586 F O R 
by his misfortunes, ndded to a violent fcorbutic fever, 
put an end to his exiftence, before he could carry his plan 
into effedt. He died at Paris, at the age of thirty-nine, on 
the nth of February, 1792. Kis character and talents 
had fecured to him the e'teem of all who knew him; and 
his biographer has often had occafion to obferve the af¬ 
fectionate as well as refpedtful manner in which he was 
mentioned by thofe who were perfonally acquainted with 
him; and they feldom fpoke of him without fome epi¬ 
thet which indicated his worth. His life, however, was 
a feries of difappointments; for this, alas! is not the age 
in which the friends of liberty and humanity,'of truth 
and virtue, mud expedt, every-where, to meet with tiie 
encouragement due to their merit.—Mis works are, 1. A 
Voyage round the World in his Britannic Majedy’s Sloop 
Refolution, commanded by Captain James Cook, during 
the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775; London, 1777, 2 
vols. 4to. In conjunction with his father, he made a 
German tranflation of this work, which was publilhed 
at Berlin, in 2 vols. 4to. 1778-1780. 2. Reply to Mr. 
Wales’s Remarks on Mr. Forder’s Account of Captain 
Cook's lad Voyage ; London, 1778, 4to. 3. Letter to the 
Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich, 1779, 4to. He 
was concerned for fome time with profelTor Lichtenberg, 
of Gottingen, in the publication of the Gottingen Maga¬ 
zine : he wrote alfo fome papers in the Tranfadtions of 
the Academy of Sciences at Upfal ; had a fliare in the 
CkaraEleres generum Plant arum, &c. of his father; and was 
employed with profelfor Pallas and others in the conti¬ 
nuation of Martini’s Dictionary of Natural Hiftory. 
FOR'STER’s BAY, a bay in the tract called Sand¬ 
wich Land, formed by means of low land, which con¬ 
nects the fouthern Thule, the mod foutherly land ever 
difeovered, with Freezland Peak. Its fituation may be 
known by obferving, that the Peak is in lat. 59 deg. S. 
and Ion. 27 deg. W. and the fouthern Thule in lat. 59 
deg. 13 min. half S. and Ion. 27 deg. 45 min. W. A 
great wefterly fwell of the fea fets upon this land. No 
anchorage is found any where, and the bays and ports are 
blocked up with ice; the whole country indeed, from the 
higheft fummit of the mountains to the very brink of the 
cliffs which terminate the coad, is covered many fathoms 
thick with everlading fnow, and the cliffs alone are all 
that can be feen to look like land. This is the chilling 
afpedd of t hat horrible country, as it appeared on the fir It 
of February, which anfwers to our fird of Augud, when 
the fummer fun is fuppofed to have had its full effedt. 
FORSTE'R A, f. [named in memory of the above- 
mentioned John Reinhold and George Forjler.'] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs gynandria, order diandria. The gene¬ 
ric characters are—Calyx : perianthittm double ; outer 
inferior, three-leaved, lateral ; leaflets oblong, {harp ; 
inner fuperior, fix-cleft; leaflets erect, oblong, concave. 
Corolla: one.petalled, tubulous-bell-fliaped ; tube length 
of the calyx ; border fix-parted ; dividons oblong, obtufe, 
patulous, reflex at the tip, equal ; nedtary two fmall 
feales, obovate, petal-form, fixed to the flyle on both tides 
tinder the digma. Stamina : filaments two, very diort, 
each fixed to the dyle between tide digma and a fcale of 
the nedtary under the digma. Pidillum : germ inferior, 
oval; dyle cylindric, eredt, the length of the tube of 
the corolla ; ftigmas two, broad, fpreading, fomewhat 
bearded. Pericarpium: capfule oval, one-celled. Seeds: 
numerous, fliaped like faw-dud, fixed to a columnar re¬ 
ceptacle.— EJfential CharaEler. Perianthium double ; outer 
inferior, three-leaved; inner fuperior, fix-cleft; corolla 
tabular. 
Fordera fedifolia, a dngle fpecies. According to Forder, 
(in Adt. Upf.) the dem is fiexuofe, jointed, (lender, 
brown ; leaves acute, fiefhy ; peduncles filiform, very 
long, very feldom two-flowered. Native of New Zealand, 
on the tops of the highed mountains. 
To FORSWEAR', v. a. pret .forfwore: Tp-Axt. forfworn) 
[p°pp']j.Tepjan, Sax.] To renounce upon oath ; 
FOR 
I firmly vow 
Never to wooe her more; but do forfwear her, 
As one unworthy all the former favours 
That I have fondly flatter’d her withal. Shakefpesre „ 
To deny upon oath : 
Obferve the wretch who hath his faith forfook, 
How clear his voice, and how allur'd his look! 
Like innocence, and as ferenely bold 
As truth, how loudly he forjuiears thy gold ! Dry den, 
With the reciprocal pronoun: as, to forfwear himjelj, to 
be perjured; to fwear falfely : 
To leave my Julia, Ihall I be forfworn? 
To leave fair Sylvia, fit a 11 I be forfworn? 
To wrong my friend, fit a 11 I be much forfworn? 
And ev’n that power which gave me fird my oath, 
Provokes me to this three fold perjury. Shakcfpeare. 
To FORSWEAR', v. n. To fwear falfely; to commit 
perjury : 
Take heed ; for he holds vengeance in his hand, 
To hurl upon their heads that break his law. 
—And that fame vengeance doth hurl on thee, 
For falfe forfwearing, and for murder too. Shakefpeare, 
FORSWE AR'ER, f. One who is perjured. 
FORSWO'NK ,part.pajf. of Forswinck. Worn with 
toil : 
She is my goddefs plain, 
And I her fiiepherd’s twain, 
Albe forfwonk and forfwat 1 am. Spcnfer, 
FORSY'THI A, f. in botany. See Decumaria. 
FORT, f. [ fort, Fr.] A fortided houfeor cadle, ufually 
furniflied with heavy cannon, and eredted chiefly for the 
defence of harbours and bays at the entrance of fea-port 
towns, and on flat or defencelefs points of land, expofed 
to the attack or approach of an enemy. See the article 
Fortification. 
Now to their fort they are about to fend 
For the loud engines which their ifle defend. Waller , 
My fury does, like jealous forts, purfue 
With death ev’n drangers who but come to view. Dryden. 
In the Highlands of Scotland are found fome curious 
remains of druflares of this kind, which have been call¬ 
ed vitrified forts-, becaufe the walls have the appearance 
of being melted into a folid mafs, fo as to refemble the 
lava of a volcano ; for which indeed they have been taken 
by feveral antiquarians who have vifited them. Thefe 
walls were carefully infpedted by Mr. Williams, an en¬ 
gineer, who wrdte a treatife upon the fubjedt, and was 
the fird who fuppofed them to be the works of art. 
They are commonly fituated on the tops of high hills, 
commanding an extendve view of the low country. The 
area on the fummit, varying, as is fuppofed, according 
to the quantity of cattle the proprietor had to protedt, or 
the number of dependents he was obliged to accommodate, 
is furrounded with a high and drong wall, of which the 
dones are melted, mod of them entirely; while others, 
in which the fufion has not been fo complete, are funk in 
the vitrified mafs in fuch a manner as to be quite inclofed 
with it: and in fome places the fufion has been fo per¬ 
fect, that the ruins appear like melted glafs. Mr. Wil¬ 
liams has not only determined the walls in quedion to be 
the works of art, but has even hazarded a conjecture as to 
the manner in which they were conltrudted, and which, 
according to him, was as follows. Two parallel dikes 
of earth or fod being railed, in the direction of the intend¬ 
ed wall, with a fpaCe between them fufficient for its 
thicknefs, the fuel was put in, and fet on fire. The 
dones bed adapted for the purpofe, are every where to 
be found in the neighbourhood. Thefe were iaid on the 
fuel, and, when melted, were kept by the frame of earth 
from running off j and by repeating the operation, the 
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