume¬ 
rous, and plenty of fi(h is caught on the coaft. The name 
is given it from the great number of beech-trees (fay a, in 
Portuguefe,) which grow there, befides which it has great 
variety of other wood. The chief place, if not the only 
town, is Villa Horta, or Orta. Fayal was firft peopled 
by Flemings, who, imagining the Portuguefe garrifon to 
be a kind of oppreffive ta^ upon them, petitioned his ca¬ 
tholic majefty for leave to take upon themfelves the de¬ 
fence of the ifland. Their requeft was granted, and the 
event proved almoft fatal ; for the Englith, at different 
times, under the earls of Cumberland and Effex, made 
defcents on Fayal, took it, and deftroyed the fortifica¬ 
tions, after having taken and burnt a fquadron of rich 
homeward-bound (hips that lay in this harbour. This 
difaller induced the king to refume the defence of the 
ifland ; fince which time a Portuguefe garrifon lias con- 
flantly been maintained here. Fayal is the mod; weftern 
of the Azores. Lat. 38. 32. N. Ion. 10. 45. W. Ferro. 
FAYD, a town of Alia, in Syria, on the frontiers of 
Arabia Deferta : 400 miles eaft of Damafciis. 
FAY'DIT (Anfelm), a Provenpal poet, a native, ac¬ 
cording to fome, of Limofin, according to others, of Avig¬ 
non. He compofed and aCted comedies, fuch as were in 
vogue at that time, and acquired confiderable wealth, 
which he fquandered away in licentious pleafures. Though 
thus reduced to indigence, he attracted the notice of 
Richard Coeur de-Lion, king of England, who having a 
pallion for poetry, again railed him to affluence by his li¬ 
beralities. After the death of this patron, he repaired 
to the court of the marquis of Montferrat, and afterwards 
to the lord of Sault, where he died about 1220. He wrote 
a poem on the death of king Richard ; another entitled 
The Palace of Love, faid to be imitated by Petrarch in 
his Triomfo d'Amove \ and feveral comedies, one of which, 
entitled L'Heregia dels Prejlres, (The Herefy of Priefts,) was 
intended to gratify thofe perfons of rank who in his time 
were addicted to the opinions of the Albigenfes. 
FAY'DIT (Peter), a French prieft, and various writer 
in profe and verfe, born at Riom, in Auvergne, towards 
the middle of the feventeenth century. In 1662, he en¬ 
tered into the congregation of the Oratory, from which 
lie was obliged to withdraw nine years afterwards, for 
having publilhed a treatife on the principles of the Car- 
tefian philofophy, entitled De Mente Humana, juxta p'acita 
Keotericorum. In 1695, he publifhed Illuftrations of the 
DoCtrine of the Ecclefiaftical Hiftory of the firft two Cen¬ 
turies, Svo. and in the following year, A Treatife on the 
Trinity. He afterwards publifhed a fmall collection of 
Memoirs, in 4to. of a comic nature, intended to fatirife 
Tillemont’s Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, which were fuppreffed 
foon after their appearance ; Remarks on Virgil, on Ho¬ 
mer, and on the Poetic Style of the Sacred Scriptures, in 
2 ,vols. 121110. containing a ftrange mixture of opinions on 
facred and profane topics; Tdemaco-manie, nmo. confid¬ 
ing of a critique on Fenelon’s celebrated production, ac¬ 
companied with fome ufeful reflections on the fubjeCt of 
romances ; and other pieces in Latin verfe, and French 
profe. He died in 1709. 
FAYE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Jvlayne and Loire : ten miles fouth of Angers. 
FAYE-LE.VINEU'SE, a town of France, in the de- 
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partment of the I:\dre and Loire: one league foulh-eaft 
of Richelieu. 
FAYEN'CE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Vav, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of 
Draguignan ; celebrated for its manufacture of earthen¬ 
ware: ten miles north-eaft of Draguignan. 
FAYET'TE, a ffourifhing fettlement of the American 
States, in Tioga county, New York, between the Una- 
dilla and the main branch of the Chenengo. 
FAYET'TE, a county of the American States, in Penn- 
fylvania, bounded north by Weftmoreland, fouth by part 
of Maryland and Virginia, and welt by Monongahela river. 
It is thirty-nine miles in length and twenty-nine in breadth, 
and contains 473,280 acres ; divided into eleven townlhips, 
of which Union is the chief. The number of inhabitants, 
by the cenfus of 1796, is 13,325. 
FAYET'TE, a diftriCt of North Carolina, in the Ame¬ 
rican States, comprehending lix counties, viz. Moore, 
Cumberland, Sampfon, Richmond, Robefon, and Anfon. 
It is bounded north by Hillfborough, fouth.eaft by Wil¬ 
mington and Newbern, weft by Salifbury, and fouth by 
the Hate of South Carolina. It is 120 miles in length, 
and fifty in breadth, and by the cenfus of 1796, contains 
34,020 inhabitants. 
F AY ET'TE, a county of the American States, in Ken¬ 
tucky, furrounded by Clarke, Bourbon, Scott, Franklin, 
Woodford, Maddifon, and Mercer, counties. Chief town, 
Lexington. 
FAYET'TE (Mary-Magdalen Pioche de la Vergne, 
countefs de), a celebrated literary lady, wife of the count; 
de la Fayette, in high elleem in the reign of Louis XIV. 
She was intimately connected with the wits of that period, 
who frequently allembled at her houfe, and to many of 
whom (lie was a liberal benefactrefs. Segrais, after being 
obliged to quit his refidence with mademoifelle de Mont- 
penlier, became domefticated with her, and was the chief 
direCtrefs of her purfuits. It was in his name that the two 
celebrated romances, Zaide, and The Princefs of Cleves, 
were given to the public ; but he has fince teftified that 
his part in them was only contributing to the plot and 
difpofition, and that the filling-up and ornaments were 
entirely by the hand of madarne de la Fayette. Thefe 
pieces were much read and admired, even by thofe who 
were not habitual readers of romances; and Voltaire 
(Siecle de Louis XIV.) fpeaks of them as the firft in 
which the manners of perfons of condition were painted, 
and natural adventures were deferibed with eafe and grace. 
She alfo wrote The Princefs of Montpenfier ; Memoirs of 
the Court of France in the Years 168S and 1689; The 
Hiftory of Henrietta of England ; and Divers Portraits of 
Perfons about the Court. Madame la Fayette polfeffed 
folidity as well as elegance and brilliancy of wit. She 
died in 1693. 
FAYETTEVIL'LE, a flouriftiing poft-town of the 
American Stales, in North Carolina, the feat of juftice 
for the above diftriCt:, and pleafantly fituated in Cumber¬ 
land county, on th e-weft fide of the north-weft branch of 
Cape Fear river, neatly at the head of navigation, and 
one hundred miles above Wilmington, and fixty-one fouth- 
erly of Raleigh. On the bank of the river (land a few 
buildings, and the tobacco warehoufes, which have re¬ 
ceived in one feafon 6000 hoglheads of tobacco, equal in 
quality to that of Peterfburgh. The compaCt part of the 
town is fituated about a mile from the river, near the 
junction of Blount’s and Crofs creek; on which lait it is 
chiefly erected, and from that circumftance was formerly 
named Crofs creek. On each tide the creek are about 400 
houfes, two hundfome edifices for the fupreme diftriCt, 
and county courts, and the meetings of the town-officers 
and its citizens. The free-niafons’ lodge is alfo a large 
and handfome building. The town is regularly laid out, 
and its principal ftreets are one hundred feet wide. Here 
are three large mills, two confiderable distilleries and 
breweries, and feveral extenfive tan-yards. The trade to 
Wilmington is very confiderable, to which it fends down 
tobacco* 
