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fide of the Rhone, on a hill, vvhofe declivity is towards the 
north. Condantine, the Roman emperor, took great de¬ 
light in this place, and made it the feat of the Roman 
empire in Gaul. It is celebrated for its antiquities, both 
within and without the city. Tliofe of which any remains 
are now to be feen, are the amphitheatre, the obelilk, the 
elyfian fields, the fepulchres, columns with their capitals, 
bulls, pededals, aqueducts, with fome remains of the Ca¬ 
pitol, and the temples of their gods. The other ancient 
monuments are entirely deftroyed. Under the amphithea¬ 
tre, in 1651, they found the llatue of Venus, which was 
worfiiipped by this city, and was afterwards carried to the 
caftle of Verfailles. It is a mailer-piece which will always 
be admired by connoiffeurs. The amphitheatre is one of 
the mod remarkable pieces of antiquity. It was built by 
the Romans, but the time is unknown, though fome fay 
by Julius Caefar. It is of an oval form, and about 400 
yards in circumference, and the front is 34 yards in height. 
The middle, called the arena, is 142 yards wide and 104 
broad. The porticos or piazzas are three llories, built 
with Hone of a prodigious fize. Each of them confifls of 
fixty arches, which Hill remain ; and the walls are of a 
furprifing thicknefs, but gone to decay. The obelilk is 
the only one of this kind to be feen in France. It feems 
to be one of the forty brought from Egypt to Rome, be- 
caufe it is of the fame oriental granite with them. The 
Pagans burying-place, called the Elyfian Fields, 'is without 
the city, upon an agreeable hill, divided into two parts. 
Pieces of coin, of gold, filver, and bronze, are found here ; 
as alfo urns, lamps, and cups, without number. Arles is 
furrounded with marfhy land, which renders the air full 
of vapours, and makes it not very wholefome. Lat. 43. 
41. N. Ion. 22.. 1S. E. Ferro. 
Arles, a town of France, in the department of the 
EaH Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in the dillrict 
of Ceret, eighteen miles fouth-wefi of Perpignan. Lat. 
42. 27. N. Ion. 20. 18. E. Ferro. 
ARLES'HEIM, a town of Swifierland, in the bifliopric 
of Bale, three miles fouth of Bale. 
AR'LES-PENNY, f. EarneH-money given to fervants 
when they are firfi hired. 
ARLEU'X, a town of France, in the department of the 
North, and chief place of a canton, in the didri£t of 
Dottay, eight miles north-wed of Cambray. 
ARLON', an ancient town of the Netherlands, is feat- 
ed on a mountain, ten miles north-wed of Luxembourg. 
Lat. 49. 45. N. Ion. 5. 56. E. 
ARM', f. \_earm, eorm, Sax.] The limb which reaches 
from the hand to the Hioulder.—If I have lift up my hand 
againd the fatherlefs, when I faw my help in the gate, then 
let mine arm fall from my diotilder-blade, and mine arm 
be broken from the bone. Job. The bough of a tree : 
Where the tall oak his fpreading arms entwines. 
And with the beech a mutual diade combines. Gay. 
An inlet of w'ater from the fea.—We have yet feen but an 
arm of this fea of beauty. Norris. Power; might. In this 
fenfe is ufed the fecular arm, &c.—Curfed be the man 
that trudeth in man, and maketh flefh his arm , and whofe 
heart departeth from the Lord. Jer. xvii. 5. 
O God, thy arm was here! 
And not to us, but to thy arm alone, 
Afcribe we all. Shakefpeare. 
“ Stretch your arm no farther than your ileeve will 
reach.” The Latins fay, Metiri fe quamque fuo modulo ac 
pede veruni ef. The High Germans, Streche dick nach der 
necke : Stretch your legs according to your coverlet. The 
Italians, Li bifogna tagliare il vefito Jecondo il panno : We 
mud cut our coat according to our cloth. All cautions 
againd undertaking what we are not able to go through 
with, or fpending beyond one’s income. He is my right 
arm, or what I have mod to depend on. 
Arm, in the manege, is applied to a horfe, when, by 
preding down his head, he endeavours to defend himfelf 
againd the bit, to prevent his being checked by it. The 
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remedy is, to have a wooden ball covered with velvet, or 
other matter, put on his chaul, which will fo prefs him 
between the jaw-bones as to prevent his bringing his head 
fo near his bread. 
Arm, in refpedt to the magnet. A loaddone is faid to 
be armed, when it is capped, eafed, or fet in iron or Heel, 
in order to make it take up the greater weight, and alfo to 
didinguifh readily its poles. See JvIagnetism. 
Arm’s end , J\ A phrafe taken from boxing, in which 
the weaker man may overcome the dronger, if he can 
keep him from doling.—Such a one as can keep him at 
arm's end, need never wifh for a better companion. Sidney . 
In the fame fenfe is ufed arm's length. 
To Arm, v. a. \_armo, Lat.] To furnifli with armour of 
defence, or weapons of offence.—And when Abram heard 
that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained 
fervants, born in his own houfe, three hundred and eigh¬ 
teen, and purfued them unto Dan. Gcnefs. 
True confcious honour is to fed no fin ; 
He’s arm'd without that’s innocent within. Pope. 
To plate with any thing that may add drength. To fur- 
nidi ; to fit up ; to provide againd. 
To Arm, v. n. 'Fo take arms ; to be fitted with arms. 
ARM ACA'LES, a river of Babylon, called Fojfa Regia, 
the Royal Trench or Cut, or the Royal River ; a factitious 
channel or cut, made by Nabuchadonofor, and a horn or 
branch of the Euphrates- Abydenust The Euphrates na¬ 
turally divides into two channels, one pafiing through Ba¬ 
bylon, the other through Seleucia, and then falls into the 
Tigris; the factitious channel between thefe two is the 
Royal River, which mixes with the Tigris, a great deal 
lower down than Seleucia, at Apamea. Ptolemy. 
ARMA'DA, f. [Spanifli.] An armament for fea; a 
fleet of war. It is often erroneoufiy fpelt armado. l or 
particulars of the Spanifh armada, which attempted to 
invade this country, fee England. 
ARM ADIL'L N,f. in Spanilh America, denotes a fqua- 
dron of men of war, to the number of fix or eight, from 
twenty-four to fifty pieces of cannon, which the king main¬ 
tains, to prevent foreigners from trading with the Spaniards 
and the Indians, both in time of war and peace. The vef- 
fels of this armadilla are tliofe that have been fo much 
talked of, under the name of guarda cofas. They have 
even power to take all Spanifh merchant-diips they meet 
with on the coads that have not licences from the king. 
The South Sea has its armadilla as well as the North Sea. 
The ordinary abode of the former are at Calao, a port of 
Lima ; that of the latter at Carthagena. 
ARMADIL'LO, f. in zoology, a fynonime of the da- 
fypus. See Dasypus. 
ARMAGED'DON, a place fpoken of in the Revela¬ 
tions, (xvi. 16.) which literally fignifies the mountain of 
Mageddon or Megiddo, a city fituated in the great plain at 
the foot of mount Carmel, where king Jofiah received his 
mortal wound in the battle againd Necho king of Egypt. 
ARMA'GII, a county of Ireland, in the province of 
Ulder; bounded on the north by the county of Tyrone and 
Lough Neagh, on the ead by the county of Down, on the 
fouth by Louth, and on the Aved by the counties of Ty¬ 
rone and Monaghan ; twenty-five miles from north to 
fouth, and fifteen from ead to wed, containing about 283 
fquare miles. It contains 21,983 houfes, and the inhabi¬ 
tants are edimated at 120,000. The linen manufacture 
flourifhes in this county ; the principal towns are Armagh, 
Lurgan, Blackwater-town, and Portadown: the face of the 
country is diverfified with hills, but the foil is fertile, and 
generally well cultivated. Six members are returned to 
parliament; two for the county, two for Armagh, and tw® 
for Charlemont. 
Armagh, a city of Ireland, and capital of the county 
fo called, is the fee of an archbi/hop, who is lord primate, 
of all Ireland. St. Patrick founded the fee in the year 444. 
This city was much decayed, but, by the munificence of 
lord Rokeby, the archbidiop, it has been coniiderably in- 
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