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fecuted in Germany ; it is fituated in the Black Fored, 
fortified in the modern manner, and defended by a citadel : 
tliirty-fix miles fouth-wefi of Stuttgart, and twenty-four 
fouth-eaftof Strafburg. Lat. 48. 23. N. Ion. 26. E. Ferro. 
F'REU'DENTHAL, a town of Silefia, in the princi¬ 
pality of Troppau, celebrated for its breed of horfes, and 
manufacture of fine linen. It was taken by the Prullians 
in 1741 and 1744, and afterwards reftored to the houfe of 
Auftria : feventeen miles weft of Troppau, and eleven 
fouih-weft of Jagendorf. 
FREU'DENTHAL, or Bristra, a village of Carni- 
ola, with a Carthufian monaftry, fituated near the rife of 
the Feiftritz : five miles north of Cirknitz. 
FRE'VENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
ofSiiria: three miles north-eaft ofWindifch Weiftritz. 
FREVE'NT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftriCt of St. Pol: two leagues and a half fouth of St. Pol, 
and fix weft of Arras. 
FREVIL'LE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trlCt of Caudebec : one league and a half north-eaft of 
Caudebec. 
FREUND'SBERG, a town of Germany, inthecounty 
of Tyrol : two miles eaft of Schwatz. 
FREUND'SHEIM, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Tyrol : twenty-four miles weft of Innfpruck. 
FREX'ENAL. , See Frejenal. 
FREY (Joiin-Cecil), a German philofopher and phy- 
fician, born at Keiferftul, a town in the county of Baden, 
towards the end of the i6th century. He applied himfelf 
particularly to the ftudy of philofophy, and, going to 
Paris, delivered public leCtures at Montague college, in 
that city. In one of his pieces, Frey boafts of having been 
the firft perfon in Europe who maintained philofophical 
thefes in the Greek language, and of having been the 
means of bringing this mode of difputation into general 
efteem. Afterwards he applied himfelf to the ftudy of 
medicine, and was admitted to the degree of doctor in that 
faculty. He died of the plague at Paris, in 1631. He 
lived on terms of great intimacy with Balefdens, who was 
one of the firft members of the French academy, and who 
publiftted a collection of his friend’s philofophical pieces, 
entitled Joanni Ccrcilii Frey, DoBoris Medici Parifienjis Fa- 
cultatis, nccnon PhiloJ'ophorum ejvfdcm Academia: Decani, Opera 
qua rcperiri potuerunt, in unuin Corpus colleEia, 8vo. 1643. 
In 1646, a fecond collection of the Opnjcula of Frey, on 
philofophical and medical fubjeCls, was publiflred at Pa¬ 
ris, in Svo. 
FRP'.Y'A, one of the Saxon idols. 
FREY'BERG, a mountain of Swifterland, in the can¬ 
ton of Glaris, feven miles fouth of Claris. 
FREY'BERG. SeepRicuRG. 
FREY'BERG, or Friedberg, a towm of Gerniany, in 
the circle of Upper Saxony, and margraviate of Meiffen, 
and capital of the circle of Erzgeburg, fituated on a 
branch of the Muldaw, near fome mountains wdiich fepa- 
rate the country from Bohemia. It contains fix churclies, 
2000 houfes, and 6o,oco fouls. In the environs are mines 
of copper, tin, lead, and filver, which employ a great 
many hands, and produce about 10,000 rix dollars a.year. 
The foil, though mountainous, is fertile. Here is the ge¬ 
neral fepulture of the princes of the electoral houfe of 
Saxony. It was taken by the Imperial troops in 1632 ; 
and in 1762 the Pruflians here obtained an advantage over 
the Auftrians : nineteen miles weft-fouth-weft of Drefden, 
and eighteen fouth-fouth-weft of Meiffen. Lat. 30. 33. N. 
ion. 31. I. E. Ferro. 
FREY'BORG, or Pribor, a town of Moravia, in the 
circle of Prerau : twenty-eight miles eaft-north-eaft of 
Frerau, and thirty-fix eaft of Olmutz. 
, FREY'BURG. SeeFRiBURG. 
FREY'BURG, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
ef Schweidnitz, near the river Polfiiitz : leven miles weft 
of Schweidnitz. 
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FREY'BURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and circle of Thuringia : fixteen miles 
fouth of Halle, and four north-north-weft of Naumburg. 
FREYE AEMTER, a country of Swifterland, fur- 
rounded by the cantons of Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, and 
Zug, and the county of Baden. It was anciently called 
the County of Rori, or Wagghenthal, and belonged to the 
counts of Habfburg, from whom the Swifs conquered it, 
in 1413, and kept it. The inhabitants are Roman Catho. 
lies; their chief employment is the cultivation of their 
fields and vineyards. The country is about feven or eight 
leagues in length, and three or four in breadth. The 
number of inhabitants is about ,20,000. 
FREY'ENSTADT, a town in Germany, in the circle 
of Bavaria, and lordfhip of Breiteneck, fituated on the 
Schwarzach : twenty miles fouth-eaft of Nuremberg, and 
thirty-one north-weft of Ratifbon. Lat. 49. 9.N. Ion. 29.8. 
E. Ferro. 
FREY'ENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and Mark of Prignitz : four miles 
fouth-eaft of Meyenburg. 
FREY'EINTHURN, a town of Germany, in Ivliddle 
Carniola, on the Kulp; feven miles fouth of Rudolf, 
fworih. 
■FREY'ENVy’'ALDE, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and Middle Mark of Brandenburg, on 
the Oder ; the inhabitants carry on a confiderable trade 
in fifh, corn, beer, linen, medicinal waters, and alum ; 
thirty-two miles north-eaft of Berlin, and twenty-four 
north-weft of Cuftrin. 
FREY'HAN, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Oels : fix miles north-north-eaft of Militfch. 
FREY'HEIL, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Konigingratz ; in the neighbourhood are fome warm 
baths : fix miles north-weft of Trautenau. 
FREY'HOFF, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carniola, fituated on the Kulp : feven miles fouth-weft 
of Landftrafs. 
FREY'HUNG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Bavaria, and principality of Sulzbach : eleven miles 
north of Amberg, and ten north-eaft of Sulzbach. 
FREY'LA, a town of Spain, in the country of Grana¬ 
da : eighteen miles north-north-eaft of Guadix. 
FREiYL'ING, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria : four miles eaft.fouth-eaft of Efferding. 
FREYSIN'GEN, or Freisingen, ocFrisingen (Bi- 
fiiopricof), an ecclefiaftical principality of Germany, in 
the circle of Bavaria, fituated between the cities of Mu¬ 
nich and Landlhut, founded by St. Carbinien, who was 
confecrated bilhop by pope Conftantius III. about the 
year 710. As a prince of the empire, his .aftenrnent 
amounts to 464 florins, and his tax to the imperial cham¬ 
ber 132 rixdollars nineteen kruitzers. The territories 
include the town of F'reyfingen, the county of Ifmaning, 
the lordfhip of Burgkrain, and the county of Werdenfels. 
FREYSIN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Bavaria, and relidence of the biftiop of Freyfingen, of 
which it is the capital, fituated on the Molach, not far 
from the Ifer, one part at the foot of a mountain, and 
the other on its fummit. The epifcopal palace and ca¬ 
thedral church are beautiful edifices, and both fituated 
in the upper part of the town. When the bifhopric was 
firft founded, this town appears to have been tiie capital 
of Upper Bavaria. In 1116, it was deftroyed by Guel- 
pho II. duke of Bavaria : feventeen miles north-north-eaft 
of Munich, and eighteen fouth-weft of Landfliut. Lat. 
48. 20. N. Ion. 29. 29. E. Ferro. 
FREY'STADT, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Oberland : eighty miles fouth-weft of Konigfberg. 
FREY'STADT, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Glogaii; containing a Roman Catholic church, a con- 
vent, and a Lutheran church and fchool, the privilege 
for the two latter was purchafed for 90,000 florins. Here 
is a manufacture of good cloth : nineteen miles weft-north- 
well of Gros-Glogau, and fourteen north-eaft of Sagan. 
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