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From 7 bufliels fowh, average produce 
6 bufliels ------- 
5 bufliels ------- 
4 bufliels and a half - - - - 
4 bufliels ------- 
3 bufliels ------- 
O. B. P. 
603 
601 
442 
4 S 1 
4 ° ° 
410 
Here he remarks, that although fome circumftances re- 
' main doubtful from the above fcale, yet the fuperiority 
of fix or feven bufliels is lo great, that there is abundant 
reafon to think the other quantities are not equal to thefe 
in advantage; and that the modern ideas of flowing fniall 
quantities of feed, are not univerfally to be adopted. He 
recommends that experiments fhould be tried on all forts 
of foils, and in every fituation, on flmall pieces of land, to 
decide this important point. Though Mr. Young is de¬ 
cidedly of opinion, that the quantity of the feed fhould be 
proportioned to the poverty of the ground, yet there are 
not wanting others who flay that poor foils ought not to be 
loaded with too much feed, and that fix or feven bufliels 
an acre would utterly deflroy cold clay lands. On a rich 
foil, oats, if fown thin, are very apt to run to ft raw ; and 
one capital advantage is certainly gained by flowing thick, 
which is, that the weeds are thereby effectually (mothered. 
See Agrostis, Aira, Anthoxantiium, Bromus, 
Elymus, and Holcus. 
A'VENAGE, f. [from avena, Lat. oats.] A certain 
quantity of oats, paid by a tenant to his lord as a rent, or 
in lieu of fome other duties. So avtnor is an officer be¬ 
longing to the king’s ftables, whofe buiinefs is to provide 
the oats for his horfes. 
AVENAY', a town of France, in the department of 
the Marne, fituated on the river Marne, one league and 
a half north-eaft of Epernay, and five weft-north-weft of 
Chalone fur Marne. 
AVEN'CHE, a town of Swifterland, in the canton of 
Berne, at one time the capital of Helvetia. It was taken 
and plundered by the Burgundians, and by Attila, who 
left it a heap of (tones. It is now fniall, and part of the 
ancient city is cultivated for grain and tobacco : it is fitu¬ 
ated at the fouth end of the lake Morat, fixteen miles 
fouth-weft of Berne. 
To AVEN'GE, v. a, \vengcr , Fr.] To revenge.—I will 
avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the houfe of Jehu. Hofea. 
—To punifh: 
Till Jove, no longer patient, took his time 
T’ avenge with thunder your audacious crime. Dryden. 
AVEN'GEANCE, f. [from avenge. Punifhment: 
This negleCted, fear 
Signal avcngeance , fuch as overtook 
A mifer. Philips. 
AVEN'GEMENT, f. Vengeance; revenge: 
All thofe great battles which thou boafts to win 
Through iirife and bloodfhed, and avengement 
Now praifed, hereafter thou (halt repent. Spenfer. 
AVEN'GER, f. Punifher.—That no man go beyond 
and defraud his brother, becaufe the Lord is the avenger 
of all fuch. 1 Thejf .—Revenger; taker of vengeance for: 
But juft difeafe to luxury fucceeds, 
And ev’ry death its own avenger breeds. Pope. 
AVEN'GERESS, f. A female avenger. Not in ufe. 
There that cruel queen avengerefs 
Heap on her new waves of weary vvretchednefs. Spenfer. 
AVE'NIO, an ancient town of the Cavares, and one of 
the moll opulent in Gallia Narbonenfis; now Avignon. 
A'VENOR. See Avenage. 
A'VENTINE (-John), author of the Annals of Bavaria, 
was born in the year 1466, at Abenfperg. He ftudied firft 
at Ingolftadt, and afterwards in the univerfity of Paris. In 
1503, he taught eloquence and poetry at Vienna ; and, in 
*507, he taught Greek at Cracow in Poland, In 1509, 
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he read lectures on fome of Cicero’s pieces at Ingolftadt; 
and, in 1512, was appointed preceptor to prince Louis and 
prince Erneft, Tons of Albert the Wife, duke of Bavaria ; 
and lie travelled with the latter of thofe two princes. Af¬ 
ter this, he undertook to write the Annals of Bavaria ; 
being encouraged by the dukes of that name, who fettled 
a penfion upon him. This work, w hich gained its author 
great reputation, was firft publilhed in 1554, by Jerome 
Zieglerus, profefflor of poetry in tire univerfity of Ingol¬ 
ftadt; and afterwards at Bafil, in 1580, by Nicholas Cilner. 
An affront, which Aventine received in the year 1529, ftuck 
by him all the reft of his life : he was forcibly taken out of 
his lifter’s houfe at Abenfperg, and hurried to a jail; the 
true cattfe of which was never known. But it would pro¬ 
bably have been carried to a much greater length, had not 
the duke of Bavaria interpoled, and taken this learned 
man into his protection. Mr. Baylc remarks, that the in¬ 
curable melancholy which from this time polflefled Avcn- 
tine, was fo far from determining him to lead a life of ce¬ 
libacy, as he had done till he was (ixty-four, that it in¬ 
duced him perhaps to think of marrying. The violence 
of his new paflion was not, however, fo great, but that it 
buffered him to advife with two of his friends, and conftrit 
certain paflages of the bible relative to marriage. The 
refult was, that it was thought beft for him to marry; 
and, having already loft too much time, confidering his 
age, he took the firft woman he met with, who happened 
to be his own maid, ill-tempered, ugly, and extremely 
poor. He died in 1534, aged fixty-eight ; leaving one 
daughter, who was then but two months old. He had a 
fon, who died before. 
AVENTI'NUS, the fon of Hercules and the prieftefe 
Rhea. This hero, being come from Italy to the banks 
of the river Tiber, felNin love with that prieftefs, and 
took up his abode in a neighbouring mountain. From 
this amour Aventinus proceeded, who was brought up by 
his mother in the fame place. From him came the name- 
of mount Aventine, in Rome. 
Aventinus Mons, one of the feven hills on which 
ancient Rome flood. This lull was alfo called Murcius, 
from Murcia the goddefs of doth, who had a little chapel 
there; and Collis Dianes , from the temple of Diana; like- 
wife Remonius, front Remus, who was buried there. It 
was taken within the compafs of the city by Ancus Mar- 
cius. To the eaft it had the city walls ; to the fouth, the 
Campus Figulinus ; to the weft, the Tiber; and to the 
north, Mons Palatinus, in circuit two miles and a quarter. 
AVEN'TURE, f. [properly adventure.'] A mifchance 
caufing the death of a man; as where a perfon is fudden- 
ly drowned, or killed by any accident, without felony. 
Co. Lit. 391. 
A'VENUE ,_/1 [avenue, Fr. it is fometimes pronounced, 
with the accent on the fecond fyllable, as Watts obferves ; 
but has it generally placed on the firft.] A way by which 
any place may be entered.—Good guards were fet up at 
all the avenues of the city, to keep all people from going 
out. Clarendon. —An alley, or walk of trees, bafore a houfe. 
Avenues were formerly much more in re quell than at pre- 
fent, there being few old feats in the country but had one 
or more of them ; and fome had as many as there were 
views from the houfe; but of late thefe are, with gootj 
reafon, difufed : for nothing can be more ablurd, than tp 
have the fight contracted by two or more lines of trees, 
which fhut out the view of the adjacent grounds, where¬ 
by the verdure and natural beauties of the country are 
loft ; and, where the avenues are of a confiderable lengthy 
(even where their breadth is proportionable,) they appear 
at each end to be only narrow cuts through a wood, which, 
never can pleafe any perlon of real tafte ; and, when the 
road to the houfe is through the avenue, nothing can be 
more difagreeable; for, in approaching to the houfe, it is 
like going through a narrow lane, where the objects on 
each fide are fhut out from the view ; and, when it is 
viewed from the houfe, it at beft has only the appearance, 
of a road, which being extended to a length in a llraight 
