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IPERRIE'RES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt 
of Montargis : five leagues and a half eaft of Bois Com¬ 
mon, and two north of Montargis. 
FER'RIERY,/ See Farriery. 
FER'R ISBURGH, a townfhip of the American States, 
In Addifon county, Vermont, on lake Champlain. Otter 
creek, Little Otter, and Lewis’s creeks, fall into the lake 
here. 
FER'RTTERS. See Blasquets. 
FER'RlTER’s COVE, a bay on the weft coaft of Ire¬ 
land, between Sybill head and Smerwick harbour. 
FER'RO, or Hiero, one of the Canary Iflands, and 
with regard to fituatioti the moft wefterly; about fix 
leagues in circumference. It contains no fprings of frefh 
water, the inhabitants making tife of what is collected in 
cifterns and refervoirs during the rainy feafon. Voyagers 
fpeak of a large tree in the middle of the ifland, the top 
of which is always covered with a thick cloud, which, 
during the night, produces water enough to fupply the 
wants of the whole idand. With,out being very fertile, 
the inhabitants raife corn, fugar, fruits, and legumes, and 
feed a great number of cattle. The French geographers 
take their firft meridian from the weftern extremity of 
this ifland ; from which they calculate their longitude, 
it being tlte moft wefterly part of the old world ; but 
fince an obfervatory has been eredted at Paris, moft of 
their aftronomers clioofe to calculate the longitude from 
the meridian of that city, as we do from the meridian of 
our national obfervatory at Greenwich : ioo leagues 
fouth from the ifland of Madeira. Lat. 27. 47. N. Ion. 
17. 46. W. Greenwich. 
FER'RO, Faro, or Fero, Islands. See Faroer 
Islands, p. 22, of this volume. 
FERROGA'N, a mountain of Scotland, in the county 
of Perth : eight miles fouth of Biair Athol. 
FER'ROL, a fea-port town of Spain, in Galicia, fitu¬ 
ated in the bay of Corunna, with a good harbour, ftrongly 
fortified : feven leagues north-eaft of Corunna, and twelve 
north-weft of Lugo. Lat. 43. 28. N. Ion. 8. 33. E. Peak 
of Teneriffe. 
FERRU'GTNOUS, adj. \_ferrugineux, Fr. ferruginous, 
I.at.] Partaking of the particles and qualities of iron.— 
Of the colour of ruft, commonly called a rujl-colour. — 
They are cold, hot, purgative, diuretic , ferruginous, fa- 
line, putrefying, and bituminous. Ray. 
FER'RULE,/ [ferrum, iron, Lat.] An iron ring put 
round any thing to keep it from cracking.—The finger’s 
ends are ftrengthened wdth nails, as we fortify the ends of 
our ftaves or forks with iron hoops or ferrules. Ray. 
To FER'RY, v. a. (papan, to pafs, Sax. fahr , Germ, 
a paflage. Skinner imagines that this whole family of 
words may be deduced from the Latin <veho. Johnfon 
fays, “ I do not love Latin originals ; but if fuch mu ft be 
fought, may not thefe words be more naturally derived 
from ferri, to be carried ?”] To carry over in a boat: 
Cymocles heard and faw, 
He loudly call’d to fuch as were aboard. 
The little bark unto the fliore to draw, 
And him to ferry over that deep ford. Sperfer. 
To FER'RY, n. To pafs over water in a veflel or 
carriage : 
They ferry over this Lethaen found 
Both to and fro, their forrows to augment. Milton. 
FER'RY, or Ferryboat,/. A veflel of carriage ; a 
veffel in which goods or paflengers are carried over wa¬ 
ter.—A ferryboat to carry over the king’s houfehold. 2 
Sam. xix. 18.—I went down to the river Brent in the or¬ 
dinary ferry. Addifon. 
Bring them with imagin’d fpeed 
Unto the trajedf, to the common ferry 
Which trades to Venice. Shakcfpeare . 
Vol,VII. N0.430. 
F E il 333- 
Thc paflage over which the ferryboat pnfles.—Juft above 
the ferry is the feat of Mr. Vernon, fituated. on an eleva¬ 
tion, in the centre of this enchanting view. Wyndham's 
Tour. —In law, a ferry is a liberty by prefeription, or the 
king’s grant, to have a boat for paflage upon a river, for 
carriage of horfes and men for reafonable toll: it is ufu- 
ally to crofs a large river. A ferry is no more than a 
common highway ; and no action will lie for one’s being 
difturbed in his paflage, unlefs he allege fome particular 
damage, Sec. 3 Mod. Rep. 294. A ferry is in refpedf of 
the landing-place, and not of the water; the water may 
be to one, and the ferry to another ; as it is of ferries on 
the Thames, where the ferry in fome places belongs to 
the archbifliop of Canterbury, while the mayor of Lon¬ 
don has the intereft of the water; and in every ferry the 
land on both (ides of the water ought to belong to the 
owner of the ferry, or othervvife he cannot land on the 
other part. Savil 11. And every ferry ought to have ex¬ 
pert and able ferrymen, and to have prefent paffage, and 
to be regularly and permanently kept up, otherwife in. 
diEiable. 
FER'RYLAND HARBOUR, a bay on the eaft coaft 
of Newfoundland. Lat. 47. 8. N. Ion. 52. 25. W. Green¬ 
wich. 
FER'RYMAN,/ One who keeps a ferry; one who 
for hire tranfports goods and paflengers over the water.—• 
The common ferryman of Egypt, that wafted over the 
dead bodies from Memphis, was made by the Greeks 
the ferryman of hell, and lolemn ftories railed after him. 
Brown. 
I paft, me thought, the melancholy flood, 
With that grim ferryman which poets write of, 
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. Shakefpcare. 
FER'RYTOWN OF CREE, a town of Scotland, in 
the county of Kircudbright: twelve miles weft of Kir¬ 
cudbright. 
FERSI'NA, a river of Germany, in the county of Ty¬ 
rol, which rifes in a lake near St. Boldo, and runs into 
the Adige, two miles north of Trent. 
FERS'NITZ, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria : ten miles fouth of Ips. 
FERTE'-ALEPS (La), or La Ferte' Alais, a town 
of France, in the department of the Seine and Oife, and 
chief place of a canton, in the dift:ri 61 of Eftampes : three 
leagues north-eaft of Eftampes, and four fouth-weft of 
Melon. Lat. 48. 29. N. Ion. 20. i.E. Ferro. 
FERTE'-SUR-AUBE (La), a town of France, in the 
department of the Upper Marne, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftridl of Chaumont, fituated on the Aube : 
nine leagues north-weft of Langres, and five weft of Chau- 
mont-en-Baffigny. Lat. 48. 6. N. Ion.'22. 26. E. Ferro. 
FERTE'-BERN ARD (La), a town of France, and 
principal place of a diftridt, in the department of the 
Sarte ; furrounded with walls, and containing three faux- 
bourgs : feven leagues north-eaft of Le Mans, and nine 
fouth-eaft of Alenjon. Lat. 48. 12. N. Ion. 18. 20. E. 
Ferro. 
FERTE'-CHAUDRON (La), a town of France, in 
the department of the Nyevre : ten miles north-weft of 
Motilins. 
FERTE'-FRENF.L (La), a town of France, in the 
department of the Qrne : two leagues and a quarter 
north-north-weft of l’Aigle, and feven eaft-nortlt-eaft of 
Argentan. 
FERTE'-GAUCHER (La), a town of France, in the 
department of the Seine and -Marne, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftridt of Rofoy : three leagues eaft-fouth- 
eaft of Coulommiers. Lat. 48. 47. N. Ion. 20. 57. E. 
Ferro. 
FERTE'-TMB AULT (La), a town of France, in the 
department of the Loir and Cher, fituated on the Satidre : 
three leagues eaft-north-eaft of Romorantin, and nine and 
a half eaft-fouth-eaft of Blois. 
FERTE'-SOUS-JOUARRE (La), a town o-f France, 
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