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which make confiderable quantities for the life of the 
Eaft-India company, and other merchants. • 
Betides the trade from this port to London, it carries on 
confiderable commerce with Prutlia, Norway, and Sweden. 
It alfo employs about one hundred fifliitig-fmacks. I he 
cyfter-filhery is here of great confequence ; not lefs than 
160 families are fupported by it. The dredgers or oyfter- 
fliers are under the jurifdidtion of the lord of the ma¬ 
nor, who appoints a fteward and a water-bailiff for the 
regulation of this produdtive and increafing bufinefs. 
The police of Feverfham is under the direction of a 
mayor, eleven jurats, twenty-four commoners, a recorder, 
town-clerk, two chamberlains, four auditors, and other- 
inferior officers. In 1789, an aft of parliament paffied for 
new paving, lighting, and watching, the town. It con- 
lifts of about 2500 inhabitants. 
Feverfham is forty-feven miles eaft from London, nine 
from Canterbury, and twenty-five weft from Dover. 
About half a mile from the town, at a place called Of- 
pringe, are fome faint traces of the Maifon de Dieu, which 
was formerly in great repute. It was founded by Lucas 
de Vienna, for the uf'e of the knights templars. On the 
fouth fide was an hofpital for lepers, part of which ftill 
remains. It was fupported by the templars houfe. Of- 
pringe church is an old Gothic ftrudture. The round 
flint tower, on which flood the temple, fell to the ground 
on the nth of Odtober, 1695. Nothing can be more mag¬ 
nificent than the country in the neighbourhood of Fever- 
fliam ; where, on one fide, the eye is charmed with the 
moil luxuriant views of nature’s rich productions; and, 
on the other, with extenfive profpects of the fliips of the 
Nore ; where the waters of the Thames and Medway are 
loft in the bofom of the fea. 
FE'VERY, adj. Difeafed with a fever : 
O Rome, thy head 
Is d rown’d in ileep, and all thy body fev'ry. B. Jonfon. 
FEUGEROI.'LES, a town of France, in the depart- 
•ment of the Rhone and Loire : five miles fouth of St- 
Etienne. 
FEUIL'LAGE, f. [French.] A bunch or row of 
leaves; the laurel placed round the head of victors.—Of 
Homer’s head I inclofe the outline, that you may deter¬ 
mine whether you would have it fo large, or reduced to 
make room for feuillage or laurel round the oval. Jervas 
to Pope. 
FEUIL'LANS,/'. in church hiftory, an order of monks. 
FEUILLE'A, /. [fo named in honour of Louis Feuillee , 
3 Francifcan monk, who travelled into Peru.] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs dioecia, order pentandria, natural or¬ 
der cucurbitaceae. The generic characters are—Male. 
C-alyx : perianthium bell-ftiaped, one-leafed, half five- 
cleft, rounded at the bottom, fpreading at the top. Co¬ 
rolla: one-petalled, wheel-fhaped ; border half five-cleft; 
divifions convex, rounded ; navel clofed with a double 
little ftar, refpecting the fun’s motion, the rays alternately 
longer and fliorter. Stamina: filaments five, fubulate; 
antheras twin, roundifh ; ncCtary conlifts of five com¬ 
prefled threads bent in, and alternate with the ftamens." 
Female. Calyx : perianthium as in the male, but with a 
germ at the bafe. Corolla : as in the male; the ftar of 
the navel is formed of five heart-ftiaped plates. Piftil- 
tiini: germ inferior; ftyles three or five, filiform; (tig- 
mas heart-fhaped. Pericarpium : berry, or rather pome, 
very large, fleftiy, with a hard (kin, ovate, obtufe, fur- 
rounded with the calyx. Seeds: comprefled, orbicular 
nuts.-— EJfential CharaBcr. Male. Calyx, five-cleft; co¬ 
rolla, five-cleft; (lamina, five ; neCtary, five converging 
filaments. Female. Calyx, five-cleft; ftyles three ; pome 
hard, three-celled, corticofe. 
Species. 1. Feuillea trilobata, or three-lobed feuillea : 
leaves lobed, dotted underneath. Stem angular, the 
thicknefs of a thread ; leaves petioled, cordate, five- 
parted, naked, the upper furface rugged, but the lower 
js fo only on the veins; middle lobes dilated three-lobedj 
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lateral ones fliorter, blunter, two-lobed ; all punched 
beneath with honey pores ; at the axi s of the leaves are 
tendrils and bulbs. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
2. Feuillea cordifolia, or heart-leaved feuillea : leaves 
heart-fliaped, angular. Stem fuffYutefcent at the bottom, 
divided at the top, with herbaceous branches, (as in the 
three-lobed,) climbing frequently to the tops of trees, 
roundilh, and very fmootli ; leaves petioled, alternate, 
ufnally cordate, when more adult cordate-lobed, the 
lower ones three-lobed,-the lobes angular, thick, nerved, 
very fmootli on both Tides; flowers racemed, dulky yel¬ 
low. The fruit is a globular, corticofe, hard, many- 
feeded, pome; the nuts are orbicular, comprefled, rug¬ 
ged, and ferruginous, inclofing a very white kernel. The 
whole plant is very bitter. There is a remarkable ana¬ 
logy between the fruit of this plant and l'aba Ignatii. 
It is frequent in the inland parts of Jamaica, and is gene- 
rally found climbing among the tailed trees in the woods. 
The feeds are very oily, and often burnt by the negroes 
inftead of candles; the kernels are extremely bitter, and 
commonly infufed in rum for the ufe of the negroes; a 
fmall quantity of this liquor opens the body and pro¬ 
vokes an appetite, but a larger dofe works both by (tool 
and vomit. It is frequently taken when there is any fuf- 
picion of poifon, and often on other occafions. 
FEUILLE'E (La), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftridt of Gournay : eight miles weft of Gournay. 
FEUILLE'E (Louis), an eminent mathematician and 
voyager, born at Maine in Provence, in 1660. He ap¬ 
plied himfelf to the ftudy of aftronomy aed phyfics with 
an ardour and fuccefs which foon brought him into no¬ 
tice. He was thought a proper perfon to be employed 
by Louis XIV. in voyages and travels through various 
parts of the globe, for the purpofe of improving fcience 
and navigation. He fpent feveral years in refearches 
through the Archipelago, the coafts of Africa and Spain, 
the Weft-Indian iftands, and the Spanifh fettlements in 
America. In 1724, he was recommended by the academy 
of fciences, of which lie was a member, to be fent to the 
Canary Ides in order to afeertain the true pofition of 
Ferro, which the French geographers had fixed upon for 
the firft meridian. This talk he performed to great fa- 
tisfadtion. He had before rectified by adtual obferva- 
tions the pofitions of the coafts of Peru and Chili, and of 
New Spain, and had given a new chart of thefe countries: 
he was rewarded for his labours by the poll of botanift 
royal,, and a penfion. He died in 1732 at Marfeilles, 
where an obfervatory had been conftrudted for him. He 
publifhed. Journal des Obfervations Phyjiques, Mathemaliqucs , 
& Botaniqucs,faites fur les Cotes Orientates de P Amerique Meri- 
dionale , & dans les Indes Occidentals, 2 vols. 4to. 1714, 1725. 
Though dryly written, it is an exadt and curious collec¬ 
tion of fuch obfervations as are moft interefting to a fei- 
entific traveller. It contains one hundred fine plates of 
plants, many of them never before deferibed or deline¬ 
ated. He prefented to the king’s library a large volume 
of original drawings of natural objedts. His journals of 
his Canary voyage is in manufeript, in the fame library. 
FEUIL'LEMORT, f. [French.] The colour of a 
faded leaf, corrupted commonly to philemoi. 
FEUILLFiTI'N, a town of France, in the department 
of the Creufe : five miles fouth of Aubuffion. 
FEUQUIE'RES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of 
Granvilliers : eight miles weft of Granvilliers. 
FEUQJJIE'RES, (Antony de Pas), marquis of, a cele. 
brated military critic, born in 1648, of a noble family of 
Artois diftinguiflied in arms. Following the fteps of his 
anceftors, he entered into the fervice, and fignalized him¬ 
felf in Germany, in 1688, fo as to obtain the rank of 
marechal-de-camp. He was afterwards at feveral adtions 
in Piedmont, and, in 1693, rofe to the rank of lieutenant- 
general, which was the higtieft promotion he obtained. 
His difappointment in miffing the ftaff of marffial of 
France, 
