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f.iys that this timber was fo heavy, that, when alone, 
the water could not fupport it, and that it was necelfary 
to carry it on rafts. Could it have been brought to 
Rome conveniently, fays he, it might have been ufed 
with great advantage in building. It appears, however, 
that this was fometimes done ; for we are told that Ti¬ 
berius caufed the Naumachiarian bridge, condrufted by 
Auguftus, and afterwards burnt, to be rebuilt of larch 
planks procured from Rhaetia. Among thefe there was 
a trunk one hundred and twenty feet in length, which ex¬ 
cited tlie admiration of all Rome. That the Romans 
procured firewood fron^ Africa, particularly for the ufe 
of the public baths, is proved by the privileges granted 
on that account to the mailers of fhips or rafts by the em¬ 
peror Valentinian. 
As the city of Paris had in coui fe of time confumed all 
the w'ood in its neighbourhood, and as the price of that 
article became enormous on account of the didance of 
foreds, and the ex pence of tranfporting it, John Rouvel, 
a citizen and merchant, in 1549, fell upon the plan of 
conducing wood bound together, along rivers which 
were not navigable for large velfels. With this view, 
he made choice of the foreft in the woody didri6t of Mor- 
vant, which belonged to the government of Nivernois ; 
and as feveral fmall dreams and rivulets had their fources 
there, he endeavoured to convey into them as much 
water as podible. This undertaking, was at fird laughed 
at ; but it was completed by his fuccelfor, Rene Arnoul, 
in 1566. The wood was thrown into the water in fingle 
trunks, and fuffered to be driven in that manner by the 
current to Crevant, on the river Yonne ; where each 
timber-merchant drew out his own, and formed it into 
floats that were tranfported on the Yonne to the Seine, 
and thence to the capital. In this manner large quantities 
of timber are dill conveyed from Nivernois and Burgundy, 
and fome alfo from Franche.Comte, to the city of Paris. 
By this means alfo timber growing in the interior parts of 
England, might be floated down the large rivers to the 
feacoad, and thus rendered of much greater value to the 
owners, and of condderable advantage to the community. 
FLO'ATY, adj. Buoyant and fwimming on the furface. 
—The hindrance to day well is the extreme length of a 
fhip, efpecially if die be floaty, and W'ant fliarpnefs of way 
forwards. Raleigh. 
FLO'BY, a towm of Sweden, in the province of Wed 
Gothland: fifty-one miles north-ead of Gotheborg. 
FLOC, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Drontheim: 
forty-eight miles ead-north-ead of Romfdal. 
To FLOC'CIFY, v. a. [from the Lnt. floccus, a lock of 
wool; and facia, to make.] To make light of, to llight. 
Not much vjtd. Bailey . 
FLOCK, fl. [plocc, Sax.] A company ; ufually a com¬ 
pany of birds or beads: 
She that hath a heart of that fine frame, 
To pay this debt of love but to a brother. 
How will die love when the rich golden fliaft 
Hath kill’d th cflock of all affections elfe 
That live in her?. Shakcjpeare. 
A company of fneep, didinguifhed from herds , which are 
of oxen.—France has a Iheep by her, to fhew that the 
riches of the country confided chiefly in flocks and paf- 
turage. Addifon. 
The cattle in the fields, and meadows green, 
Thofe rare and folitary ; thefe in flocks 
Pafturing at once, and in broad herds unfprung. Milton. 
A body of men.—The heathen that had fled out of Judea 
came to Nicanor by flocks, z Mac. xiv. 14. — [From floccus, 
Lat.] A lock of wool : 
A houfe well-furnifh’d fliall be thine to keep; 
And, for a flock- bed, I can flieer my llieep. Drydcn. 
To FLOCK, v. n. To gather in crowds or large num¬ 
bers.—People do not flock to courts fo much for their tna- 
je'Aies fervice, as for making their fortunes. L’Eflranqe. 
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The Trojan youth about the captive flock, 
To wonder, or to pity, or to mock. Denham. 
FLOCK-BED,y". A bed filled with locks of wool. 
FLOCK'ING,y; The aft of alfembling in great numbers. 
FLOCELIBl'RE (La), a town of France) in the de¬ 
partment of the Vendee, and chief place of a canton, in 
the dillrift of La Chataigneraye : three leagues and a 
quarter foutli of Mortagne, and four north-north-wed of 
La Chataigneraye. 
FLOD'DAY, a fmall ifland of Scotland, between Ra- 
zay and Skye. 
FLOD'DON, a village of England, in the county of 
Northumberland, near which a bloody battle was fought 
in 1513, between the Englidi and the Scots, in which the 
latter lod 10,000 men, with many of their nobility, and,.as 
is generally iuppofed, king James IV. the lofs on the dde 
of the Englidi, who were viftots, amounted to about 
5000: five miles north of Wooler. 
FLODOA'RD, or Frodoard, an hidorian, born at 
Epernai in Champagne, in S94. He received his educa¬ 
tion at Rheims, and acquired the edeem of its archbi- 
diops fo as to be appointed keeper of the archives in the 
cathedral, and afterwards canon. He had other benefices, 
and in 936 was deputed to Pope Leo VII. by whom lie was 
gracioufly received. At length he retired to a monaf- 
tery in 1 lie diocefe of Rheims, of which he became ab¬ 
bot. He refigned his abbacy in 963, and devoting hiin- 
felf to pious exercifes, died in 966. Flodoard wrote a 
Colleftion of Hiftori.es in Verfe, containing the triumphs 
of Jefus Chrift and his'difciples, and the abridged hidory 
of all the popes down to Leo VII. and of the mod illuf- 
trious Italian faints; of this lad part extrafts have been 
publidied by Ruinart and Mabillon : alfo, A Hidory of 
the Church of Rheims, from its foundation to 948 ; of 
this work the bed edition is that of G. Couvenier, Svo. 
3617: and, A Chronicle, compridng the hidory of the 
times from 919 to 966; this is much edeemed by the 
learned, and is publidied in the collections of Peter Pi- 
thou and Andrew du Cliefne. 
To FLOG, v. a. [flagrum, Lat.] To lafh ; to whip ; to 
cliadife.—The f'choolniader’s joy is to flog. Swift. 
FLO'GEI. (Charles-Frcderic), a learned Silefian au¬ 
thor, born at Jauer in 1729. I11 1774, lie was appointed 
profed’or of pliilofophy in the academy of the nobility at 
Leignitz, and died on the 7th of March, 1788, at the age 
.of fifty-nine. Flogel was highly edeemed on account of 
his integrity and agreeable difpofition ; and his memory 
has been immortalized by his excellent w orks, the prin¬ 
cipal of which are as follow': 1. GcflchichledcsM.cn/chli- 
chcn Verflandes —A Hidory of the Human Unatrdanding, 
8vo. Breflaw, 1765. 2. Gefchichte des Gcgcnzvartigen Zufl. 
tandes der Sckonen Littcratur in Dcutjchland —A Hidory of 
the prefent State of the Belles-Letti es in Germany, 8vo. 
Jauer, 1771. 3. Gefchichte der Comifchen Littcratur —A Hif- 
tory of Comic Literature, Leignitz, 4 vols. Svo. 1784, 
1787. 4. Gefchichte des Grotejkc-komijchcn, £?c.—A Hidory 
of the Comico-grotefque, Svo. with plates, Leignitz and 
Leipfic, 1788. 5. Gefchichte der Hqfnarren —A Hidory of 
Court Buffoons, Svo. with plates, 1789. 
FLOG'GING, f. A w hipping, a correftion with the 
whip. 
FLO'GNY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Yonne, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift of 
St. Florentin : two leagues fouth-ead of St. Florentin, 
FLO'HA, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and country of Erzgeberg : fix miles ead-north- 
ead of Chemnitz. 
FLO'HAU, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Saatz : 
eight miles foutli of Saatz. 
FLO'HE, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Tfcliopa, four miles wrnd from Oederan, in the circle of 
Erzgeburg. 
FLON, a river of Savoy, which runs into the Arly, 
about a mile foutli-weft from Flumet. 
FLONE, or.FLOEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
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