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tween the attending node, and the place of that planet 
with refpect to the fun. 
Argument of the Moon’s Latitude, is her diftnnce 
from the Dragon’s Head or Tail, which are her two nodes. 
ARGUMEN'TAL, adj. Belonging to argument ; rea- 
foning: 
Afflicted fenfe thou kindly doft fet free, 
Opprefs’d with argumental tyranny, 
And routed reafon finds a fate retreat in thee. Pope. 
ARGUMENTA'TION, f Reafoning; the aft of rea- 
foning .—Argumentation is that operation of the mind, where¬ 
by we infer one propofition from two or more propofitions 
premifed. Or it is the drawing a conclufion, which before 
was unknown, or doubtful, from fome propofitions more 
known and evident; fo when we have judged that matter 
cannot think, and that the mind of man doth think, we 
conclude, that therefore the mind of man is not matter. 
Watts .—I fuppofe it is no ill topic of argumentation, to fhew 
the prevalence of contempt, by the contrary influences of 
refpedt. South. 
ARGUMENTATIVE, adj. Confiding of argument; 
containing argument. Sometimes with of, but rarely.— 
Another thing argumentative of Providence, is that pappous 
plumage growing upon the tops of fome feeds, whereby 
they are wafted with the wind, and difleminated far and 
wide. Ray .—Applied to perfons, deputations; difpofed to 
controverfy. 
AR'GUN, a town of Eaft Tartary, on the frontiers of 
China, fituated on a river of the fame name, which rifes 
from a lake in Chinefe Tartary, called Coulon Nor, or Da¬ 
lai, and which divides the Chinefe and Rufiian empires, 
each from the other. There are mines of lilver and lead 
near the town, and a pearl-fifliery in the river. Lat. 42. 
30. N. Ion.103.56.E. 
ARGUN'SKOI, a town of Siberia, fituated on the Ar¬ 
gun, on the confines of China, 130 miles eaft of Nertf- 
chinfk. Lat. 50. 50. N. Ion. 138. o. E. Ferro. 
AR'GUS, in fabulous hiftory, was the fon of Ariftor, 
and had 100eyes, fifty of which were always open. Juno 
made choice of him to guard lo, whom Jupiter had tranf- 
formed into a white heifer; but Jupiter, pitying Io for 
being fo clofely confined, fent Mercury, who, with his 
flute, charmed Argus to fleep, fealed up his eyes with his 
caduceus, and then cut off his head; when Juno, to re¬ 
ward his fidelity, turned him into a peacock, and placed 
his eyes in his tail.—A fon of Jupiter, by Niobe, daugh¬ 
ter of Phoroneus king of the Argives. He reigned at Ar¬ 
gos, and firft tilled the lands of Greece. He is fuppofed 
to have paired into Egypt with a colony of Greeks, where 
he civilized the Egyptians, taught them agriculture, and 
was their king under the name of Ofiris; and that after 
death he became their god Apis.—A famous architect, fon 
of Danaiis, who invented and built the Chip Argo. 
Argus-sheli,, a fpeciesof porcelain-(hell, beautifully 
variegated with fpots, refembling ia fome meafure thofe 
in a peacock’s tail. 
AR'GUTE, adj. [ 'arguto , Ital. argutus , Lat.] Subtle; 
witty; fiiarp. Shrill. 
ARGU'TI./ z E,y'. Witty and acute fayings, which com¬ 
monly fignify fomething further than what their mere 
words at firft fight feem to import. Writers on rhetoric 
fpeak of divers fpecies of argillite,, viz. Arguti^e ab 
alieno, when fomething is laid which feems repugnant ei¬ 
ther to the nature and property of a thing, or to common 
cuftom, the laws, See. which yet in reality is confident there¬ 
with; or when fomething is given as a reafon of another, 
which yet is not the reafon of it. For inftance, Si Caius 
nihil didicifjet , errajfct minus : again, Aureum hoc fxculum ejt , 
quia plurimus jam euro honos venit. Argutit ab allufone, 
thofe wherein allulion is made to fome hiftory, fable, fen- 
tence, proverb, or the like ; e. gr. Multi umbram captant & 
camera amiltunl. Arg uti.E a comparalis, when two things, 
are compared together, which yet at firft fight appear very 
di&r.eut from each,other, but fo as to make a pretty kind 
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of fimile or diffimile ; e. gr. Par ef pauper nil cupiensprin- 
cipi omnia habcnli. Argutit a repugnantibus, when two 
tilings meet in a fubjeCt, which yet regularly cannot be 
therein ; or when two tilings are oppofed to each other, yet 
the epithet of the one is attributed to the other; c. gr- 
Dum tacent clamant. 
ARGU'ZIA,yi in botany. See Messerschmidia. 
AR'GY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Indre, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of Cha- 
tilloh-fur-Indre, three leagues and a half eaft of Chatillon. 
ARGY'LE, a town of Nova Scotia, on the fputh-weft 
coaft, twenty-two miles weft of Sherburn. 
Argyle, (dukes of.) See Campbell. 
ARG Y'LESHIRE, or Arca'thia, in Scotland, 
which, together with Perthfliire and the Weftern Illands, 
is faid to haveconftituted the ancient kingdom of the Scots, 
while the reft of Caledonia was fubjetft to the Pifts and 
Romans, comprehends Kintyre, Knapdale, Argyle Pro¬ 
per, Cowal, and Lorn. It is bounded on the fouth by the 
Irifti fea and the frith of Clyde; on the eaft, by Perth- 
ftiire ; on the north-eaft, by Lochaber; and, on the north- 
weft by feveral illands. The extent of it, from fouth ta 
north, is about 114 miles ; and the breadth in fome places, 
including the iftes, to feventy. This country, like all other 
parts of the Highlands, affords a very wild and horrid prof- 
pe£t ol hills, rocks, and huge mountains, piled upon each 
other in a ftupendous and dreadful diforder ; bare, bleak, 
and barren, to the view 7 ; or at belt covered with (bagged 
heath, which appears black and difmal to the eye, except 
in the fummer, when it is variegated with an agreeable 
bloom of a purple colour. The coaft of Argyle is rocky ; 
yet indented with bays and inlets, that atFord good harbours 
lor (hipping. The country is well watered by rivers, 
brooks, and lakes, abounding with filli; the vales and flat 
parts of it are cultivated for corn; the mountains feed an 
innumerable quantity of black cattle, which run wild 
among tIre hills in winter as well as fummer; the heath 
and woods, of which there are a confiderable number, af¬ 
ford (belter to deer, roebucks, and all forts of game, in 
great plenty: the circumambient lea, with its lochs, bays, 
and harbours, pours forth myriads of fifti; but the innate 
wealth of the country, is dug from the bowels of the moun¬ 
tains, in iron, copper, lead, and other metals and minerals. 
Argyle is the feat of a,provincial fynod, and gives the titles 
of duke and earl to the noble family of Campbell, the mod 
powerful of all the Scottilh nobility. 
Argyle Proper is bounded by Knapdale and Cowal on 
the fouth; Lochaber on the north ; Lennox and the Gram¬ 
pian lulls on the eaft ; and Lome on the weft. It lies be¬ 
tween Lochfyn and Lochlovv ;- which Lift is a frefti-water 
lake, abbot a mile broad, but extending twenty-four in 
length, including twelve iftands, on two of which there 
are the caftles of Enconel and Glenurquhart. This lake, 
which gives the title of vifeount to the duke of Argyle, 
illues in the river Aw, which, alter a courfe of fix or (even 
miles, enters Loch Ettiff, and this falls into the weft fea, 
oppofite to the ifie of Mull: all thefe abound with excel¬ 
lent trout and falmon. Argylefhire fends one member to 
parliament. 
ARGY'RA, in fabulous hiftory, a nymph of Theftaly, 
who was very fond of the fhepherd Selimnus, and was no 
lefs beloved by him-. This laft beingalmoft withered away 
with grief, Venus changed him into a river, and the nymph 
into a fountain, which, like Alpheus and Arethufa, min¬ 
gled their waters : however, at length Selimnus forgot Ar- 
gyra, and from that time had the virtue of curing thofe 
in love, when they either drank or bathed in his waters. 
ARGYRAS'PIDES, or Argyroaspides, f 
fof, filver, and ctk, buckler. ] In antiquity, perfons 
tinned with filver bucklers, or bucklers.filvered. Acc.ord- 
ing to Qmntus Curtins, they made the fecond corps of, 
Alexander’s army ; the firft was the phalanx. According, 
to Juftin’s account, lib. xii. cap. 7, Alexander having pe¬ 
netrated into India, and extended his empire as far as tlte 
ocean, Cor a monument.of his glory, ordered the armour 
